i spoke to the good folks of OFNHP AFT Local 5017 for this article about the authorization of a massive strike at Kaiser Permanente—chronic understaffing and low pay have become so intolerable, the OFNHP and 22 other Kaiser unions may walk out en masse on Tuesday.

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i just saw this lol. Jake and i both decided to show a little skin

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An excerpt of Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said, forthcoming from 1804 Books. Said is a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of suffering and terror amidst "generosity, selflessness, truth[.]"

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ah i lived there 2015-2017

very interesting... can't recall seeing a burnt-out lot, but i used to live at the intersection of Dwight and Piedmont a block from People's Park, and have been down Telegraph many many times.

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an elegantly argued review (which comes as no surprise, as the author is Charlotte Rosen) on a completely fascinating and morally appalling history.

this spree of burning people to death for profit is one of the more grotesque indictments of capital's perverse incentives.

An awesome read to begin September. 🍁👻 @kimkelly.bsky.social

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“[A] blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development.”

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my latest is on the Climate and Community Institute report that examined the relative triumph of Vienna's dual-modality social housing: state-owned and "limited-profit" housing furnishes highly desirable multi-income units at the lowest rent of any major city in Europe.

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Charlotte E. Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book "Born in Flames"—a revelatory historical analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx of the 1970s.

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BREAKING: Callow Opportunist Reads Room

this interview contains a lovely and thoughtful set of reflections on writing, injustice, trees, the land, and a lot more. Lupita Limón Corrales is a talented poet who has previously contributed to Protean; i highly recommend her excellent 2021 piece here: proteanmag.com/2021/06/24/t...

Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.”

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"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...

latest piece: on the successful campaign of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) to force logistics giant Maersk to give up shipping certain Israeli goods linked to illegal settlement and genocide. a major win and organizing lesson on pressure points in the arms trade:

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to rest peacefully after a life beautifully and brilliantly spent, this i wish for Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books, someone i knew, respected, and loved

naturally. keep em comin

it's certainly a piece that has stayed with me, and has helped enrich the way i engage with visual art

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this is a genuinely exquisite piece; i hope you'll read it now that it's online. Kate is comprehensive on Mihelič's fascinating life and work, while using them as a prism to illuminate a dialectic: how life and grief are infused in art, and how art in turn inflects our ways of seeing and our lives.

wrote last year (it’s finally online) about my favorite artist, the Yugoslav painter France Mihelič for @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

From Issue V: Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell.bsky.social) on the art and life of Yugoslavian painter France Michelič, known for his depictions of folk deity Kurent. Stamped by the 20th century's trials, he became a searching interpreter of nature, ritual, and death.

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