If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

"Back to the body as intelligence: the body is, after all, a living organism — with its own intention, separate from the parsed out, pored over intentions that one can say come from the mind." - Dionne Brand, Theory

Very few policies are win win win win win: banning indoor smoking, traffic control measures, and congestion pricing are among the few. The end of congestion pricing in Manhattan, thanks to the contemptible Hochul, is an act for which people will pay with their lives.

“Forgetting that beauty and happiness are only ever incarnated in an individual person, we replace them in our minds by a conventional pattern, a sort of average of all the different faces we have ever admired, all the different pleasures we have ever enjoyed,

Norway this week was magical, makes me homesick every time I go

New York area people — doing a little book launch event, in conversation with my dear friend Lennie Hanson at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, Friday August 30th at 7 pm. Everyone welcome and hope to see you there 🧚‍♂️

We must redesign streets so that drivers physically can’t achieve speeds high enough to justify speed limits and stop signs.

The precipitous dip in quality of new music, movies and books is because musicians, filmmakers and authors are, like us, always on their phones, and thus no longer forced to creatively contend with the silence and boredom which used to be an inescapable reality of everyday life

Wasn’t ready to cry over this 🥺

The Yale LGBTS 2024 Brudner Prize goes to Miss Major Griffin-Gracy! A lifelong activist & organizer, we are privileged to honor Miss Major & her work. If you're in or around NHV (10/23) or NYC (10/25), please join us 🏳️‍⚧️

There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

There is an Israeli operation to silence doctors in Gaza. No question about it. I just got off the phone with two sources. As you can see from the Tweet below, the journalist who participated in the incredible Haaretz exposé on children starving in Gaza hospitals was one of the

Palantir CEO Alex Karp laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, Palantir are war criminals.

Some things are bad *even when the people you agree with do it.* It’s bad for the health of the system. Gerrymandering. Giving David Pakman untraceable money. Taking these stances on specific issues does not mean one is above getting in the mud in other avenues.

Polish millionaire CEO who snatched a hat meant for a child on live TV at the US Open speaks out. “Yes, I took it. Yes, I did it quickly. But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served… If you were faster, you would have it… I remind you that insulting a public

WOW! Prof. W. Schabas, a leading authority on genocide whose family survived the Holocaust, believes the case against Israel is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" and that the US & Germany risk legal liability as “accomplices to genocide.”

This framing could cost us our lives.

Disgusting

The only reason Israel's gang rape scandal got exposed is b/c a naive Israeli doctor who treated the victim's ruptured rectum & exploded intestines thought he was raped by a Palestinian prisoner & reported it Once it turned out IDF soldiers did it, Israeli doctors tried all they