I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read! thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...

For the @newinquiry.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant @lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring thenewinquiry.com/world-wide-w...

Now in TNI: a dispatch from Dahye, Lebanon, published in collaboration with The New York War Crimes thenewinquiry.com/a-thorn-in-t...

"South Korea is often lauded as a safe society... But much of the country’s tranquil middle-class environments—apartment towers, malls, and privately-owned parks—were constructed through violence and intimidation.“ thenewinquiry.com/seoul-to-squ...

"Health equity capture…hijacks health equity concepts, aesthetics, and language…for the purpose of posing the problem—in our case, the institutions and processes (like the weight loss industry) that create, prop up, or exist due to inequality—as the solution."

"The public, reaching for life, for longevity, for survival among the fittest (as dictated by eugenics) has turned its eyes to its physique. Ozempic, to shareholders glee, arrived right on time." thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...

Weight loss medications have expanded their reach through co-opting the language of social justice. thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...

Read @elpgerson.bsky.social in @newinquiry.bsky.social, on six years of Morena party rule under AMLO.

First post on BlueSky and it's a plug. Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success. thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...

"Obradorismo has been variously characterized with terms like left-wing populism and progressive nationalisms. These definitions are reductive, conjuring associations with other leaders or regimes that ultimately do not apply." thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...

"The months since the election of Donald Trump have played host to a brilliant array of liberal delusions, a collective delirium that has led the American center-left to question everything—literally everything—except its own flawed ideology." thenewinquiry.com/this-is-not-...

sharing again an interview I did with the incredible Danielle Wu 💌✨ @newinquiry.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/whose-garbag...

Maya 🖤

Excellent state theory: "for those who have convinced themselves ... that any discrepancy between appearance and action is a glitch rather than a symptom, reckoning with such discrepancies ... requires a recalibration of national shame, first, and state efficiency, second"

"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...

"Folk Etymologies" by Eleanor Stern for @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/folk-etymolo... A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.

From “The Second Week” by the Palestinian Youth Movement thenewinquiry.com/the-second-w...

Palestinians in the West Bank are defending themselves from the apartheid regime’s nightly attack Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

🚨 A field source for Al-Mayadeen: — Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria. The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.

RSF and affiliated Sudanese-Arab militias have reportedly killed 800 in an ethnic cleansing campaign in Ardamata camp in West Darfur, home to tens of thousands who had already been displaced by the civil war.

"Many voters said they trusted Donald Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base frays." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the "equivalent of two nuclear bombs," says rights group.

Before October 7th, over 60% of Palestinians were moderately or severely food insecure. It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.

"The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019" Save the Children

Israel's Ministry of Intelligence deportation directive outlines the four stages: 1.A call on Palestinian civilians to vacate north Gaza; 2.Sequential land operations from north to south; 3.Leaving routes open across Rafah; 4.Establishing "tent cities" in Sinai to resettle Palestinians in Egypt.

The last time American media said anything about Palestinian communities being ethnically cleansed from the West Bank, “only” two villages were displaced. Now we are at at least 13. www.btselem.org/press_releas...

It’s been said before but there is no “post-” for traumatized Palestinian children in Gaza. They are always in danger and so they can never establish the real foundation of safety recognized as the prerequisite for trauma recovery. “Israel” has trapped them in a kind of hell.

Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera: Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire” It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

❤️ London today! These vile, war criminal governments, they don’t speak for us. #CeaseFireNow www.reuters.com/world/uk/tho...

We are proud to endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as part of BDS

Saudi Arabia says the show must go on even as the region reels from the war in Gaza.

modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, Writers Against the War on Gaza is building a cultural front for a free Palestine. this statement's the beginning of our efforts, not the final word. join us to help figure out what comes next! www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com

“Obviously, statistics from Gaza are subject to bias, so we can’t use them to determine when the number of dead Palestinians has reached a sufficient level.”

Natalie Zemon Davis (1924-2023) on Being Grateful to Edward Said (via Esmat Elhalaby): drive.google.com/file/d/0B07y...

Proposed Florida rule bans public univ activities "intended to achieve a desired result related to social issues," defined as "topics that polarize or divide society among political, ideological, moral, or religious beliefs, positions, or norms." USF lawyer: "I can’t think of anything that doesn't."

When refugees seek refuge with refugees Abdelfattah Abusrour shares two poems from Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem inspired by hosting Palestinian workers from Gaza stuck in the West Bank during Israel's latest onslaught.

The state of Gaza's hospitals: Surgeries without anesthesia and with only mobile phones for light. Vinegar from the corner store as disinfectant. 5,000 patients in a hospital built for 700, some sleeping on the floor. No power, no clean water, little fuel. apnews.com/article/pale...

Egyptians are protesting in Tahrir Square after 10 years. This is not a state-organized protest, but people went there because this is where the Egyptians usually protest. This video shows how the protesters were like birds who went out of their cages. Menasky x.com/oelfatairy/s...

An influential Israeli think thank has published a paper describing an “opportunity” to remove the “entire population of Gaza.” They call for an $8bn “stimulus” paid to Egypt to enable a “final rehousing” of Gazans in the Cairo suburbs. It’s an open call for ethnic cleansing. bit.ly/3S1uyTO

Would a ceasefire come sooner if I pointed out Netanyahu is a dang nepo baby

'What does it feel like to stand at the edge of annihilation? I can only speak from my vantage a few degrees from the epicenter of war. Here, it feels like falling through an endless throat'. Sarah Aziza in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/dooms...

Apparently there’s an influx of far right nazi arseholes. Remember the rules. Do not engage. Do not quote post to dunk. Block early, block often. Starve them of oxygen.

FUCK www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-g...

Jewish institutions: "How can we engage with younger Jews? We can hardly get any to come to our events." IfNotNow: "Thousands of Jews showed up to our protest yesterday." Jewish institutions: "Never mind."