Reading the great Ukrainian author, Nikolai Gogol...

"Mona Lisa: The Tower of Babel" Digital collage #leonardzinovyev #digitacollage

Let me end the story

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

"...the soft fantasy of a Rushdie or an Adichie – that storytelling and literature will encourage mutual understanding and save the world..." Two essays by Natalia Ginzburg; head spinning round the vicious circle as always when one tries to comprehend the Middle East. www.equator.org/articles/our...

Tallith for Meyer Schapiro from For Meyer Schapiro http://www.moma.org/collection/works/76504

This new book is a call to action and a guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement. Loretta J. Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried provide a history of abortion politics through a reproductive justice framework that centers those most vulnerable.

"An auspicious image for the new millennium: the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity he has the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times, belongs to the realm of death."

"Imagery meditation, or How to visualize happiness" Digital collage (2025) #leonardzinovyev #digitalcollage

"At dusk" Digital collage #leonardzinovyev #digitalcollage

Think twice before calling yourself a storyteller. They've appropriated that too, and for what? For maximising 'the corporate narrative': www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

"Be bold — read much — write much — publish little — keep aloof from the little wits, and fear nothing." – Edgar Allan Poe, October 1843

www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... The dire situation in Quilicura, CHILE. AI and data centres feeding our thirst for connection and novelty cause a massive environmental crisis to the local water supply.

"The reason why the law does not cover all cases is that there are matters about which it is impossible to lay down a law, so that they require a special decree. For that which is variable needs a variable rule, like the leaden rule employed in the Lesbian style of masonry..." Nicom. Ethics V.10.6-7

Three book recommendations: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...

Yesterday, in just one day, I am told that the Ukrainians killed or critically wounded 900 Russians. In one day. All for the imperial dreams of a tyrant

GUY DEBORD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsL_...

From Dora Marsden, with Love (1909)

What a nice little group of lads... Getting together for the cause... Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion www.equator.org/articles/the... Bad Peace...

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... Well well well. Try to defend AI in the context of this phenomenal "invention"

L’Union européenne trouve un accord pour interdire toute importation de gaz russe d’ici à l’automne 2027

Translated from Arabic by Omar Berrada www.equator.org/articles/i-l...

@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...

www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... A pressing issue - domestic violence

A new documentary goes inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic... in the absence of meaningful gun reform. I spoke with the filmmakers for @motherjones.com:

On the limits of what should and could be said in public regardless of the unlimited freedom of speech, based on the example of Oriana Fallaci:https://www.commentary.org/articles/christopher-caldwell/the-fallaci-affair/

Orwell's Whale and McEwan's Frogs ianmcewan.com/resources/do...

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell www.commentary.org/articles/chr... On the lurid imagination...

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On The Rocky Road To Nowhere

No, HHS, menopause does not in fact cause divorce and death, but tell us more about how great you are at women's health. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I wrote about how they somehow managed to mess up what should have been good news on HRT with weird claims. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today is the day! Every One Still Here is now available to purchase in all good bookshops and on our website. stingingfly.org/product/ever...

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.” New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Africa 6 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-6-1970

“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.” read this horrific report from Kherson: open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...

NEW: With the great Nina Martin, I wrote about bombshell allegations about a Planned Parenthood chapter in the South that has been taken over by new leaders with conservative connections. One new leader has even described herself as "pro-life." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Join us in NYC (Bryant Park) TOMORROW at 10am as we stand up to the Trump administration's authoritarian threats. Join what’s set to be one of the largest protests in the country to defend the First Amendment, workers rights, public services and immigrant families. RSVP: wgaea.st/no-kings-1018