@stevenkatz
Twenty five years or so raising money for indy and nonprofit journalism and now at UC Berkeley doing the same for the Journalism School. Picked up a PhD in sociology along the way. Pals with a fish named Bob.
Watch/listen to @jamellebouie.net on the long historical linkage btwn Stephen Miller et al and the slaveholding radicals who rejected the egalitarian impulse of the Delcaration of Independence.
Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist Senator, would recognize this. youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk
Not great. Definitely not great. @attackerman.bsky.social says it all.
The pieces will not go back together again. Good read.
draw your conclusions about winners and losers and strategy
A beautiful short film about Brooklyn’s Weeksville, founded in 1838, 11 years after the abolition of slavery in New York State, by free Black Americans “to live a diginifed life,” as @mayor.nyc.gov says. A sanctuary, a place, a memory recovered by the city.
“...making the Iranians lose isn’t the same as winning.”
I wrote about OpenAI and Trump's despicable war on Iran. Spying at home and starting wars overseas are classic authoritarian tactics, but despite the déjà vu, we are no longer living in 2003.
because they’re paying less in taxes ffs
Surely this is <sarcasm>? Please?
100%
Smart bombs make us stupid, he says. aka The Escalation Trap and the illusion of control
King of Hearts
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:
“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
Minnesota United going full Andor at a match yesterday to resist ICE
Moment of zen
(fact check: the March on the Pentagon took place in October 1967. The Spring Mobiilzation against the War was in April ’67 in NYC.)
When I turned 18, I applied for conscientious objector status along with two of my friends. 10/x
I remember reading the Call in 1967 — I was 15 and my oldest brother was a Naval Academy grad serving on a destroyer escort off the coast of North Vietnam at the time. It was an intense time of learning and debate at the family dinner table, of high school antiwar strikes and so much more. 9/x
5 of the signers were arrested in early 1968. These were Michael Ferber, Dr. Benjamin Spock, William Sloan Coffin, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin. They were convicted of conspiring, among other charges, to 'counsel, aid, and abet' young men to refuse service in the armed forces.” 8/x
By the time of the March on the Pentagon in the spring of 1967, more than 20,000 people had signed. 7/x
The Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority was initially signed by hundreds including Mitchell Goodman, Marcus Raskin, Denise Levertov, Noam Chomsky, William Sloane Coffin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Dwight Macdonald, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Wilbur H. Ferry, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 6/x
The Call closed w an appeal to intellectuals and academics "to join us in this confrontation with immoral authority. Especially we call upon universities to fulfill their mission of enlightenment and religious organizations to honor their heritage of brotherhood. Now is the time to resist. 5/x
“We believe that ... resistance against illegitimate authority is courageous and justified...that open resistance to the war and the draft is the course of action most likely to strengthen the moral resolve with which all of us can oppose the war and most likely to bring an end to the war.” 4/x
The Call argued that the American war in Vietnam was clearly unconstitutional, had not been authorized by Congress as required by the Constitution, and violated major international treaties to which the US was a signatory. 3/x
It called on Americans - esp draft age men (sic) to a exert their "legal right and moral duty to end this war, to avoid collusion with it, and to encourage others to do the same." vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs...
A piece of history that resonates so hard with me today: in the weeks before the 1967 March on the Pentagon against the Vietnam war, a group of US intellectuals and academics organized by www.resist.org published “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority” 1/x
I have a deck.blue column that is only Zohran all the time and it kicks in the same endorphins as cats and dogs but with meaning.
We should be furious to live in a country that does this—to be at the mercy of a flailing empire that always chooses death and conquest over peace and justice. We should be furious at a political system that makes it so much easier to kill people than to help them. We should be furious at an establishment that lusts so ardently for war, and that has so much contempt for humanity. We should be furious at the untrammeled power of a global ruling class that causes so much suffering. And we should recommit to the most important task ahead: destroying as much of that power as we can.
www.discourseblog.com/p/nobody-wan...
@andreapitzer.bsky.social on the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the vision-impaired Rohingya man left to die by the Border Patrol. He escaped Myanmar’s camps "hoping for safety in a new home...for the possibility that he might be allowed just to live.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/the-death-...
Dan Weissman and his crew at @armandalegshow.bsky.social unpacks what’s going on with health care costs and explains why better anyone else, and gives you tips and advice on how to navigate the crazy US health care system. armandalegshow.com
