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artist & agitator wrote: See You in the Streets; Art, Action & Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire #WorstJewInBerlin Everything about me is here: StreetPictures.org she/her

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Forever Andrea Arnold

01.03.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All praise to Virginia Giuffre who fought for justice in a society that prosecutes corruption but not pedophilia.

19.02.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We know enough
to take on the responsibility to throw sand in the gears of this monstrosity.

04.02.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

28.01.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1369    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a lot of talk of AI being anti-human, or at the very least anti-Humanities, but this is missing the point. The AI assemblage is fine with both people and pedagogies as long as they are docile. What AI is anti, and what it undermines, is any trendency to refuse or revolt.

28.01.2026 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Running through a Berlin farmer's market today, a man in a food stall calls out, Woman with the keffiyeh!
I turn & he holds out a freshly made falafel ball
I take the yummy treat. Free Palestine! I call out
Thank you, he grins.
And on we go with our day.

There is so much joy in solidarity.

22.01.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AuffÀllig, dass in Brandenburg, wo Tesla einer der grâßten Arbeitgeber ist, der Antisemitismusbeauftragte zu Elon Musks Nazi-AktivitÀten und zu seiner vom Judenhass durchsetzten Plattform, die jener Beauftragte vornehmlich nutzt, um gegen pro-palÀstinensische Stimmen vorzugehen, kein Wort verliert.

22.01.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

don’t think he can stay awake for β€˜many meetings’

21.01.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I know plenty have folks have shared it but in case you missed it, Discord is asking for user opinions on adding AI to the platform. Give em hell and tell them precisely how you feel about it. Including the intent to leave if it's added in.

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10.01.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 186    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Look at the date. Disabled people told you.

They made too many disabled people.

18.12.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 708    πŸ” 308    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7
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A Family in North Gaza A better world is possible.

I've known this dear family for over a decade. They are deeply committed to rebuilding their family home.

As we seek to make repair in the world, this is one family that we can help in the most basic material way to survive.

A Family in North Gaza chuffed.org/project/1561...

02.12.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Astonishingly your brain comes back 🧠

24.11.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is the way

23.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 667    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

stunned & broken hearted. Thank you for this quote

15.11.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

13.11.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3880    πŸ” 1339    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 413

Fuck every single person who said #MeToo went β€˜too far’

13.11.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10357    πŸ” 5683    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 337

Working on a new piece THE WORST JEW IN BERLIN.
It's stories & photographs, odd items I found at the flea market and ideas for science fiction films.

12.10.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

10.10.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 715    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that <article data-history-node-id="429533" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-now-conscience-world-no-deal-will-change" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-now-conscience-world-no-deal-will-change" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>What&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>&nbsp;President Donald Trump unveiled in Washington this week was not a peace plan, but a parody of one; a deal proclaimed as a breakthrough, yet negotiated between an American enabler and an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;perpetrator - with the very people whose fate it decides erased from the stage.&nbsp;</p> <p>Trump sat beaming beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thanking him for β€œagreeing” to a plan he had written himself, while&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;were nowhere in the picture. No Hamas, no Palestinian Authority - not even a token presence to lend the charade a hint of credibility.</p> <p>It continues the same colonial logic that birthed the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gulf-normalisation-deals-support-plummets" target="_blank">Abraham Accords</a>: strike deals over Palestine without Palestinians. Celebrate β€œpeace” while ignoring&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/occupation" target="_blank">occupation</a>, blockade and ethnic cleansing. Parrot the language of reconciliation while systematically excluding the only people who have the right to speak for themselves.</p> <p>This deal is not negotiation; it is imposition. It is surrender dressed up as statesmanship.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestine-now-conscience-world-no-deal-will-change" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that</a></h3> <p><img alt="Pro-Palestinian activists protest in Madrid on 14 September 2025 (Oscar Del Pozo/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/spain-palestine-protest-madrid-september-2025-oscar-del-pozo-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=GcM5Mijy"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-now-conscience-world-no-deal-will-change

02.10.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

insanely jealous

24.09.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

& frankly most of the folks still visiting @nytimes.com are only there for Wordle πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

21.09.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of my favorite poems

11.09.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

& wildly uncreative/boring.

10.09.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

you know I have words on this…

30.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€οΈπŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡β€οΈ

30.08.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our daughters are safer on the NY subway than anywhere near Andrew Cuomo.

23.08.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zohran Mamdani is the leader NYC needs for innovation and entrepreneurship - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

This is one I've been thinking about for a long time, and I do hope you'll read it, and share it. The stakes have never been higher, but it'ss never been clearer: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly what NYC's entrepreneurial community needs. www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/z...

20.08.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 377    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 12353    πŸ” 9788    πŸ’¬ 617    πŸ“Œ 1610

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

01.08.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1949    πŸ” 544    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 6