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“Starships and Slave Ships: Black Ontology and the UFO Abduction Phenomenon” by @jonjonmp read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/arti…

They’re not even giving kids a chance to develop their brains or their social world. Hooking them as customers as early as possible.

Why is New York City’s political class so intent on protecting the (illegal) sale of West Bank land in the midst of growing settler violence - and why are NYC synagogues still hosting these events?

Tonight, Park East Synagogue in NYC is hosting a real estate expo to auction off a cluster of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. A synagogue is being used to host the promotion of illegal land sales of stolen land. Promo describes it as "The Great Israeli Real Estate Event":

Zohran Mamdani's NYPD appeared to be coordinating with ICE at the Bushwick protests on Saturday. Activists worry the young mayor is treading too lightly with Jessica Tisch. This is tension that won't go away. My latest, for @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

If your rights are on the ballot you have already lost your rights. Things that need to be understood.

They were not intercepted. They were abducted in international waters. This is piracy - and is a flagrant violation of international law.

I would rather starve to death than work for the company that made the rocket that killed this child, and I don’t understand anybody who doesn’t feel the same way

Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers. My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers. This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.

My gosh, this is stunning. The Atlantic has run 5 articles in the past *2 weeks* on Hasan Piker, versus … this in the past *31 months*:

humanity is not afforded to black people. that isn't adhering to white supremacy ideology; it is just our reality.

Incitement to kill a UN official

Maybe the BBC would’ve cared about the n-word if he said “Free my niggas in Palestine.”

A beautiful moment in the Socialist Republic of New York

everybody a cinephile til u bring up black cinema

the connection between the minimization of violence of the n-slur and white people as the “victim” of inconvenience (whether that be homeless people, loud music on the subway, or black people voicing about harm)

I truly would choose to be black every lifetime but you guys this shit is so ridiculous 😭😭😭

@PattesSouris And how thinking about speech clinically (intentionalist) at the expense of socially (structuralist) isn’t necessary. We can’t attend to how harm landed on those Black folks being called, or how an individual’s symptom is not their alone, without denaturalizing the utterance

@PattesSouris Don’t apologize! I feel thought “with” 💗 My understanding is that coprolalila reaches for what the person finds most unspeakable. I am encouraging us to think about the gentleman’s tic as revealing something about the social mind as opposed to (only) his.

white dude w/ Tourette’s who screamed the N word can’t be faulted for failing to control his associations/verbalization. And, his speech implicates this World, of which he is a part. And, this World is a problem for Black peoples. He’s an easy target. And, no language is neutral