John Lawhead

[Juan Cole @jricole]

Mamdani Skipped the Parade; Israeli War Criminals Didn’t https://t.co/zvVivVzNte

[The Indypendent @TheIndypendent]

Hundreds of antiwar demonstrators rallied this afternoon in Times Square to demand that the US end the regime change war it has launched against Iran. The event was organized by @PeoplesForumNYC, @codepink, the National Iranian American Council and others. Photos: @AshMarinaccio

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

AI and the economy: a losing bet for working people https://t.co/zLEbAypaFS

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

@susanoha I can think of worse tomes to inflict on hslers! In March '50 upon publication the Hawthornes moved away from discomforted Salem to Lenox MA where he met Herman Melville the following summer.

[Jakobi Williams @jakobiwill]

For the many request, my position on the William O'Neil biopic. #longlivechairmanfredhampton https://t.co/aeTYXfyDOr

[Jumaane Williams (@jumaane.bsky.social) @JumaaneWilliams]

National media, meet the Governor Cuomo we've known all along, beneath the Emmy-winning performance he put on for months.

https://t.co/81wI3fyKQS

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

John Dewey once visited a class & asked the kids what you'd find if you dug a hole in the earth. (Dead silence.) The teacher tells Dewey he had asked the wrong question, turns to the class and asks,"What's the state of the center of the earth?" The kids chorus, "Igneous fusion."

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

So...he just gets away with it?
That's the lesson?

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

.@NYGovCuomo Contact tracing is an important step in the fight against COVID-19. That's why NYS legislators unanimously passed a bill prohibiting police and ICE access to this sensitive information. Protect our health and privacy. Sign A10500C/S8450C. https://t.co/kDcqRbdkQi

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

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[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

I love it when the shabby inner nature of this city becomes visible. A joyous 2020 to one and all!

[Jumaane Williams (@jumaane.bsky.social) @JumaaneWilliams]

Whoa...I had to check my calendar, I thought it was March

#COVID-19 numbers on the rise

Questions on whether #NYC #schools should close

And @NYCMayor & @NYGovCuomo still on that bullshit!!!

#thisisourleadership
#nolessonslearned

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

"Data alone is not knowledge, and it is certainly not wisdom. It rarely says as much as we think it does."

The Human Experience Will Not Be Quantified https://t.co/FAmk2RpYBg

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

Election Day voting Trump Village Coney Island 5:59 AM

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

I saw the Amazing Randi perform in 96-97 and was inspired to form a Skeptics club at #BushwickHighSchool.

https://t.co/WXh0xV2URF

[John Lawhead @johnlawhead]

The Weekly Show for Friday Jan. 9 can be heard at http://t.co/0XyvzZ7ymd