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"Deen, it was not a gap in the law that made me a political prisoner in Louisiana. It was my firm belief that our people deserve to be...

"Deen, it was not a gap in the law that made me a political prisoner in Louisiana. It was my firm belief that our people deserve to be free, that their lives are worth more than the televised massacre we are witnessing in Gaza, and that the displacement that began in 1948 and culminated in the current genocide must finally end. This mere belief is what made the state scramble to detain me." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/mahmoud-kahlil-letter-to-newborn-son?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746948458

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unsung-heroes-of-motherhood

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unsung-heroes-of-motherhood

Good coverage of this critical issue that continues to be ignored by our state Dem trifecta. Thanks to Taylor Jung and New Jersey Monitor...

Good coverage of this critical issue that continues to be ignored by our state Dem trifecta. Thanks to Taylor Jung and New Jersey Monitor for covering this https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/05/09/family-of-jersey-city-man-killed-by-police-officer-demands-justice/

In a Dem trifecta state, there is overwhelming evidence the police have been trained to do nothing but escalate. New Jersey OAG Matt Platkin...

In a Dem trifecta state, there is overwhelming evidence the police have been trained to do nothing but escalate. New Jersey OAG Matt Platkin can't present a case to get even a single indictment. It's cop as judge, jury, & executioner, supported by our politicians.
https://hudsoncountyview.com/jersey-city-cop-wont-face-charges-related-to-fatal-shooting-of-andrew-washington

"New Jersey deserves leaders who don’t just follow the party line or play it...

"New Jersey deserves leaders who don’t just follow the party line or play it safe."
https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/2025/04/18/sen-andy-kim-rejects-arms-aid-for-israel-opinion/83102613007/

"locked me ina condition that robs me, constantly, of my pride,my compassion, my dignity.""Shove me into a place where jobs...

"locked me in
a condition that robs me, constantly, of my pride,
my compassion, my dignity."
"Shove me into a place where jobs have long since
escaped, welfare lines breed hate, the only options
are stealing and robbing just to put food on my plate."
https://inquest.org/national-poetry-month-wayne-grant/

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"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over...

"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over months, years, and decades as we trace those lines back to that point in history, that detonator, that spark."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"In September 2024, American-made bombs dropped from American-built planes killed hundreds of teenage girls in Gaza. Who was killed by...

"In September 2024, American-made bombs dropped from American-built planes killed hundreds of teenage girls in Gaza. Who was killed by which bomb? How many lives were needlessly cut short?

We will likely never understand the full extent of the brutal violence paid for and facilitated by the American taxpayer like me. Each bomb dropped on Palestine is no less American and no less racist than the Klu Klux Klan bomb left by the stairs of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 61 years earlier. Human rights organizations, governments, and international courts have described those killings using the only words that fit: genocide and other crimes against humanity."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"But it’s important to remember that while the Klu Klux Klan killed thousands of Black men, women, and children, every single one of...

"But it’s important to remember that while the Klu Klux Klan killed thousands of Black men, women, and children, every single one of those murders was committed by individuals. An individual made every decision to murder in a decades-long campaign of violence; they were individually responsible, individually to blame. There is, unfortunately, no shortage of Palestinian girls killed by individuals hiding behind their military uniforms, just as the KKK members hid behind their white hoods."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"Flash forward to today, in Gaza, an individual decided to target someone for death. An individual decided the nearby family,...

"Flash forward to today, in Gaza, an individual decided to target someone for death. An individual decided the nearby family, neighbors, or even hostages weren’t important enough to be spared from death. An individual approved the list of targets. An individual decided to pull the trigger. There are many people individually responsible for those girls’ deaths.

We are among them."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"To the students who remain apathetic to Columbia’s disregard for human life and its willingness to discard student safety: As...

"To the students who remain apathetic to Columbia’s disregard for human life and its willingness to discard student safety: As pressure from the federal government intensifies, know that your neutrality on Palestine will not protect you. When the time comes for the federal government to target other causes, it will be your names that Columbia will offer on a silver platter, it will be your pleas that fall on deaf ears, it will be your just causes that are stonewalled." https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/04/04/a-letter-to-columbia/

The tariffs make sense in precisely one context, making Tesla's losses seem less bad relative to the whole market crashing

The tariffs make sense in precisely one context, making Tesla's losses seem less bad relative to the whole market crashing

"The girls had been very alive—in every special and unique way that made them daughters, sisters, classmates, and friends. In the...

"The girls had been very alive—in every special and unique way that made them daughters, sisters, classmates, and friends. In the middle of a laugh, a squeezing of a hand, or a smile, their worlds ended, and the world around them forever changed." https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"They likely bemoaned how long it was until their next chance to eat as they were always hungry, a common affliction in tweens and...

"They likely bemoaned how long it was until their next chance to eat as they were always hungry, a common affliction in tweens and early teens stuck in a seemingly constant growth spurt. Maybe they whispered about crushes, taking a few years off their parent's lives, or at least sprouting a few new grey hairs, even if they were out of earshot."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

I'd love to hear thoughts or feedback from you on my latest piece "Does anyone win when children are...

I'd love to hear thoughts or feedback from you on my latest piece "Does anyone win when children are bombed?"
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over...

"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over months, years, and decades as we trace those lines back to that point in history, that detonator, that spark."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"The explosion ripped through the girls and their surroundings so quickly that, counterintuitively, they never heard the bomb that...

"The explosion ripped through the girls and their surroundings so quickly that, counterintuitively, they never heard the bomb that struck them. It may be of little solace that they were killed quickly, definitively, the brutality of the act limiting their suffering: Overwhelming violence bringing finality to their lives in an instant."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over...

"There would never again be a world where that bomb did not murder those girls. The ramifications of that change will play out over months, years, and decades as we trace those lines back to that point in history, that detonator, that spark."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u

"But it’s important to remember that while the Klu Klux Klan killed thousands of Black men, women, and children, every single one of...

"But it’s important to remember that while the Klu Klux Klan killed thousands of Black men, women, and children, every single one of those murders was committed by individuals. An individual made every decision to murder in a decades-long campaign of violence; they were individually responsible, individually to blame. There is, unfortunately, no shortage of Palestinian girls killed by individuals hiding behind their military uniforms, just as the KKK members hid behind their white hoods."

"Flash forward to today, in Gaza, an individual decided to target someone for death. An individual decided the nearby family, neighbors, or even hostages weren’t important enough to be spared from death. An individual approved the list of targets. An individual decided to pull the trigger. There are many people individually responsible for those girls’ deaths.

We are among them."
https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/o78gxjk0ruo5b27exy7f6yrmhwc36u