“if you’re about to be hanged and you start cracking jokes, that’s gallows humor. but if you’re in the audience and you start cracking jokes, you’re just a part of the execution.”

It’s a net positive across the board. Meeting with families shows care for them. Ending weapons transfers to Israel is an incredibly popular position, the legally sound position, and the right thing to do. 2/

Imagine having to “formally ban” gangs from the Sheriff’s dept.

now I’m thinking this probably accounts for half the podcast listener complaints I get about the way I talk fodors.com/world/north-am…

David is absolutely right. NO OTHER LAND is a documentary that has played just about every major festival a documentary can play. No excuse for it being undistributed.

Gang rape of detainees. "Israel will investigate." Bodies thrown off buildings. "Israel will investigate." Aid workers are targeted. "Israel will investigate." Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is killed. "Israel will investigate."

“What I suspect,” he told me, “is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don’t think that’s true.” on our moral responsibility: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…

#MarcellusWilliams has been executed. “We must all question any system that would allow this to occur. Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain ... We must not let it continue." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

.Secretary Antony Blinken lied. People went hungry, and some died. He needs to resign now.

A couple of weeks ago a friend took Stacy and I to The Met while it was closed so we could experience all of the art without any of the COVID. I wrote about how cool that was and about seeing some of the art that's helped me cope these last few years. bit.ly/4eFydP0

According to this Nielsen report, a network TV show that ended new episodes seven years ago got more streaming viewership than a series Amazon spent over $700 million on? And Prime Video is calling that a success?

Ordering US-funded war crimes from US soil right after giving a speech to the United Nations about how "Israel yearns for peace"

Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it” as 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 said.