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Botstein still has a job.

Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.

Exhibition at Tate was v v v good

Black Scare / Red Scare Study Group Announcement + Some Sunday Thoughts on Iran YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!

Starting now - Black Scare / Red Scare Study Group Announcement + Some Sunday Thoughts on Iran
www.youtube.com/live/_UagCax...

from Dionne Brand's "Nomenclature for the Time Being" The beautiful innocence of those Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature for the Time Being" The apocalyptic reports have come true, dilute in our arterial solvent the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks we stay awake lambent there are iridium rectangles under our tables We meet languid, nauseous Transfused presently for a few decades, chronic, venous, insufficient the intervals of talk speed to nothing and we've become scientists of without under force, out of water, across loading with bearings, of us

The apocalyptic reports have come

true, dilute in our arterial solvent
the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks

we stay awake lambent
...

and we've become scientists of without
under force, out of water, across loading
with bearings, of us
- Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature
for the Time Being"

On deciding to be a writer, Dionne Brand said, “I thought of life itself as difficult, and writing about life as much easier. Living was hard, so writing was better.”

UN experts warn against the irreversible ‘de-Palestinisation’ of Jerusalem GENEVA – Irreparable harm is being inflicted on Jerusalem, as violence engulfs the region, and genocide continues in Gaza and spills into the West Bank, UN experts* warned today.“Under the cover of an...

“Under the cover of an existential war against the Palestinians, Israel is accelerating measures that alter Jerusalem’s demographic composition, religious character and legal status” - UN experts warn against the irreversible ‘de-Palestinisation’ of Jerusalem www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Post-apocalyptic Time I.                 “How did we end up in this hell?” is the question every Iranian I know asks. As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain wha...

"I was shaken by a protracted deprivation and an organized abandonment had pushed people to a point where war could begin to resemble deliverance." --- Shahram Khosravi

a clumsy self-portrait of sighting for the first time in the bookshop ”curatorial design” book i co-edited w/Wilfried Kuehn
with curatorial design we tried to open up a space for rethinkong architcture by repositioning it in relation to public, practice and pedagogy
lenz.press/products/cur...

C. J. Sansom - Dissolution

BPPALN.org BLACK PANTHER PARTY ALUMNI LEGACY NETWORK THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY’S TEN POINT PROGRAM 1972 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black and oppressed communities. We believe that Black and oppressed people will not...

I love to see it.

Even the Black Panthers saw the impact of automation in Detroit auto industry (faster lines, more injuries).

So they updated their "Ten-Point Plan".

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10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace, and people’s community control of modern technology.

Neimenovani fragmenti #1 [Fragments Untitled #1] - Film - e-flux By doplgenger (Isidora Ilić and Boško Prostran). Streaming from February 18 to March 3, 2026 as part of General Relativity, Take Two curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.

last day to watch this incredible collection of film fragments by doplgenger (isidora ilić and boško prostran) curated by greg de cuir jr. at @eflux.bsky.social Yugoslav dissolution in the 1990s keeps on haunting me as we live within this catastrophe
www.e-flux.com/film/program...

Book: A Taste of Power. A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown

Chairwoman Elaine Brown turns 83 today. She was the first & only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.

And she led it during its most turbulent time when Huey was exiled in Cuba & COINTELPRO had decimated its ranks.

She also oversaw the expansion of its survival programs.

Happy birthday to her

Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...

This @thedigradio.bsky.social episode with Minnesota organizers is excellent, especially how they talk about multi-racial, multi-issue organizing for the long-term.

Iran

For people needing podcasts on iran:

thedigradio.com/History%20of...

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

Seems like the right time to share this again. Here’s Menelik Shabazz’s short film Blood A Go Run which was filmed at the Black People’s Day Of Action in ‘81 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJdf...

💔

Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy

Jacob Lawrence, Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134645

There are two main things I believe in: liberation for all, and governance rooted in responsibility to land.

Aunting as a verb inspired by aja monet’s offering that to sister is a verb which speaks to how i try to live my life

footnoting my posts

The Interminable Catastrophe I have been thinking about the word ‘catastrophe’ for the greater part of the last eight years, and dedicated my 2019 dissertation to the question, which has now become my manuscript by the same title...

and the interminable catastrophe comes from the fierce @balagonline.bsky.social offshootjournal.org/the-intermin...

We The Heartbroken - Pluto Press Get 40% off books on love, desire, care & more! In this blog, Gargi Bhattacharyya writes on the state of being for a revolutionary in 2020. Inspired by a younger comrade admitting to heartbreak arisin...

the heartbreak comes from amazing gargi bhattacharyya who proposes that the heartbrokeness (by racial capitalism) is the new class consciousness in “we, the heartbroken” www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

By the way, anyone in NYC can go visit @interferencearc.bsky.social and you can ask to peruse and importantly to touch any of those posters or anything else there. interferencearchive.org

aunting is the best remedy for the heartbreak of living through the interminable catastrophe

Vijay Iyer on Prince's "Sign O' The Times" (1987)

april is 10 years since prince transitioned and i keep thinking what music he would be making for his belowed minneapolis and the ongoing liberation struggle… love how @vijayiyer.bsky.social listens prince as afrofuturist in this amazing conversation #imissprince open.spotify.com/episode/0EWJ...

"The architecture itself, as architecture, is generally conventional... But as the scaffolding for an especially invasive sort of digital surveillance the venue takes on a darker cast...I had the unshakable sensation... that the arena was doing its best to mine my body for information..."