S. Jane Kim

Grateful to @TheRazorMag for featuring a little essay I wrote in 2020. If you've struggled to recognize that someone was saying your name, this one's for you! therazormag.com/articles/sanja…

my most popular letter this year was about yoga pants silkycrunch.substack.com/p/yoga-pants

What most people don't get about the incident in Miami where a Jewish man shot two other Israelis whom he thought were Palestinians is the (inter-Jewish) racism: The shooter is an Ashkenazi. A white European Jew. His victims are Arab Jews. To him, brown Jews look like Arabs. But that's only because they are. If there ever was a more perfect demonstration of the fake and made-up idea of a Jewish ethnicity, or nation, I never heard about it. His victims, by the way, would rather he shot them again than admit they're Arabs. Zionist brainwashing is the strongest propaganda material invented by mankind - And so Arab Jews would rather die than face their Arabness, and white Jews would rather kill Arab Jews than acknowledge the humanity of Arabs

“I, too” by Langston Hughes

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 USAID funneled HUNDREDS of millions to universities in Tel Aviv—while American students drown in debt just to get an education. There’s a word for this.

Yes, Trump is reckless, impetuous, & getting worse; more unstable (he will eventually calm down on Gaza as he did w/Canada = 51st state); but remember that, in late 2023, the Biden Administration got Blinken to shuttle across Arab capitals begging them to "resettle" Gazans.

Scientists have tracked microplastics moving through the bodies of mice in real time The tiny plastic particles are gobbled up by immune cells and eventually become lodged in blood vessels in the brain go.nature.com/4h66iJV

Yesterday Israel killed at least 89 Lebanese civilians. You can gaslight all you want, but of it acts like a terrorist state, kills like a terrorist state, it is a terrorist state.

Lebanon has zero air defences. There is no operational need for Israel to bomb at 4am. The only reason they bomb in the middle of the night is to maximise civilian casualties and especially to kill as many children as possible, who would mostly be outside in waking hours.

@Frances46558633 @matnashed So what was there?

@matnashed You are a propagandist, not a journalist, because you omitted to write that there was s o m e t h i n g deep below those buildings...or am I wrong?...it's the practice of human-shielding oneself, again and again, which is making those people above "expendable".

Imagine how the world would react if Hezbollah launched a "precision strike" instantly destroyed 6 apartment complexes (filled with civilians on a Friday evening) in Tel Aviv That fact you can only imagine it in Gaza or Lebanon is because it only happens to us. We are expendable

Just so we are clear: Israel causing thousands of pagers to explode across Lebanon — with zero means of even *pretending* to know who was holding the device at that specific moment, or where they were, or possible collateral damage — is, as you’d expect, a serious war crime.

When you find out who doesn’t have Asian friends.

@matnashed Are you back in Beirut?

Terrifying climate for #Syrians in #Lebanon these days. I had at least three people in my neighbourhood - 2 that I interact with frequently -- ask me with suspicion if I'm Syrian or of Syrian background. The boab in my building, who is Syrian, hasn't left his small room for days.

Welp, it's November. Check out our latest issue. Featuring: Fiction by @avramargariti and Nonfiction by @kimjanekim, narration by Daniel Fleschner and Sura Siu, and original art by Cara Search. therazormag.com

The Onion, ladies and gentlemen.

@PinstripeBungle Lauriol Plaza!!

anybody know the best average tex-mex in DC? you know the type of place I’m talking about. wet burritos with melted cheese on big platters. cheap modelo. I am not looking for authenticity or even quality I am looking to get buzzed on a patio.

@PinstripeBungle I just buy them from the MCX! They’re the best

boys get a fancy moleskine. another, more annoying kind of boy "sources" Rite in the Rain notebooks they keep in their half-zip fleece. but men? men steal these from a job which long ago took something from inside them that they'll never get back.

it is time, everyone, it is time for me to sit down with the green Federal Supply Service notebook I stole from my last job and make the to-do list that will fix my life.

Quick 🧵 on #Syria US sanctions are hurting people across #Syria. And despite humanitarian exemptions, they have a chilling effect. True. Also true: US sanctions are not the main reason for why Northwest Syria has hardly any capacity to respond to the quake nor receive aid.

@matnashed Hahaha

But whose going to save tge Middle East from Thomas Friedman....?