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nina simone singing 'trouble in mind' live, lyrics by richard jones.

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Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman's whole family was so obviously an enterprise – it functioned on the exploitation of vulnerable people, young isolated women hired as nannies and babysitters, a tenant family who would manage land and properties. The whole timeline and the way they did damage control was so much like any major company – Palmer identifying the vulnerable and "hiring" them, Gaiman providing the money and feeling entitled to abuse. Palmer functioning as HR to mediate "abuse" by further isolating the worker. The reproduction of ideology in teaching your child to call his nanny a slave. The final straw for HR only coming when the beloved, innocent child was exposed to the abuse. All for preserving the value of their family, the ideology it represented (Palmer and Gaiman's long documented history of taking advantage of fans) and the media enterprise where they both made and sold "Art" about it. Family abolition now and so on.

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Olivia Cooke as Emma in Little Fish (2020)

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Acting as if the majority of Marxist criticisms of modern China come from the west and not from India, Nepal and the Philippines is always an interesting omission Marxist-Leninists make when it’s the semi-regular period of pretending only westerners are critical of China’s role in the global capitalist economy again, or that it’s necessarily a “America and China are the same” criticism which again is a very interesting omission of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Communist Party of the Philippines’s written critiques.

At least engage with what criticisms actually exist like a real materialist instead of this really pathetic avoidance of third world Maoist criticisms of China (while presenting the majority of critics as westerners!) so you can more easily make your half-informed dunks on the internet. You know, Marx and Lenin actually would tear apart essays line by line. That’s respectable, what y’all are doing is not. It’s intellectually lazy.

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I have been wondering if the reason the violence in the West Bank has not received much attention even from advocates who were rightfully vocal about Gaza is due to a lack of understanding of what and where Jenin is in relation to the West Bank. So here is a very, very quick run through that barely scratches the surface:

All of Palestine has been divided by Israel into three main parts.

Historic Palestine, referred to by the Zionist entity as Israel, where Palestinians (referred to as Arabs) live as second class citizens.

The West Bank, occupied by Israel and where Palestinians live in an ever shrinking landmass, continuously being chipped away at by violent Israeli settler mobs. This area is theatrically governed by Israel’s puppet, the Palestinian Authority (the PA), with an apartheid wall running through 80% of it and settler-only roads that render the territory into tiny, isolated bantustans. This is where Palestinians fight two fronts: the PA and Israel.

Gaza, where Palestinians are cornered into a small area and placed under an 18 year total siege by Israel, where even calorie intake is controlled by Israel. This area, likened to a concentration camp, is periodically used as a testing ground for weapons and is where Palestine's worst episode of the ongoing genocide took place between October 2023 and January 2025.

The West Bank and Gaza are not connected geographically. People in the West Bank can’t drive to Gaza and vice versa.

Now, the West Bank itself is also divided into three parts. For a visual representation of this, check out The Palestinian Archipelago but the three areas are:

Area A: comprised of 18% of the land of the West Bank, where administration and security matters are lead by the Palestinian Authority.

Area B: comprised of 22% of the land of the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority leads administratively, but share security with Israel. Riddled with Israeli checkpoints, this area sees the most dangerous examples of restriction of movement.

Area C: comprised of 60% of the land of the West Bank, where most of Israel’s illegal settlements are, and where Israel has full control, both administratively and security.

Understand this deliberate fragmentation; understand it from a settler colonial mindset of divide and conquer. Understand it as a way for Israel to fragment the Palestinian identity, to make it an almost impossibility for a Palestinian body to act as a sovereign. Understand it as Israel manipulates laws, including occupation law (!) to cast Palestinians and their situation as sui generis; a unique situation due to this fragmentation, which permits Israel to create new, unfounded laws to "control" the native population.

Jenin is in Area A of the West Bank; it has been under a brutal Israeli military assault that has intensified over the past few weeks, with dozens being killed, including children. Definitely not the first assault against Jenin in recent history (watch the documentary Jenin, Jenin for that), but extremely daunting as it emerges in the aftermath of Israel’s accelerated genocide in Gaza where a minimum of 180,000 Palestinians were brutally murdered in the span of 15 months.

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Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat tr. by Fady Joudah

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[ID: A screenshot of text reading, "'May she wake in torment!' he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. 'Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there — not in heaven — not perished — where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer — I repeat it till my tongue stiffens — Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'" /end ID]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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UTADA HIKARU, First Love. 1999.

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Kelela - In the Blue Light

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Using this post to try to wrap my head around the past week, from Gaza to Jenin. It’s very much understood now that Israel has merely shifted its active genocidal practices from Gaza to Jenin. Terrifyingly, it’s employing the exact same methods.

The people of Jenin have been ordered to evacuate their homes. Homes are being bombed, burned and destroyed. Water and electricity has been cut off and over 70% of infrastructure has been destroyed. The people of Jenin have been denied medical care as hospitals are put under siege.  Children in Jenin are being killed by sniper bullets in their heads.

Israel’s justification is also identical: to eliminate the resistance. 

It’s unfortunately a repeat from Gaza. Since the start of the year, 16 Palestinians have been killed as part of Israel's operation dubbed "Operation Iron Wall", and the situation is only intensifying. Don't know what else to say other than we really need to be aware and vocal about it.

Israel's genocide knows no bounds.

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Today is Saturday, December 28, at 12:00 AM.

At this time, as winter sets in, the weather here is extremely cold, and the fierce winds have torn apart thousands of tents. We lack even the most basic means of warmth — no winter clothing, no blankets to shield us from the bitter cold. The adults shiver from the freezing temperatures; imagine what the children endure.

While families gather during these moments around dining tables filled with delicious food, sharing conversations and laughter, we are suffering here. And while others sit by heaters telling stories to their children, we are simply struggling to survive, desperately trying to keep our children and ourselves warm.

Do not forget Gaza, do not forget us.

Every donation, no matter how small, can save a family from perishing due to hunger and cold. Please, help us survive.

We are approaching our short-term goal of 70,000 before the end of this year, so I ask everyone who will participate to donate I really need your full help this time so donate as much as you can.

Donate here.

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[ID: A screenshot of text reading, “My intent is to examine and account for a series of repetitions of master narratives of violence and forced submission that are read or reinscribed as consent and affection: intimacies that involve shame and trauma and their transgenerational transmission. By doing so I seek to “provide [a] context for values and beliefs” (J. Rose 2007, 8) remembered, forgotten, disavowed, internalized, and imposed that articulate a black (and blackened) body struggling with similar aftermaths of traumas of slavery, colonialism, segregation, and independence, and freedom—but with different signifiers. Those black and blackened bodies become the bearers (through violence, regulation, transmission etc.) of the knowledge of certain subjection as well as the placeholders of freedom for those who would claim freedom as their rightful yield. Put another way, the everyday violences that black(ened) bodies are made to bear are markers for an exorbitant freedom to be free of the marks of a subjection in which we are all forced to participate.” /end ID]

From Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe 

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URGENT: HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

The Israeli occupation forces launched drone strikes on my husband, Fayez, and my son, Mohammad.

my husband was hit in the head, while my son Mohammad was wounded in his legs.

Although my husband's condition has stabilized, my son is still suffering immensely and urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

So I started a fundraising campaign to save my son before he dies.

Ddonate Via Paypal 👇

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

I need your help please donate and share, evry contribution, no matter how small, brings us hope in these dark times.

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

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Nina Simone “I Shall Be Released” To Love Somebody, June 1969.

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June Jordan, Lebanon Lebanon, in Kissing God Goodbye. Poems, 1991-1997, Anchor Books, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 13-20

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‘A Communion of the Spirits’ Photographed by Roland L. Freeman (1970s—1990s) via. blackarchives.co on Instagram.

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蟲師 (Mushishi), Yuki Urushibara