I love you Chicago
The thing that haunts me the most at night is that they're going to kill another person in the next few weeks. They're going to kill another and another and another and another until we fucking stop them
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The message is we will kill you and get away with it.
You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life
Justifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny, as Minneapolis is showing the world
LATEST by me for PWS
“If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”
The man looked amazed and shocked. “It’s not fair.”
The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus.”
-A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck #booksky
I had a revelation that my mom isn’t dumb, she’s just been fighting for survival her entire life until like 2017. Now I need to read books about it.
I saw a one I’d never seen before in our local Catholic cemetery
“It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes Nazi?” … It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.”
Dorothy Thompson and I would have been friends.
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But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi.
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Holy shit they murdered Rob Reiner? I was just doing the White Man Overbite from When Harry Met Sally :(
This is why I could never go full communist. I refuse to feed people who would prefer I was dead.
Putting “freelance OSINT weirdo” on my resume
No countries, no borders. Let them in and let them stay.
Does this mean we’re bringing back letters of mark? History of privateering is WILD
Why did I read this in his voice
Glenn please
“Admitting large numbers of students who are profoundly underprepared risks harming the very students we hope to support”
Sounds like what’s going down in the charter schools in MI
“After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson in grammar seems impertinent.”
-Thomas Wentworth Higginson, friend of Emily Dickinson and editor of her poems (along with Mabel Loomis Todd) #booksky
I’ve been getting really discouraged about AI and how it seems to be invading art and music, so I’ve gone backward 20 years to a time where all I did was go to pop punk and hardcore shows and Chicago’s scene was popping.
(In 2000 I was 16 😬)
In 2000-2002 I was Fall Out Boy adjacent; I ran in a crowd that sometimes overlapped with theirs. I saw them in church basements, I had their first EP in a cardboard sleeve, we were all in a McDonald’s together one time etc.
Anyway I’ve been listening to From Under the Cork Tree and it holds up!
“People who have not weathered massive repressions of individual thought find it difficult to believe in the cultural centrality of reading and writing.”
Benjamin DeMott, March 1990
I always submit feedback that says “let me turn this off!”
My stance on immigration: if you’re here, you get to stay. If you want to come here, you can.
No countries, no borders.
Um how about no, Gavin
The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it. “
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“I think that a lot of us are young apprentices who believe that we know our work at this moment except that we’ve never fully practiced that work because we’re afraid to make mistakes. We are learned people but lacking in practice.”
Feeling called out, @prisonculture.bsky.social
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My grandmother once said this to me almost word for word, with complete belief and sincerity. It blew my mind.
