If everyone is in therapy, why is everyone still so utterly miserable and rude and stuck and not growing and not changing and depressed and anxious and mean and isolated and lonely and just overall in a really shitty space?

The full interview between Stuart Hall and CLR James is here and it contains lots of gems: youtu.be/_Gf0KUxgZfI?si…

“If we’re not careful, we allow mobilization to become an event. The struggle is never an event it’s a process, a continual eternal process.”
——
Kwame Ture

'My mother, a Holocaust survivor, died ashamed of Israel”

Wow…wow. Wow..

Wut a powerful message!

there's some 'iran is gonna disappear off the map, yee-haw!' posts in response to this and oh no, ha ha, it very much is not. multiple times the size of iraq, mountainous, could freely cripple the world's oil trade. if you wanna invade iran you're getting drafted

I dream of the day this brutal aggression on #Gaza ends so I can -as any normal human being- start mourning all the loved ones I lost.

Larry Hebert is on day 11 of his hunger strike for Gaza. He's an active duty airman. This man is not getting enough love

‘A new abyss’ the brilliant Rashid Khalidi on
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Today's interwebz gift

We needed a crime to start S2. We went to the management. I said, “Can you steal one of these things off the docks?” “No way.” Fuck. Then we went to the bar that night, where the longshoremen were. Same question, “Can you steal?” The guy says, “Which one do you want?” -Ed Burns

If you’ve been accused of being an antisemitic over your position on Palestine, u gotta watch this…

A true GOAT ♥️

With the liberation of Myawaddy, Myanmar is finally global news again.

An important moment to remember the pro-democracy revolution did not start with guns. It started three years ago with this. Peaceful civilians striking for democracy, singing together

I told you tonight we die as a family
we were supposed to die
as a family

Maybe your husband’s administration should have codified it. Maybe the Obama administration, under which you worked for should have codified it. Roe v. Wade was turned over under a Dem President, Biden, and he did nothing about it. Enough already with the fear-mongering.

“You’re a soldier, Bodie” -McNulty

The sculpture overlooking McNulty and Bodie is Lady Baltimore. The monument commemorates the Baltimoreans who lost their lives defending the city from the British during the 1814 Battle of Baltimore.

“The reality is that Goldsmiths is a microcosm. It has always been something of an experiment... it now stands to lose much of its identity & the wider value it has delivered as an egalitarian institution.”
—Angela McRobbie: a love letter to Goldsmiths.
versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

1/2The eminent philosopher Nancy Fraser cancelled in Germany for signing a letter on Palestine. Oh, yeah, and she's Jewish. German universities cancelling Jewish academics, rings a bell...can't quite remember. Via James Jackson

BREAKING:

US President Joe Biden calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

When #TheWire originally aired the ratings weren’t great. Here’s a 2006 quote from Bunny Colvin actor Robert Wisdom.

“It’s going to be taught in schools and it’s going to go to whole other formats that no other kind of television has ever gone to because people are going to…