Seeing all these essays about 'therapy'/'being a therapist' after the election and can't help noting that, in our neoliberal US culture in which therapy frequently operates as a depoliticizing substitute for community, critique, and organizing, therapy itself becomes symptomatic.

It's going to be wild if the first time a Mayor has been recalled coincides with having the lowest number of homicides in 25 years. It would be the perfect critique of local media.

“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” — Julius Nyerere

US law is clear: No nation blocking US humanitarian aid can receive US weapons. Palestinian children are forced to eat pet food and bug infested flour, but Secretary Antony Blinken says there’s no need to change our policy. The Biden administration is refusing to comply with US law.

The word “unfortunately” is doing a lot in this sentence to get across the sheer emotion of burnout

No one should look to the neoliberal Obamas (including Axelrod, Emmanuel, etc.), Clintons, Carville, Schumer, Pelosi, NYTimes columnists, etc. for any kind of insight into the election nor any guidance on the future. The politics they represent is the politics that got us here.

What radicalized me? Working in two Ivy League data-driven policy labs. They want to help, but have no idea how. These people genuinely believed being poor is a behavioral issue.

EAST BAY DSA ORGANIZING FAIR 🌹 DSAUSA.ORG/JOIN Today over 200 comrades joined us to talk about organizing for Socialism here in the East Bay with 70 of them joining us for the first time!

A key feature of copaganda is that police and the news media attempt to use crises to increase the size, power, and profit of the punishment and surveillance bureaucracies. This has long been one of the creepiest things about it. They don’t let a good crisis go to waste.

The untold story behind Thao recall is sabotage. An inner core of high level department and City Admin's office heads wanted a succession of Schaaf policies in Loren Taylor. They've been colluding with the recallers, leaking, sabotaging, aiding. Same thing in Price's office.

The violence we're used to and the violence we need prismreports.org/2022/07/08/the… via Prism

Uncanny resemblance to this 1306 painting by Giotto di Bondone "The Arrest of Christ (Kiss of Judas)" as part of his famous Scrotegni chapel fresco in Italy

Caesar Salad I gifted a meal by taking a photo at Kitava with the free GiftAMeal app. #Kitava #GiftAMeal api.giftameal.app/local-business…