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I think that this is partly in conversation with Bertolt Brecht's "To Posterity," which contains the lines "Ah, what an age it is/When to speak of trees is almost a crime/For it is a kind of silence about injustice!"
I've always thought if he lived now he'd have written a different line.
I've always thought if he lived now he'd have written a different line.
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I think that this is partly in conversation with Bertolt Brecht's "To Posterity," which contains the lines "Ah, what an age it is/When to speak of trees is almost a crime/For it is a kind of silence about injustice!"
I've always thought if he lived now he'd have written a different line.
I've always thought if he lived now he'd have written a different line.
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It’s generally assumed that “Moby-Dick” has a canonical start date in December 1841, so there’s a good chance that Ishmael has entered the AME Zion church (then on South Second St, three blocks from the water) and the preacher he sees is Frederick Douglass. 🐋
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 AM
It’s generally assumed that “Moby-Dick” has a canonical start date in December 1841, so there’s a good chance that Ishmael has entered the AME Zion church (then on South Second St, three blocks from the water) and the preacher he sees is Frederick Douglass. 🐋
[solemnly] she was disco
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
[solemnly] she was disco
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perhaps the quietest atrocity in our national history, and yet certainly among the worst
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
perhaps the quietest atrocity in our national history, and yet certainly among the worst
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American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful
LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful
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Democratic Party-affiliated organizations that are actually meeting this moment are the ones that are helping organize mass mobilizations against the coup, not the ones bickering over precisely which combination of magic words Democratic candidates should use.
This is getting very bad:
*FBI raids top Trump critic's home
*Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook
*Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting
*DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come"
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
*FBI raids top Trump critic's home
*Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook
*Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting
*DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come"
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a “Five Alarm Fire”
Thus far little is known about Friday’s law enforcement action against a top Trump critic. But we’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has grown unmistakable.
newrepublic.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Democratic Party-affiliated organizations that are actually meeting this moment are the ones that are helping organize mass mobilizations against the coup, not the ones bickering over precisely which combination of magic words Democratic candidates should use.
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"Even the sky in Gaza has changed. The sun rises, but brings no warmth. The night arrives, but offers no rest."
Gazan writer Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on light, shadow, and utter devastation.
jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...
Gazan writer Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on light, shadow, and utter devastation.
jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...
The Betrayal of Light
At the precipice of each instant, two voices speak to me. One says, “You survived.” The other, “It will begin again.”
jewishcurrents.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Even the sky in Gaza has changed. The sun rises, but brings no warmth. The night arrives, but offers no rest."
Gazan writer Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on light, shadow, and utter devastation.
jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...
Gazan writer Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on light, shadow, and utter devastation.
jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...
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Blaming the victim is not only cowardly, but also short-sighted. Caving to Beijing’s transnational repression will only encourage more of it. Where does it end? Every Brit should just shut up about CCP's abuses?
Shocking. Carmen Lau, a Hong Kong activist and target of letters pressuring her neighbors to hand her over to Chinese authorities, was formally asked by UK police to agree to avoid protests and stop any behavior that could put her “at risk”—so self-censor. That’s how transnational repression wins.
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Blaming the victim is not only cowardly, but also short-sighted. Caving to Beijing’s transnational repression will only encourage more of it. Where does it end? Every Brit should just shut up about CCP's abuses?
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One of the left critiques of YIMBYism is that it uses growth to try and sidestep labor-capital conflict, but the thing is that stagflation broke a fragile labor/capital accord and then capital won the ensuing conflict. There's a lesson there for contemporary efforts to build working class power.
July 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One of the left critiques of YIMBYism is that it uses growth to try and sidestep labor-capital conflict, but the thing is that stagflation broke a fragile labor/capital accord and then capital won the ensuing conflict. There's a lesson there for contemporary efforts to build working class power.
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a recurring thread in our history. whites for one reason or another enter into close proximity with black people and come away with the distinct view that racism is bullshit
July 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
a recurring thread in our history. whites for one reason or another enter into close proximity with black people and come away with the distinct view that racism is bullshit
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The more I think about the USAID cuts the more I understand John Brown. What can you do when your country carries out a monstrous crime on a Biblical scale and so many don't care because of who the victims are and so many of those who do care treat it as just another issue instead of the only issue?
July 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The more I think about the USAID cuts the more I understand John Brown. What can you do when your country carries out a monstrous crime on a Biblical scale and so many don't care because of who the victims are and so many of those who do care treat it as just another issue instead of the only issue?
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SCOOP: Mamdani did something even we are forced to concede wasn't what it we are also making it sound like, to no tangible gain, for a college he didn't go to, 15 years ago. Our anonymous source is political activist Adolf Hitler
SCOOP: Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
I co-report for The New York Times: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
I co-report for The New York Times: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
SCOOP: Mamdani did something even we are forced to concede wasn't what it we are also making it sound like, to no tangible gain, for a college he didn't go to, 15 years ago. Our anonymous source is political activist Adolf Hitler
Current state of the US is like this, but if it were urban-rural instead of North-South
July 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Current state of the US is like this, but if it were urban-rural instead of North-South
HURRAH, BOYS, HURRAH
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
June 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
HURRAH, BOYS, HURRAH
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me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
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She fought an incredibly competent rearguard action and her reward is being mocked by the people whose careers she saved in the process
something that i will go to my grave believe is that harris being able to put together and run the campaign she did that pulled the part back from the brink despite being boxed in with a 100 days and literally everyone in the party thinking she was a lightweight was incredible
I think the thing is that Mamdani being the explicit DSA wing candidate helped a lot paradoxically, because he wasn’t as tied to the same kind of leadership that both made the Dem brand toxic and demanded fealty from Kamala
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
She fought an incredibly competent rearguard action and her reward is being mocked by the people whose careers she saved in the process
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incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war
The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it
June 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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to be fair borges' politics were the kind of gentle romantic melancholy he felt about, as far as i can tell, literally everything.
Borges completely reshaped literature in multiple different languages! Also, uhhhhhh, don't look up his political views
people gotta embrace just being an art snob rather than sublimating that into politics and trying to justify it. like that one director moron saying the Beatles were ‘neiliberal’. it’s fine to just not like the Beatles because you think they’re mainstream & lame. it’s fine. you don’t have to do that
June 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
to be fair borges' politics were the kind of gentle romantic melancholy he felt about, as far as i can tell, literally everything.
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This is how you give fascists a platform
July 14, 2023 at 4:03 PM
This is how you give fascists a platform
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this is like slowing down the zapruder film of racism so you can see exactly the point of impact
The Recording Academy has added a “traditional country” category following Beyoncé’s historic “Cowboy Carter” win
Grammys add ‘traditional country’ category following Beyoncé's win
The Recording Academy has made a distinct change to its Country Album category — a change that is raising eyebrows online among Beyoncé fans.
www.whatimreading.net
June 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
this is like slowing down the zapruder film of racism so you can see exactly the point of impact
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ICE: It is DEEPLY OFFENSIVE and HURTFUL to compare us to the gestapo.
Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.
Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.
June 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ICE: It is DEEPLY OFFENSIVE and HURTFUL to compare us to the gestapo.
Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.
Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.