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Alex Zucker
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First Clare got Covid (↗️ risk due to neuropathy), then me (↗️ risk due to kidney transplant); both of us second time. Then her mom collapsed and died within a week. Then upheaval in my family. Weeks of exhaustion, stress, and grief. Rough time of life. Love to all.
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Alex Zucker
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"Organizing is about, as Jane wrote, giving people permission to want more, even demand more, 'from their jobs; the quality of life they should aspire to; how they ought to be treated when they are old; and what they should be able to offer their children.' "
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"In demystifying the ins+outs of strikes, collective bargaining, organizing, revitalizing a moribund union+even by shining light on labor’s uglier sides, she inspired a gen of yng ppl cut off from class politics to think about the still-central role of the workplace." thebaffler.com/latest/raisi...
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Ursula
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“She was human, and she cared about organizing because she cared about people and how miserable our lives have grown amid the decay of neoliberalism. She cared about making their—our—lives better in the here and now, not just in some far-off future.” 💛
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Alex Zucker
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BREAKING [via @jasonhickel.bsky.social]: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
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Alex Zucker
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I literally just read the Acknowledgments of No Shortcuts 15 minutes ago, in preparation for diving into the book this week. RIP, Jane. You taught us all so very much.
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ApocalypticaNow
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The capitalist dream is to produce value without having to pay labor or material costs. That's why AI is being relentlessly promoted as the future of the economy.
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Kevin Gannon
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The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.
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The Appeal
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The overall crime rate is nearly as low as it’s been in decades, but that hasn’t stopped officials from pushing draconian measures that will fuel mass incarceration and harm public safety. We have a roadmap for a better path forward, so why are we just repeating the mistakes of the past?
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Alex Zucker
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DOJ Assistant AG for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke noted that this is the first time the DOJ has found that a police department systemically discriminates against the unhoused.
Police treat children as adults and routinely harm kids.
theappeal.org/phoenix-poli...
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The Washington Post
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The Phoenix Police Department routinely uses excessive force and discriminates against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, part of a broader pattern of unconstitutional policing in one of America’s largest cities, according to a Justice Department report released.
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Alex Zucker
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"Those who create, who take a leap, who take the first step in starting to organize the institutions needed to confront the problems we face are heroes. Most will never be recognized, tenant organizers and community organizers and union organizers ... but they are the pillars holding up our future."
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kate
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When cops shot Linda Tirado in the George Floyd protests, they destroyed one of her eyes with a rubber bullet. The subsequent brain damage is proving fatal. Linda needs funds for hospice Venmo: Linda-Tirado-3 PayPal: Bootstrapindustries@gmail Zelle: 806.433.6075
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Prisonculture
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All the screenings of the 1ME film for the month of June The film is about a world without police and prisons and is followed by conversations with abolitionists afterwards. RSVP here: respairmedia.com/events/
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Matt Novak
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"At least 13 communicable diseases, from the common cold to measles and tuberculosis, are surging past their pre-pandemic levels in many regions, and often by significant margins..."
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Alex Zucker
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July 24, at BCLT Summer School, join Mayada Ibrahim, Kira Josefsson, and me for a discussion of labo(u)r organizing by literary translators. We'll be talking about our early efforts with the Translators Organizing Committee of the National Writers Union. Free & online! www.uea.ac.uk/web/groups-a...
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Alex Zucker
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"What does that look like? Well, let’s talk about it."
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Alex Zucker
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"How will he salvage our reproductive rights, reel in a rogue Supreme Court, provide for our medical needs, or address the horrors of climate change? The truth is, there’s just not much on the table right now, and we need to fight for so much more than either party has any interest in providing. +
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Alex Zucker
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"We need to recognize that harder times are coming and fight for a world in which we are all cared for. Right now, we are being promised very little by an incumbent president whose strongest argument for reelection is that he is not Donald Trump. +
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Alex Zucker
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"Simply rejecting what we do not want, such as a Trump presidency, will not be enough to save us. We are all a disaster or a few bad breaks away from ruin, and the destruction of our healthcare system, along with the criminalization of homelessness, have us all poised for a steep fall. +
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Alex Zucker
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"As our lives become more dangerous and our options get slimmer, I am thinking about the kind of changes we need to be fighting for. What kind of demands are needed during these perilous times, and what level of organization do we need to shake the system until those demands are met? +
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Victoria Law
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Sarah J. Jackson
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abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/
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Prisonculture
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One of the most impactful and helpful things you can be doing right now to ensure that people can have access to abortion services is to DONATE AND RAISE MONEY FOR ABORTION FUNDS. The FUNDS ARE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ACCESS along with Independent clinics. Yet people are NOT showing up for them.
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Alex Zucker
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Puff the Magic Hater
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My weekly list of must-reads and some thoughts about navigating depression in catastrophic times.
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Michelle S. Phelps
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As we come up on the four year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, I reflected on what has (and has not) changed in Minneapolis policing for @tnr.bsky.social One thing that has changed: fewer police.
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Prisonculture
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It's good that the number of cops in Minneapolis has and continues to shrink. May this spread elsewhere.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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RIP George Floyd. May 25, 2020.
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Alex Zucker
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OK, only 4 years 🤓
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Alex Zucker
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Though I want to be clear, that could have been done by the editors, not the translators. It still happens today, but there have been times when it happened even more
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Alex Zucker
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I read both of those when they were initially published but have deliberately avoided looking at them while doing this translation. I am told by those familiar both with them and the originals that the previous translations did away with most of his idiosyncrasies in terms of style
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Alex Zucker
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He has two previous novels translated into English, both published by major presses and reprinted multiple times: Life With a Star (1989, tr. Rita Klímová) and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (1991, tr. Marie Winn)
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Alex Zucker
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"The circumstances of these events have never been fully explained, but they marked a turning point in his life. On his return to Prague, Weil published his novel Moscow- Border (1937), an account of the Stalinist purges and trials."
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Alex Zucker
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"In 1933, [Weil] went to Moscow to work as a translator for a Soviet publishing house. Two years later, he was suddenly expelled from the Communist Party and exiled to Central Asia for so-called re-education. +
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it's a great novel, though it's been interesting to see how my view of how it's likely to be read changes from year to year, depending on current events. who knows what people will think of it by the time it finally comes out?
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Alex Zucker
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today finished draft 2 of a novel I've been translating off and on for, gulp, 5 years? author is jiří weil, and he's deceased, so i've just been working on it in between other jobs that don't have as much wiggle room, since the newer a novel is (generally), the quicker a publisher wants it out
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Alex Zucker
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nypl *used* to have kanopy, years ago. now it appears only to be available to library cardholders in queens 😞
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Alex Zucker
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my alma mater ❤️ my first ever political arrest was for occupying the admin building there in 1985, so UMass would divest from apartheid South Africa it’s been heartening to see the line of resistance continue over the decades
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*
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Chat logs leaked to the Washington Post show that a group of billionaires seeking to crush the Columbia student protests with a police raid met with Mayor Adams a few days before he did just that.
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Alex Zucker
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"A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University . . ."
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Alex Zucker
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Today is the final day to sign on to this petition to stop Mr. Baugh’s deportation and keep him with his family! We’re less than 150 signatures away from reaching our goal of 500 - please sign on!! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...
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Alex Zucker
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Main takeaways: 1 movement is not primarily student or campus-centered, and has staying power 2 movement is NOT violent, and when violence has occurred it is mostly vs pro-P/anti-G protesters 3 movement’s “rhetorical core” is freedom for Palestinians and end to violence against them
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Sarah J. Jackson
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It’s weird how we were trying to explain this element among the counter protesters (def not just at UCLA) to university administrators for weeks. But they consistently ignored it, said nothing about the threat they posed, and instead fixated on the perceived threat of the encampments…
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Matt Weiner
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the professor who cofounded the minor (a Holocaust scholar) wrote a great column about her
dailytrojan.com/2024/04/19/p...
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Alex Zucker
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Transcript here: harshaneeyam.in/2024/05/11/z...
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Alex Zucker
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How I got into translating, my history with Jáchym Topol, my thoughts on contracts & the future of the “translation ecosystem,” forthcoming projects, and (special bonus) why I tweet so much about Gaza
🌟 1,000 thanks to @harshaneeyam.bsky.social for having me on! podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/h...
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
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There’s a long tradition of Israeli ambassadors to the UN doing things like that on stage. Like (later) President Chaim Herzog tearing the Zionism is racism resolution in 1975. It’s a bad callback to that
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Anjali Dayal
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I can’t keep easy track of the QTs but please don’t be weird & antisemitic in the quotes, guys. It’s unacceptable. This was, no matter what he was trying to say, a very strange & counterproductive diplomatic image that someone in his office should have seen coming; no hate welcome in pointing it out
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Anjali Dayal
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To be clear, he was trying to argue that everyone ELSE in the room was shredding the charter, but it should be pretty self-evident that you shouldn’t be the one literally shredding the charter in that case
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