Wrote for @thenation.com about how catastrophic the Iran war could be for Israel's grip on US politics—and why this is a moment to be seized for anyone who wants the US-Israel alliance to end. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
link here! and special thanks to editor extraordinaire @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for working some magic to get this into form 🙏🏽
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
went long on #NJ11 for @thenation.com! always a pleasure to write about my sweet New Jersey—read for a wild story involving NJ Dem party politics; a history of 'The Resistance'; AIPAC own goals; ICE terror; and so much more
🇺🇸 Todos hemos visto los vídeos de Mamdani, pero su éxito se debe a una estrategia digital que va más allá de las redes sociales, como explica muy bien este artículo de @arvinalaigh.bsky.social en @dissentmag.bsky.social que he traducido para @elsaltodiario.com.
www.elsaltodiario.com/redes-social...
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance.
Read @arvinalaigh.bsky.social on online organizing: dissentmagazine.org/article/mamd...
for the new issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social, I wrote about Mamdani's approach to digital organizing -- I try to demystify what goes into a digital electoral program! give it a lil read and let me know what you think
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
thank you for the kind words!
i attended netroots nation earlier this summer, and wrote about it for @thebaffler.com - check it out!
thebaffler.com/latest/by-th...
Who is Netroots Nation for anymore? Activists? Democratic Party advocates? Arvin Alaigh visits the 2025 conference for answers.
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
Arvin Alaigh: The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/resistance-r...
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
yeah... you can say i'll be on here a lil more :P
twitter is great bc every day your algorithm is constantly force-feeding you race war bait, incomprehensible quasi-schizophrenic promoted tweets, crypto scams, and fight videos... all without even asking :-)
Can you see what’s happening in LA?
5 straight days, 1,000+ students, at least 8 schools across the city & county…
Encourage the young people in your life to take action! Help them organize & mobilize their schools & classmates. Shut it all down!
I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government?
If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Loud and clear brother🗣️
It's all love blue sky fam.. but twitter is a lot better rn :/
New bad thing just dropped:
Tech bros buying/donating surveillance gear to police departments, skipping public, elected official input and scrutiny on how it will be used.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/b...
Contemporary antiwar protesters—smeared by journalists, beaten by police, rebuked by the public—will one day be seen as prophetic. At least, that’s what happened to the Berrigan brothers, two radical priests who stood up against the Vietnam War.
Sorry blue sky Fam
... twitter is much more fun right now :/
A collection of Bill Walton quotes on basketball from FreeDarko’s “The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History.”
Larry Johnson admonishment, Hugo Chávez praise. Walton forever.
