The air quality is in the red zone, 172, from wildfires up north. Our eyes and lungs are smoky. It's day 664 of the genocide in Gaza. People are collapsing and dying of starvation, or being shot by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the Israeli thugs. Trudy has no concept of her location or anyone's. The thug state is offering student debt forgiveness if they join the ICE terror state force. We're in hell but the evil that plagues us is not metaphysical, it's just the whole goddamned system of murder for dollars. The end time regime plans for a worldwide state of corporate terror.

 ug, ghf.

 The United Nations human rights office reported at least 674 killings of Gazans outside of GHF distribution sites, as of July 13.

 Even though GHF is heavily associated with Christian evangelicals, its private military contractor, UG Solutions, hired a crisis communications firm led by several former Obama and Biden staffers.

 i can't stop thinking about gaza. i feel like i can't talk about the genocide in the neighborhood. only here. and i don't even know if i can talk about it here. if anyone cares. if anyone hears.

the oligarchs always win. we must fight them anyway.

 

they believe in genocide for profit. sumud.

Stand with Palestine Resistance. Stand with Palestine Action. Stand with Palestine.

 Thursday morning at the Obamachron. Air quality, bad for sensitive types and people who breathe. 

What would Jane Jacobs say about Obama building his tower in the park?

 

i was at a house

i didn't know anyone

no one spoke to me

i felt awkward

why was i there

i didn't belong there

i couldn't begin 

to even try to relate

my attempt 

would only humiliate me

i never could understand 

what this place is about

this society 

i couldn't enter

even my family 

acquisition consumption entertainment killing time

i don't belong in this society

i'm a ghost in it

yet i'm here

secretly living

it's strange here

i was a stranger here

 Some folks are still calling it a library. I guess it doesn't matter. Maybe we'll find out what it really is someday.

now the 'crats pretend to care.
they don't call out zionism though,
because it's like the democracy of genocide.

BDS, baby.

 

"Hope and change, baby", he says with a smirk. 

 

 A simple acknowledgement could do somebody good who may also feel like the wretched of the earth. Sometimes you just can't, I know, but just a little passing moment of eye contact, a somber nod of solidarity, could make a difference in someone's day. Surely many of us are feeling the grief and the need. I have noted how light passes between souls.

Olive, a good loaf.

 

In the humidity the SAVE GAZA sign reemerges from under the whitewash. 

                                                                  ++++

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, despite stating that “genocide prevention” is a key part of the museum’s mission.

Sunjeev Bery, Freedom Forward 

 if you see someone under the train tracks who lives above you and they don't smile or nod or look or say a word to acknowledge your existence it may be they aren't being rude it may be cognitive dissonance or personal tragedy. remember, doug, it's not about you.

 god i hate this country.

 I was sitting on pebble beach yesterday feeling i was in a place apart. The place is threatened by an army corps project. It may not exist anymore as it has been. The powers that be of the material world are encroaching, privatizing the commons. We have to hold and preserve the liminal within.

 I wrote about my love of Pebble Beach and then I mentioned Obama's land grab by email to a reporter. Let's see if i hear back. The parks are vulnerable to the capital development. The lakefront is vulnerable to the army corps and the concrete industry. As I wrote this I heard about a community meeting regarding "other capital projects" in Jackson park. 

 My feeling is we are given such memories that may feel like they are from a past life, when they have relevance for us now. 

Susan Meeker-Lowry

Inside we have Olive. Outside we have cognitive dissonance.

Don't forget Palestine.

 

 Daniel Ek of Spotify raised 693 million from musicians and music lovers for drones to kill folks including musicians and music lovers, and kids.

 We can get stuck in life at any time, in many ways. We can end up stuck between memory and oblivion, knowing the place, and knowing there's no escape. 

 We are supposed to be here: this time, this place, this historic hell. Every day feels like wrestling with a fugue state. But it is so much worse to feel nothing at all.

Sarah Kendzior

-Laura Palmer's House

 light pours down through ancestor oak.

 eyes on the street.

 I finally snagged a copy of the 1619 project from the free library.

 Please do dance with Lulu. 

 i remember the islet off of the island the spanish i guess called gaviola. i felt the spirit rise of a fellow who died there. the salish people didn't have a name for it. it was covered with petroglyphs under moss i imagine covered with houses now. i just thought of this place, while thinking of the cat, and the zionists, and maybe because i was thinking about pebble beach, my secret place in the city. i think i try to honor the way thoughts go and the mind works. my mind at least. a lot of what transpires in the world is incomprehensible to me. the status quo i guess.

 i've learned that a lot of people are zionist who i didn't know were before the genocide and maybe neither did they. it doesn't seem real but it's all happening. i never thought about the zionists much before the genocide. i knew they were there in the background but now they are everywhere.

 She puts her soft paw on my chin and I give her 1/8th cup of nuggets and return to bed. She comes back, stands at the bedside, hops up and lays on my chest, rising and falling gently, breathing, purring. She goes off and comes back and meows for me to come to the kitchen, to make the coffee and open the fire escape door.

 Where are the birds?

 Israel seized Handala in international waters. There's no humanitarian law for Israel. It does whatever evil to whoever whenever and wherever it wants. Humanity has no protection, there is no one, no place, safe from Israel. Israel is the terror of the world.

 Who wants to earn money from weapons used to eviscerate Palestinians?   

Antony Loewenstein

hold your cat dear.

 

 this genocide has been an education on the way of the world. the feeling becomes more and more distinct.