Afroza

It feels as if we’re living frozen in time. Between a world we can no longer sustain and a future that’s asking us to wake up. Where nothing feels real anymore. Where everyone is waiting for something to shake things up. Because things can no longer go on this way.

Tweet from Dan Satterfield Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week. 3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

These times require a lot of sabr (perseverance), which I struggle with more than with shukr (gratitude); the two pillars of faith.

September is next week already?! Time really flies when you're living in a dystopian hellscape.

If Trump died tomorrow, your MAGA neighbor is still gonna want immigrants deported because their ancestors took their grandparents to public lynchings.

Trump is not the root of the problem. He is a symptom of it. This is why we keep talking about decolonization. The problem is bigger than him.

Zionism is Nazism.

National strike, anyone?

Every single Black Revolutionary leader saw the problem of collective liberation the same way.

The Black Panthers inspired and helped build Brown Berets and Young Lords.

Malcolm, Huey, Baldwin, Morrison, Assata- they were all for Palestine.

Our enemy is white supremacy.

The imperial boomerang, from Palestine to LA.

Pico Iyer's "Half Known Life."

Do not capitulate in advance; not to fascism, not to AI, not the conservative turn which generally comes with hard times.

Their control is based almost entirely on fear & surrender. The only real efficacy of a panopticon is that people police themselves bc they think they're being watched.

Happy 100th birthday to this Truth Teller.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Remember when some people said “Abolish ICE” “Defund the police” and other people went “oh no that’s too extreme.”

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Sunday homily: Free Palestine. 🍉

that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Some of us don't have the privilege of hopelessness. Hope is tenacious and fights mean. Don't give up. 🩵

Joan Didion on Self-Respect “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

Joan Didion on self-respect

Akima, the private company that runs the Guantánamo Bay immigrant detention center, has been accused of human rights abuses, finds investigative reporter José Olivares.

Sunday homily.