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Abdel Jawad al-Galban, 12 years old, died today of malnutrition. His father and mother say in the video that their child needed special milk and food but they were not available for weeks.
“To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work" A profile of the poet Dionne Brand by culture editor Claire Schwartz. Now online from our fall issue.
"This time around, Trumpworld understands that—in controlling the infrastructure layer of global finance, technology, and security—it has vast machineries of coercion at its disposal" wired.com/story/enshitti…
Zohran Mamdani has been asked repeatedly about how he plans to insure the safety of Jewish New Yorkers, but not of Muslims. “It’s as if there’s an entire part of the population that remains invisible until feared,” @NifMuhammad writes. nyer.cm/K5b72sC
new @leifweatherby book is so so good, as is this incredible review open.substack.com/pub/programmab…
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
Trump falsely suggests @ZohranKMamdani is in the country "illegally" calls him a communist (he's a Dem socialist) and then then goes on to call @ericadamsfornyc a "very good person" who he "helped out a little bit."
Mamdani to me in a 2022 profile of @nycDSA: "The whole point of being in office is to do the same work that we're doing as an organization: to use the platform and the resources of the office to fight for the same mission, which is the empowerment of the working class."
Disappearance has become a feature of the Trump’s ICE raids, a process that often finds people in a prison network in central Louisiana. I got a behind-the-curtain look at the operations of American Siberia—the newfangled ICE detention towns where people are sent to disappear.
As for so many across this country, @BernieSanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.
RIP Brian Wilson. Literally moments ago finished @NifMuhammad’s beautiful book There’s Always This Year, which features this passage.
Circuit Breakers 2025 is now accepting submissions for workshops, panels, talks, and everything in between! Check out our tracks & learn more at bit.ly/circuitbreaker… 💥 For any questions, please reach out to [email protected] 🌱
In this thread, we will share findings from our ongoing analysis of conditions in Gaza, since Israeli forces broke the ceasefire on 18 March 2025. Interactive versions of these posts are available at: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates
Very cool to see the *absolutely massive* Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastucture out! It's all open access. cambridge.org/core/books/cam…
"I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable" newyorker.com/culture/essay/…
