Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. —Haruki Murakami

I have a tweet explaining this from mid-October but never published it bc it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But yeah. This is why Ukraine is seeking alliances in the West too. They’re buffer states for BRICS countries, whose economies are quickly eclipsing Western dominance.

Voter suppression was rampant in Mississippi. We need to talk about why they didn’t have enough ballots

"I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction.” - James Baldwin

The first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics, Rousseau-Nepton says the academic community is playing catchup to Indigenous knowledge that has been around for centuries. utoronto.ca//news/astrophy…

On this day in 1935, a white mob lynched 15-year-old Ernest Collins and 16-year-old Benny Mitchell in Colorado County, Texas. Officials later called the lynching “justice,” and no one was punished. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Platforms aren't cool til we make them cool

The Biden reelection strategy pitched by Politico is a bizarre mix of focus-tested populist messaging, Beltway received wisdom, and warmed-over 1990s electoral orthodoxy with a handful of strategically sound and socially liberal ideas thrown into the mix. jacobin.com/2023/11/politi…

cardi comparing the government trying to fund two wars while having a budget cut to a man tryna fund two bitches knowing he don’t got it is top tier politically commentary

Satya Nadella walking into the Microsoft Monday Morning Meeting after acquiring OpenAI for $0 and 0 regulatory scrutiny

A Tribe Called Quest. Midnight Marauders. Originals & Samples. Classic. open.spotify.com/playlist/4PIVh…

TikTok just launched Artist Accounts. Now available to any musician, plus new tools. Here's the new features & how to use them to engage your audience:

Understand. Don't memorize. Learn principles, not formulas.

People should read this book and get therapy. As capitalism grows, we are having more kids with childhood trauma due to lifestyle stressors on parents.

The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers ten $10K reporting grants for in-depth print and audio stories. Apps due 1/31! UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Columbia Journalism School Northwestern Medill The Open Notebook Writers of Color POC in Audio #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/apply

You think selling to consumers is hard, try selling into schools or non profits

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Apparently 1.5 million workers walked out in this general strike against Argentina’s fascist president. That’s what a well organized coalition of unions and other leftist groups can do.