Susan K Reardon

Enrollment for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 is now open! Grab your spot in Karen Attiah's Resistance Summer School pilot course.

It's official.

Resistance Summer School is happening.

Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway.

100+ people have enrolled in just six hours.

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

My therapist recently recommended the Feminist Survival Project podcast. I thought everyone could use the ideas in the episode, given the insanity of the world right now.

02: Complete the Stress Cycle: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fsp...

I love this podcast! Thanks for sharing

Screenshot of a young person holding up a sign that says “BREAKING: ICE IN KENTUCKY” The algorithm-facing comment says, “Had to share these cute winter boots I just got!”

People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.

To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Kemp Finally Gets the Prison Problem Enough dead bodies have piled up on the governor's watch for him to spend money on a problem that wins no one votes for solving.

Gov. Brian Kemp wants to run for the U.S. Senate, and possibly the presidency. When he does, people like me will remind the public that a murder epidemic in state prisons emerged on his watch with little action. At least, until now.

The $372 million ask for fixes is a start.

#gapol

Me too!!! My 5th grade teacher read it to our class

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks to everyone who pointed to the crucial sentences: Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing.

“The Year of Disappearing Tents” by Seth Peterson They swept up baby pictures like they swept up obituaries. They swept up ashes of a husband, & told no one where to find him.

They swept up baby pictures like
they swept up obituaries. They swept up
ashes of a husband, & told no one
where to find him.

—Seth Peterson

If I had to only drink one brand of beer for the rest of my life, it would be this one. What’s your favorite drink?

Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.

She's fighting back.

Ending on time is a feminist act.

I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

6 hours under martial law in Seoul On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Buy local, friends

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

Pale yellow flyer: 29 - 30 Nov. 2024 (2nd iteration) Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 24 Hours, starting at 17.00 Palestine time.

Join poets, publishers & readers from around the world for 24hr Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine & Lebanon

Fri. 29 Nov
From 5pm EET / 3pm UK
Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...

sl Global Reading FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE AND LEBANON SCHEDULE Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon November 29-30, 2024 Start Time: 3 pm GMT / 10 am EST / 7 am PST / etc. TIME in GMT Friday, 29 NOV 3:00-4:00 pm • Palestine, hosted by Munir Nuseibah and Ghazal Mosadeg, Al Quds University and Pamenar Press 4:00-4:30 pm • Egypt, hosted by Maysara Salah El-din, Sefsafa Publishing 4:30-5:00 pm • Sudan, hosted by Mayada Ibrahim 5:00-5:30 pm • North Africa, hosted by Omar Berrada, Tamaas 5:30-6:00 pm • Greece, hosted by David Bergé, kyklada.press 6:00-6:30 pm • Italy, hosted by Cristina Viti, Millegru 6:30-7:00 pm • Tirana, Albania, hosted by Doruntina Vinca, 28 November 7:00-7:30 pm • Catalan poets, hosted by Jessica Pujol 7:30-8:00 pm • Chile /US /Japan hosted by Mónica-Ramón Ros, Sangría

Editora 8:00-8:30 pm • Germany, hosted by Kaoutar, Books Verein Palastina 8:30-9:00 pm • Ireland, hosted by Ellen Dillon 9:00-10:00 pm • United Kingdom, hosted by Nashwa Nasreldin and Janani Ambikapathy, Pamenar Press, Modern Poetry in Translation, Outspoken Press, and Poetry Translation Centre Saturday, 30 NOV 10:00-11:00 pm (29 NOV) • Canada, hosted by Tiana Reid 11:00-11:30 pm (29 NOV) • US, New York, hosted by Milo Wippermann, Ugly Duckling Presse 11:30 pm (29 NOV-12:00 am (30 NOV) • US, Denver, hosted by Julie Carr, Counterpath Press 12:00-12:30 am • US, Oakland, hosted by David Buck, Tripwire 12:30-1:00 am • US, Berkeley, hosted by Noah Ross, Small Press Traffic 1:00-1:30 am • US, New York, hosted by Rachel Levitsky, Belladonna* Collaborative 1:30-2:00 am • Caribbean poets, hosted by Eilyn Lombard Cabrera, Candela Review 2:00-3:00 am • Chile, hosted by Carlos Soto Roman 3:00-4:00 am • Puerto Rico, hosted by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 4:00-5:00 am • Mexico, hosted by Oscar de Pablo & Jaime Tzompantzic 5:00-5:30 am • US, Denver, hosted by Jeffrey Pethybridge, Visible Binary 5:30-6:00 am • US, San Francisco Bay Area, hosted by Lindsey Bold & Steve Dickson, Nightboat Books & Friends 6:00-8:00 am • Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand poets, hosted by Samah Sabawi & Sara Saleh

Saturday, 30 NOV 8:00-8:30 am • Sri Lanka, hosted by Shash Trevett 8:30-9:30 am • China, hosted by Ye Ye, Poetry Lab Shanghai 9:30-10:30 am • India, hosted by Mamta Sagar, Kaavya Sanje 10:30-11:30 am • Pakistan, hosted by Qudsia Akhtar, University of Salford 11:30 am-12:30 pm • Afghanistan and Iran, hosted by Sahar Muradi 12:30-1:30 pm • Turkey, hosted by Öykü Tekten, Pinsapo Press 1:30-2:00 pm • Lebanon, hosted by Shatr Collective Beirut 2:00-2:30 pm • International, hosted by Shook, Phoneme Media 2:30-3:00 pm • Palestine, hosted by Munir Nuseibah and Ghazal Mosadeg Some of the associated presses include: Afghanistan and Iran collective, Al Ouds U, belladonna* collaborative. Books Verein Palastina, Candela Review, Counterpath Press, kyklada.press, Modern Poetry in Translation, Nightboat Books, Outspoken Press, Os Pressan, Pamenar Press, PalFest, Phoneme Media, Pinsapo Press, Poetry Lab Shanghai, Poetry Translation Centre, Publishers for Palestine, Sefsafa Publishing, Shatr Collective, Small Press Traffic, Stenen Press, Tamaas, Tripwire, Ugly Duckling Presse, Visible Binary, 28 November, and more.

With readings from Palestine-Egypt-Sudan-N.Africa-Greece-Italy-Albania-Catalan poets-Chile-US-Japan-Germany-Ireland-UK-Canada-Caribbean poets-Puerto Rico-Mexico-Australia-Aotearoa NZ

In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info.

ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.

Gaetz' backing out of the running for AG is a big sign that even in this new Trump era, your voice matters. When you see injustice or corruption, do not let anyone silence you. Get loud. Make noise. We won't win every battle, or even most, but you won't win any at all if you don't try.

same! I still think about it often

omg, yes