romantic ideas about "attachment to place" are garbage but the idea that anyone can flourish anywhere - and that the desire or need to stay in / choose a particular place is necessarily some marker of privilege, as though we were talking about jetsetting - is also nonsense

Whoa: 6abc.com/post/universit…

I do not understand people that think it’s worth bombing a school and killing children is worth maybe killing a “terrorist.” Would you be fine with police bombing an elementary school to kill a mass shooter?

The NAACP urged President Joe Biden to 'indefinitely' halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the US ally to end its war in the Gaza Strip, sending a reminder that his support for Israel could hurt him among Black voters in November's election reut.rs/4aZE53G

Venues desperate or hand-wringing over relevance while charging ticket prices irrelevant to most people. Funders telling theaters and artists to be 'sustainable' while cutting funding. Gate-keepers keeping gates like it's 2006 and the world's not actually on fire. #theater

A reminder that Mary Oliver also wrote this:

Just looked at a listing for a two-bedroom apartment in Bklyn with an "eaten" kitchen. #spellcheckfail.

Marcellus Williams should’ve been spared not because he was innocent, but because he was human. Guilty people shouldn’t be executed either.

They should stop calling the Daily Show/Colbert/John Oliver comedy shows and start calling them sanity shows.

Also: I am thinking of leaning into gentrification for a change, and opening a chain of stores that cater to golfing, baseball cap-wearing douchebags in the East Village. The stores will be called Brodegas.

This would be some justice.

Among the many reasons that this segment will likely live in infamy as a clear example of open Islamophobic racism and journalistic malpractice from CBS News: The producers flanked two Black journalists to provide a cover to a white journalist who is making an open, racist case

Not an apologist but voting for Harris Worse on Israel? Idk, but I don't think he'd be better. He'd just be less hypocritical about his unconditional support. There's no real daylight between them on this issue Harris is better on every other issue. So I'm voting for Harris

Ready for day 2 of #OIDPValongo2024! Took a quick stroll to explore Valongo & *loved* the Museo Municipal exhibit on political stickers from the revolution. 🔥 Aaron Landsman and I are psyched for our workshop: 'Creative Designs for Participatory Democracy' 💪

This isn’t vote shaming. It’s stating a fact. Harris losing will not move the party further left. It will not “teach them a lesson.” I understand why some people feel they can’t vote for her but reckon with the harm electing Trump will cause & don’t pretend her losing will help

Find me at aaron the side of good taste..bsky.social. Leaving here soon.

liberals who say the way to win elections is to move their party to the right are actually evil