Viet Thanh Nguyen

The absurd thing is that David Grossman could not say this at Columbia or else he would be accused of antisemitism.

Time’s ticking for American authors to get on the right side of opposing genocide.

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Even in reporting this global shift against Israel, the New York Times minimizes matters. “Scores” killed trying to get food, instead of hundreds. And not a single Palestinian interviewed, but plenty of Israelis. Palestinian voices matter.

"Outside sprawled an expansive golfing green that demanded more water than a Third World city, where...virile bankers practiced a sport whose swinging skills required both the brute, warlike force necessary to disembowel unions as well as the coup de grâce finesse of tax dodging."

THE SYMPATHIZER

Pigs fly, hell has frozen over, Democrats and Joe Biden support genocide.

Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza Official and ministers either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault

Israel is systematically starving Palestinians in Gaza, deliberately killing and maiming them as they beg for food, and spreading lies that Hamas is stealing aid. The article's conclusion is sickening: More starvation deaths appear inevitable.

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Snapshots of starvation and death in Gaza, where children are starving and being massacred. I couldn't believe what I saw and couldn't bring myself to turn on the volume of the scene of dead and dying children. Or the grieving mother. War crimes and a genocide.

Oui, je connais Kim Thuy et son roman.

merci d'avoir regardé et lu

Snapshots from ICE detentions today. The Trump immigrant kidnapping policy is an abomination.

Republicans Look to Rename Kennedy Center Opera House After Melania Trump

This woman has done nothing to deserve anything named after her.

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Non, par Clément Baude

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

Dystopian and authoritarian … protesting a genocide is terrorism, but conducting a genocide is defending freedom and humanity, I guess. The UK has leaned nothing from Orwell and its own colonizing, genocidal history.

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In presidential precedents, Nixon went down over Watergate, not the genocidal carpet bombing of Cambodia.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

Three horrors here: a tourist overstaying his visa by three days is treated like a criminal; our prison system is itself a horror; and the enormous expense of incarceration and deportation, for which we all pay.

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The Deplorables

All those people saying to pay farm workers a livable wage? They’re the same people who would’ve said all lives matter. They don’t really mean it.

Because all lives matter and paying people livable wages basically would require SOCIALISM. At the very least.

US border czar says he doesn’t know fate of eight men deported to South Sudan Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country

This is only one step removed from the "death flights" during Argentina's dirty war, when dissidents would be tossed from airplanes. Is it more humane that we land the plane in South Sudan, a war torn country, and abandon migrants to their fate?

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THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza

My 12yo comic book fan son gave the movie 9.99 out of 10. My wife, a film studies scholar who is not a comic book fan, thought the movie was pretty good. So I guess I will watch it.

I mean, to be really clear, Superman was an anchor baby, the only problem being that most of his people didn’t survive to follow him.

The proper response to agonized ICE agents is Fuck ICE.

They made a genocide and called it peace.

America, ‘nation of immigrants,’ turns on immigrants: A conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen “We, as Americans, have a very long history of forgetting what we have done to other countries all over the world,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen tells TRNN. “And we have a history o...

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American stormtroopers

For Zeteo, I write about what it means to be a committed writer, the writer who sees the powerful necessity of having art and politics overlap. Link in bio, with highlights and full text in slides.

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

A must read about what it's like to experience famine in Gaza, and the gauntlet of death and humiliation that is required to get food aid from Israel and the United States, who replaced a perfectly functional aid system with one that routinely kills Palestinians.

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