as i come here to reflect on this, my mind slips into Arundhati Roy' fierce memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me that i read a couple of months ago. a memoir that will stay with me forever. “My mother was my shelter and my storm.” ― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

You must learn to proceed without certainty ✌🏾 I want to put in on my forehead vol6789.

I am currently reading Lisa Ridzén’s “When the Cranes Fly South,” which is about her sick father’s senior care while her mom is in facility due to dementia. My mother & I, we took care of my dad with heart failure and dementia for four years. He passed in November.

Daily reminder from your econ gal: Eberhard & Tarpenning founded Tesla. Omidyar built eBay. Dorsey et al. built Twitter. The self-proclaimed "entrepreneur" invented none. Free-rider on public infrastructure, rent-seeker on subsidies. Slot in any name, as we have a large pool.

I am always mentally in Jane Mayer's Dark Money.

The Audre Lorde questionnaire to oneself, that everyoneself needs.

If you are lost, read.

To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life.

"Most people can avoid being fooled some of the time and some people can avoid being fooled all the time. But most people are being fooled all the time." - Slavoj Žižek

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear?” -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks.

living slowly and fully co-exist.

Lumumba Vea went viral this week, covered by USA Today, WSJ, CNN and BBC. Each explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western project to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained." Happy heavenly birthday, Nikki Giovanni

Diagram of the week! Heck, of the year!

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. – Frédéric Gros

To get there, we need: - Public control of strategic assets - Credit guidance to steer investment towards social and ecological priorities - Support for the development of the social and solidarity economy

I am obsessed with David Graeber’s work these days. As I make my way to London to meet some researchers and public servants at The David Graeber Institute, I cannot help but reflect on Graeber’s essay “Caring Too Much: That’s the Curse of the Working Classes,”

I am reading Graeber and I am not okay. I repeat: I am not okay. I identify as Graeber. Rest in power, sir. Quel visionnaire, quelle sagesse!

In fascist regimes like Türkiye, a leader grows up in minefields, under TOMA water cannons & tear gas: Selahattin Demirtaş, 2013. Co-leader of the Kurdish-rights-oriented progressive Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) remains incarcerated. Özgür Özel, today, leader of Republican Ppl's Party (CHP).

Fascism's antidote is bridging network: one that brings together people from different groups. So, we repeat: RIGHTS, LAW, JUSTICE. EITHER ALL OF US TOGETHER, OR NONE OF US.

Özgür Özel made history today. He must be supported without any "buts" or "howevers." Everyone who wants to continue living with dignity must stand by this dignified stance. The Republican People's Party (CHP) is far more than a building, and as its name suggests, it walks together with the people.

Ma vie in a nutshell. An airport, course syllabi or report prep, espressos, a novel (novels are mental care, currently: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans), and a read for work (currently, Re-coding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka).

And you can always find this gal reading folks, she is never not reading because books are magic.

"There is no such thing as a sacred executioner." — Mahmoud Darwish, Message of the Palestinian People on the Anniversary of the Nakba (1998).

When Ozempic turns your bones to dust and AI turns your brain to mush, I will be the last fat bitch on Earth who can write a sentence. A poem. You're welcome. Bonne nuit et bonne chance à tout le monde!

"Your husband could be perfect for politics someday. It's actually one of the few positions of power where it benefits you to underthink. If you don't think too hard, you never get rattled." - Caro Claire Burke. So, I finished reading Yesteryear over the weekend. And the verdict is: 😮‍💨

“We got this buddy. That hantavirus got nothing against us.”

As I read the news on hantavirus (and potential pandemic sequel loading), I can’t help but be extra grateful today (on this hayırlı cuma) for Türkiye’s cats. Perhaps a global twist loading where Türkiye might actually have the upper hand 🐈 Bonne chance à tout le monde à Paris & New York!