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steven cuffie " untitled (janice) " 1978

i think they should allow everyone in the world to vote in american elections

Protest could look like learning about who came before you, becoming acquainted with victims of erasure and those for whom the struggle for liberation has been ongoing--what have they been trying to preserve or revitalize, and how can you enhance their efforts with the privileges afforded to you by their dehumanization (and trust that you do have some). Peace is not possible in isolation because the authoring harm is global. Connectivity does not belong solely to the immoral; it's available for all our causes. Bond. Bless up. Remain inspired.

There was already more than enough material to fuel my disillusionment. But I think seeing representatives of our current government give a standing ovation to an orchestrator of mass death...was pivotal in expanding my social consciousness. The theater of it, yet the nonfiction of it--in the foreground of what is now nearly 400 days of well-documented violence--rearranged me. The national inability or refusal to acknowledge how sinister of a display that was...rearranged me. I knew in my heart how blood-red this election would be, how small the pockets of outrage were, and how easily a spiritually bankrupt war criminal could be slid into the top slot. It has only been paraded in front of us, smiling in suits and ties, since forever ago. When Helene and broken dams washed entire towns away, it came down to real neighbors using their real bodies to rescue each other from loss and trauma. All year I've been journaling about physics and consequences and alchemy. The truth is very therapeutic to me. Reaping what we sow is very therapeutic to me. It gets no realer than the decisions we make or don't make. Every single choice has a shadow. I love the bipartisan reactivity of this fact. You don't escape something that is true just because you don't believe in it or you're ignorant of it. I love that there is something more supreme than our perception and our acquiescence. Divinity, for me, is that up must come down. God is the water that won't wait to rise until you've learned to swim. The truth won't wait.

And I'm grateful to know what is true.

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No need for her to feel this pain alone. This wound is the world's to share.

We're piloting a four-day workweek at my job from October to December to "boost employee well-being and productivity." No reduction in pay, no increase in hours. Save for the times an unnecessary yet mandatory Friday staff meeting disrupts the flow, I am occasionally granted a four-day weekend by having a Friday and the following Monday off. I am part of a very small team, so in order to maintain coverage (because the business is still running five days a week), my coworker and I take turns having the longer weekend. By now, he and I have both experienced a four-day weekend, and we agree it was magical. The best part for me was having no plans. I did only what I wanted to do in the moment, and I covered: resting, crying, grocery shopping (but making no further purchases for three days), preparing three meals (no dashing), choosing to play video games over skating, writing a letter to an inmate, and beginning the audiobook version of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents. (The way she predicted a Trump-like presidency in 1998 was wild btw.) For the times we're in, this feels...late...but extremely welcomed. It seems highly unlikely that I will come across another organization in my immediate future that is willing to be a little innovative in this regard. It has certainly paused the exodus I had been dreaming up for myself. Six years is the longest I've been anywhere, so there's that too. Quite frankly, I never wanna interview again. At the same time, the time off always makes it clearer to me that I don't wanna spend my life working, so this could have the opposite effect on productivity. Anyhow, I'm genuinely curious about what the impact of this pilot will be and whether or not it will become permanent. I imagine it'd be a difficult thing to snatch away without alienating the entire team. We shall see. It's a blessing to get paid and work less--just wanna say that.

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Israel conducted an air strike on a coffee shop in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, killing at least 18 Palestinians including children. According to Israel, they were targeting members of the Tulkarem brigades who were supposedly at the coffee shop.

What does this mean?

This means that Israel is conducting extrajudicial killings against resistance fighters when they're not engaging in combat but rather when they are spending time with friends at coffee shops.

This means that Israel is conducting airstrikes in the West Bank, something that has not happened in almost 25 years.

This is Israel reminding you of its impunity that allows it to erase red lines and create precedent.

This means that Israel wants you to believe that another Gaza is possible absolutely anywhere this demonic entity decides.

On June 3rd, Suad gave birth to Khaled under the constant threats of bombs and deaths in an overcrowded hospital. That lack of supplies forces her to leave on foot, walk a great distance, and live in the heat of August in a tent without access to electricity or clean water to keep baby Khaled cool down. Khaled has suffered multiple instances of a high fever, rashes and respiratory infection, and insect bites that triggered a very painful allergic reaction.

Have sympathy for a young mother and her 4-month-old baby who hasn't seen any moment of safety and peace. All his little life is nothing but pain, sickness, and displacement, and what more do you need to know about? Suad and her baby, what more to move you to care? How many posts have been circulating about my friend suffering? Please help my dear friend. Please get her and her baby and her family away from death and destruction.

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Can't get over how The Boy and the Heron is haunted by napalm. Of course in the way that it haunts Mahito's trauma and dreams, but also in the fantastical imagery. The vision of his mother melting into a pool of liquid, the story of the fiery rock that dried up an entire lake upon contact, Himi entirely. The fact that the fantastical world, far from the touch of war, has an abundance of water.

References to graphic violence ahead. Firebombing wrecked Tokyo. The firebombing attacks,iirc, actually killed more civilians than the atomic bombs did. There are anecdotes from survivors about crowds of people running and trampling each other to try to escape the napalm. About people running to local swimming pools just to try to douse out the fires or escape only to find that the water of the pools completely dried up because of the heat. Of people bursting into flames in the middle of running. Of people's organs/bodies, quite frankly, melting into liquid. An account of a survivor's mother, for years after the war, pouring cups of water over her deceased daughter's grave and saying "little one, you must have been so hot."

It's subtle and I am not even sure that it was intentional, or if this was on Miyazaki's mind as he directed the art, but I can't shake off the echoes of history when I watched it.

My incarcerated sibling is being used for free labor to assist with Hurricane Helene relief cleanup. I just needed to write that down. While the U.S. is funding the bombing of displaced babies in tents abroad, here at home, they are using prison labor to tackle the traumatizing destruction from a disaster made more unnatural by climate change and ecoracism. One world. Shared consequences.