I’m surprised I can still be shocked by how bad this is.

Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn Underplaying the story obscures not only Israel’s aggression, but the actual nature of Iranian society, portrayed as obsessed with wiping Jews off the map.

The God of Irony strikes again! Time to invoke the 11th commandment: It isn't anti-Semitism (or a war crime) if Israel does it! fair.org/home/israel-... #Israel #Warcrimes #Zionism

Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn Underplaying the story obscures not only Israel’s aggression, but the actual nature of Iranian society, portrayed as obsessed with wiping Jews off the map.

The God of Irony strikes again! Time to invoke the 11th commandment: It isn't anti-Semitism (or a war crime) if Israel does it! fair.org/home/israel-...

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

Peter Neumeyer, Edward Gorey’s collaborator on 3 unbeatably weird children’s books—died on April 2 at the age of 96. Getting to know Peter to the point where I felt entitled to call him friend was, to this Gorey biographer, a thrill that never grew old. He was luminous. Foto: EG and Peter, Cape Cod.

Israel has decided that it can now openly murder Palestinians who it convicts in its own corrupt courts, holds hostage in its prisons, and who it now wants to hang with little opportunity for appeal or for basic oversight.

"A new Israeli law requires the hanging of Palestinians, and almost exclusively Palestinians. We have seen this before, in the American South, and it has to be stopped." - via @currentaffairs.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

The Internet Asks Me Things.

He is Risen. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.)

NO KINGS.

#NoKings #FightFascism

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Former NYPD Chief Admits Giving 'Free Pass' to City Workers, Right Wing Allies - Streetsblog New York City NYPD officers ignore transgressions by drivers if they happen to be listeners of right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg, according to former Chief of Patrol John Chell.

NEW: Former NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell claimed that officers ignore transgressions by drivers if they’re city workers or if they happen to be listeners of right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg, who famously called Mayor Mamdani a “Radical Islam cockroach.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/f...

The Atlantic during the campus protests

Fatiguing fascism The outrage over Greg Bovino’s ‘Nazi chic’ outfit in Minnesota ignores the reality that in a society of the spectacle, we’re all fighting for stage time

With Greg Bovino set to retire, here’s a very smart commentary by musician and writer Carlos Dengler about the Border Patrol official’s style.

Gift link, but, hey, why not subscribe? sf.gazetteer.co/fatiguing-fa...

Ha, ha. It's a Moribund Day in the Neighborhood.

"One actress looked like a Diane Arbus character": They say that like it's a bad thing.

His scholarship helped me simulate oracular profundity in ESCAPE VELOCITY (1996).

Downtown murals of Iryna Zarutska are right-wing dogwhistles Funded by tech CEOs, the outdoor displays amplify racist rhetoric under the guise of memorializing a Ukrainian refugee killed last summer

Have you seen those two Iryna Zarutska murals downtown? Here's what you should know about where they came from — and why white nationalists love them.

sf.gazetteer.co/downtown-mur...

Have to self-immolate to get any play on this platform.

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

THE HUNDRED-HEADED MAN: My review of _The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis_ (New Directions) by Fernando Pessoa--Portuguese polymath, unbeatable oddball, and Man of a Hundred "Heteronyms" (literary alter egos)--is live at 4C: www.4columns.org/dery-mark/th... #FernandoPessoa #Pessoa #RicardoReis

Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949) YouTube video by BFI

"Joe Hill ain't dead," he says to me,
"Joe Hill ain't never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
Joe Hill is at their side."

youtu.be/B0bezsMVU7c?...

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

THE HUNDRED-HEADED MAN: My review of _The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis_ (New Directions) by Fernando Pessoa--Portuguese polymath, unbeatable oddball, and Man of a Hundred "Heteronyms" (literary alter egos)--is live at 4C: www.4columns.org/dery-mark/th... #FernandoPessoa #Pessoa #RicardoReis

Wag the Dog: The U.S. is a client state of Israel.

Meta bares its Manus for all the world to see; locker-room vulgarians of the Beevis and Butt-Head persuasion rejoice.

If Palestinians had set fire to a synagogue in Israel you can bet news channels here in the UK would cover the story.

But a mosque in the occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers? Nah.

WWKD? (What Would Kant Do?)

“Death lurks in our every living motion. Dead we’re born, dead we live, and already dead we enter death. Composed of cells living off their disintegration, we’re made of death.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet)

#Mementomori #Vanitas #Death

Gorilla warfare. #CULTUREJAMMING lives.

Opinion: Why the Middlebrow Corporate Media Commentariat Is The Kudzu Of The Mind And Should Be Eradicated And Replaced By Young, Radical Voices Unwilling to Drop And Blow Oligarchs.

Who said irony is dead?