Me in 8th grade when my crush started losing interest in me

What Happens When a Movement I Acknowledge With Condescension Gets Tainted By Qualities I’ve Imagined?

— my latest in The Atlantic 👇👇

There is an appallingly long list of incidents or anecdotes from Gaza that suggest serious war crimes. This is the sort of thing the ICJ meant when it ordered Israel to preserve evidence/halt evidence destruction. As far as I know, Israel has completely ignored that order.

She done turn her child into a gerbil

wow sounds harrowing

Hezbollah groomed me into thinking that starving people and shooting children point blank in the head is bad

sometimes they accidentally come out and say that debt is a tool of oppression

Some Columbia sociology faculty refusing to enforce student suspensions, love to see it

Wrote about Cristina Campo's freshly translated, sublimely torturous essays, out from NYRB Classics, for The Baffler! thebaffler.com/latest/soul-ar…

i wonder why the protestors might be very concerned about message discipline right now

China Miéville’s letter to the DAAD on why, amid Germany’s cultural and political derangement and the director’s personal role in that repressive and racist culture, he won’t be taking up their residency offer.

salvage.zone/letter-to-the-…

It’s actually a really great example of how you’re totally safe at these protests, thank you

this is such a baller lyric

Tens of thousands of civilians are dead, more being killed every minute. The world is on the brink of a major regional war. The response of the American commentariat is to critique student manifestos.

NYU faculty you are forgiven for unleashing so many annoying theater kids into the world

Q: Palestinian civil defense crews have uncovered a mass grave with 180 people, including men, women and children. Are you aware of this?

STATE DEPARTMENT: We are inquiring about it with the Government of Israel.

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza

Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

One of the most disturbing aspects of Israel's war on Gaza is that there's no documentation of the people who are kidnapped into Israeli prison camps. So families wait for weeks & months hoping their loved ones are captive but alive, but many end up found dumped in mass graves.

Holy shit.

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

she wants someone else to lose to trump too lol