Epic piece on NYC trash from Eric Lach. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Rare ratio today for the alternate side parking twitter. Move your cars!

This is a very good piece, btw, on the history of American Jews' relationship with Israel, in case you missed it. newyorker.com/books/under-re…

Happy Holy Thursday, everyone.

This is this afternoon! Not too late to RSVP.

“The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it.” theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Come to this on Wednesday in NYC if you care about fascism, debate, or the fascism debate. Featuring b-boy bouiebaisse Moira Weigel corey robin

Currently unable to borrow books from the library because this one is so badly overdue. Apologies to all 5-year-olds in Brooklyn, will be returning this today!

An extremely thorough and patient examination of IDF claims that it is doing its best to mitigate civilian harm in its air strikes in Gaza. The conclusion: It is not. justsecurity.org/93105/israeli-…

Woke up this morning to see Maria Zakharova celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Kherson from its Nazi occupiers. Makes you really think all WWII analogies need to be retired immediately, put in a vault, and not allowed out for 80 years.

'Writers’ lives as depicted in French films continue to be things of great mystery, and I don’t mean murder mystery.' Once again the existence of the Oscars is justified by the publication of A. S. Hamrah's Oscars Preview. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Russia's war against Ukraine is sometimes characterized as a war against modernity.

The opposite is true.

Its an expression of high modernity & this connects it directly to the climate crisis.

How so?

Usually, these are nice problems to have.

The NYC Parks Department is getting ready for spring #StreetTree planting! The white marks show that this #TreeBed will be cut to the new 5 foot by 10 foot size for the new #tree .

Horrible media era. Papers hire unqualified propagandists but then there's literal n*zi shit in the replies to tweets about it. A man self-immolates; the news horribly treats it like terrorism but then in the surge of real encomia you have to weed out repurposed n*zi accounts too

Артист балета и балетмейстер Михаил Барышников требует отдать тело Алексея Навального его матери.