Nazish Munch
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Nazish Munch
@NazishMunch
In the center of my universe Katılım Nisan 2009
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“This is the only kingdom. / The kingdom of touching; / the touches of the disappearing, things.”
— Aracelis Girmay
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This poem appeared in Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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@rch371 @justmoneyorg Will try to get to get hold of a copy to read. Hope you’re doing ok - it’s not even been a month into this chaos.
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I once had a surprisingly frank chat with a member of Assad's guard. He would stand sentry around his home, and was occasionally part of his retinue when traveling within Syria.
It was a surreal conversation. It summed up for me the regime's dependence on "an army of slaves" 🧵
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@PeterHarling Thank God this reign of evil is over. We can rejoice over the liberation of prisons and an end to this cruelty. While in some ways this reminds me of the end of Russian presence in Afghanistan that ushered in the rule of the Taliban, hoping here it will be different…
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I lived through the collapse of the Iraqi regime, which also was strong until it was gone.
Through force and fear, such regimes become so ensconced in our heads as to neglect everything else, and crumble in front of our eyes as in a waking dream.
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War is an incommunicable experience by nature.
But the experience of living in a city where someone, somewhere else, will every day press a button to crumple this or that building, with or without its residents inside, is the eeriest I've known. This is dystopia, more than war.
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@PeterHarling Please move to Bluesky. Pretty much only return here for you and a couple of others and would love to delete my account here. ..
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Les éditions du Seuil m'ont demandé d'écrire un texte pour Le livre noir de Gaza.
J'essaie d'y mettre en mots une guerre qui n'est pas du tout comme les autres, et qui pour cette raison résiste à l'analyse et disparaît dans les médias.
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If you can spare 45 minutes, please listen to this tale of demolition wrought by 'free trade' - especially as told by Chauncey, a Master Lock foreman, about 20 minutes in. Any 'party' that's cool with this needs tarring and feathering. youtube.com/watch?v=ZKNeqK…
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I guess Democracy Dies on the Balance Sheet
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Thanks for re-upping, Ro. forbes.com/sites/rhockett…
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
Homes should be owned by people, not private equity. Today I reintroduced my bill, the Stop Wall Street Landlords Act, with @RepKatiePorter and @RepMarkTakano, to rein in corporate landlords who are buying up single-family homes. notus.org/democrats/ro-k…
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@frasermatthew It’s getting worse and worse. Move to Bluesky, it’s a much better experience.
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Twitter relentlessly attempting to upsell me to "premium" with promises of more algorithmic juice. Doubtless explains why engagement has been weak and I'm seeing endless tweets from people I don't follow. Twitter's message seems to be: buy premium or you will be slowly sidelined.
Premium@premium
Subscribe to Premium to unlock advanced account analytics! x.com/i/premium_sign…
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@rch371 Because our society makes profits the priority and not the people. We need to rethink a path towards a better system that works for all instead of for the chosen few.
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So sick of this. Why is it up to 'executives'? Why aren't the 'employees' the owners? Why is this never asked? Why is wage-slavery taken for 'normal'?
Sadistic drill sergeants, sadistic field-hand overseers, sadistic 'executives.' nytimes.com/2024/10/12/bus…
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@PeterHarling It has never worked but so many innocent lives have been lost and so much generational trauma has been caused for those who lived through it. Yet we never learn. Stay safe.
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All this extends a praxis honed in Palestine. Israel is generalizing a doctrine of striking at will, indefinitely, while conceding nothing in return.
The point is to deny any root causes, any history, any reciprocity. The only horizon is subjugation. Where did that ever work?
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In Lebanon, Israel's war is giving us a taste of what it's like to live in Palestine. The parallels only go so far, but the general trends are disturbingly clear.
And in many ways, that is precisely the point 🧵
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@rch371 The principles of a world order based on human rights for all and anything resembling a just moral compass are being demolished as we watch and that’s what making so many of us feel a horrible sense of distress for what’s coming in the future.
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5/5 ... When I was a kid they told us in school that our 'justice system' was about rehab ('penitentiary' means place of meditative penance), guided by the maxim that millions of guilty going free was better than one innocent not. LIES. Please: TEAR THIS SH-T DOWN AND REBUILD.
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1/5 If I could post this anonymously and still get it read I would. Performed 'outrage,' especially from erstwhile political heroes, is f-cking VOMIT-pulling right now and seems to be everywhere. So please: ignore my identity if you read this, OK?
F-cking Missouri MURDERED ...
A Christian Resistance@XianResistance
“I do not think that God approves the death penalty for any crime. Capital punishment is against the better judgment of modern criminology, & above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.” ~ The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr #MarcellusWilliams
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I should add a word about those who are safe: Lebanese abroad and evacuees aren't ok because they are far, quite the opposite.
They suffer intensely from anxiety, anger, grief, and guilt. Their distress is hard even to voice.
Much of what outsiders can do is support each other.
Peter Harling@PeterHarling
In a war zone, an unexpectedly big part of the challenge is to reassure anguished friends and relatives abroad. It can be excruciating to watch from afar. But the ensuing anxiety can also make things more difficult for those on the ground. 🧵
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Having lived through the 2006 war, and being in Lebanon today, I'll try to analyze what can be compared. War is treacherous by nature, so these are mere impressions. I share them simply because I find that it helps a little to fit chaotic, tragic dynamics into structures. 🧵
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@Claudia_Sahm Love the idea. Hate that it’s on Twitter…am going to have to check back in regularly now! Was being so good at weaning myself of it! 😍
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My mom suggested that I keep a journal this year … my first thought: I can tweet it! So mute me now is you don’t want the journey.
Claudia Sahm@Claudia_Sahm
btw I am back, as you may have noticed, to tweeting (with some self censorship). it makes me happy. teen gave me the keys to my account back. all the well wishes make me happy, too. overwhelming in the best way possible.
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