“The officer informed me that his director stepped in and told him that Maher would not be allowed to attend Wael’s burial.”
ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral
Maher Tarabishi was the caregiver for his son Wael, whose condition deteriorated after his father’s arrest. ICE denied Tarabishi’s funeral request.
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Etel Adnan knew that words could bear witness to the unspeakable, even when the world looked away. In the face of Palestinian genocide, Isabella Hammad turns to her as a model of defiance. buff.ly/C5Ndatk
Isabella Hammad: “Reading Etel Adnan During a Genocide”
Isabella Hammad reckons with literature’s role in witnessing war and genocide, tracing how Sitt Marie-Rose speaks to the present crisis.
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"The brodernist measures of 'challenging' literature are a constrained series of attributes: winding sentences, explicit references to entropy and math, metanarration, lonely and existential male protagonists, brick-length tomes, cringey sex scenes, the stench of once having read Nietzsche ..." 😭
Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books
Federico Perelmuter considers László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769,” translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
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"Among the victims of the wide-ranging offensive is a two-year-old girl, Leila al-Khatib, who was killed by Israeli fire during a raid near Jenin. The latest victim was an elderly man, 73-year-old Waleed Lahlouh, who was killed ... by an Israeli sniper while going back to check on his house."
Truthout@truthout.org · 2y agoIsraeli forces conducted an unprecedented escalation in the West Bank over the weekend by detonating 20 apartment buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The move constituted the largest single demolition operation in the West Bank since 1967.
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025 🔗 www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...
Appreciate the spotlight on this but calling it “his government” is not ideal
No president in history—not even Trump in his first term—ever logged so many illegal actions in so short a time.
The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government
Chaos isn’t a by-product; it’s the goal.
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+ icymi my story "ellis, island" is now up on notch.ink 💎
Izzy Ampil — Notch
Notch is a literary and arts magazine in New York and Paris. Pre-order Issue 001: Potential Energy.
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Now out from behind the paywall: @hzeavin.bsky.social on the Palestine exception in the classroom and the clinic. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...
Parallel Processes | Hannah Zeavin
As Sheehi recently argued, “It will be the university that enacts the violence of fascism. The fascist just sends off a letter.” To this story we can add the psychoanalyst, who also seems all too will...
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Before you forget Joe Biden ever existed, take a moment to reckon with the full horrifying scope of his moral and political failure in Gaza. My latest, for @thebaffler.com
Biden’s Final Humiliation | David Klion
With the Gaza ceasefire, Trump accomplished in a week what the Biden administration refused to do for fifteen months.
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Up now on @thenation.com: @malsaafin.bsky.social on the reported ceasefire deal, the horrors of the last 15 months, and the rocky road ahead. Beyond grateful to Mohammad for writing something so sharp and eloquent on such short notice. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We Have a Ceasefire Deal, But This Isn't the End
The widely-reported agreement must hold. We haven't begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.
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😇🤗💆🏻♀️😮💨 this gave me the same brain-in-the-bath feeling as max read on pamela paul maxread.substack.com/p/editing-th...
Editing the New York Times
I am at this moment self-employed as the President/CEO of the newsletter you are reading (subscribe now for only $5/month or $50/year), but in the recent past I was employed as an editor, a job I iden...
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2y agoIf not an idea for getting culture unstuck, I needed at least a coherent diagnosis of what's so wrong. Instead, the panelists at "Wither Contemporary Art" sounded just as frozen—in empty provocation, mockery, and a jaded malaise. hellgatenyc.com/the-painted-...
logical endpoint of my friend inviting everyone to her apt to watch uglies on her birthday:
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 2y agoMentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social @ummleora.bsky.social @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social @jakeindursky.bsky.social @skestenbaum.bsky.social @cryinmeehan.bsky.social @archivesrx.bsky.social @jonahwalters.bsky.social @exhaustdata.bsky.social and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...
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Top notch reporting at @hellgatenyc.com by @k80way.bsky.social. No whataboutism, just facts, common sense and empathy. I fear it’s all Jordan Neely is going to get. hellgatenyc.com/daniel-penny...
The End of the Trial of Daniel Penny
The jury is still out on Penny's guilt, but the verdict on Jordan Neely, as a threat to be eliminated, is in.
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