Speaking specifically to other Jewish communal leaders right now: The eyes of history are watching us. We cannot allow the desire for revenge to cloud our moral judgment. We must oppose genocide, full stop. We may not agree on anything else. Let's agree on this.
New York City’s Libraries face $52.7 million in proposed budget cuts. Please sign this letter against the budget cuts while society is still literate enough to read it! https://t.co/qiLjS1Ki2U
so excited to share that my story "linda liu" was selected by @isabelkaplan as the winner of the @pigeonpagesnyc flash contest!
https://t.co/23WmcRJVPS
A dark day for trans youth.
Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.
They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."
I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts.
@coldcrashpics It’s very expensive (pay to play), but if you get an “8” on the blcklst they’ll include your script in a weekly email. Brings more traffic to it
Jury nullification is a powerful weapon against prosecutors who go after women seeking abortions and anyone who tries to help them, as well as parents seeking gender affirming care for their children. Jurors have the right to say "No, not in our name," and nullify.
my grandma passed away this week at 93. she had an incredible life—lived through revolution, taught herself to read, loved dressing up and was a talented seamstress, raised her kids/grandkids. i’m sorry we couldn’t say goodbye in person but we will honor and love her always 💛🤍
THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: many of the reporters concocting the new hysteria over "retail theft" are using the *exact same* words and patterns in each story. It's pretty wild. Let's take a look:
I’m preparing to speak in the city where a race massacre destroyed a Black middle-class city & open white supremacists overthrew the elected bi-racial government in the only successful coup in US history, & this state tried to pass anti-history laws to stop us from remembering.
OK I already retweeted this but you have to watch it. These are real fucking people, in the fight for their lives, holding the line for everybody who works for a living. Watch it. And do what you can to help them hold the line.
Thread. This week, the New York Times's recent dangerous reporting on "crime" reached a new low. I try to document what happened carefully below, because what happens to the leading newspaper in the U.S. has effects on how we all get information about the world.
i have a short story in the latest greatest issue of @tbquarterly! it's a rom com set at the taco bell hotel complete with hot strangers and hotter cheese https://t.co/KphiBMbzeP
this is one of the most difficult and emotional things i’ve written. for @electriclit, i wrote about my mom and how @jbrekkie’s memoir “crying in h mart” helped me cope with the cultural dimension of anticipatory grief https://t.co/QzWKCm8Bf6