Sam Menefee-Libey

“…finding our way in the world after bereavement, that is,

relearning the world,

is not a mat­ter of

learning information about the world

but

learning how to be and act in the world differently

in the light of our loss.”

I’m sorry you found out like that. The remembrances on twitter and facebook have been really solid. A truly great comrade.

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I've assembled a preliminary list of links to Asad Haider's articles beyond Viewpoint Magazine, since I couldn't find such a list elsewhere. If you see ones I missed, please let me know and I'll update cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sh...

The LA County jails just posted their 43rd in custody death for this year, and the second in under a week

Ill Met by Moonlight - Wikipedia

Looks like there are several written accounts (and a major film adaptation) of the initial incident recounted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill_Met...

“Another word for this place is a big bathroom. It’s open. Everything is open. There’s no privacy.” — A judge has twice ordered Kordia’s release. Both times, the government appealed, accusing her of supporting Hamas. Kordia has denied that in court. She told her cousin: “I came to America looking for freedom and freedom of speech - freedom of everything. You know what I mean? To be held here in this place for saying - free Palestine, ceasefire now - that was, kind of a shock to me 'cause that's not the America that I heard of.” 🎥 NPR shared the audio from a recent call between Kordia and her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, who speaks to her nearly every day.

🇵🇸 The last Columbia University protester still in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia, describes conditions inside the Texas facility where she has been held for the past 9 months.

KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”

“Another word for...

The novel is totally irony free and is only worth reading as a critical exercise. Verhoeven flips it into satire, but Heinlein and the novel’s characters are deadly serious about their undying commitment to a militarized, supremacist totalitarianism.

Here’s the Bovino bit.

So much contemporary media studies stuff on this, too, building on lots of 20th century critical theory and cultural studies.

See this thread. And Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”

There are several that come to mind - Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction, Marx’s Capital, Jameson’s Political Unconscious, Globalization and the Decolonial Option, and more - but if there’s a single grounding nexus I’d aspire to be held accountable to, I think I’d pick Hospicing Modernity

The lesson learned was that to maintain power political elites must ensure at all costs that there cannot be spontaneous expression of outrage and solidarity.

Hence the widespread mass surveillance, militarization, and urban segregation by the likes of Andre Dickens, Karen Bass, and Muriel Bowser.

Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention

@eltragon.bsky.social

Be sure to drink water

So, full revolution is the only hope for Cinema in the US, huh?

I dream of expropriating the studios and having a committee led by Lizzie Borden, Charles Burnett, John Sayles, Maggie Renzi, Gregg Araki, and Alex Cox decide what gets restructured and how, and what just gets abolished.

The Big Red One (1980)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
The Straight Story (1999)
Scavengers Reign (2023)
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Wild at Heart (1990)
Badlands (1973)
The Doom Generation (1995)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Blue Ruin (2013)
The Nightingale (2018)
El Topo (1970)

This is lovely. You are a great writer and, though I imagine this was a tough and grief-filled project of “getting back on the horse,” your gifts still shine. Thanks for doing that work and I’m excited for whatever we get to read of yours next!

Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”

I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.

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U.S. journalists at this point should do trainings with LatAm counterparts to better understand how to cover Ruling Families totally enmeshed in the government and corporate uni-state

That the present destroys all meaning in our lives and that it destroys the world itself are simply two complementary dimensions of the same violence. The demand is that we remain satisfied with ChatGPT, Amazon, & Netflix and thus unbothered by immiseration, fascism, & genocide.

ICE Tear Gasses Residential Area During Multi-Hour Elgin Apprehension About 30 to 40 federal agents, about half marked as ICE agents, deployed at least six tear gas canisters, pepper balls, and foam rounds at over 200 protesters in a residential neighborhood on Maple…

DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:

this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government.

birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.

hourslong community resistance against ice still going on in elgin, illinois—a western suburb with a large latine population and a frequent target for ice/cbp.

state rep. karina villa is on scene, per live feed, and used a bullhorn to call out to the person agents are ostensibly looking for.

I wish I didn’t feel like it was too late, amidst ecological crisis, oligarchy, and petty fascism, for this to turn things around. It would have been nice to believe in modern politics again.

Also true for all education, childcare, infrastructure, public transit, public parks, libraries for everything, veterinary care, museums and other public spaces, non-hostile architecture, and countless things that have been privatized and enshittified by private equity

Cathy Cohen was right www.985queer.queergeektheory.org/wp-content/u...

So many of these institutions of higher education bringing about their own demise in totally preventable ways…

Touching but hard to read all these posts by people who were indelibly shaped by Asad’s teaching at a time when admin are hell bent on dismantling one of the institutions he taught at. My condolences to his students. We need a new world.

Zeskind, Chip Berlet, Matthew Lyons, Sara Diamond… so many scholars warned us exactly what was coming over 20 years ago

I hope y’all are weathering the various storms with as much fortitude and good humor as possible. I miss you!