4 Threaded Spouts
I was there in Central Park near the Dakota at the public memorial organized for John Lennon after he was assassinated. It was my first time in New York City alone, much less on a subway. I sneaked there from a bordering suburb without my parents’ knowledge.
08:08 AM - Dec 08, 2023
9 Threaded Spouts
After turning a blind eye to the question of Palestine throughout early opposition to the Iraq war, a fight over free speech and academic freedom at my children’s high school forced me to focus on it. A colleague connected me with an antizionist Jew who was on a book tour.
05:41 AM - Apr 29, 2024
A little historical context to frame student protests against the genocide in Gaza. https://encyclopedia.ushmm...
07:48 AM - Apr 26, 2024
📢I am happy to announce we have expanded our news sources to include Salon, Slate, Sports Illustrated, TechCrunch, The New Yorker, and The Verge. Please remember to activate these new options in your news settings.
09:30 AM - Apr 25, 2024
Fun fact -- Mike Roman, the Trump co-defendant in Georgia who lobbed the disgusting smear campaign against Fani Willis, has now just been indicted AGAIN, this time in Arizona. FAFO.
11:04 AM - Apr 25, 2024
Lara Trump on Newsmax last night:
"We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers… but people who can physically handle the ballots"
Mark Elias today:
"Poll observers are NEVER permitted to touch ballots. She is suggesting the RNC will infiltrate election offices"
"We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers… but people who can physically handle the ballots"
Mark Elias today:
"Poll observers are NEVER permitted to touch ballots. She is suggesting the RNC will infiltrate election offices"
09:54 AM - Apr 24, 2024
“On April 7, 1970, less than a month before the Kent State massacre, California Governor Ronald Reagan declared that ‘if it takes a bloodbath to silence the demonstrators, let’s get it over with.’”
https://bit.ly/3JAOCH8
Have we learned nothing from history?
https://bit.ly/3JAOCH8
Have we learned nothing from history?
08:35 AM - Apr 25, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
When actual Nazis speak on campus but the media trots out the old “antisemitism on campus” trope (documented by sociologist Barry Glassner in “Culture of Fear”) I have trouble with this pretext for quelling campus protests.
07:47 AM - Apr 23, 2024
Someone on Facebook disparaging #solarpunk called it “regressive,” but couldn’t explain why, but for a general distaste for “utopias” and modernity, and a preference for “science and technology.” I’d somehow missed this movement, and wondered were there any adherents out there.
03:07 PM - Apr 17, 2024
04:38 PM - Apr 12, 2024
Two members of the Squad showed decorum in their silent call for a ceasefire in #Gaza . The #MAGA devotee ignored this request for decorum, made by the Speaker, a member of her own party. Moreover, this devotee wore campaign attire in violation of House rules.
Tell me, who wore it better? #sotu
Tell me, who wore it better? #sotu
08:56 AM - Mar 08, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
“Whether young or old, I’ve always known what endures, our North Star: The very idea of America, that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We’ve never fully lived up to that idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either.
08:54 AM - Mar 08, 2024
This means people who haven’t forgotten their roots in race, gender, class, national origin, or any other “invidious distinction.”
10:00 AM - Mar 07, 2024
I like candidates for any office who “don’t pull up the ladder behind them.”
09:36 AM - Mar 07, 2024
10:36 AM - Feb 22, 2024
“In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” —Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
for Nex Benedict and all such children
https://wapo.st/49IyRcd
for Nex Benedict and all such children
https://wapo.st/49IyRcd
10:31 AM - Feb 22, 2024
BREAKING: X has suspended the account of Alexei's Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya
news.sky.com
Russia-Ukraine latest: X suspends Navalny wife's account - as Moscow puts brother on wanted list | World News | Sky News
The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account suspended. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Moscow wanted list's. Listen to a Daily podcast special on Russian opposition in the wake of Navalny's death as you scroll.
08:03 AM - Feb 20, 2024
Israel is planning to create refugees in Rafah, proposing to house them in tents. #letThatSinkIn Further, they’d be refugees rather than “internally displaced persons,” because they don’t have their own state. We shouldn’t normalize #genocide
01:22 PM - Feb 13, 2024
May we all just pause and reflect on the “remarkable” lack of “voting irregularities” in the Iowa caucuses?
04:54 PM - Jan 16, 2024
Indicted insurrectionist beats candidates who’d pardon him to win a mysterious quasi–primary process in which only people who’d die for him would brave the frigid weather.
08:31 AM - Jan 16, 2024
Revisiting Pastor Martin Niemoller’s statement for 2024: “First they came for abortion rights, and I was not a woman, so I said nothing. Next they came for the trans people, and I was not a trans person, so I said nothing…” you get the picture.
07:53 AM - Jan 16, 2024
New blog post up: Resolution. https://dancelikefire.word...
dancelikefire.wordpress.com
Resolution – Dance Like Fire
One of my favorite professors used to offer that in accord with its origin in Latin, the word “radical” meant to get to the root of things. That is how the term is used in mathematics. Though some will try, who can reasonably argue with math? Thus it is that I go back to the…
12:34 PM - Jan 15, 2024
I’m crowdsourcing perspective on using #Substack as a blogging platform. I’ve been using #Wordpress for over twelve years, and like the creative control it gives me over appearance. But I want more reach and to write more regularly and purposefully. What are your thought?
04:27 PM - Jan 14, 2024
We have been observing an Insurrection Attempt Anniversary week with logical traps set for the Right Whinge by Judge Florence Y. Pan of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and Hunter Biden, and I am all about it.
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08:15 PM - Jan 10, 2024
Can someone who’s a whiz with photoshop gin up a movie poster with Danger Yam in a Bond pose and the words “license to kill”? Because that’s where his legal team has taken his claims to immunity for insurrection. (And I don’t mean use Midjourney.)
07:52 AM - Jan 10, 2024
My schedule changed yesterday such that I could cut new Nordic ski tracks in pristine snow in some woods in Southern Maine.
06:46 AM - Jan 09, 2024
January 6 attackers:
- wore tactical gear in some cases
- went on tours to case the Capitol
- planted pipe bombs the night before
- knew where the non-reinforced windows were
- included organized Proud Boy and Oath Keeper units
It was NOT a protest run amok
IT WAS ALL PLANNED.
- wore tactical gear in some cases
- went on tours to case the Capitol
- planted pipe bombs the night before
- knew where the non-reinforced windows were
- included organized Proud Boy and Oath Keeper units
It was NOT a protest run amok
IT WAS ALL PLANNED.
11:17 PM - Jan 06, 2024
