Rainbow Girls | Award-Winning LGBTQ+ Short Film YouTube video by Short of the Week

Short of the Week on YT (and my colleague Sowj Kudva did an amazing job as the editor!)

a great conversation!

The first 25 pages of Climbing are available to read pre-publication!

Big thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for making this available. So excited for this project to be out in the world.

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

you love to see it

Newly-released records detail federal response to Portland ICE protests The records come as a result of ongoing litigation from a coalition of media organizations, including OPB.

A federal judge found Portland ICE protests were largely peaceful. The judge also found DHS had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on nonviolent protesters to chill constitutional rights. The violence was policy, they just didn't write it down.

I remember learning about this in my Faulkner-forward undergrad lit class and being so sad!

Hearing about this book on Gender Conceal was already...like how? and then here's visual proof of its amazingness, way to go everyone involved!

look at palantir (and other AI) dipshits talk about the work they do - ie identifying, monitoring, & facilitating the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world - and tell me you defend a corporate structure's right to exist, or a "kill chain's" right to exist.

and MY work scandalizes you?

hard agree! always my fave from that album (also headphones for that tune in particular)

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon By June Jordan Dedicated to the 600,000 Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983. I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? They said you shot the London Ambassador and when that wasn’t true they said so what They said you shelled their northern villages and when U.N. forces reported that was not true because your side of the cease-fire was holding since more than a year before they said so what They said they wanted simply to carve a 25 mile buffer zone and then they ravaged your water supplies your electricity your hospitals your schools your highways and byways all the way north to Beirut because they said this was their quest for peace They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys whose bodies swelled purple and black into twice the original size and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby and then they said this was brilliant military accomplishment and this was done they said in the name of self-defense they said that is the noblest concept of mankind isn’t that obvious? They said something about never again and then they made close to one million human beings homeless

in less than three weeks and they killed or maimed 40,000 of your men and your women and your children But I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? They said they were victims. They said you were Arabs. They called your apartments and gardens guerrilla strongholds. They called the screaming devastation that they created the rubble. Then they told you to leave, didn’t they? Didn’t you read the leaflets that they dropped from their hotshot fighter jets? They told you to go. One hundred and thirty-five thousand Palestinians in Beirut and why didn’t you take the hint? Go! There was the Mediterranean: You could walk into the water and stay there. What was the problem? I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? Yes, I did know it was the money I earned as a poet that paid for the bombs and the planes and the tanks that they used to massacre your family But I am not an evil person The people of my country aren't so bad You can expect but so much from those of us who have to pay taxes and watch American TV You see my point; I’m sorry. I really am sorry.

"I didn’t know and nobody told me and what
could I do or say, anyway?"

June Jordan, "Apologies to All the People in Lebanon"

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Idk how anyone can possibly be a reformist anymore they will consider AI thermal detection which does not work and is not real and costs like a killion dollars while never once saying "we'll install retrofitted sprinklers which do exist and do work and cost just a lot but not that much considering"

Flotilla Tracker

> The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international movement of coordinated, nonviolent action [...] working to end Israel's illegal siege on Gaza, confront the complicity that enables occupation, and stand with the Palestinian people.

globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
flotilla.forensic-architecture.org

Artists, Don’t Flee the City Yet. ‘Greater New York’ Offers Some Hope. In the East Coast city, DIY vitality and dioramas fuel this expansive 53-artist survey, here reviewed by our co-chief art critic.

A free link to my review of MoMA PS1's "Greater New York." Aluminum foil sculptures, no-budget video, sign-painting, tax the rich! www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...

US Mining Plan Will Sacrifice Mexico’s Environment for Weapons and Tech A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and environmental impacts.

A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and environmental impacts.
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Wow. The whole thing. Every part.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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I teach my undergraduate students that "no one has talked about this" or "there's nothing about this" is usually false and risky to say if you haven't done the fullest possible research. Sometimes even famous scholars have written things that already undermine the canonical stories.

h/t @ladyhistorian.bsky.social

Queer and Trans Histories of Disability A few years ago, I decided to teach a course titled Queer and Trans Histories of Disability during a stint as a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. I created the class, in part, as an opportun...

Review # 13 of "Disability Works" is out in GLQ. A thrill to be reviewed by Rachel Corbman in this essay on Queer and Trans Disability History alongside Kunzel's fabulous "In the Shadow of Diagnosis" and Whatcott's "Menace to the Future" (which I look forward to reading!).

doi.org/10.1215/1064...

Do you live near a data center?

Do you know anyone who lives near a data center?

I want to talk to you!

jael@heatmp.news

They’re assuming people will take the information it generates and not give it credit.

Sorry pals

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