There’s something about seeing the Global Sumud Flotilla activists getting sadistic treatment on camera, after being shot at, kidnapped, beaten, sexually assaulted, degraded, dehumanized, and then beaten at the Bilbao airport that sent me packing. It’s not by any means the worst thing I’ve seen in the last three years, but the meaning behind it, and what it portends, is.

I think it finally dawned on me what kind of world we are actually living in. All this time, I subconsciously kept waiting for something to stop so we could return to some version of normal life, one that at the very least didn’t exist under the constant threat of nuclear weapons looming over everyone’s heads, only to realize that nothing will ever feel normal until Palestine is free of the military occupation.

It finally dawned on me. The stage we’re in. I don’t think we even quite realize the extent of what’s been done all around the world for Israel to have “the right to exist.”

Something about Itamar Ben Gvir slamming a woman’s head on camera, smiling, knowing the entire world will see it, not caring about a possible repercussion for his behaviour that won’t come — I don’t know what finally flipped in me, but something did.

Imagining what they do to the Palestinian people, when they can do this to Westerners who will come off those planes and report everything that happened to them. Dungeons, no one to care what happens to them, no one to hear them, an entire world muted to their suffering, an invisible nation, voiceless, muted — not allowed to rage about what is done to them, every single day since 1948.

Sometimes I do something mundane during the day, cook dinner, or run errands, and I think about those dungeons their occupiers locked them in, muted, voiceless people, abused and abused and abused, tormented by their jailers, for no reason at all but existing. It stops me in my tracks, my whole body gets paralyzed; how do you live, knowing all this? And I only have to live with the pain of realization, not the actual wrath of hyenas, walking around, fronting like they’re human.

It dawned on me that 1930s Germany looked like a warm-up act to what’s happening now. History is not scarier than today. We’re just in it to see it.

Consequence.

There are two sides to this frustration we all feel; one is knowing what is being done to the Palestinian and Lebanese people, and the other is realizng just how much damage this tiny country of Israel that’s producing so much violence and grief has done to the entire international community.

The Basque Police beating the very people who had been tortured only hours prior, in Spain, no less, a very pro-Palestinian country, to hide evidence, knowing these people would be medically examined, should send shivers down everyone’s spine. It’s not about brutality; we have seen unimaginably worse — it’s about the masterminding behind it. The calculation. Premeditation.

We are all very well-versed in Israeli depravity, but realizing just how many parts around the world are working to keep that machine of violence going, and at what human price, is astounding. You just cannot recover once you realize it.

I implore you to read this piece by Ahmed Eldin, where he explains the machinery behind the brutality of the Basque Police; the who, the whys, and how.

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It’s an ugly, ugly world that Israel has created, so they can “exist.” What is the price of that existence? Is it worth it? It is for them, whilst endangering an entire planet. At what point will the international community decide the price is unattainable?

Kidnapping, torturing, abusing, dehumanizing, and sexually assaulting European citizens is a declaration of war from Israel against Europe. Why isn’t it treated as such?

Right to exist.

A few months ago, when the Knesset passed a death penalty bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, a member of Knesset, Limor Son Har-Melech, called the occasion a day where Israel “chose life” and said the decision is an example of “true Jewish morality”. The fact that these psychopaths can pass a death law and call that occasion “choosing life” tells us the Israeli mindset is simply not compatible with humanity.

Also, true Jewish morality?

Look at the pure ecstasy on Itamar Ben-Gvir’s face when that law was passed. What kind of human being gets this excited over the death of another human being? And look at his excitement as he takes us on a tour of the execution chamber for the Palestinian people. The same look of excitement when he taunted and tormented the Global Sumud Flotilla activists this week.

Tell me something. Did apartheid South Africa have a “right to exist?” The world agreed that it didn’t. The world then helped to see its dismantlement. And today, South Africa still exists, but apartheid South Africa doesn’t.

Does a genocidal apartheid state of Israel have a right to exist? No. In the future, Israel will probably still exist, but genocidal apartheid Israel won’t.

Why do pundits who support Israeli war crimes constantly ask, “Does Israel have a right to exist?” It’s because that’s the same question Zionists ask anybody who questions Israel’s behaviour.

Nobody asks that question about any country, but Zionists are constantly asking it about Israel, as part of their propaganda playbook. Because the question leads to the usual yes or no logistical chain. If you answer no, they’ll call you an antisemite. If you answer yes, it means you have to support their ethnic cleansing, expansionary landgrabs, and genocidal behaviour, because all of those things are necessary to ensure that Israel continues to exist.

Do Native Americans have the right to exist in a state of their own on land to which they have a historic connection?

Zionism has nothing to do with Israel’s right to exist. It has to do with how it exists.

I read a great analysis by Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui the other day. It came to me while I was scrolling through the reactions of Zionists online, and the people supporting them, to the viral video of international activists being abused by Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Israeli army.

Here they were, mothers, fathers, educated, successful, seemingly serious people who somehow believe this level of abuse and violation of basic human rights is justified. Whatever group you belong to, how can something like this ever be justified? How can the decades-long abuse of the Palestinian and Lebanese people be justified?

What has always stunned me most is how unified they all are across every walk of life — citizens, politicians, influencers, journalists, public figures, regular families — all operating in unison to preserve this operation, make sure it runs smoothly, and ensure Israel continues to exist no matter the human cost.

Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui nails it:

“Jewish supremacy is not a feeling or individual prejudice; it is an operating system, just like white supremacy. And it can be neatly placed within the same foundational critical race theory and sociological framework of analysis.

Despite Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem being the first to introduce the concept of Jewish supremacy to describe the apartheid system of ‘Israel’, the system of Jewish supremacy is also imbedded within the wider white supremacist colonial system of operation we have in the west.

If white supremacy can be defined as a political, socio-economic, and cultural system where white people enjoy structural advantages over other racial and ethnic groups, then Jewish supremacy can be described as a political, socioeconomic, and cultural system where Jews enjoy structural advantages (and protections) over other racial, religious, ethnic groups - true both in occupied Palestine and in the west.

Institutionalization: like white supremacy, it is a pervasive system embedded in workplaces, school systems, governments, and legal systems - both in occupied Palestine and the West. Think of the way the education system focuses on the Nazi holocaust vs every other holocaust in history, and how many holocaust memorials there are in the the U.S and Canada vs memorials for the genocide of its Indigenous peoples.

Systemic Power: like white supremacy, rather than just individual hateful acts, Jewish supremacy represents a structure that perpetuates “Jewish privilege” and “exceptionalism” and provides unequal access to resources, opportunities, power, and protection to Jews OVER all other marginalised groups - both in occupied Palestine and the West. Think of the crackdown on campus protests, the mass suppression of “freedom of speech”, and people losing their jobs for simply saying children should not to be burned alive in tents and sniped in the head and chest.

Individual vs structural: While individual, conscious racism exists, the “system of Jewish supremacy” refers to the broader, often unconscious, societal and institutional structures that value Jewish safety and feelings OVER the actual material harm and violence experienced by non-Jewish marginalised people - both in occupied Palestine by Muslim and Christian Palestinians and those in the West by those who might oppose the self-proclaimed ‘Jewish state of Israel’.

And so, like white supremacy, we can describe Jewish supremacy not just as “shark” (an actor) but as the “water” (the environment) in which society operates.”

They are all in on it because they all “benefit from structural advantages over other racial and ethnic groups.” Their supremacy and the excusing of the loss of human life to uphold it is a “political, socioeconomic, and cultural system where they enjoy structural advantages (and protections) over other racial, religious, and ethnic groups, both in occupied Palestine and in the West.”

Zionism has nothing to do with Israel’s right to exist. It has to do with how it exists.

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What a week this has been. This has to be the absolute dumbest timeline in history. The world has seen its share of horrors, but we might be living in the most profoundly stupid timeline since Adam and Eve. Not the most violent, not the most tragic. The dumbest.

Every Sunday that I wake up still semi-sane, not yet driven to bang my head against a wall, I count it as a victory. Another week endured under a ruling class that is both comically clueless and disturbingly violent.

This week’s collection hit me for exactly that reason: the combination of an absurd, comical display — paired with a total disregard for human life beyond one’s own circle.

Why do I do this to myself? A stranger on Instagram asked me today: ”How’s your mental health with all this? You seem to process so much news, and then you write about it, to contextualize it all. Serious question: what do you do to keep sane and normal?” I was startled, as no one usually asks me how my mental health is — honestly, I’m just on a loop, churning out information without thinking about the cost to my body or psyche.

Writing is not passive.

I remembered a bit I wrote this year for a magazine that featured a piece on me:

Today, writing is not passive; it’s a labor of witnessing in real time, documenting fractures as they form, refusing erasure, and standing inside history while it unfolds, rather than explaining it safely after the fact.

It’s nauseating. Every day. Not just for writers, but for every single person posting bits and pieces on social media, trying to awaken the masses, sharing the atrocities, and hoping accountability finally reaches the perpetrators.

To everyone choosing to live on the inside of this grotesque timeline, witnessing it so it can be documented, choosing clarity over comfort — I know the price of your clarity. We’re not on the front lines; our loved ones aren’t dying. Yes, we’re privileged, and we got the better end of the stick, but we still need to acknowledge we’re part of it. Because the seed for revolting must come from us. People in America. People in the West.

Holding the truth without letting it hold you hostage.

I read something great today. This is how I help myself, and try to help others: I find sources, other writers and creators who have uncovered something, and bring it back to the community. It’s about clarity, knowledge, passing the information. I look for it, I share it. My articles heal me as much as they might heal my readers. This is how I cope — by documenting everything.

I will give you a source for this at the end of this article. Read it:

Everyone talks about waking up. Nobody talks about what comes after, when you see how deep it goes, and you still have to show up to your life, pay bills, talk to people who think the news is real. The worst part isn’t knowing, it’s knowing and having nowhere to put it.

And here’s what happens to most people who start seeing clearly: the nervous system doesn’t distinguish between a physical threat and an existential one. When you understand the scale of what’s happening, the manipulation, the layers, your cortisol spikes every single day, that’s not enlightenment, that’s a trauma response. Can seeing the truth actually break you?

About this past week.

What is it about this past week that had me specifically irked about this timeline forced on us? It’s the accumulation, the totality of it all.

It’s the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that offered us a visual into the most grotesque nature of the U.S. administration. The ducking under the tables with the phones in their hands, everyone with an agenda of their own, with a supposed active shooter in the building. What in The Garden of Earthly Delights was that?

It’s Erica Kirk doing her bit in front of the perfectly positioned camera, followed by an appearance on a podcast, complaining about rumors of killing her husband while dressed as a sniper.

It’s Pete Hegseth testifying before a US House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, grifting lawmakers for another $1.5 trillion in military spending, not answering one single question he is elected to answer, while parroting but what about Ukraine, but what about October 7, but what about the Islamic regime for hours on end.

It’s someone in the White House pressing send on Trump’s messianic, self-mythologizing memes, every hour of every day.

It’s Trump giving a statement about the Iranians “who executed three young people for protesting” the same year ICE executed Renee Good, Alex Preti, and Keith Porter.

It’s about IDF militarily attacking the twenty-two Global Sumud Flotilla ships off the coast of Italy and Greece, kidnapping and beating activists to the pulp, without a word of condemnation from one single government in the European Community.

It’s the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein, publicly stating that “Pope Leo has blood on his hands” for criticising the US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, and not respecting the “noble and brave soldiers of the State of Israel,” the actual people, with actual blood, on their actual hands.

It’s Bibi Netanyahu going on air to tell the world Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Christian community is thriving, while we’re watching an Israeli settler punch a French nun, kicking her with his feet, after he knocked her down.

It’s about Michael Jackson being exploited and repurposed by the same people who took him out, now, in death, when he’s not a damger to their system anymore.

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I reached the end of the news. I do not know where to go anymore with all this. I do not know where to store it anymore.

As I reached a proverbial wall this week, watching this grotesque display of human rot suffocate everything sane and civilized, I came across a media platform called The End of News, and their bio validated every bone in my body:

Reporting from the frontlines of civilization’s descent into stupidity. Perspectives on the news from the dumbest timeline imaginable.

If you need to watch one thing this Sunday night, let it be this video, and this reporter’s perspective on the news from the dumbest timeline imaginable.

“Oh no, someone tried to shoot the president again, just as his poll numbers are tanking, oh no, what a coincidence. Everything he touches, everyone he surrounds himself with are fake. Fake lips, fake tits, fake gold, fake pools, fake Bible verses, for crying out loud. False promises to voters. False prophets in his cabinets. False flags for the cameras. No one cares anymore. And maybe that’s the point, I don’t know, not to convince you of anything, not to win; just to make reality so exhausting. So exhausting to hold onto, that we just give in and play along.”

The truth doesnt set you free, it tests you.

What happens when the illusion cracks, but life keeps going like nothing changed? When patterns appear everywhere, trust dissolves, and the people around you still believe the script? Do you go back to sleep — or risk losing yourself trying to hold a truth no one else sees?

This question is asked by a profile on Instagram called Daily Conspiracy Peter X. Don’t let the name fool you; this profile offers some of the best investigative research on crucial events I’ve come across. The excerpt I quote in this article comes from their think tank, and you need to absorb it.

Check this out:

“I see patterns everywere now, in the news, in history and people I used to trust and I genuinely don’t know what to do with that. That’s what nobody warned you about. Everyone talks about waking up. Nobody talks about what comes after when you see how deep it goes and you still have to show up to your life pay bills talk to people who think the news is real. The worst part isn’t knowing it’s knowing and having nowhere to put it.

And here’s what happens to most people who start seeing clearly, the nervous system doesn’t distinguish between a physical threat and an existential one. When you understand the scale of what’s happening, the manipulation, the layers, your cortisol spikes every single day, that’s not enlightenment, that’s a trauma response.

So seeing the truth can actually break you?

It breaks most people one of two ways. They go back to sleep - comfort over clarity. Or they spiral, consumed, angry, isolated, losing relationships, losing themselves. Both are traps, and a person who sees everything but can’t function is just as controllable as someone who sees nothing. Actually more useful to the system. Exhausted and alone is a great look for someone you want neutralized.

Knowing the cage exists doesn’t free you. Losing your mind inside it definitely doesn’t either.”

Are we there yet? Has the seed of a real, physical revolution taken root? What exactly are we waiting for?

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This Friday, on the first Good Friday of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV entered the Colosseum in Rome to begin the Via Crucis. The new 70-year-old pope decided to carry the cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross, holding it up in front of his face for nearly two hours as he prayed “for victims of war, the defense of human dignity, the despairing, and the lonely.”

A chilling sight, seeing the new Pope walking the Way of the Cross where early Christians were martyred.

Talk about a powerful moment. For Christianity? Humanity?

This marks the first time a pope carried the cross for every station in more than three decades. Pope John Paul II was the last pope to do so, carrying the cross from 1980 to 1994.

When asked about his decision to carry the cross for all 14 stations, Pope Leo told reporters he saw it as a sign the world needed right now:

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Angelina Jolie, Louis Garrel, and the cast of Couture attended the film’s premiere at Pathé Palace in Paris. Louis and Angelina are rumored to be dating. The comments on social media flooded in: “She could be his mother.” “She’s too old for him.” “He should run.”

Angelina is 50 years old, Louis is 42.

I’ve been seeing this kind of commentary for years on the posts of many famous women over 45 — Kate Beckinsale, Sienna Miller, Heidi Klum, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and others. These comments are usually made by very young women, often sounding angry about how these women dress, how active they are on social media, how playful they are in their posts — but especially when they date younger men.

When I see men leaving these comments, I don’t flinch. They’re so obviously bitter and pathetic — a statistic that doesn’t deserve our time, no matter how ridiculous they sound.

But when women do this, it hurts me.

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For the past two years, like anyone with a talent for words and a functioning conscience, I wrote about power. I wrote about wars, genocides, cruelty, violence, and the cost of bearing witness. That cost was high for me. I lost myself in the process. I became a shell of a human being — waking up every day to frantically research the latest atrocity that had happened while I slept, taking notes, consuming, sourcing, reliving it in my bones so I could put it on paper and pass the information on. I haven’t slept properly in two years; I was napping, researching, writing — rinse, repeat.

I stopped writing about myself, and in doing so, I stopped examining myself. I stopped caring for myself. I stopped examining the world; the art, music, and craft I had loved and written about for most of my life.

Live genocide, streamed daily on our phones, paralyzed me.

How do you write about your life, culture, movies, film, books, relationships, love, and tell all these beauti…

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Hi, folks. Three weeks into 2026, and wow. Checking in on you, and myself in the process. The first few days of the new year, along with the 2025 holiday season, felt promising.

What a beautiful thing it was to wake up on New Year’s Day and celebrate the inauguration of Mayor Mamdani — the joy, the hope, the inclusivity, the clarity of both the man and the message, all sprinkled with confetti as the final words were spoken, coming right after the high of a Heated Rivalry Christmas.

The year started strong, and we’ll hold on to that hope no matter what. Anything else would be capitulating to power — and we’re not the bending kind. Unless we choose to bend for things far more pleasurable than letting the government fuck us in the ass.

Did anyone truly believe we’d get a whole week into the new year without state violence, lightly seasoned with yet another breach of international law? I did. I was riding the high on my Mayor / Cottage crossover, and I foolish…

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“My fellow New Yorkers — today begins a new era. I stand before you, moved by the privilege of taking this sacred oath, humbled by the faith that you have placed in me, and honored to serve as either your 111th or 112th Mayor of New York City. But I do not stand alone. I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope.”

It was a long way to here — a year, to be exact — since I joined the new media team of Mayor Mamdani (I cannot stop saying those two words together), helping him reach this moment, standing in –10°C weather, limbs numb by the time he came out to address us all — and the New Yorkers watching at home.

It’s strange, my mother says, the amount of energy and persistence I have, in the middle of so much exhaustion and sleep deprivation — the kind that comes with life in New York — that I’m still able to find it in my body to rally for this man.

It almost feels subhuman, all the canvassi…

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Because she’s a threat to Israel. After more than 800 days, you should be able to see the pattern clearly. None of this is about Jews, and not even really about Zionists. It’s about Israel — preserving the narrative it needs to maintain its legitimacy. “Safety” is the excuse, not the motive.

Think about this for a second. Kanye West manufactured swastika merch and dropped a song titled “Heil Hitler.” If that isn’t the most on-the-nose basis for being labeled an antisemite, what is? And yet he wasn’t even included in the list of the biggest antisemites of the year.

Why?

Kanye West goes around talking about Jews ruining his career, but he doesn’t threaten the existence of Israel. In fact, he doesn’t even speak about Israel. I haven’t heard him mention it once. Zionists don’t have a problem with people talking about Jews, or even talking shit about Jews, as long as they don’t threaten Israel.

Look at this tweet by Ben Shapiro, a foreign agent, shilling for a foreign country, in the heart o…

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There’s no greater paradox on earth than the week(end) of Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday in America. It’s an unparalleled showcase of the nation’s essence, steeped in hypocrisy, morbidity, and violence. Nowhere else does the contradiction emerge more starkly than on a day meant for giving thanks and reflecting on gratitude, only to give way, as the weekend comes, to a chaotic celebration of consumerism and excess.

This year’s Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday feel especially jarring in the shadow of two years of genocide, displacement, and deliberate starvation unfolding on our phones — followed by a fake “ceasefire” and a mainstream media apparatus actively creating cover so those violations can continue.

We’re celebrating a day, a weekend, a holiday rooted in deliberate misinformation and the genocide of Native Americans — right after witnessing two years of a livestreamed genocide unfold on our phones, followed by a so-called “ceasefire” that ceased no fire, …

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You need to know three essential truths. Your government cares more about Israel than about its own people. Your government prioritizes Israel over its own citizens. Your government stands with Israel, not with you.

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While none of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels reached Gaza to deliver aid to the starving population, having been illegally intercepted by the Israeli regime in international waters, the mission was nonetheless a great success. It achieved exactly what its organizers intended: pressing the record button and aiming it at the many illegal actions of the Israeli regime.

You should feel good about this mission.

Here’s why:

Sumud stands as the most successful Flotilla mission to date, technically breaking the naval siege, crossing Gaza’s maritime borders, and entering Palestinian territorial waters, reaching 42.5 nautical miles from the Strip, before interception.

After decades of the Israeli genocidal regime controlling the narrative and portraying itself as a victim surrounded by radical terrorists, humanitarians on the Flotillas revealed the true face of the occupation, backed by the entire West, showing the world what the Palesti…

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We all saw that video this morning — a child with a charred face, taking their last breath, intestines spilling out of their tiny body. I instinctively said her, though it could just as easily have been him. I was so distraught I didn’t even check; the body was so destroyed I couldn’t tell the child’s sex.

I think the sight of intestines spilling from a tiny human body is the moment to say — ENOUGH. Ostracize everyone who still has the gall to claim, or who keeps convincing themselves, that Palestinian children are merely “collateral damage” in some gruesome “war” between “Israel and Hamas.” There is no war. This is the annihilation of a people whose land you want to seize, a biblical need to erase the Palestinians, or, as they prefer to call them, Arabs — from existence.

Children are a demographic threat to that goal, to Zionism, and to the ethnostate upheld through relentless violence.

If you haven’t seen the video, I advise you to see it, however gruesome. We have to bear witness, and…

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Happy 4th of July! Let’s celebrate America’s independence from mad King George’s subjugation by subjugating the Native Americans. United, free, and independent, it’s our motto; it only applies to us.

The full circle is poetic, from Mad King George, to senile puppet Biden, to the weakest strongmen on Earth, Trump — the populist, fighter of deep states, only to be purchased by its highest bidder.

Hey, there are fireworks tonight!

We are battling depression daily, seeing genocides on our screens, funded by our hard-won, united, free, and independent state — thanks, Founding Fathers.

Is it really depression, or just the emotional weight of surviving capitalism? Our basic needs neglected, billions funneled into foreign wars, free speech silenced to protect the sensibilities of donors, posing as patriots — pledging allegiance to a foreign cult, posing as a state?

America is an extremist oligarchy whose citizens have zero influence on public policy, Matt Cooke once told me.

Happy Independence Day!

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My biggest internal struggle over the past twenty months has been finding the words to explain to those silent about the livestreamed genocide in Gaza just how dangerous their silence is. The collection sounds something like this:

• “But I don’t have many followers, who would I inform?”

• “I don’t talk about politics, I can’t start now.”

• “I’m not posting or talking about this genocide, but I’m doing things for Gaza behind closed doors” (they aren’t).

• “I’m a mother, so watching kids being blown up to pieces is too much for me. I just can’t deal with it, emotionally.”

My response is usually embarrassingly naive: “Well, isn’t that the biggest reason on earth to actually care and do more for someone else’s kids being blown to…?”

Forget it.

They never listen, and my cortisol spikes every time I try to explain that their silence isn’t just inaction—it’s dangerous. When enough people choose not to speak, those of us who do are left exposed, outnumbered, and easy to target—doxxed, threatened, stripped o…

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They even stole my writing from me. I haven’t written in months—I don’t have the words. They took the one thing I’ve always relied on to make sense of the world. This isn’t writer’s block, and it’s not about having time. It’s that no words feel accurate anymore.

I say they, and you instantly know who they are; I don’t have to name them. They who commit it, and they who fund it. They who justify it and lie about what they’ve done.

It’s far beyond what we once thought would be too much. A new category needs to be invented, and I can’t find the proper words for it. Every single day brings another atrocity, worse than the last. You brace yourself to write about one, and another pings your phone before finishing the first paragraph.

BREAKING! Another death, another massacre. Another body, dismembered in the name of self-defense. The third, the fifth, the seventeenth. Another hospital or a school bombed by the people who don’t bomb hospitals or schools. Another …

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I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who do not blink an eye at the sight of children, starved, shattered, mauled, and bombed by design.

I wrote a poem about all the mothers who sit in silence, undisturbed by the most televised genocide in history, because it's complicated, because it’s nuanced, because it’s far away.

I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who feed their children at night; scroll past images of the unfed, dried lips, ash-covered limbs, someone else’s children thirsting for mercy; then slip beneath warm sheets, plotting tomorrow’s plate, undisturbed.

I wrote a poem about mothers who are bold when it’s trendy, vocal when it’s safe, and who believe that motherhood worth praising belongs to a passport, a race, a nation, a faith.

I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who juice and meditate each day, whose well-being excludes the well-being of others, blind to their privilege, cowardly in spirit.

I wrote a poem about mothers who hold their children tig…

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To the feminists and mothers
who do not blink an eye
at the sight of children—
starved, shattered, and bombed by design.

To the women who sit in silence,
undisturbed by the most televised
genocide in history,
because "it's complicated,"
because "it’s nuanced,"
because "it’s far away."

But always so loud for
the western, girlboss,
Barbie-brand of feminism—
bold only when it's trendy,
vocal when it's safe.

To women who believe
feminism wears a passport,
belongs to a race,
a nation,
a faith.

To women who turn away
from the worst atrocities humanity endures,
choosing silence over justice,
while preaching self-love,
mindfulness,
and the art of inner peace.

Happy International Women’s Day 🌹

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Nothing like waking up to find Western philosophy’s finest relics tastefully scattered across the ruins of Gaza—courtesy of artificial intelligence—right there on your screen. Golden statues, cash raining from the sky, gluttony—nothing says civilization like dropping symbols of excess onto the ground zero of a genocide you funded and committed.

That video.

Trump shared this AI-generated art piece, but you just know a Zionist made it. They tag-teamed this one. Just as they tag-teamed the genocide.

Caitlin Johnstone summed up this collaboration from hell in the simplest, yet winning words:

“This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened.”

And she expands:

“Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.”

If we had paid any attention to what has happened over the past 16 months, you'd know this AI music video embo…

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It’s the inequality that kills me. Watching it daily, how did I not notice it before Gaza? Or was it not egregious enough to break through our perception? Watching Palestinian people be so worthless in the eyes of the entire world, watching the Israeli Armed Forces dump their bodies, excavate their bodies, drive over them, steal their organs—bodies of people they tortured with glee, before turning them into lifeless bodies.

Watching Hamas hand over the small bodies of the Bibas children, small bodies that were never supposed to be taken in the first place; how desperate you have to be to steal small children, to have a bargaining chip, to force the world to pay attention to your decades-long plight, acknowledge your existence—how desperate you have to be to resort to war crimes to bargain for your human rights that should have been inherent?

I don’t want to hear judgments from the warm sofas in your living rooms, all of you who bark at strangers on the street who bump into you and invad…

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Every article I’ve written over the past year is essentially a version of summarizing how fucked this world is, listing a few things to be hopeful about, then lifting you up (and myself in the process) by convincing us it will get better! All my pieces are basically a 1,000 to 3,000 word pep talk, equal parts despair and defiance. Call it a depressive cheer, if you will—a rallying cry wrapped in the weight of reality and hope.

Rinse! Repeat.

You survived 2024. Congratulations! You also made it through January. And not just any January—the one that came after 15 months of absolute dystopian mindfuck.

I commend you if you’ve managed to stay a sane, empathetic human being who cares about this world beyond ego and selfish pleasures. And I congratulate you if you’ve evolved enough to realize that nothing good comes from individualism—that our well-being depends on community. Togetherness. Being there for one another. Lending your voice to those struggling beyond your co…

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