In 1947, the US War Dept released “Don’t Be a Sucker” an anti-fascist propaganda film. Watching it is like watching a primer on who the greatest danger to freedom is in 2020. Hint: he occupies the White House. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

I’ll admit feeling ever so slightly hopeful standing in that square last night.

Incredible move. Let’s subject the rotten systems in the US to the same type of scrutiny the US applies to nearly every other country in the world when it suits its agenda.

Please stop referring to this time as “Everything that is going on.” Call it the Black Lives Matter movement if you want to be positive, and The Revolution if you want to make your white family members uncomfortable.

Happy Birthday Donald J. Trump. Great to see TrumpDeathClock featured in this blazing birthday tribute as just one measure of endless atrocities POTUS has committed against US and the world. #HappyBirthdayTrump #TalkingAboutRace #AllBirthdaysMatter

Peter has been shot-calling for years on where young American Jews are moving politically, and how it will affect Israel. And unlike most white guys with ties sounding smart, the facts have proven him right most of the time. Also he’s a mensch, so doubly worth listening to.

We literally invented money. Starting everyone at zero doesn’t make much sense.

This is how low the world’s “greatest” country has sunk. Letting their own citizens die because they vote Democrat and not Republican.

Just about sums it up.

Five years ago I started interviewing folks for a film about the internet and it was a lot of: “Ho, boy. The future will be a shitshow.” The wildest imagination couldn’t have convinced me this is where we’d get, and so damn fast.

Life should have more of this, and less of everything else.

So excited and honored to be working with Toni Kamau on #postcolonial. Big things on the horizon!!

exactly. this should be obvious

And Israelis go: But what about Ben & Jerry’s ice cream though.

Apropos of nothing, a very short but pointed essay on Robert E. Lee by W.E.B. Du Bois inthesetimes.com/article/Robert…

1/ I was struck by how many parallels there are with #COP26 & the disastrous #COP15 in Copenhagen. There are the obvious ones, both cold, wet COPs in northern Europe. Both hugely expensive for the global South, with poor planning on basic things like affordable accommodation