I read something recently about how the rise of AI is fuelled by this envy — they can’t make their own art and don’t want to pay someone else to make it for them

I confronted some thugs hanging flags — in broad daylight — at the roundabout near my house. Naively astonished at how many people were honking in support.

We are ruled by monsters

Omg I literally JUST read this very chapter about the fall of the Roman Empire… the consuls were scrambling to pass laws to root out bribery and corruption and the senate was like ha ha no.

THANK YOU. The inability of Democratic leaders to identify and critique (and offer an alternative to) neoliberalism is costing us everything.

Please stop referring to him as a “disgraced financier” — all he ever financed was the monstrous proclivities of the rich and powerful

Every accusation is a confession

2/

the things that should have been bombshells
weren’t

they didn’t explode they
quietly twisted our most gentle human impulses

1/

each news story is a bombshell that doesn’t explode

We’ve had to become experts in

hyoid bones
hypothermia
white phosphorous
blue cobalt
The Doomsday Clock
apartheid and
ceasefires where no firing ceases

The roundabout near my house in Oxford is suddenly festooned with these flags… I‘ve written to the council and they said they’d take them down but haven’t yet. I’m about to follow your mom’s lead! Well done to her!

Out of curiosity, would you believe a Jewish Israeli-American scholar of the Holocaust? I’m not trying to catch you out — I’m genuinely curious.

You’re right, there’s no argument: I see children being bombed, you see lies. I’ve realised that if you’re not convinced by the existing evidence of Israel’s atrocities, further evidence from foreign journalists won’t make any difference. Thanks for clarifying.

Israel is planning to build a concentration camp on the rubble of Rafah; I don’t think they’re going to let journalists in. So you’re safe from having to be wrong.

I had a dream that the Palestinians had to dig up all their dead so their wounds could be independently verified by an American in a Dick Tracy detective suit. He started with the babies and moved systematically by age.

The IDF just murdered children collecting water — after 22 months of systematically destroying the hospitals in Gaza, and targeting doctors as well as journalists — and you respond to that news with a comment insinuating that the Palestinians are lying about it. Or have I misunderstood you?

The weapons designed for killing

Have killed

Technically

Speaking

There was no error

Maybe Israel should allow foreign journalists in, then

Display their ID? And say “pretty please” before the kidnapping? BAN ICE FROM OPERATING IN MICHIGAN, Senator Slotkin.

*splutters in Y2K*

lol they have someone to “change the tape” every night at the same exact minute but not someone to keep actual eyes on their most high-profile high-risk inmate

‘dont play the race card’ say the ones who made up race cards

I think he has the same grasp of the concept of “ceasefire” as the concept of “groceries”

I appreciated today’s newsletter, with its concise summary of the US relationship with Iran over the past 70 years.

I wonder if I missed the newsletter where you gave the same attention to the US role in the creation and support of Israel during the same period of time?

Maybe I’m old school but I especially hate how this is all happening on social media… unbelievably stupid on top of horrifically consequential

The UK’s Centre for Media Monitoring has found the BBC to have a systematic pro-Israel bias… so maybe better than US media, but not without its faults

London today!

The absolute apex of delusional hypocrisy

Republicans in the US condemning extremist theocracy in Iran while aggressively pursuing Christian fundamentalism at home is peak

What luxury

To eat until you are full
To sleep until you are rested
To breathe until you are calm

Im not a poet, but I wrote a poem about living with the daily news of genocide:

It turns out

You can clean the kitchen with a broken heart

You can clear the table with a broken heart

You can share the dinner with ghosts
and

still admonish your youngest child for being overly dramatic