Dr. Thrasher

Some news: Thrilled to share on the last, leap year day of Black History Month that I sold my next book THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION to @AmistadBooks @HarperCollins. C u in 2025 w stories of marginalized ppl who amass power by cracking the skulls of their own!

“If ICE were to show up, and you were any of those Oxnard educators and you fulfilled your duty to protect the families you serve, you, too, could be prosecuted and sentenced to 20 years in prison under United States Penal Code 18 USC 111.”

It’s fascinating to watch both Ezra Klein and Michelle Goldberg do this asymptotic approach to anti-zionism throughout the years, they’ve gone from 10% to 5% to .05% to 0.1% and all it took was a live-streamed genocide. No rush guys! nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opi…

Unbelievable. Israeli soldiers on gunboats abducted Palestinian fishermen just a few feet from the shore.

"Community has to take care of community right now, because we cannot rely on what the federal government will do." @CoriBush speaking with @bloomekatz at the @jvplive National Member Meeting in Baltimore about how to fight the billionaires. inthesetimes.com/article/be-bri…

Say his name: Tamer al-Za'anin, a journalist murdered in the line of duty. About 250 journalists have been assasinated by US-Israel

Per the account of Hossam Shabat (who HIMSELF was killed by Israel): “Israeli occupation forces killed journalist Tamer Al-Za'anin and injured journalist Ibrahim Abu Osheiba during the incident in which they kidnapped Dr. Marwan Al-Hams.”

650 days of livestreamed genocide. I will never forgive the politicians who have made us watch so many children blown up and countless people beg for money to avoid starvation. These politicians must be driven from public life and never allowed to show their wretched faces again.

i know a lot of mamdani’s team is on here, and all i gotta advise is for him to not further concede on things like the intifada. it *will not* matter to zionists and *only* demotivates his supporters who overwhelmingly won him the primary. get ahead of it now.

Below is a message from Anas Alshariff Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza. He, along with nearly two million Gazans, including women and children, are being starved under the draconian siege and ongoing bombardment by Israeli occupying forces. We call for immediate humanitarian aid…

what's rich about this is how central NPR was to selling JD Vance's warmed over Charles Murray schtick. They helped build his media career because he told rich liberals what they wanted to hear, namely that Trump voters were lazy, irredeemable toothless hicks.

Big publishing week next week about the crises from Gaza to Oxnard. I'll have a new essay in LitHub and a new feature and short film in The Intercept

"Students in Gaza understand that education is more than a right—it is resistance. While bombs tear apart our buildings, they cannot destroy our will. In a world that offers us nothing but destruction, we still choose to learn. We are survivors. We are dreamers. We are fighters."

New dating strategy: I am going to shamelessly flirt with almost every adult I encounter, see who responds, and let the chaos ensue

Global Christianity shouldn’t only care about Christians in Palestine. But how it shrugs off the bombing of Gaza’s only Catholic church and the murder of its parishioners is cruel. This callousness exposes how many Christians are not aligned w Christ’s values, but w war & power.