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Watched Israel commit a genocide in real time and the only people who were punished were those who spoke out about it. What’s the best that people can supposedly do, call the oppositional politicians whose only opposition is about procedure? The same ones who were in power for the genocide?

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I Have Tourette Syndrome and I Have the N-Word Thrown at Me. I Have Thoughts on BAFTA. As New York City Public Advocate, I’m in a very visible space with a very visible disability. Here's what I've learned.

This is a good read. I'm also thinking about how almost all disability organizations, including ones for Tourette's, have very white leadership, which means many fail to approach situations like this with intersectional nuance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Land Back is not just a possibility. It is happening. Much more than people realize.

Macbeth: SHIT

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

I share your snipping tool evangelism.

Summary of Axel Schuster presser.

#VWFC have signed a one year deal with PavCo / BC Place for 2026.

Gap between #VWFC last in #MLS revenue to middle table is $40M CDN.

Caps know that’s the best offer from Gov’t / PavCo, they’re thankful.

Caps are taking a lot of little steps.

Cover of How Close Reading Made Us by Yael Segalovitz

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader.
muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Once more with feeling Zito Madu on a life of showmanship in sports

I would take serious issue with @zeets.bsky.social devoting his talents to writing about Jose Mourinho, one of football’s great villains, if the parts on a Benfica’s goalie scoring wasn’t so deeply evocative of Galeano

Onion Headline: "Poor Sleep Linked To Gong"

Subscribing to the print edition of The Onion has literally helped keep me sane

drew this instead of going to bed

YouTube video by Vision Zero Vancouver Broadway Closure Rat Runners?

Broadway is closed between Main and Quebec for four months. The city has done nothing to prevent rat-running on Ontario and 10th Ave bikeways, creating a giant mess. We'll be pressuring council and staff to fix this ASAP.

www.youtube.com/shorts/UEfqo...

Care is a politics,not only an ethics.Care is a source of power, not only a disposition.A politics of care is not only good it is powerful.It is what undergirds parallel institutions,it is the support structure that allows people to say NO & mean it b/c they do for each other&don’t need permission.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.

My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time.

Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026

And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.

Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

nearly betrayed by the van persie family before our amazing last minute winner

"We regret to inform you that Morgan Rogers is actually playing Train Simulator 2, the one where they shoot all the trains repeatedly over the bar."

Rolling Stone Makes The Absurd Claim That Women Are Not Allowed To Sing In Gaza | Defector This week, Rolling Stone published an article in which writer Marisa Fox interviewed hostages who were held in Gaza after Oct. 7, talking to them about how music helped them. The artists mentioned in ...

I’m glad this exists defector.com/rolling-ston...

Just give people homes. For the love of God. You're allowed to do that. That's what actually alleviates homelessness.

britain and france suddenly very big fans of international law again

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

what's the opposite of a Christmas miracle? The boxing day expectation?

Was planning to ignore this. Got seduced by tongue. Tale as old as time.

why did I let myself get sucked into listening to TMS

A real Good Samaritan One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

a useful waypoint text in this convo (although talking mainly about modernity)