the liberal framing of Mamdani and Rama as cool Muslims vs scary Muslims (even if implicit) is really funny when you remember that his father wrote the seminal book and coined the term ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ — about the false & dangerous binary created about Muslims to serve

Every weekend I think about the greatest journal entry.

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Here it is! "Waiting for Hot Water" By Ellen Hee (Over on insta)

I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.

Awesome: "NYC Comptroller Brad Lander has withdrawn tens of millions of dollars of the city’s pension funds from the State of Israel." jpost.com/bds-threat/art…

This is the most beautiful fucking basket I have ever seen in my life

I’m thinking of Chris Smalls. And about how, because he’s Black, no Greta Thunberg, no celebrity, no darling of the liberal class, he might not make it out alive. Blackness, when vulnerable and on its knees, is a white supremacist fantasy.

Swimming pool mosaic tiles.

send me and maggie your poems, now through 9/30

Just want to remind everyone of my favorite cartoon ever. You aren't *in* the universe, you are a literal part of it, you are made of it, like a knot in a rope. When you read these words, it's the universe reading it's own writing.

Christian Wiman, “All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs” Priesthoods and beasthoods, sombers and glees, high-styled renunciations and avocations of dirt,

Great answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates