Absolutely necessary read, by Alex de Waal: Starvation in Gaza lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/…

The US currently spends $2,000,000 a minute on death machines, bombs, and war. Meanwhile, nearly 50 million Americans are at risk of going hungry. How does Congress respond? Their new budget increases the Pentagon budget and slashes SNAP benefits. Here's my latest oped w/

Get ready for The Great Leap Backwards

This may be the first genocide where the perpetrators and their supporters openly push to annihilate and starve a people while demanding validation, acceptance, inclusion, safe spaces, and lived experience affirmation.

Assal Rad If I think that we should have prevented all this.

Join us! Thursday the 29th Town Hall Seattle 7:30pm PDT for Whatever Happened to Revolution? With j’accuzzi di zuppa🥫 , @colleenlye , Nikhil Pal Singh , and Idris Robinson townhallseattle.org/event/red-may-…

Two events in Seattle next week. Also speaking with Jamie Merchant about his new book at Elliot Bay Books on Saturday May 31st at 12:30pm

very much looking forward to this at this years Red May Seattle

Who needs The Onions when we have New York Times, the newspaper of records👇

[1] On May 11th, the 🇮🇱 cabinet decided to renew the Settlement of Title Land Registration in the West Bank that was halted in 1967. This is one of the most significant annexation moves in years. A little bit nitty gritty but bear with me. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This was once the lede to a New York Times story about "campus anti-Semitism"

Starving Gazans packed behind fences for a scrap of aid. This isn’t relief—it’s humiliation and dehumanization by design. History won’t forget who watched and did nothing.

State Dept now officially disseminating calls for “civilizational allies” in Europe based on “common culture, faith, familial ties” and “cultural heritage.” Defends AfD, Marine Le Pen, and “Christian nations like Hungary” and questions very basis of EU. open.substack.com/pub/statedept/…

We need an immediate, total shutoff of US assistance to Israel. Anyone who can't openly demand this is not really "critical of Netanyahu," "troubled by the situation," etc.

1/ This graph from Jon Bruner tells an important story: America's current dominance in science only began after the mid-1930s, when persecuted scientists began fleeing universities in Germany and then elsewhere in occupied Europe.

5/ Something else worth noting: the collapse in British Nobel Prize awards after 1979. That's no coincidence, as the government of Margaret Thatcher slashed funding for basic research because it was not considered to be of value to industry. Many British scientists fled abroad.

Monarchist brain trust.

Undercutting US foreign policy is what enemies do, but as always there is an Israel exception. "Israeli officials have told their American counterparts that Mr. Netanyahu could order a strike on Iran even if a successful diplomatic agreement is reached." nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

Yair Golan: “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was.... A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the aim of expelling populations.” nytimes.com/2025/05/27/opi…