Aditi Rao

My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition

Your Friendly Neighborhood Resistance On the ground in Minneapolis, watching out for ICE at every corner, crosswalk, church, and school.

I know @kerryhowley.bsky.social is at the top of her game & able to make choices many writers can't but oh my god does she make some capital-J journalists look stupid for fetishizing an objectivity that means "no conscience" & thinking that's what makes them good at the job nymag.com/intelligence...

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

If they come here next, those skinheads are going to go the way of hitchbot (2013-2015)

Liam Ramos. Five years old. Just starting to understand temporality, to read, to tell stories about the world around him.

The world should come to a screeching halt.

[statistical voice] abolish ice is a moderate position

Dazzling essay. Strong recommend.

The Associated Press @AP Cellphone footage from Minneapolis appears to show a federal Border Patrol agent kneeing a man in the face multiple times while other agents hold him down on the pavement.

Federal officials keep telling the public to stay away from their immigration enforcement actions and also keep brutally assaulting people in broad daylight, leaving the public the only ones to hold them accountable.

The public does not trust DHS to behave civilly or legally.

Art of Tortuguita amidst plants, a sunrise, and forest. Texts says TORT 1996-2023. "The abolitionist mission isn't done until every prison is empty. When there are no more cops, when the land has been given back, that's when it's over. I don't expect to live to see that day, necessarily. I mean, I hope so. But I smoke."

Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center.

Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

Against Babel: Or, How to Talk to Strangers - Public Books Allegedly, some 45% of languages descend from one, ancient ”Proto-Indo-European“ tongue. But why focus on a hypothetical lost language, when we can work instead to hear one another today?

“What would such an antigenealogical, transcendent philology that I’ve called for here look like? One example might be found in Jennifer Scappettone’s Poetry After Barbarism.”

Read @aditilrao.bsky.social’s review, new at PB.

On the 10th anniversary of his death, here's the last poem Rohith Vemula wrote, and a poem his life inspired by Meena Alexander.

"One day you will find me in history / in the bad light, in the yellow pages."

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The pettiness is just unbelievable. 250 goats isn’t nothing but it’s a basically negligible bonus for these settlements while it probably financially ruined a bunch of Syrians

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UPDATE ON THE BOYCOTT OF PEN AMERICA: The Writers Won. The boycott is lifted. Fuck yeah.

Unfortunately the most explanatory, and harmful, tool at etymology’s disposal, glad the review could help break that tension down !

Ahh thank you, that’s much much appreciated 🌞

Thank you !

Grateful for this gorgeous analysis—also a rallying cry in a time of gloom: "Scappettone offers the ultimate rejoinder to both Auerbach & Said...[O]ur language—our home—must also be planetary & cosmic, escaping the entrapments that make an internationalized earth just another vestige of the state."

Jennifer Scappettone's Poetry After Barbarism is an all-timer btw, inarguably one of the most delicious, meaningful treatments of language and the stateless I've encountered. Review could have also just been: read this, seriously.

me in @publicbooks.bsky.social thinking through what a philology beyond liberalism might look like via one book which really shows us a path forward and one which very much so does not // the age of babel is dead, long live the age of the pentecost!

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

🚨 New footage shows explosions around Caracas, Venezuela, as parts of the city’s south near a major military base lost electricity. Low-flying aircraft were seen and heard from across the capital, according to Reuters.

who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...

Hugo Chavez: The Devil was here yesterday. And it still smells of sulfur.

Hugo Chavez: The Devil was here yesterday. And it still smells of sulfur.

Why is Venezuela’s gold still frozen in the Bank of England? Four years ago, the UK government recognised Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president. He’s now gone, but the Bank of England is still holding some of the country’s key assets.

Reminder that the UK is illegally withholding gold reserves essential to Venezuela’s economy. It has been looted from over and over: oil, gold, lithium . Blood is on the hands of not only the US regime but the whole west’s. Via @declassifieduk.org
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Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.

As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.