> ... they didn’t give it to Donald Trump, but.. the next best thing.. as #MarcoRubio is concerned, if he needs justification to escalate military operations against Venezuela. It really seems to be a disastrous choice and a smear on the — I mean, your next guest is #CoryDoctorow. It’s really the enshittification of the Nobel.. I mean, they gave it to Kissinger in the 1970s, but at least he — they waited 'til he negotiated an end to the #VietnamWar.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/nobel_peace_prize
#GregGrandin

> A petrocritic may be someone looking to say something about texts about oil; she may also be looking for oil in cultural places where it is otherwise unspoken or unspeakable, at once too close, too far, and too immense to be immediately perceptible; and she may be looking, in fictions, for the profoundly uneven distribution of oil’s benefits and consequences to peoples and territories around the globe.
> #AmitavGhosh coined.. “#petrofiction”..1992
https://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/petro
#PetroCritic

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> ... their ideas about the sacredness of the Earth were very important to that movement, you know? It’s not necessarily something that you or the press always emphasizes. But, in fact, the longevity of that movement, the resilience of that movement really depends on Native American ideas of the sacredness of the Earth, of the vitality of the Earth.
#NativeAmericans #IndigenousStories #IndigenousViews #IndigenousIdewas #SacredEarth #VitalEarth #LivingEarth

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> A crowd had gathered at the train station to welcome Mrs Pacetta back and she detailed her experiences in the notorious Ktzi’ot prison, including being stripped and left in the sight of male soldiers.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25522247.scots-woman-gaza-flotilla-reveals-vile-treatment-israeli-jail/
#MargaretPacetta

> ".. They took all my meds. They took everything off me - my inhalers, my nebuliser. They eventually gave me the nebuliser back, but they threw away the medicine for it,.. This is all I had. They never gave me my rucksack. I have no clothes. These are Israeli prison bottoms.".. "They gave us ten slices of cucumber for 18 people. Four stale pieces of bread - very stale, you could break your teeth on it. The cucumber was covered in ants."
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-grandmother-recounts-horrible-israeli-32624306
#SumudFlotilla #Israel

> The book starts out by wondering why it is so difficult to get climate change into a modern English-language novel that isn't science fiction. It concludes that Western literature has, in the past 200 years or so, become trapped in a world where human comedy and tragedy is separated from nature. Along the way, Ghosh considers the power dynamics that make the climate debate so different in the Eastern than the Western hemisphere.
https://www.dw.com/en/amitav-ghosh-what-the-west-doesnt-get-about-the-climate-crisis/a-50823088
#GunIsland #GreatDerangement #AmitavGhosh

> Imagine after MLK was assassinated, his supporters being like, “Whatever you do! DONT QUOTE HIM!” --- David Zirin^1

> "[The death penalty] should be public, should be quick, should be televised… I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation… At what age should you start to see public executions?"
https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words?r=1i4x2t&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
/HT @DarleneRyan

#ReflectionsOnTheGuilloutine

^1 https://www.facebook.com/edgeofsports/posts/pfbid02B6LhqnQMGuvvYQBgs2ir6uRVLqFuQKwC7Vh8T2TqUU896SMEz6aSa52C8odT8Xrbl?__cft__[0]=AZV3Gir_SWi3I8RvUzauPClNC2x8tWJLIirhj0i-mYe4U6wSJjWU0kodbYAuxK-Q2KwBhJx2LV9jo2nACq_pZZVPhYwhdeRItNMgcfxxE220DpOmNQ7x8Xcn6kWmtE-mh0-zfB19FTR-yJ2Xwz76ZavskJajTFJfcX9AWTKRnbwb4pky4ZcrnOrbP--OxvMtzkc&__tn__=,O,P-R

> "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage."

https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words?r=1i4x2t&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

/HT @DarleneRyan

#CharlieKirk #uspol #USAEmpathy

Albert Camus in _Sisyphus_ makes me want of find Mike Davis on Wokova in _Dead Cities_. OCMS in "I hear them all" mentions "the great Paiute Wokova" too. Davis got me thinking Wokova provided the essential, condensed spritual message but I have to find the book again.
> “Karamazov, is it true what religion says, that we shall rise from the dead, that we shall see one another again?” And Aliocha answers: “Certainly, we shall see one another again, we shall joyfully tell one another everything that has happened.’’..
#SisyphusKaramazov #DavisOnWokova

Not only do we need to oppose them; we need to be the opposite of them... "Kindness, compassion, generosity are often talked about as though they’re purely emotional virtues, but they are also and maybe first of all imaginative ones," and that imagination can be fed and encouraged--or starved... #DianeDiPrima , once said, "the only war that matters is the war against the imagination."
#FarawayNearby #RebeccaSolnit #WarOnImagination

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-for-the-imagination/

Today on a shadow docket the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump's ICE fascists can use ethnicity as a ‘relevant factor’ when furnishing reasonable suspicion to detain people, specifically citing Latino ethnicity.

No mention of the ~600K mostly white Canadian & European undocumented immigrants.

This is what fascism looks like.

They’re detaining wildfire fighters while on the job. Insanity.

• a) "That the vital necessities of humanity are of a technical nature";
• b) that an analysis (highly esoteric) "of our needs has already attained a 99 percent level of perfection" and that
• c) "the experts that count are those that are highly certified."

> 1. Ours is, above all, a *tragic* reality. Neither the most optimistic statistics nor the most ideologically contaminated explanations can disguise the situation of inhumanity and injustice in which our societies struggle. As long as we do not recognize the catastrophic state of certain societies in which the great majority of their people living if perpetual life-threatening situations, everything else, as a consequence, will be out of focus, and totally lack any semblance to reality.

--- Ignacio Martín-Baró (1974!!) in
_Towards a Society that Serves its People: The Intellectual Contributions of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits_ (1991)

🚨 “Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Trans Children Seeking Care

June subpoena to Children’s Hospital of Phil. sought Social Sec #s & addresses of patients who received gender-related care, + “every writing or record” made by drs on such treatments”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

> For equality to become a fact, rather than a slogan, it had to be the rule across the board; the poor must be richer, the rich poorer, and good educations available to all, not just the fortunate. Votaries of examination and selection were adherents of “The Tadpole Philosophy”: they were so many lucky frogs, lecturing a pond of their former peers “on the virtue by which tadpoles of character and capacity can rise to be frogs.”
https://jacobin.com/2021/01/r-h-tawney-christian-socialism-capitalism-socialism
#TadpolePhilosophy #RHTawney #TawneyOnEquality /HT Immanuel Wallerstein
The Capitalist World Economy

It is possible that intelligent tadpoles reconcile themselves to the inconveniences of their position, by reflecting that, though most of them will live and die as tadpoles and nothing more, the more fortunate of the species will one day shed their tails, distend their mouths and stomachs, hop nimbly on to dry land, and croak addresses to their former friends on the virtues by means of which tadpoles of character and capacity can rise to be frogs. This conception of society may be described, perhaps, as the Tadpole Philosophy, since the consolation which it offers for social evils consists in the statement that exceptional individuals can succeed in evading them. Who has not heard it suggested that the presence of opportunities, by means of which individuals can ascend and get on, relieves economic contrasts of their social poison and their personal sting? Who has not encountered the argument that there is an educational "ladder" up which talent can climb, and that its existence makes the scamped quality of our primary education -the overcrowded classes, and mean surroundings, and absence of amenities-a matter of secondary importance?

昨日、 三股よる学校でこの本のタイトルを思い出せなかった!! 恥かしい、、、

> 手話の知恵―その語源を中心に
#大原省三

#手話の知恵 #手話の由来 #手話の世界へ

https://bookmeter.com/books/210009