"We [Palestine] are the wound in the Arab world, and everyone watches what happens to us." -Nader Said

please do something. anything. please at least today educate yourself about the Balfour Declaration (signed in 1917) and the Mandate for Palestine (drafted in 1919). it's been 100+ years. that's how far back this injustice goes. the world has watched for a century. it should not still be happening

“Every night, I wonder if it will be the last of my life. Will there be a tomorrow? I try to look at my family, to gaze at and memorize their faces, just in case.” Plestia Alaqad

On Proust and the search for models of translation: “Indeed, it is a bummer to me that Proust occupies such a rarefied, even elitist, realm in the culture—to the extent he is present at all—because he is far more accessible than most people realize, and a lot funnier.”

"History didn't start on October 7," says Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, who became famous for her viral video dispatches from Gaza in the early days of Israel's genocide. Her new book is "The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/7/plestia_alaqad

As Chicago braces for possible deployment of federal troops, ICE agents conducted a high-profile raid on a residential building. Chicagoans have not “heard any justification or rationalization for why it was that they needed this kind of overwhelming force,” says Ed Yohnka with ACLU Illinois.

U.N. Says Israeli Attacks Have Killed Over 100 Civilians in Lebanon Since Ceasefire

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” – John Banville, The Sea

Keep the pressure up.

How about supporting these amazing poets & buying this anthology of their astonishing poetry wherever u get books?Imagine what they tell us of the human spirit that they put pen to paper under bombardment,displacement, loss of beloveds—being made to live in tents as they are set on fire or starved.

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Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud describes his experience working as a journalist in Gaza amid Israel's genocide. “What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”

Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records. We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

Tomorrow night! I perform with poet Patrick Friesen alongside two of Canada's best flamenco artists, guitarist Gareth Owen and dancer Denise Yeo. Learn more, and buy tickets, here: www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/palabra-flam...

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

ICC Charges Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with 3 Counts of Crimes Against Humanity

Tomorrow night! I perform with poet Patrick Friesen alongside two of Canada's best flamenco artists, guitarist Gareth Owen and dancer Denise Yeo. Learn more, and buy tickets, here: www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/palabra-flam...

I co-organized and signed this open letter because silence is complicity. 244 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel since the genocide in Palestine began. In response, 244 Canadian writers have added our names to an open letter calling these killings what they are: war crimes.

This is really embarrassing for the UK

I co-organized and signed this open letter because silence is complicity. 244 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel since the genocide in Palestine began. In response, 244 Canadian writers have added our names to an open letter calling these killings what they are: war crimes.

👇this way for a poem that cannot be screenshotted to fit on an iPhone screen

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The idea that the Holocaust is a unique event in human history serves the interests of Zionists who use it to paint Jews as eternal victims and justify the apartheid state of Israel and the genocide being carried out in Gaza. Unique suffering in their eyes confers unique entitlement.

Tony Hoagland once said that I was "too drunk with words," which is pretty much the mission statement

Apartheid Israel has now killed 680,000 Palestinians. 380,000 under 5 years of age. 479,000 children total. Do not be okay with that.

Apartheid Israel has now killed 680,000 Palestinians. 380,000 under 5 years of age. 479,000 children total. Do not be okay with that.

One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.

"he was a son, a father, a husband, a friend," is also applicable to men in Palestine, in Congo, in Sudan, etc...

Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?

Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/11/global_sumud_flotilla_breaking_gaza_siege

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent the last twenty years learning reasons not to love a thing, yanking the soul away from what bewitches and bewilders it.”

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Natalie Diaz praises the “sensual intention” of Mary Oliver’s language. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...

I'm not the best judge of tenor voices, I'll admit. But my judgment of baritones is impeccable. And this man had one of the most beautiful baritone voices on Earth. And I still hate g-d, with all of my heart, for claiming him when he was only fifty-five.

I talked to CBC a few weeks ago and forgot all about it, but this just came out today! Interview with me and the always thoughtful YA author, Tanya Boteju. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this. nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext

Most Canadians oppose book bans. Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books. Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections. The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.

This article includes the full list of 221 books that Edmonton schools say they will be pulling from the shelves this fall, searchable by title and author. theijf.org/edmonton-ban...

This seems like a good time to mention that if you are a published Canadian author or illustrator concerned about book bans in Canada, you might want to join our new group, Canadian Authors and Illustrators Against Book Bans. Our statement and sign up page is here: www.karijones.ca/canadian-aut...

@hudafakhreddine.bsky.social on Paul Celan and the necessity of Gaza to poetry: “If time must continue on its course after this, then it cannot but course toward a free Palestine.”

Gabor Mate on the decades-long prioritization of Jewish voices, and invalidation of Palestinian voices, in the Israel-Palestine conversation: “Imagine if Auschwitz was only validated if the Germans acknowledged that it happened.”

fuck me up lao tzu

What is the one atrocity Zionists have committed in the past 22 months that you think about the most?

Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.

Find this film. Watch this film. It’s as great a scripted film as you will see this decade. It shows at Telluride this weekend. Seek it out. Like NoOther Land, the doc which won an Oscar last year, the distribution in the US will be impeded. Fight that. Support it. deadline.com/2025/08/osca...