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 Ita…

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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:

“I think it will…

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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.

How can we do this to eachother, given everyt…

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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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When I saw the flames engulf the city of Los Angeles last night, the first thing that came to mind, after recognizing all the familiar spots I used to hop around, was a Serbian movie that loses its impact when translated: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa Sela Lepo Gore). It’s a film about the war in Bosnia—morbid, comical in its tragedy, and brilliant in its own way—and not just for its title. Pretty places burn so beautifully, don’t they? All those iconic California landmarks—it’s a tragedy, but, man, do they burn spectacularly!

I’m not trying to enrage or shock you.

Is the California inferno in the first week of 2025 truly shocking to you, after everything you’ve witnessed over the past 15 months? I’m speaking with morbidity, I can’t help it, because it’s a continuation of the same morbidity that’s been unfolding for over a year now. Pretty places burn beautifully—but what about the tents in Gaza? Does Gaza burn as beautifully? Small, beautiful children brought to hospitals, with t…

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I’m not a particularly religious person. I dabble in it, like most of the "there’s definitely something out there" folks who walk the walk—right up until they’d have to give it a human form and call it God.

My parents were born five years after WWII, and their God were the Yugoslav Partisans. They had a good life under the socialist self-governance, a unique brand of socialism developed by their leader who managed to run a European country while famously associating himself with the recently decolonized countries of the so-called Third World.

Tough act to follow, for any God, if you ask me.

My family never went to church, despite being born and raised in what is likely one of the most Catholic places on Earth. One of my two nephews is the only member of our family who got christened in the Catholic Church. This decision was influenced (read, bullied) by my mother, who, in her older age, became increasingly fearful of her own shadow and believed a pe…

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You know that famous (infamous?) line—“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”, by our favorite OG political mass murderer, Vladimir Lenin?

Hardcore opener, I know—but given the last few weeks and 14 months we’ve been through, it’s entirely fitting to welcome you with some nuanced words from the architect of gulags, cannibal islands, the predecessor to the KGB, man-made famines, mass executions, suppression of freedoms, speech, and religion, invasions of other nations to spread communism, state-controlled media promoting regime propaganda, and so on.

Solid, all-around stuff. How much of Lenin’s playbook did you encounter on your phone today? Six or seven-ish out of nine, maybe? It’s a long month, give it time!

Apologies, Vladimir, but we’re living weeks where centuries happen.

Summary of just the last two weeks:

• Israel committing ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza

• More Palestinian lands are being plundered in the West Bank by Israel

• Mass executions i…

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