Just to take stock of where we're at: in coalition with the right, a Democratic president is backing a violent crackdown on freedom of speech that will split the coalition that narrowly elected him in support of another state's right to kill and destroy with total impunity.

“Did you eat?”

-My love language

Alfred Stevens (Belge, 1823 - 1906)

René Magritte

L'impero delle luci (L'empire des lumières)
'The empire of lights' (1950).

- Museum of modern art (MoMa),New York -

People did warn us about Stop Cop City, week in and out for months and months. They were right—they were the first protestors to face an extremely rehabilitated and even more grotesque police force after 2020—and we should say so.

Does a nation have the right to exist, when created through land theft, forced expulsion, apartheid and genocide?

This is the history of the US.

People fleeing religious persecution said their god gave them this land “from sea to shining sea.” Guns made the argument.

Luna Ana

Hello from Northern Ireland, where the Brits loved to use rubber bullets! Rubber bullets kill. This is what rubber bullets look like. Now imagine that fired at you from a gun -

Amen 🙏

Portland State University
From the walls of the occupied Refaat Alreer Memorial Library.

Via: Barbieri Massimo

bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

‘Paul Auster was an anomaly: a thoroughly warm, witty, sympathetic, laughter-loving individual, with insatiable intellectual curiosity and a gift for friendship; at the same time, he was a monumental literary presence.’

Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and

'This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them.'

--Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest)

Philippe Janin.

npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

good night, friends
🎨Dan-ah Kim

Here is a download of the article that UCLA is censoring.

cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/…

Waiting to pick up my son from school like I do every week day. Neither of my parents did this, ever. Different time different place.
I consider myself lucky and love doing this.

‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’: Paul Auster – a life in quotes theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

'Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to dramatize the issue so that it can no longer be ignored.'

- MLK, Letter from Birmingham Jail

Y’all know I believe in voting blue but good luck convincing the public we need to vote for Joe to stop fascism in just half a year’s time. My God.