Happiness doesn’t leave a scar

In the dictionary under “Gaslit”: you’re told you need to mourn someone you’re not allowed to quote.

Nearly every indie press at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair echoes the subversive histories of printmaking and radical publishing. To browse here is to cross borders of geography, identity, and form.

Extremely useful reminder

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Thursday evening that “there will be no Palestinian state,” as he signed an agreement to push ahead with the controversial E1 settlement expansion plan that will cut across [the occupied] West Bank.

A beloved street vendor who has provided food to hungry crowds at Los Angeles art events over the past two years is at risk of deportation after his recent abduction by ICE.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

Call to action! At the end of the Epstein survivor's news conference this morning, Rep Thomas Massie made a call to action for all citizens: Call your reps and demand they sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files! 5calls.org has guidance on this: 5calls.org/issue/releas...

People supporting T-Rump, and JFK Jr, must have family members they hope to get rid of? I mean I am trying to understand the GOP death drive… (Over one million Americans died thanks to the confusion of the [45] first term.) Because the vaccine chaos he’s prepping is going to be deadly!

#BREAKING | Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela says he will board a Gaza-bound aid boat from Tunisia, joining activists seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to reportedly remove COVID-19 vaccines from the US market within months, per Newsweek

The Associated Press documents massive explosions in northern Gaza, visible from the Gaza border, as Israeli occupation forces continue detonating residential homes. Some of these homes have families inside them. With nowhere else to go. Genocide.

Fifty-one years ago today.

Funding for this groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's was terminated by the Trump Administration www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social

5calls.org/state/texas/... 5 Calls just created their first single state campaign to help with contracting Texas representatives and senators. If you live in Texas, PLEASE call your senator and tell them to break quorum to stop the redistricting bill. #txlege

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone. Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So we are at a point in US history where pedophiles provide lists of demands to governments and governments hide lists of crimes of pedophiles. What Maxwell has on Trump has to be damning.

This war in Gaza must end NOW. Call your reps to demand they: -- pressure the Trump admin to negotiate a sturdy ceasefire -- work to ensure the urgent, safe delivery of aid to Palestinians -- support resolutions blocking arms sales to Israel Script here 👉 5calls.org/issue/gaza-p...

Did not expect one of the artists behind such hits as "Pop the Pussy" and "Me So Horny" to weigh in on girls at a Trump party being way too young.

The Americans, we reinvent ourselves—because we’re unwilling to actually reinvent ourselves.

We have an interesting variety of signs and symbols on display at each Minnetonka Wednesday Weekly Protest. Attendance is getting to be quite steady even during unpleasant weather.

“Palestine and the Production of Ignorance” by Muhammad Ali Khalidi traces how US institutions are suppressing knowledge about Palestine through censorship, false narratives, and smear campaigns. A must-read on the war against truth. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year. 13.8 million were children. Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants. A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:

10 years ago today, Sandra Bland was killed. Say her name. Rest in Power, soror 💙💛🐩

🚨 The Senate has to vote on this rescissions package (H.R. 4) NEXT WEEK. They have to pass it by July 18, otherwise it dies and Trump can't request these same cuts to foreign aid, NPR & PBS again. No filibuster on this one. Call your Senators and demand they VOTE NO. 5calls.org/issue/hr4-re...

And they sprayed the damn fields while community members could only run and then watch through tears. Like something out of Vietnam. All so they could break us. All so they could steal the very people who work the hardest to keep our county going.

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands.

As someone who is in contact with dozens of different non-citizens every day, I can anecdotally confirm that all of the documented people I know are living with some degree of anxiety and all of the undocumented (& their families) are living in some degree of terror. Please support where you can

Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time. It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.

I think the Musk / Trump breakup is elaborate and carefully scripted political theater: making it possible to split the midterm vote…

"This morning ICE detained multiple people at a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. Nearby community members filmed ICE agents and there has since been significant community backlash." -BreakThrough News

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"Criminalization is literally how fascists operate," @dreanyc123.bsky.social points out. Criminalization feeds our basest instincts to "other," assign blame, & pretend everything is normal.

Independence Day for Venezuela: good day to pick up this book from Black Square Pess

Just arrived:

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The Big UGLY Bill was pushed through by the cowardly, corrupt and complicit. This is our Brexit, a xenophobic piece of stupidity whose bad effects we will be struggling to cope with

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵