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Statement: Student organizations in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Student Intifada in the United States

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful… We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza and to put an end to the Zionist-U.S. genocide against our people in Gaza. As we remain under the bombs of occupation, resisting Nazi genocide, grieving for our martyred colleagues and faculty, and witnessing the destruction of our universities, we welcome the examples of solidarity offered by students facing arrest, police violence, suspension, eviction, and expulsion in order to demand that their universities end their complicity in the Zionist-U.S. genocide and renounce their support for the occupation and the war profiteers that arm it. We have seen hundreds of students arrested across the United States as they work to transform their universities into “Popular Universities for Gaza.” Students, faculty, and staff are disrupting university operations and making clear that while universities in Gaza are being bombed, university business cannot continue as usual in the United States. These actions come as university administrations collaborate with members of Congress to discredit conscientious student activists and faculty, expel students, ban events, shut down student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and condemn activists working to end the Nazi genocide. At the same time, these same universities invest in the same companies that profit from the continued sale of weapons to the Zionist regime to continue its genocidal offensive. Our students – and our educational system as a whole – in occupied Palestine are subjected to ongoing genocidal aggression: our universities destroyed and bombed, our student organizations banned, and our student leaders subjected to torture, assassination and mass imprisonment. However, in Palestine and around the world, the student movement has always been a driving force of our struggle for liberation. When we see videos and images from American universities today, we are reminded of our history of student struggle as well as the student uprisings of 1968, which challenged imperialism from Vietnam to Palestine and reshaped the face of Europe and the United States. Now, in 2024, the student movement is once again leading the way. From here in Gaza, we see you and salute you. Your actions and activism matter, especially in the heart of the empire, in the United States. As members of Congress agree to provide $26 billion in additional weapons to bomb our people and continue the Zionist-U.S. genocide, you are taking meaningful action to shut down the war machine on your campuses. It is clear that a new generation is rising that will no longer accept Zionism, racism and genocide, and that stands with Palestine and our liberation from the river to the sea. Your global student solidarity is breaking boundaries, and it is time to smash the US imperialist war machine. From Gaza to Columbia, to Ann Arbor and Berkeley, our hands are joined to end Nazi genocide and achieve our collective liberation.

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doing space missions with a ragtag crew but if I'm being honest I hate all of their fucking guts. we are not making an unlikely family I want to kill these people

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Stefania's writing from the transitional period between her academic art historian career and her public-facing film/plastic arts critic slash humanities propaganda pedagogue era has realigned the way I perceive the world, not speaking abstractly or allegorically, I mean visually. Cannot imagine what she was like as a teacher. Her students always sound almost enchanted

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Lest you thought I was exaggerating

"As they say in France: Cubism? More like TUBISM,"--Stefania Zahorska, 1924

Stefania has this line about how in France people often repeat that Léger's style "is not so much cubisme as tubisme" and it burrowed into my brain, resulting in, cannot see a Léger painting without whispering "tubular" out loud

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@myopicscientist

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Keep being like "why am I spacing out," "why am I so stupid" as though it is not 2.30 am and I did not have a seizure this morning then almost immediately afterward work an 8-hour shift

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My mind is so beautiful when I'm high

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"Antisemitism as anti-antisemitism," or: Assimilation & Its Discontents (Post-'56 Redux)

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Thanks to watching a lot of videos by Polish antiquarians and flea market trawlers I have learned how to say "abacus" po polsku (liczydło) (makes sense, derives from the verb "to count," I just never had cause to look up "abacus" in Polish, on account of how often do you use the word "abacus" in your daily life, let alone the thing itself)

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Have started trying to look at the world like it is elements of art, a la Stefania's method--color and line and plane and light and shadow and texture and depth/dimension and angle and juxtaposition--and also took an edible on the train at sunset and I think the two factors together opened my third eye

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Holy shit it's her. Żydówka z pomarańczami (1881)

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SURPRISE it's a Polish ad for hemorrhoid suppositories from 1930

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There was SO much Discourse about Wanda Melcer's Dark Continent--Warsaw reportage cycle but some guy in ABC (right-wing nationalist rag) wrote a parody, the premise of which is just "isn't it ironic for a Wiadomości reporter to treat the Jewish quarter like an exotic, backwards domain of the Other when Jadą Mośki Literackie"

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WWI does break out, though. Like I understand what you're saying Jan Nepomucen a także Miller but there is very much a world war (the quote says Korzenie is one of those novels where all the action takes place psychologically, internally, and often in memory rather than reality) (OK I agree with him but it's meant to be the first of a trilogy and the intrusion of WWI into this polyphonic novel subjectivity is intended to function as a break like the end of The Magic Mountain) (it's about modernity, chowderhead)

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Trans cashier at the OTHER cafe ALSO didn't charge me for my drink and rushed my to-go order to the front of the queue. I complimented her Chicago drag shirt and she complimented my kuffiyeh. Trans Retail Solidarity (I give unofficial discounts to trans customers at the store and trans baristas at the two cafes near work give me free tea at lunch)

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Stefania has this line about how in France people often repeat that Léger's style "is not so much cubisme as tubisme" and it burrowed into my brain, resulting in, cannot see a Léger painting without whispering "tubular" out loud

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?