Politics
Caitlin Johnstone's newsletter tells it like it is. Yesterday's "15 things you should never have to say to a country" piece is worth reposting in its entirety. Here it is. 1. Stop bombing children. 2. Don’t kill journalists. 3. Don’t bomb hospitals.
Politics
gm, The post preview picture is from Yemen today. There's so much unrest in the world. Millions are calling out Israel's illegal war. UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, has said that Israel cannot claim the
Politics
Katie Halper, who's Jewish, has been doing great reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict. Please subscribe to her YouTube channel or her Patreon. Watch this piece with Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian American analyst and head of the Israel-Palestine program at Arab Center Washington DC. to learn what
Politics
From his piece: First from a Jewish man who's daughter was killed by a Hamas suicide bomber 26 years ago: "We are in a circle of blood the last 75 years. And this is just another round. Nobody expected the viciousness or cruelty of this round but
in my life
gm! Watched Nyad last night on Netflix. At 63, after 4 failed attempts starting when she was 28, Diana Nyad achieved her life long goal of swimming from Cuba to Key West FL. 100 mile swim. Non stop. As a former hack swimmer, I followed Diana Nyad's story
Wars
Caitlin Johnstone's newsletter today connects with me in so many ways it deserves to be posted here in its entirety. Listen to an audio reading here. A friend and I were emailing yesterday about how millions of Americans have fallen to as Caitlin writes, "mass-scale psychological
Wars
Tonight I tuned into Bill Maher. I haven't watched in a couple months, I'd tuned him out. Bill called for an end to saying "genocide". The Law: The Genocide Convention of 1948, born of the Holocaust, defines the crime of genocide in Article 2
Wars
No one knows more about Gaza than Norman Finkelstein, who's Jewish. From this clip in 2009: "It is completely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings, that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians.
Field Notes
Today I was in Glenwood Springs seeing my friends Tommy and Tina Divel at Grande Optics. Tommy and I were talking about what makes a great small business and why great small businesses are what the world needs. I was telling Tommy how I've never in all my
NFTs
Living in the past is living in hell. I have so much I need to let go of. Stuff that didn't happen, happened, and what I imagine happened or didn't happen. It's killing me. And I want to live for many more years. When
Crypto
Back in 2021 my friend J. Harry Edmiston turned me onto Micha Klein's forthcoming NFT project, Crypto-Pills. I had never heard of Micha before so I took a look. The first thing that caught my eye was Micha's hook statement "Virtual medicine for a
Think Different
Love this piece that my friend Jen sent me today. The poster’s guide to the internet of the futureThe best of blogging meets the best of social media.The Verge The problem with dedicating content or time to platforms such as Discord or Twitter is that they're