I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16

If I could spend Christmas writing and sleeping, dearest, that would be wonderful! Franz Kafka, 1912.

the city of Los Angeles has banned the sale of flavored vapes. I suggest they take it one step further and kiII my parents in front of me

But dear sir, but dear sir, look at the world, and look at my trousers!

The shadows of the clouds pass through him, as though space were slowly thinking thoughts for him - Rilke

Marxist is when anything I don’t like

The fascist’s desire for solidity, his complete disdain for that which betrays the discreetness and familiarity of his masculinity surfaces here in the form of paranoia, as if some spectral force haunted the commodity, you know, mustard wraiths and demonic ketchups.

Habermas asks Marcuse about the role of Fromm in the formative years of the Institute for Social Research. Marcuse: “The castration of Freudian theory.” 😬 Habermas then seems to defend Fromm’s importance, and Marcuse concedes. Discussion from, Theory & Politics (1978)

Four favorite books thus far

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

For the first time in a long time things are beginning to feel the way they are supposed to feel in a country that is facilitating a genocide.

Really makes you wonder what these universities are so afraid of and it turns out the answer is, on at least one level, education

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A

Wes Nichols is a billionaire that supports cutting every social service in California. But now he’s mad the Fire Department doesn’t have enough money.