in the bronze tower I looked out at the umber hills and felt assured and well defended, safe in my office box and crisp white shirt and connected to things that made me feel stronger.

Alert, watchful thinking for oneself seems higher than knowing.

I love this video of that apartment in St Louis blowing over / apart.. looks exactly like every shitty abundance style gentrified apartment building in my hood.

Ho Chi Minh was born on this day in 1890. "Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."

Democrats are just so awesome

"Every spectator is either a coward or a traitor." — Fanon

Ta-Nehisi Coates responded to this by saying the question of Israel’s right to exist is irrelevant because it does exist, and that’s where we are. Going out of your way to say it “deserves” to exist is an AIPAC talking point based on a trap question

And truly I thought they were great things, painted to remark the end of an age and the beginning of something so different only a vision such as this might suffice to augur it.

Other places, she thought, other worlds, dusty terminals, major intersections, this is routine and always will be.

joachim trier is one of the best directors working currently

SCOTUS allowing the President to gut agencies designed to regulate corporations and protect workers’ right to unionize—while giving a pass to the Federal Reserve, a key conduit for Wall Street power—is a brazen display of corporate favoritism and deference to oligarchic control.

what an incredibly brave human. shame on every single one of you, especially those in positions of power and influence, that can’t even utter a fraction of what this man said.

This looks like an end of the world dystopia. I can’t believe it’s real. And the world does nothing.

'2046' (2004) Wong Kar-wai.

Rip Sebastião Salgado, at 81. Nobody has ever captured the twinned sublime materiality of labor as he did.

tankies were right episode one trillion

realizing i am down 25lbs since january is nice

avoiding every wedding in ones 20s and early 30s is highly recommended