Four days since Trudy died, and not a word from the place. The place does not care. The place makes a lot of money and they don't care.

Hope ain't a good stratagem. Now everybody in the world knows if they talk about human rights that's the next place they'll be bombing folks.

 In order to bring colonialism to an end then, one does not speak truth to power, one has to inhabit the crazy, nonsensical, ranting language of the other, the other who has been rendered a nonentity by colonialism. 

T H E WILD B E Y O N D : W I T H A N D F O R T H E U N D E R C O M M ONS 

JACK HALBERSTAM

 And liberals who pretend not to get it, who pretend Trump is an outlier, who luxuriate in the myth of American benevolence and freedom and values, are the worst. From AOC, to Mamdani, to Sanders to Newsome, it is Democrats voting for sanctions, applying the de-legitimizing “regime” descriptor and denouncing resistance to imperial aggression who prep the intellectual, rhetorical and material ground for imperialism. It is liberals who in their language of universal rights at home provide American brutality abroad with a sheen of benign, bookish justification.

Nate Bear

 Trump is not an aberration. He’s the logical conclusion to decades of sanctions and imperialist posturing. He’s the inevitable trigger man. If it wasn’t him staring these wars and conducting these coups, it would be someone else. Because militarism and imperial dogma transcends party or the narrow and distracting social ideologies that masquerade as democracy. The US is always building towards violence. Always. Precisely how it is expressed, and who expresses it, are the only unknowns.

Nate Bear

 We went back to Trudy's room. We brought her pictures and personal effects home. We donated her quilts and clothes. Still, no one from the place has bothered to call. I'm so glad Trudy escaped that place.

 song of the day, the other side, by ellen arkbro.