Close Attention - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
16.02.2026 21:36 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
ĐINH VAN, Đia, 1972 (Plate showing a horse)
Happy New Year of the Horse to all who celebrate 🎊
16.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
do you find that surprising?
16.02.2026 08:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“climate is one of the threats but also migration … we are reading from the same paper … this is a common ground for a bright future”
Wadephul didn’t only applaud, he’s reading from the same fascist ‘paper’
their bright future is so dark for the rest of us
16.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
this afternoon!
16.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Statement from Oscar-winning director
Hamdan Ballal:
This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital.
I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank.
Email me to coordinate your visit:
hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com
Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day.
We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital.
The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack.
8 hours ago
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
16.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 807 🔁 515 💬 3 📌 10
Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
15.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 1236 🔁 521 💬 11 📌 7
thanks to
@quinnslobodian.com @leaypi.bsky.social @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social
for deciding not to participate in this “symposium” featuring an openly fascist speaker
what a shame Krastev et al stick with Yarvin
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
15.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 52 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 3
Wenn der Außenminister im „Bericht aus Berlin“ sagt, dass die Rede von Rubio verbindend gewesen sei und insbesondere den kulturellen Aspekt betont habe, dann meint er damit White Supremacy.
Was für schreckliche Zeiten uns bevorstehen.
15.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 172 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 0
“The bases of authoritarianism have been hiding in plain sight: the jail, the prison, the police stop, the police union. Even as Trump’s administration embraces authoritarianism from above, in recent months it has also been steadily strengthening these sources of authoritarianism from below.“
15.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Agnès Callamard, Generalsekretärin von Amnesty International:
„Während die entsprechenden Staaten eine UN-Expertin attackieren, bleiben sie angesichts der Vorwürfe von Völkermord, Apartheid und rechtswidriger Besatzung durch Israel untätig. Das ist nicht anders als Feigheit zu nennen.“
15.02.2026 14:05 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Rubios Rede ist nur im Ton charmanter als die von Vance vor einem Jahr. Ihr ausdrückliches Programm ist ein neuer Imperialismus im Zeichen von white supremacy. Mehr hier von Stephan Detjen 🎧👇🏾
14.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 115 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 0
@meinel.bsky.social über das Verfassungsgericht auf dem Weg auf die dunkle Seite der Macht
15.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@melindacooper.bsky.social
“Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.”
14.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
That was a whole lot of sinister fascist demagoguery from Rubio: Europe is suffering from civilisational decline, threatened by alien invaders, intwined destiny, strength through unity, rejection of shame, proud history, ein Volk, ein Reich….
14.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
an exemplary response in a comparable scenario:
bsky.app/profile/undd...
13.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i think the record on this is pretty clear, no?
13.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
sure, but this step is not yet completed in Europe and in any case it needs to be fought
13.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lieber Milo Rau,
Es freut mich außerordentlich, dass Ihre Veranstaltung wegen begründeter Absagen durch ExpertInnen nun in Bedrängnis kommt. Vielleicht klappt es ja durch gemeinsame Solidarität, Ihre VA auf den letzten Metern zu kippen.
Niemand bei politischem Verstand und Kenntnis der Lage würde an einer VA teilnehmen, die zentralen Akteuren der Faschisierung (AfD, Vorfeld, R21, NIUS, usw) sowohl Bühne als auch Fördermittel aus der Kulturstiftung des Bundes zukommen lässt. Stimmen aus Wissenschaft und kritischer Zivilgesellschaft mit Leuten wie Ahrens, Rödder oder Cotar auf eine Ebene zu stellen, schließt eigentlich jede Ernsthaftigkeit Ihres Format aus.
Ich würde nicht mal für Geld (was Sie nicht angeboten haben) an dieser populistischen Staatstheater-und Bundgeförderten Faschisierungsscheisse teilnehmen wollen.
Anderen Projekten, die diese Entwicklungen bekämpfen, wichtiges Theater und Forschung dabei machen, fehlt das Geld.
Verantwortungsloser als Sie und das Thalia da agieren geht es eigentlich nicht.
herzlichen Gruss
Dr. Simon Strick
PS: Falls Sie Interesse haben, ich hab neulich einen Vortrag über Faschisierung und deutsche Völkermordleugnung gehalten: Zentrales Beispiel war Poschardt bei ihren Wiener Kongressen.
😘
13.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 1029 🔁 212 💬 41 📌 20
WTF - Yarvin is a fascist, celebrated by European fascists, and platforming him in this way does not merely risk but IS mainstreaming fascism and thus collaboration
13.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
HEUTE 15h
all welcome!
12.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ah yes, the famous “reverse colonialism” of the colonized …
brings to mind the fabulous Aamer Rahman:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_m...
11.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...
as quoted by one of my students in their BA thesis on the afterlives of slavery
11.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
‘I saw Black & brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents … bodies, that is how they refer to us. “We’re bringing in a body.” You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are being called a body.’
Aliya Rahman, on being detained by ICE
11.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Kritische Justiz
Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik
SCHWERPUNKT „RECHT WÄHREND GAZA"
Mit Beiträgen von Barskanmaz & Feichtner, Kocher, Bustami & Khuder,
Moses, El Mahmoud, Arzt, L. sowie Funk & Rhades
Recht während Gaza
überfälliger Schwerpunkt in der Kritischen Justiz
großer Dank an
@isafei.bsky.social und @barskanmaz.bsky.social
für diese wichtige Intervention
ihre Einleitung kann man hier lesen:
www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
09.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Ein Nein zu Olympischen Spielen ist ein Ja zu Berlin ❤️
#NOlympia #NOlympiaBerlin
https://nolympia.berlin
Spenden: https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/167383-volksbegehren-nolympia-unterstuetzen
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