So I was conversing with a dear friend about how much the inauthenticity of social media bothers me deeply. I have a visceral response to it, which causes me to skulk off in a corner and stay quiet. But, she rightfully pointed out that if I don't speak my truth—if I don't show up…

Anyone who murders civilians is evil. There is nothing to celebrate. Celebrating murder is evil.

Politics becomes so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment when ideological victory becomes more important than human life. And what is lost is human life.

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I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.

“Voting as Fire Extinguisher,” KTM aka Guante

“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”

Moving story of how we can be brave, even while being terrified. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Dr. Fryer's speech, which changed DSM classification of homosexuality. I'm a member of the APA, yet never knew one person had changed its course. nytimes.com/2022/05/02/hea…

I talked to Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський yesterday. He needs your help. Please do something, however small, to help Ukrainians in their fight against evil.

Need to share. My Mom came & brought fresh bread. I began crying. There’s shortages of bread in #Kyiv , #Kharkiv , may be other Ukrainian cities.

Please don’t throw away the food. Never.

Love ❤️

One of my favorite poems, written during the 1918 flu pandemic: “For I have time for nothing/ But the endeavor to balance myself/ Upon a broken world.”

we will prevail over those langoliers for you, sir

I need help for Roma and Afro-Ukrainians. They do not have foreign passports or embassies to turn to. I’m trying to reach my contacts but they are being bombed by Russians at the moment. Drop any info you have (verified please) here ⬇️

Remember “Mriya”, the largest plane ever built by humans?
It’s destroyed by Putin’s invaders.
That’s what Putin does: sowing destruction, lies, death.

RIP, beautiful bird, we loved you.

#PutinHitler #PutinIsaWarCriminal

In 48 hours, countless Ukrainians were forced to flee their homes to neighboring countries. They need protection. When you donate, we’ll match it up to $1,000,000, creating double the support.⬇️ unrefugees.org/SupportUkraine

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It's Saturday, my favorite day of the week. I want to order pizza, watch new films on #Netflix , talk with my friends, play with kids, drink New York sour. But I fucking can't because Putin started a full-scale war against my country #Ukraine and #Europe . I miss my ordinary life.

Ukraine. Women joined defense too. A school teacher is crying before departing to the frontline of the defense of Kyiv.
Photo: The New York Times