My takeaway from Seder has always been “It is just — and indeed imperative — to struggle, even violently, for liberation against subjugation,” not “we must establish a settler colonial Jewish supremacist nation state through ethnic cleansing beginning in the mid-20th century.”
Palestine wasn’t a risk in Mamdani’s campaign, it was the reason he won. This was a referendum on Zionism, and the victory we need to build on is the people’s rejection of it. The real win isn’t electoral, it’s ideological. We must capture, deepen, and organize on that rejection.
A whole family broken apart before it even started because this guy couldn’t stop reading horror stories on Reddit and became obsessed with an imaginary scenario of his own creation
Being married to a British person means finding things in your kitchen that are just so baffling. It’s like a industrial processed food but from The Shire?
When they start using terms like “reimagining” that’s a clue that the ruling class is about to impose their desires onto the city using “disaster” as a catalyst for ethnic cleansing (gentrification), hyper-policing, new forms of extraction & deepening exploitation.
Fight. Back.
Police in LA are writing parking tickets and spreading looting rumors to JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE. ICE is doing raids right now. With your tax money! During crisis!
Meanwhile, in emergency/crisis, thousands of unpaid civilians are organizing mutual aid to care for one another.
Eaton fire getting WAY less coverage than Palisades fire despite being as devastating, burning ~1000 houses, killing 5. Surprising number of media people reporting fires grew up in Palisades/Malibu/Santa Monica, vs little-known Altadena, a minority-majority mid-income inland burb
Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen, I think it’s a good time to remind everyone or tell for the first time that ChatGPT and other forms for AI are contributing to the rapid warming of our planet.
My most pretentious opinion is that the language of Shakespeare actually slaps, and is pretty accessible if you find a decent audio drama or screen adaptation. If you invite a few friends over for drinks and a Shakespeare-reading, you will have the time of your life.
People across the world, including those without great educations, have learned & loved Shakespeare for centuries. This very recent idea that he's "inaccessible" and "alienating" is due to the biases of certain adults, not kids, along w the lowering of certain standards over time
Our two actor production of Richard II opens tonight! Thank you so much to @hrcastor and @AvidReaderPress for such an invaluable resource. We turned to it many, many times over the development of this project!