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...& that number is actually an improvement.

(All credit to the student in my class who threw up those maps during a presentation in my Politics of Disaster course this week, to gasps from fellow students. I honestly hadn't realized those were the numbers, either.)

I feel like this gets to Bakri's point a/b resilience v. resignation, though. We can talk about average effects & people's ability to adapt. But then you start looking at the metrics & realize, e.g., that 23% of the population, or about 1.16 million people, are experiencing acute food insecurity.

Visiting in 2023, I was shocked that expensive restaurants in Beirut & the Shouf were still full. The friend who took me to one figured the wealth was all remittances & currency speculation. To him, the rich will coast until the bottom finally drops out for them too, when those left will also leave.

Demonstrators against the Gaza Genocide in Jerusalem tonight. Still from a video posted by @RSolidarityNet on X

Jerusalem tonight.
"We must resist against genocide"

“…national average participation in the general strike stood at around 60%, halting all the main services in key sectors including transportation and schools.”

When they say national, they mean national. Took this photo hiking through the tiny hillside hamlet of Botteghino di Zocca today.

Not ethnography:
1.) Two-week long field visit
2.) In-depth interviews
3.) Intermittently scanning social media
4.) Being professionally employed before grad school and later writing it up as "research" for a dissertation

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Tony Blair Columbuses colonialism

If UEFA doesn’t ban Israel, there are already protests planned for the day of the Italy-Israel World Cup qualifier in Udine (northeastern Italy). These would follow large Gaza solidarity protests this past Monday, which shut down public transport & major thoroughfares in several Italian cities.

UEFA is likely voting on whether to suspend Israel next week; if suspended, it would mean Israel cannot play its World Cup qualifying matches. If the team is not banned, they have a qualifier against Italy Oct. 14.

Spain is threatening to boycott the World Cup if Israel does qualify & participate.

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The Village and the Sewer Behind the "Blueskyism" debate

www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-villag... Blueskyism and Sewerism as alternatives.

Posted & deleted yesterday a/b yet another Israeli-backed Palestinian collaborator militia in Gaza (want to contextualize better). Violence takes innumerable forms.

Palestine is occupied & actively being colonized by Israeli settlers. Israel controls the borders. It’s recognition w/o sovereignty.

“Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it.”—crossover to reality from Gilroy, who won an Emmy for Andor (Disney+)

Not an accident. Looking forward to watching Andor on DVD.

a close up of a woman 's face with the word andor on the bottom right Alt: Close of of Mon Mothma's face as she prepares to speak to the Imperial Senate, with the Disney+ logo on the bottom left and the Andor logo on the bottom right.

"Of all the things at risk the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever screams at us the loudest"

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It literally doesn't have to be this way. The EU has laws against this for a reason.

No clue on Turley, but Dershowitz is an invited speaker at the HKS Middle East Institute tomorrow 🤡

Washington Spirit games provide a field for Trump resistance Women's soccer fans have taken to the stands with banners, flags, and pro-D.C. chants.

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Well, they had it wrong, because they copy pasted from an email that's two years old.

Response was wildly patronizing. Basically, they feel fine w/ their choices.

Great time to underscore that I've had very productive relationships with local, indie, investigative, & international journos. I have only had bad experiences w/ specific legacy media. Really shapes where my $ goes.

They've updated my title in response to a very pointed email; I'm waiting to see what happens next.

This is the 2nd time is as many months I've felt violated by an interaction w/ a journo. In the 1st, the jouno sanitized my commentary on Gaza into meaningless word salad.

These interactions starkly contrast the grand majority of media interactions I've had. But man, they feel a way. 4/4

The reporters involved would know that if they had bothered to contact me.

They could have asked if there were distinctions & authentically given their readership the info it needs in a context of extreme violence, threat, fear, & mis/disinformation in the US.

Instead, they said close enough 3/4

I'm now "quoted" in a piece a/b Charlie Kirk's death. It notes I previously spoke to the outlet; they didn't bother to reach out.

Kirk isn't being dehumanized; he is being individually lionized & memorialized. His dehumanization & hatred of others is being whitewashed.

V. different dynamics 2/4

Just learned that a reporter reused a quote from correspondence we had 2 years ago (Oct. 9, 2023, to be exact) today.

The context I was initially asked a/b involved info & images spreading online of mass violence against Palestinians and Israelis. I spoke about dehumanization & desensitization. 1/4

There have been actual studies done that demonstrate Black players in certain European football/soccer leagues play better in empty stadiums because the racist behavior by fans is so extreme.

There are whole manuals that have been written on how to identify varieties of unhinged racist, xenophobic, & homophobic fan behavior in stadiums (done in part to intimidate players & other fans) & we have someone at the NYTimes kumbaya-ing the stadium as some sort of It's a Small World Disney ride