This is intentional destruction of spaces of freedom of expression and gathering, of local businesses supporting each other, and of an industry that refuses genAI & occupies the knowledge & creative spaces that the auto-correct machine wants to take over.
from Alaa Alqaisi's 'What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza' in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
the utterly heartbreaking, maddening tragedy that at the moment primo levi was writing the afterword to these extraordinary, worldchanging, mind-bending books (if this is a man & the truce), zionism was steadily ravaging palestine, already establishing the path that led to the gaza holocaust
so much of writing involves surrendering the fantasy of how you want it to sound for how it wants to come out
BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY
The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge.
Support the Filton24 here:
chuffed.org/project/filt...
from @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's 'Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic' (April 2025), which I return to over & over @proteanmag.com shorturl.at/SYDkx
from Abdaljawad Omar's 'The Meaning of Love In Politics—a response from a conscious (non-nomadic) Pariah', July 23 2025, dabartis dabartis.com
These policies have also reconfigured the state itself. Rather than shrinking, the Iranian state has mutated into an apparatus of authoritarian austerity: fiscally disciplined, physically coercive, and interventionist in the monetary and financial sphere, while retreating from universal welfare and redistribution.3 Social justice is thus reduced to a technical matter of administrative inclusion and exclusion, and society itself appears not as a political subject but as a risk to be managed through “transparency,” persuasion, and policing. The structural reforms pursued by Ali Madani-Zadeh—the current minister of economy, a University of Chicago economics graduate and the latest heir to Chicago-style neoliberalism—are a class project aimed at reproducing the state and its dominant class fractions under crisis, even as they further undermine social reproduction in wartime conditions.
A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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A FLIGHT OF SWIFTLETS MADE THEIR WAY IN and settled along my cage- so expectantly beautiful, their swerve, I wanted to touch them, to take their tiny frames and snap their necks. Tell me you haven't felt that way. Tell me you haven't wanted to stifle what hovers dumb before your heart? I hollowed myself into a cave for others. I opened wide as a tomb from which the stone has been rolled and in they flew to the emptiness of me, where they made themselves a home, nested lickety-split in my walls. I have never been whole, so there was room. Now inside I am less inclined to hurt them but consider taking flight myself, wind-borne from some vertiginous place, why not? With so many wings within beating beating beatingbeating beatingbeating beating beating
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