scribbler. story shaper. citizen. previously: organizer, baker, bookseller. Brown U '86.
Providence, RI
Joined December 2012
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THREAD. Every single time you see Democrats, Jacobin Magazine, Malcolm Gladwell, or a non-profit organization telling you to support existing levels of policing and police budgets, understand this is what they want you to support:
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When @davidzmorris says “Ai is Just Software,” he means it. And he is right. Let’s not mess this up.
Don’t fall for the propaganda.
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan remains the world's greatest living filmmaker.
"Once Upon A Time In Anatolia" was sweeping, mythological, and imagistic, whereas "Winter Sleep" is intimate and Chekhovian.
Not ONE sympathetic character, yet Ceylan still manages to make an 180+ min runtime feel crisp:
automachination.com/analysis…
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Cambridge, MA city council just passed a policy order 5-4 to divest the city pension funds of (at least) the following:
Israeli bonds
Lockheed Martin
Palantir
Elbit Systems
GE Aerospace
Boeing
Could not have done it without @Cambridge_DSA and Cambridge for Palestine. 🌹🍉
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"We then excuse our dissonance and our want to like Obama by kidding ourselves that he has made good on at least some of his promises. But has he? Take healthcare, his prized accomplishment, for example: it's a watered-down reform that kowtows to the interests of healthcare lobbies before it provides meaningful, secure access to healthcare for our society's most desperate." - Abdul El-Sayed 2012
I remain hopeful about El-Sayed. When he's on, he's fire. And I get the compromises necessary to gain & maintain power. But dude... Obama didn't start anything. He campaigned on "Yes We Can" and then spent 8 years governing on "No We Can't." He is NOT the precedent to build on.
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You live at the center of a global military empire with ~1,000 overseas bases, strangling countries w/ sanctions, coups & war for refusing to submit to US dictates. Thinking Americans shouldn’t care about elections abroad is brain dead imperial chauvinism
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Malcolm Gladwell is a fucking fraud and has made a career and millions just spewing bullshit that falls apart if you have a working brain or decide to lightly fact-check him. A phenomenally stupid man and grifter.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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alec absolutely obliterating the geese magazine/dsa right electoral strategy in one paragraph holy shit
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by the Voice in Her Head, Safia Elhillo’s Girls That Never Die, Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On. Don’t pay me, please just buy my book, MAGICAL/REALISM so I can keep writing
@Vanessid hi, have followed you, loved yr writing/contributions. is email a good place to ask for poetry book recs? (11 yo niece, going through rough time, loves words) I would be able to pay for advice, thanks if this is possible my DMs are broken but I can email if better 🩵
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Brad, ur in Palestine. Pls exercise some humility. Listen more, lecture less. Framing the targeting of soldiers as a “cycle of violence” - rather than resistance 2 apartheid & genocide- while also not demanding US sanctions/arms embargo is asking Palestinians to die politely.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
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Be wary of @Amy_Siskind. She’s asking for a lot of political accounts on here to show their names and faces and not be anonymous.
You absolutely should find her weird obsessing over not knowing your name or likeness extremely suspicious.
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WE WON! My documentary REMOVED: Black Erasure In Boston won the BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD from Gary International Film Festival! This is the 2nd award for REMOVED! 🥳
It seems a go-to tactic for liberals to blame voters. And when that doesn't work, apparently you just blame pollsters! (Anything but hold the Democratic Party accountable for offering up weak-sauce candidates.)
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The Atlantic Monthly is for people who are put off by Trump's vulgarity but otherwise are comfortable with the MAGA agenda.
The Mehdi Hasan Test for immigration to the United States:
People with the views and associations of Mehdi Hasan should be barred from American citizenship.
My latest in @Commentary
commentary.org/articles/jame…
Liberals rationalizing a genocide and then blaming their losses on voters was totally on my bingo card.
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A short passage from Atomic Habits that completely reframed how I set goals:
"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."