Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.
Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.
These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?
Does anyone really believe that?
“.. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I think we need to take a step back and acknowledge the absurdity of House Republicans targeting their Epstein investigation on HILLARY CLINTON (who says she never met him!) while ignoring DONALD TRUMP (who Epstein described as his best friend!)
These are not serious people or good faith actors.
Kindness and good nature could only be found in the remote places
- Osip Mandelstam
They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
PQ on Joyce and the state violence of evil days @pquadrino.bsky.social -
www.rawillumination.net/2026/02/pq-o...
The Trinidadian scholar CLR James wrote this study of Melville’s career while James was imprisoned on Ellis Island about to be deported, because of his political views. It’s a great read #MelvilleMonday
The Trinidadian scholar CLR James wrote this study of Herman Melville’s career while James was imprisoned on Ellis Island about to be deported, because of his political views. It’s a great read
#MelvilleMonday
"A 3-year-old company with fewer than 5 employees is being considered for a $25 billion contract... raising red flags among investors.
"The company is unknown in the nuclear industry, never completed a nuclear project and is headquartered out of a WeWork office...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
46 years to the day since Lake Placid
an absolutely incredible game
I’ll admit it’s not been an easy read thus far! Seems Melville hadn’t yet perfected his prose and his style at that point. Good bits, though
new piece from me
"Evil Days": Joyce and State Violence
finwakeatx.blogspot.com/2026/02/evil...
Can’t believe we are still doing this
Photo of Frederick Douglass, who some say was the most photographed person of the 19th century
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
now reading this paperback edition I found in New Paltz, NY
#MelvilleMonday
damn RIP Terrance Gore, former MLB player passed away at age 34
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/02/terr...
Jain Cosmological Diagram of the World of Mortals, 18th cent
Opaque watercolors on paper and cloth
India, Gujarat
Panel discussion with Joyceans to talk about Finnegans Wake, for Joyce’s birthday 2026:
www.youtube.com/live/af8LxwR...
Antebellum northerners never *liked* southern slavery, but they didn’t get angry enough to destroy it until it sent armies and spies into their cities to serve as kidnappers
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
He was a nurse who worked with veterans. He had no criminal record. ICE agents not only murdered him but kept shooting after he was apparently dead. Seems they wanted to make sure he didn't live to be a witness, as everything they've said about the shooting so far has been a lie.
