Jesse

earnest and very easily misled, acab, he/him

[Veggie @bigboybokchoy]

The reason you’re unhappy is that you haven’t found the right thing to buy. There’s something out there you can purchase that will make this all go away

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis’ incredible observation on friendship

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

[Conner O'Malley @conner_omalley]

Irish Zionism

[Christian Smalls @Shut_downAmazon]

Zohran is going to break ppls heart way more then AOC because he plays the fence so well one day he can sound like a leader of resistance the next a shill for Israel. I knew something was off the moment he said absolutely nothing while he knew I was in Prison in Israel.

[Mike Prysner @MikePrysner]

I have taken a good number of these calls. You definitely hear “I don’t want to die for Israel” but refusal to fight triggered by the girls’ school massacre is a much more frequent refrain. The anti-war movement can & must appeal to the morality of service members in this moment

[Buster Call Saul @sunwokeong]

In his eyeglasses with a strap so he doesn't lose them and his cute hedgehog water bottle is a morbid reflection of our depravity and moral cowardice. Every child these pedophile bastards have killed was loved dearly. This nation is a 250-year stain on humanity.

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

Every version of “we should not tolerate the underclass” leads to removal, detention, warehousing, containment—be it by immigration authorities, police, or Not Police. This is obvious and moreover perhaps the principal social and political fault-lines of our time

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

they're being called Stephanyahu, LeKud James, and the KDF

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

This assumes oppressors need a pretext. They don’t. They repress because they can. This framing only tells the oppressed to stay quiet while violence continues. Same logic used against Palestinians: ‘don’t resist or you’ll deserve what’s coming.’”

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

The suffragettes committed arson, cut telephone wires, and disrupted mail. What are some pro-resistance chants in comparison to that? At the time, these women were demonized by journalists and politicians. Today they are revered. Protest, by definition, is supposed to ruffle feathers. It is supposed to be provocative and confrontational. That is how things change: you do not appease the status quo; you challenge it. Understanding history helps us clear through the fog and the controversy. There's hardly anything unique, new, or interesting about the current discourse.

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

Working ceaselessly

[nick catucci @catucci]

Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak

https://t.co/uLPGWnREsD

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

This part stood out to me. It isn’t that their positions are irreconcilable, but that Klein’s refusal to engage with history produces an affective politics rooted in nostalgia for a political center/unity. He can’t see that it was built by pushing people out of democratic life.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

This is a pretty brutal @SamAdlerBell piece in @NYMag on the ex-Biden foreign policy chiefs who are criticizing Trump on Gaza after failing to do much of anything themselves.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Seriously, does @ezraklein have no one in his life, no editor, no friend, to tell him not to publish this? If you’re Black or trans or an immigrant or Arab or a woman — how can you read a word Ezra without thinking: This is a guy who will excuse extreme violence & bigotry against me as secondary to the *checks notes* belief in the “continued possibility of American politics.”

[mmcc @mattmccrac]

Hardly surprising and yet somehow astonishing: chiefly drives home that your elected officials do not work for you, have no principles, will openly belittle popular opinion and wholly reject the sincerest efforts to restore them to humanity. Sobering.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

When I gaze at the beauty of nature around the world and can only access it through a phone screen, I ask myself: is it because I was born in a place I didn’t choose that I’m forced to endure things no human should ever have to bear or even imagine the horror of?

Just the thought that I might live and die having experienced nothing in life but pain, loss, and tears, while knowing that there’s a beautiful side of the world I will never reach because of a geographical coincidence, drives me mad every single day.

It makes me ache even more than the pain I already live through in Gaza.