wrote about my fav children's book for the new yorker and learned that each bobble of a raspberry is officially called a "drupelet" www.newyorker.com/a-childrens-...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza on Channel 4

most appalling beauty

Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order. Essays by Fady Joudah, Jamieson Webster, Dylan Saba, Yasmin El-Riafe, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more. For full TOC: www.parapraxismagazine.com/magazine To pre-order: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form

the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off—serenest azure is at hand.

those grand fresh-water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s noblest traits

today is 4 years since my mom died. my son was born 15 days later. for me it was a realization that sometimes Real Things Do Happen like a death or a birth or often both in close proximity www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/ess...

George Eliot’s epigraph for Chapter 21 of Daniel Deronda goes hard at the brute force of Ignorance. Just thinking of it these days.

you need some schemes bro. bro it’s time to start plotting. you need some machinations. some mackies bro

the lenin b sides have crazy titles

For @Parapraxis_Mag I wrote about abnormally normal mom culture and why it freaketh me out www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nor...

I went down to southern Illinois to Edgar Lee Masters' house with Fred to research his production of Spoon River. We lit incense in the cemetery to get rid of the bugs. I think I still have the charcoal impressions my mom made of the gravestones that eventually became the set. Love you Fred.

I worked with Fred on several occasions. He was a singular and monumental presence in a Chicago theatre scene that often felt exploitive and inhuman. Fred was the opposite of that. He always wanted what was real and what was honest. He will be sorely missed.

Soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIL...

How do I simplify my life without making it more complicated

Things I would do if I didn’t have a job and young kids pt 1 Read Moby Dick

“hey guys WHATS up, cody tiktok here to bring you new and exciting updates from around the WORLD. here in el salvador they’ve invented this new thing called Indentured Servitude and i dunno, seems pretty sick to me. would y’all want this where you live?? 🤯”

Nausicaa Needs a Win

TFW your psychoanalyst uses “attacks on linking” against you

SHIVERS - MAKE IT RIGHT. MORE THAN YOU KNOW DEPENDS ON IT.

I think I finally figured out what bothers me about astrology. Actual introspection and self knowledge are possible. But astrology tries to discover the self not only in objects but literally the farthest flung possible objects.

It’s ranunculus season bitches

JD Vance This year is our year JD Vance We can never forget this tiger Michael Waltz I know. I am focused on it. Michael Waltz We will execute this year JD Vance I know. I’m focused on it too.

ACAB includes bedtime

we all know his fundraising has been great, but @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social knocked out of the park even more this filing. plurality of individual donors up from 101 last filing to 121 of 178 total this filing, about 68% of all zip codes in the city had zohran as the candidate most given to.

Finished

I have a fantasy that neo-fascist types can "snap out of it" but reading a lot of material on the psychology of fascism, the alternative for people solidly in this mindset is not freedom and prosperity but actually some dark place even worse than fascism

The weirdest thing about like health influencers is they eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. It feels very childish. (As an adult I eat 1-2 meals and like 4 snacks.)

What does this even mean

Go touch moss

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups. Part of Trump’s sweeping attack on the First Amendment. Also, Mahmoud Khalil is a Green Card holder and his wife is 8 months pregnant. www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

Honestly I feel like I’m 75 percent of the way there

Constantly doing double takes on Agnes Callamard thinking it says Agnes Callard. Is there anyone else in the world who has this problem or is this my unique Venn diagram of journalism about Gaza and philosophy lore

There is currently an epidemic of people spelling my name wrong. Guys just copy and paste it is ok!!!

State Department briefings have returned! State staffer asked me, “Are you with the New York Times?” “No, but I’ll take their seat,” I told him, and he pointed me to it

A powerful report from @mariambarghouti.bsky.social chronicling Israel's largest mass expulsion campaign in the West Bank since 1967. Mariam accompanied Palestinians braving sniper fire in an effort to retrieve what they could from their homes. @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-...

Can we get Jordan Peterson in the mix at the White House

4 days till daylight saving time

brutalism heads we have to pool our pittances together to buy HUD

Last year, when I was in the archive researching the Reich family for my book, I came across an envelope of photos from Red Vienna. It turns out, they were taken by the analyst. This became the impetus for a new folio on Reich and fascism, published today at @parapraxismag.bsky.social:

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't live your dreams

Sick in bed, what should I read in my delirium. I want like Essays

my heart’s opinion is that I am a writer my brain’s opinion is that writing is something I do once every month sometimes