Israel’s crimes—and our complicity in them —are so vast I sometimes think that before we can begin to adjudicate them first we have to invent a whole new language. Our existing vocabulary is not up to the task.

BREAKING: Councils representing one million Teamsters endorse Kamala Harris #UnionsForAll

Israel is now killing UN staff in Lebanon

I found out this morning that Fredric Jameson gave a year-long lecture series at U of T Comp Lit in 1977-78. The lectures were audio-recorded, and my colleague Bao digitized them and put them up on YouTube several years ago. Here you go: youtube.com/watch?v=HJBHWL…

UPDATE: yesterday Routledge Books Taylor & Francis Research Insights told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

The right time to call what Elon Musk is doing on Twitter "election interference" is now. He's posting data he knows is false to be seen by hundreds of millions—then ensuring it receives no Community Note. In a healthy democracy what he's doing would at least be a civil offense.

fuck thatcher

It requires a uniquely American kind of stupid to deny human-caused climate change your whole life and then suddenly believe in human-caused weather modification when the storms get too big. #milton #copolitics

Richard Allen will forever be one of the coolest kids of all time.

If you are not sure who to vote for, just understand that a bunch of billionaires want Donald Trump to win and a bunch of unions want Kamala Harris to win.

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

Clothing prices if Trump imposes a 25% tariff on all Mexican imports — Levi's jeans: $79.50 ➡️ $99.38 — Patagonia hoodie: $89➡️ $111.25 — Tecovas cowboy boots: $345➡️ $431.25 — RRL Halkirk jacket: $790➡️ $987.50 Nike, Hickey Freeman, and New Balance also produce in Mexico

IF YOU VOTE LEGALLY, HE’S GOING TO JAIL #BlueWave2024

My response to Trump's unfounded allegation of cheating in Philly's general election: The only talk about massive cheating has come from one of the candidates, Donald J. Trump. There is no factual basis whatsoever within law enforcement to support this wild allegation. 1/2

President Biden should resign as an act of protest tomorrow so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the first female president until January. That would make Trump 48 and ruin that stupid hat of his. Can we get this trending.

In a 520-page report, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concludes that the coronavirus “most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China." cnn.com/2024/12/02/hea…

Costco CEO who loses his shit at even the suggestion of raising the hot dog price is the only one safe