the bartender tonight in some kind of power move put on doors greatest hits and i remembered eve babitz on jim morrison, one of the meanest, most beautiful essays i’ve read
@bartlebytaco
reminds me of the kafka parable with the guard. except in that case i guess there would be rumors of a functional, utopian cvs lurking behind the facade of this one
JUST IN: DA
@BrookeJenkinsSF
declined to file charges
"This was a shoplifting that really based on the facts...escalated into a robbery and the armed security guard did ultimately end up using lethal force by firing one shot from his firearm that ultimately killed Banko Brown.”
Activist poet Amanda Gorman at the DNC: "We gather at this hollowed place because we believe in the American dream. We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country."
obsessed w how german (footnotes, tucholsky quote, “seeing through the ruling ideology of an epoch”) this complaint about expensive coffee on the ground floor of the berlin state library is
i met him today and he was so nice??? we cleaned up and watered the brecht gf/collaborator corner of the cemetery together and i told him about the US tenant movement
Today, we received incredible news that our unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%.
At this point in the year, we’re looking at the sharpest one year decline in unemployment ever.
Pro-Palestine protesters just disrupted Kamala's speech in Michigan.
Her response: "If you want Donald Trump to win say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
i honestly don't know how people can come on here and see the horrific dispatches from american prisons that are shared every day and dunk on abolitionists
the circumstances for direct action are necessarily specific to local scenes and jurisdictions. many people trying to do direct action are very experienced and aware, and many critics don’t know what they’re looking at! it’s hard to tell from reading a post
@zunguzungu
finding it confusing because normally i would zero in on “the” ukraine but there’s so much going on i don’t even feel like that is the place to start
i was at this rally last night & came away deeply disturbed & with renewed conviction that we have to speak as literally as possible about abolishing the police
the same org behind this shit show had the new alameda county DA on their sound truck to give a speech during their “anti-police-terror” rally last night. i’m sure this tides foundation associated group is just fine, yeah, not a problem at all, nah 😑
biased maybe but i think this is a good time for ironic internet catholic converts to look long and hard at the meaning and consequences of their whole thing
Reminder: when Brecht says that “Petroleum balks at the five-act form” he is not saying that oil can't be represented but that bourgeois drama (plot-driven dialogue) isn't built to grapple with the infrastructural complexities of extractive industries.
"He was entangled with his friends, with craftspeople and poets. Canonization and demonization equally obscure these entanglements." finally,
@elisabethnicula
on picasso!