Like James Baldwin said, “You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.”

Reader, they have only gotten stronger.

BREAKING: Amazon has fired Palestinian tech worker Ahmed Shahrour, five weeks after he was suspended for speaking out about the company’s ties to Israel.

God protect you and keep you.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

And the I’m more authentically doing the work announcements can be their own form of self-congratulations. Whatever the case, like Octavia E. Butler wrote in her journal, ”Good is only sexy when it’s very powerful, not sanctimonious, and not too good.“

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019." inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

This moves me immensely.

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

Okay fine also turtlenecks.

Reluctantly, I suppose I'm also now looking forward to radicchio and seeing theatre/dance (which I can't bear to do in the summer because its INSIDE).

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

It was really quite romantic!

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

This piece reminded me of when I was nineteen and we learned about Meisner technique at drama school. My peers started playing a game (drunk, late at night) called "Yes/No/Paranoia."

Particularly compelled by how Sarah Khatry and @aprzhu.bsky.social's @nplusonemag.com interview shows the ways Chen's poor craft obscures Israel's colonial project. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“I was out there today because being part of a music collective gives me the strength and courage to do brave things, like sing beautiful songs at people who wish us and our neighbors harm.”

"...the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.

A propos my hypothesis that those looking for democratic unity lack the the psychological fortitude to weather personal conflict When you avoid the unpleasantness of -gasp- rejecting association with your opponent, you displace your discomfort onto those most vulnerable to your opponent’s abuses.

Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities

Statement from No Azure for Apartheid: medium.com/@noazurefora...

this week i learned that the anarchist scientist peter kropotkin was the guy who discovered how glaciers move and also wrote maybe the first treatise on the need to combat climate change

chicago ! i'm playing at Collider on Friday!! dm for address and be cool. wear a mask.

The news is expected to be hailed a major win by No Azure for Apartheid members, who have taken a heavy toll due to their activism, including arrests and firings. However, they will likely keep on pushing until all ties to Israel’s military are severed. www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/08...

This is a big big deal. Last month's No Azure for Apartheid protests played a big part. Microsoft has still not cut all ties with Israel, but this is not insignificant. Let's keep up the pressure.

🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has... @ryangrim.bsky.social

Watch: Pro-Gaza protesters who blocked a highway near Rome were met with visible solidarity from drivers. Regional news coverage of the paralyzed Central Station showed only people expressing support for the protest. Source: Paolo Mossetti on X (@paolomossetti)

Reading comprehension for my adult tutee: Gothic lesbian vampire novella (Carmilla).

The only thing to love about the end of summer is the death of fruit flies.

"Join the Worker Intifada!" #Microsoft workers revolt over Big Tech's complicity in Israel's genocide. I spoke to current Microsoft workers for @therealnews.com who are risking their jobs & safety to speak out—and who are calling on other workers across the tech industry to join them

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

Really honored and grateful to have my recent Truthout piece about Palantir on Kelly Hayes' ever-excellent must-reads list. Her list is one of the places I turn to regularly for crucial journalism. truthout.org/articles/org...

"Palantir’s technology is also powering Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In January of 2024, Palantir agreed to a “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Defense Ministry, selling them an advanced AI platform."

Activists filled Palantir's lobby in Seattle carrying banners featuring giant eyes with yellow irises: “First Palantir Surveils, then IDF Kills.” “First Palantir Tracks, then ICE attacks.”

For @truthout.org, I wrote about organizing against Palantir, including @purgepalantir.bsky.social, People over Planet, @jvp.bsky.social -Seattle, and No Azure for Apartheid. I also wrote about NOAA's encampment protest at Microsoft headquarters this week. truthout.org/articles/org...

"We're all standing here today to hold companies like Palantir and Microsoft accountable for their role powering the world's first AI-assisted genocide." "Their CEO brags about how their technology kills people." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

🚨 Microsoft workers launch #Palestine encampment at company's HQ in Redmond, WA "I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com

Not all of the “Ten Commandments for Danes”—moral instructions for resisting fascism under the German occupation of Denmark—apply to our situation under consolidating authoritarianism in the heart of empire. One that absolutely does: "You shall protect anyone chased by the [fascists]."

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.