Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu
A packaged bundle of content, services, and a polar vortex of meat blood full of bees. Writer and editor. zunguzungu on apps https://shellsinanorange.blog/
I sort of vaguely knew this, but then you read the words and it's actually jaw-dropping
doing some research on sojourner truth and it's amazing how that white woman changed her original words and dialect in the "ain't i a woman" speech to make her sound like a southern woman when she was a dutch speaker from new york. ridiculous lol
An 82 year old grandfather granted political asylum in the US after surviving disappearance and torture under Pinochet was grabbed by ICE, who then told his family he died in custody; a month later turns out he was deported, is now in a Guatemalan hospital mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…
The Abundance debate and discussion you didn’t know you needed w @IsabellaMWeber, @BigMeanInternet, @PEWilliams_. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. Bringing light, not heat. Link below👇
BREAKING 🇵🇸🇧🇪 Two Israeli soliders have been arrested in Belgium, facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza following a complaint by @HindRFoundation and @GLAN_LAW.
it's actually worth taking a second to sit with this argument, to take in the level of disconnection from reality that it requires jewishjournal.com/commentary/col…
One million starved children and no shortage of food x.com/UNRWA/status/1…
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and…
What kind of world do we live in where a man responsible for six-figure deaths in less than two years can go on a podcast like he’s selling vitamins?
Netanyahu on Zohran Mamdani’s victory: “I’m not happy with it.”
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Nothing says “I ❤️ NY” like “I will only live here if I am the Mayor.” nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-…
The theory of change that if people around the world make demands of their states to stop something and change course—which reasonably people tell themselves is operable—has been shown through the Palestinian cause to be nonexistent. We should reckon with that fact.
This is who tech money (a lot of it) managed to elect. Tweedle Dee here. Both he and Tweedle Dum are dressed as Mario here, because looking like man child idiots is fine, but any reference to Luigi is now too much of a career risk. x.com/bilalmahmood/s…
I joined my colleague Supervisor @DannySauter today for the Nintendo opening in Union Square. There truly is something for everyone here, be sure to check it out!
A very funny review of my boat tour... oaklandreviewofbooks.org/spilled-bay-fl…
George Hornedo has a secret page on his website that shows how he really feels about Israel and Palestine:
I could never have conjured the cynicism to predict something like this would happen and the whole entire world would just allow it.
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
"This is among the great revelations of Buckley: its subject’s endless willingness to lie...He lies with glee and without compunction; he lies willfully and by omission. He stands athwart history, yelling the wildest possible bullshit." defector.com/william-f-buck…
It’s like most writers want a healthier version of B.—B. without the toxicity; diet Bernhard. Take Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage. The book has no rage. Its Bernhardian sentences have none of B’s poisonous hatred. Dyer is simply trying to represent himself more truly as a