Im sure there are actually horrible ghouls saying nightmarish things online but I actually think people rallying to support cultural institutions with their bodies in the face of the fascist assault on beauty and art is good
Jesse Roth
@jesse-roth.bsky.social
Writer, Theatre Artist, Dramaturg. Writing published in Truthout and The Stranger. I write the newsletter I HAVE A RIBCAGE; YOU HAVE A RIBCAGE. jesseroth.beehiiv.com
This paragraph is incredible. What cruelty it paints. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/letter-from-...
A drawing by a 5-year-old child in detention:
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8mo agoReminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"
Shannon Heffernan@shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 9mo agoAlso: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.
Organizers in Twin Cities making rare plea for folks to share broadly: ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.
Another favorite essay of the year: Daniel Yadin's essay in @thedriftmag.com on romantasy and the desire for escapism in catastrophe. It was so funny while speaking to the very real temptation to abdicate agency. Some favorite passages:
One of my favorite essays from this year was Robin D.G. Kelley's "Between Fires in Los Angeles and Fascism in America" in @hammerandhope.bsky.social. hammerandhope.org/article/los-...
Between Fires in Los Angeles and Fascism in America
Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all.
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For today’s newsletter, I shared a “rage tangent” from a longer work in progress about artwashing, genocide profiteers who fund major arts organizations, the false scarcity they create, and how artists in the imperial core can envision liberatory arts spaces. jesseroth.beehiiv.com/p/screaming
This Sunday, I'm co-leading a workshop on some research I've been working on over the last few years on "artwashing", genocide profiteers who fund major arts organizations, and activists organizing against them. Come check it out at the Seattle Liberation Center from 3pm-5pm!
I used to write a newsletter, and I've now revived it under a new name: I HAVE A RIBCAGE; YOU HAVE A RIBCAGE. Every Friday, I'll be sending out a new piece of writing. Looking forward to sharing with you! jesseroth.beehiiv.com/p/introducin...
⭕️ BREAKING: The latest Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) drafted in the US Congress would require a “continual assessment … of international state arms embargoes on Israel” — with language aimed at filling any “defense capability gaps” those embargoes create, Zeteo reports. This means the...
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW: Buried in the new defense bill is a policy to fill weapon “gaps” Israel gets as other nations embargo it. As in: citing "wartime" needs, the US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by restricting weapons to Israel. Now, citing those very restrictions, the US may send Israel *even more.*
🇮🇪🇪🇸🇸🇮🇳🇱 BREAKING | Four major broadcasters – Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands – have pulled out of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the EBU confirmed Israel will be allowed to compete despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Despite a wave of pressure and boycott threats urging the...
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive. Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma. 1/
I just saw a headline describing the incredible work yesterday of preventing dozens of ICE from doing a mass raid on Canal st as "police arrest and pepper spray dozens of people outside garage". That IS NOT the story!!!
Art in the last 24 hours: Freakier Friday—way better than it has any business being. I cried! Hamnet (the book): Stunning! Also cried! The prose! Giving birth in the woods! The final scene in the theatre! The Substance: So scary. Can't sleep. Very good storytelling. Hated the ending.