"We're in the fight of our lives here."--Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Avi Lewis wrote a deeply humane Yom Kippur post, calling on us to self-reflect about the fact that we live in this world with other people whose lives also matter. In response, Yoni Goldstein responded with an incitement to violence against Lewis, which should terrify all of us.

On What is Living and What is Dead in 20th century-style Fascism, with a warm thank-you to @nahlahayed.bsky.social for a serious follow-up conversation in Toronto.

“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”

Stany Zjednoczone są krajem zbudowanym na niewolnictwie. Ja nie jestem winna niewolnictwa. Natomiast jestem odpowiedzialna za patrzenie tej historii prosto w oczy i mówienie o niej prawdy. Bez odpowiedzialności nie ma prawdziwej podmiotowości, czyli nie ma prawdziwej ludzkiej godności.

“‘Hitchcock has nothing on Kherson”— @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social

"This display of disregard for plausibility and not even bothering to pretend to tell the truth reflects that the speaker is already operating in a society where the truth no longer matters. . .—the listeners know they are being lied to, but can do nothing about it.”--Keir Giles

"Gibt es zwischen Philosophie und Krieg eine gewisse Gemeinsamkeit. Der Krieg wirft einen Menschen aus der klar umrissenen Welt seines Lebens in eine neue, unbekannte Dimension. . . .Im Krieg, in Grenzsituationen, erfährt der Mensch die Endlichkeit der eigenen Existenz."-- Serhii Forkosh

Last night in the Kyiv region, the russian drones murdered a granny, grandpa, and their 3yo grandson, injuring toddlers' parents and older brother, along with a neighbour who came for their rescue. This is the hell on earth.

These two should be part of required reading for history classes in secondary schools in Scotland!

The thing about knowing that something like the Holocaust is possible, is that once you know, you can't unknow. From a very young age, I knew what *could* happen. And I somehow had the feeling that perhaps the wrong lessons had been drawn.

“I like the Hitlerites, because of their cult of the irrational, their exaltation of vitality as such, their virile expansion of energy, without any critical spirit, without reserve and without control.”—Emil Cioran (1911-1995)

Russia commits war crimes every single day