We watch. Watch others watch. The body of a boy lies on the pavement exactly like the body of a boy. It is a peaceful country. And it clips our citizens’ bodies effortlessly, the way the President’s wife trims her toenails. (Ilya Kamensky, from “In a Time of Peace”) poets.org/poem/time-pe...

i have ruined three workplaces today and i’m not done yet

Farewell sweet Prince

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

That Mahmood Mamdani’s child is poised to become the mayor of New York does make one teeter towards the feeling that anything is possible.

This is one of my favorite interviews we've ever done. Vulnerabilities of queer/feminist mentoring, the cognitive dissonance of institutional "risk management," women's sports: it has every topic you could ever want!

shoutout to all the iconic gay men in my life who, because of their national holiday, are literally incapable of forgetting my birthday. y’all are gonna will be 90 years old w dementia and still texting me today and i love you for it.

🧵*8/29/2025 thread of noncooperation* A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. A movement is just a bunch of people moving. Let's fucking go. * Trump wants to roll in? Chicago has some thoughts about that 💪

New Mark of the Beast just dropped. -Revelation 13:16, paraphrased, referring to Nike’s Caitlin Clark logo #WNBA

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Protests should not only express dissent but also serve as credible threats of sustained action, such as strikes, boycotts, or other forms of collective withholding to compel systemic change. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

I'm not the boss of the internet, but I recommend that you make 1 more donation to a Gaza family or LA bail fund & log off for the evening (unless you're a reporter whose literal job requires you to be on here). Either settle your nervous system or go to a physical location & do a bold activity

I also find the use of "Radical" as this kinda general praise term *really* contemptible. But I think it annoys me out of whack to how bad it actually is. But ftr it's because to me sounds like people arguing about who is really Deep just with a leftist inflection; and I hate Deepitude argument too.

I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

''Jewish identity' is, in the survey’s own terms, functionally inseparable from 'views of Israel,' just as 'real or perceived Jewishness' is interchangeable with 'support for Israel.' There is no way to disaggregate data on anti-Jewish bigotry from data on protests against Israel.'

Thinking, as always, about Palestinians in the diaspora and holding space for anyone who isn’t able to get stuff done at work. Personally, I haven’t been able to focus since the 7th.

“Oh Rascal Children of Gaza” by Khaled Juma