The FFRF Action Fund applauds the introduction of a Michigan bill ensuring that anyone ordered to attend recovery support programs will be provided secular options. Read more in our latest news release: bit.ly/3P5s3OX

BREAKING:  more species than previously thought - a horrifying 30% to 60% - risk extinction within a handful of decades as scientists plead desperately for system changes away from GDP growth and capitalism's frenzied race for profit 🧵

"Despite the fact that economic growth has plunged us into an ecological emergency, and even though half the US population does not share meaningfully in the wealth that it produces, almost anyone you ask will express a positive view of economic growth." citylights.com/needed-either-…

It’s #Bloomsday. Get to it. youtu.be/Q54QXunBaLw

Two weeks from today, Aug. 12, I’ll be at Loganberry Books Author Alley with my latest book “Crunch.” Stop by to pick up a copy and check out the work of dozens of other Cleveland-area authors. loganberrybooks.com/events/author-…

A religious public school is a legal oxymoron. (Read my op-ed on the threat to public education everywhere). nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…

Rabbani and Finkelstein argue that the Biden administration's support for Israel's decimation of Gaza stems not only from its strategic support for Israel, but from a perception that Hamas's October 7 attacks were also an assault on US hegemony in the region.

More than 23,000 people killed. 1.9 million displaced from their homes. Children starving to death. What’s going on RIGHT NOW in Gaza is a horrific humanitarian disaster and we cannot turn our backs on it. Congress must act.

Right now, the Senate is considering giving Netanyahu's right-wing government $14B to continue its indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. How can we, with a straight face, rightly criticize Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, while ignoring the killing of 27,000 Palestinians?

“Crunch” was published one year ago today. To celebrate, print copies of “Crunch” and my earlier novel “Friction” are now 40% off. Exclusively at my website: mattmarshallwriter.com/caged-letter-p…

Insightful article about a disturbing shift in the what audiences want/expect from art.

Mass organized violence has been the Israeli state’s tactic since 1948, when over 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes and land by Jewish militias during the Nakba, using similar tactics to the dispossession used at Wadi Khalil.

thenation.com/article/enviro… Those who’ve been exposed to the mid-80s this month will better tolerate the 90s and 100s this week. But with further global heating it will be physiologically impossible to use the 100s in May as protection for 115 in June or 120 in July The Nation

Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.

“Addiction isn’t about seeking extra pleasure; it’s about killing excess emotional pain.”

Indispensable publisher in need of some help. Maybe buy a few Jameson books while you're at it.

My statement on the indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon:

Defending himself from fellow Marxists unhappy with his writing on post-modernism, Fredric Jameson cited the SDS adage: “We have to name the system.” No one was better at naming the system than Jameson, Jeet Heer writes in his obit of the great thinker. bit.ly/47SsumX