jill weiss
@jillweiss.bsky.social
"My identifying features are rapture and despair." -Wisława Szymborska
"They have regrets...but not one of them, even now, comes across ashamed for believing that they could change the world, or bowed by the consensus of a country even more at peace with its own sins." lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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“And the advent of PBMs exists because of the inefficiency of the private health insurance on its own terms. So even as we move toward Medicare for All, we can clip off this wasteful, borderline fraudulent system that just skims money off the top of every transaction.” jacobin.com/2026/06/pbms...
The Useless Middlemen Making Prescriptions Unaffordable
Pharmacy benefit managers sit at the center of a four-way transaction between patients, insurers, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. They’ve figured out how to skim profit from every single one of th...
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The genocide in Gaza—which, more than any other disaster, reveals the contradictions at the core of the crisis—is the end of this world, but only in the sense that something else must and will come to replace it. Whether that something will be better or worse is up to us defector.com/franco-berar...
Franco Berardi’s ‘Thinking Gaza’ Fails To Think | Defector
Gaza is the compass. These words—emblazoned on large banners at the 2025 People’s Conference For Palestine in Detroit, and frequently invoked by comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement at speeches ...
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Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity
Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis
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"The Bundists dreamed of deliverance without exodus; the liberation of the Jews in concert with the liberation of their neighbors." Bravo, Molly Crabapple. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements
A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’
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In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...
What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?
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“A superb blend of personal and social history, alive with radical spirit... Brilliant evocation of the anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, a beacon of hope for a renewed left.” Read my STARRED review in Kirkus www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY | Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant evocation of the anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, a beacon of hope for a renewed left.
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The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power. FUCK TRUMP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
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The Islamic Republic has long menaced its own people. But it has never posed an existential threat to Israel, let alone the US jewishcurrents.org/iran-is-not-...
Iran Is Not an Existential Threat
Iran poses no significant danger to Israel, let alone the US.
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"I will always tell the American people the truth... we put Americans at risk" x.com/SecKennedy/s...
Secretary Kennedy on X: "I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens" / X
I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens
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In 2018, as a plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr. Kennedy helped win a landmark $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, in a case contending the company knew the weedkiller caused cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits
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Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.
i love this!
Adam Frank@adamfrank4.bsky.social · 6mo agoScience shows you how to change your mind. That's its superpower as a new paper on Gaia Theory recently showed me. "Without shame and without rancor, science gives you a path to update your beliefs about the world." www.everymansuniverse.com/p/science-sh...
this is how we do it: "It's now got so bad that the British Medical Association (BMA) – a union representing more than 200,000 UK doctors – has told its members that they should not use the Palantir products that the NHS has forced onto their practices." pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p...
Pluralistic: Doctors’ union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Body cams are a trick to get you to stop talking about bigger changes to reduce the power of government bureaucracies and corporate grifts that spy on you and repress social movements for a better world. Send this video and article linked in the thread to a liberal you know: bsky.app/profile/equa...
alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 6mo agoMore background here: bsky.app/profile/civr...
"Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies and illusions." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition
The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...
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“This is just the beginning of solidarity. We are going to fight together until there is nothing left in this world to win.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
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"This is not a reason to oppose it, since it would be an improvement on the present state of things. But “affordability” achieved by these means is a superficial solution to a much deeper problem." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
At What Cost? | Marilynne Robinson
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
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can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!
this was a great episode!
Lea Ypi@leaypi.bsky.social · 7mo agoMerry Christmas from Rosa, @ppfideas.bsky.social team & me 😍! In the latest episode of the podcast, David & I discuss von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" & the life and politics of “the most brilliant intellect of all the scientific heirs of Marx and Engels Marx and Engels", as Franz Mehring put it.
my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 8mo agonew today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...
"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
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25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic. usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
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