Josh Lockman

Director of Strategic Initiatives, J Street. Lecturer, USC Law School, International Law and US Foreign Policy. Lover of Art and Wanderlust

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“The village lay under deep snow. There was no sign of the Castle hill, fog and darkness surrounded it… K. stood a long time on the wooden bridge that leads from the main road to the village, gazing upward into the seeming emptiness.”

(Kafka, The Castle)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

Clarice Lispector:

“The beauty of infinity is that there isn’t even an adjective you can use to define it. It simply is, that’s all: it is. We connect to infinity through our unconscious. Our unconscious mind is infinite. Infinity does not overwhelm, for in relation to it, [+]

[Josh Lockman @joshlockman]

@jonathanbfine Brilliant

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“Thinking is an act. Feeling is a fact. Put the two together—I am the one writing what I am writing. God is the world. Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (tr. Benjamin Moser)

[Gal Beckerman @galbeckerman]

No Other Land...It was so moving to see Yuval and Basel up there. Here's my piece on the film and their complex friendship:

https://t.co/DeS3AGBq5y

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 2/9 in Taurus: Everything wandering. You can find it in the future. You know to be the best kept of it. So you find it all with friends.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The cover of this week’s issue, by Till Lauer. #NewYorkerCovers

[Janus Films @janusfilms]

Now it's dark.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 12/5 in Taurus: The best kind of hope. That’s what this time is. You can see into the future. You can see into the past.

[Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer]

The IDF statement on the strikes tonight against Iran specifies *military* targets have been hit (ie not nuclear sites or oil terminals or leaders of the regime)

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

President Biden said after his call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that it's time to "move on" and end the war in Gaza after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. My report on @axios
https://t.co/QtSlIaDDXW

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

All is full of love

Bjork, triple Scorpio

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

God bless all the young people who are pursuing their art in spite of the financial and spiritual constraints presented by the enormously complicated, difficult world we live in. You inspire me.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

A real American doesn’t send Putin Covid tests. You send him Covid.

[Rabbi Sharon Brous @SharonBrous]

Today I pray—with an aching, anguished, and still ever-hopeful heart—for those who remain in captivity, now for a full year. Until every one is home—כולנו חטופים—we are all held hostage. (1/3)

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

One year ago, Hamas launched a horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens – including defenseless women, children, and the elderly – and kidnapping hundreds more. Today, the prospects of peace seem more distant than ever. But we continue to hope for a return of all the hostages, an end to the violence, a rejection of hate, and a future in which both Israelis and Palestinians can enjoy the security and stability that most of them yearn for.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 10/6 in Scorpio: Keep intensely into the match. It doesn’t have to match neatly to be one. You can know as well as anything can. You will hold yourself close.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 10/6 in Taurus: A knowledge of beginning. That’s what you hold. You don’t need to assert much. Instead flow into the future.

[Aaron David Miller @aarondmiller2]

As we mark 10/7 I try to hold the trauma, pain, hopes of Israelis/Palestinians in my head/heart. And pray for better days. But when they've come, it's because of leaders who saw a path beyond conflict. Without them,we remain mired in the past; with them, there's a better future.