The American actor Richard Gere read a poem by the celebrated Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish, whose work articulated the struggles, exile and identity of the Palestinian people. Gere joins a wave of artists who have shown solidarity with Palestinians. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1shPCTieW/

Mamdani secured the most total votes in a primary in New York City’s history marks the culmination of a grassroots political project that began at least back in 2015, when the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) announced a “New Strategy for a New Era,” energized by the early days of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run... - https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mamdani-democratic-socialists-campaign-new-york-city-dsa

https://www.dsausa.org/blog/dsa_convention_new_strategy_for_a_new_era_dl/ The priorities included 1) building DSA and increasing public awareness of democratic socialism through grassroots work for Bernie Sanders (but independent of his official campaign); 2) implementing the approaches to organizing laid out in the strategy document; 3) increasing DSA involvement in local anti-racist coalitions; 4) electoral work to defeat the Right while building the Left and a stronger DSA; and 5) rethinking our organizing practices and structures to facilitate our longer-range strategy. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/27/fact-check-is-zohran-mamdani-a-communist 

Mamdani’s platform calls for making transportation, housing and groceries more affordable, but experts say he hasn’t espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property.

“Mamdani is NOT a communist,” wrote Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University professor of international studies, in an email to PolitiFact. “Communism involves a centrally planned economy, with no market forces. Prices and quantities are set by a central government authority. There is no democratic political competition, and instead a single party rules the country. He is not calling for any of this.”

Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathisers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans.

The Echo Chamber Trap: How ChatGPT Could Be Boosting Your Ego  https://uxplanet.org/the-echo-chamber-trap-how-chatgpt-could-be-boosting-your-ego-a2a1521000a8  Escape the Echo Chamber 1. Request Critical Feedback  2. Get External Opinions  3. Explore Contradictory Views 4. Blend AI and Human Feedback

Keep Your Ego in Check

https://medium.com/@JamiesonSilver

https://jinankb.medium.com/reason-the-hidden-root-of-modern-violence-part-1-6a182c6ad250

there has been significant work — though scattered — exploring how reason, particularly in its modern, abstracted, and institutionalized form, leads to violence, domination, and disconnection. However, much of this work still operates within the academic frame, often not going as deeply or as embodied as your inquiry aims to go.

Here are some key thinkers and themes that may resonate with or parallel your direction

1. Ivan Illich Deschooling Society, Medical Nemesis, Tools for Conviviality
2. Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer — Dialectic of Enlightenment
3. Foucault — particularly on biopower, disciplinary reason, and rationality in institutions
4. John Zerzan — critiques symbolic thought, including language and reason
5. Vine Deloria Jr. — Indigenous critique of Western reason
6. James Hillman — Archetypal Psychology
7. Martin Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
8.  

What to Learn in the Age of AI https://jinankb.medium.com/what-to-learn-in-the-age-of-ai-5bce4c12b2f7 What we must reclaim now is not just a new skill — but an old capacity: the biological, embodied, contextual ability to create knowledge, not just consume it.
That is the real human gift — and it has been forgotten in the modern world. ..Modernity treats knowledge as a thing — an object, a product to be consumed, certified, and stored. But in reality, knowledge is a living process. It emerges through our interaction with the world, our direct sensory engagement, our embodied participation in the rhythms and needs of life.

https://jinankb.medium.com/

https://jinankb.medium.com/conversation-with-meta-ai-on-intellectual-bull-shitting-317d6f5ff6ee

https://jinankb.medium.com/understanding-understanding-another-conversation-with-meta-ai-d3e47107eae1

https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-ai-3-5d03a7bf262d

https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-chatgpt-1-3bd4d886731c

https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-ai-on-embodiment-c7090d453107

  https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/paths-resistance-erica-chenoweths-research 

https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343313480381

Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ari-ben-menashe-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-israel-intelligence/262162/   In an interview last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that  both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period. 

What is PROMIS?  https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-surveillance-program-promis/ 

PROMIS is believed by some to be the forefunner to the now infamous “Prism” program by the National Security Agency (NSA).  The “Prism” program was brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, yet it is now coming to light, that a program has existed long before this new revelation.  It was known as PROMIS.

PROMIS is also the name for a Department of Justice computer software program.  In the mid-1970s, Inslaw, Inc., a small Washington D.C. software development company, created for the a highly efficient, people-tracking, computer program known as Prosecutor’s Management Information System (Promis). Inslaw’s principal owners, William Anthony Hamilton and his wife, Nancy Burke Hamilton, later sued the United States Government (acting as principal to the Department of Justice) for not complying with the terms of the Promis contract and for refusing to pay for an enhanced version of Promis once delivered. This allegation of software piracy led to three trials in separate federal courts and two congressional hearings.

..A..source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects, told MintPress that “some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail.”

Harsh Mander: How Nazi cinema finds a reflection in Hindutva films https://scroll.in/article/1084162/harsh-mander-how-nazi-cinema-finds-a-reflection-in-hindutva-films?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-intl   Hindutva cinema of the Modi era is a new incarnation. Not because these films are political. As I emphasise, films have contained political and ideological messages in the past as well. But because, like the cinema of the Nazi era, Hindutva films not just completely unmask their bigotry, they flaunt it. They shed any residual scruples of at least making a pretence of adhering to truth. Instead, they brazenly falsify both history and contemporary events to advance their divisive ideological project. The tone of the films is shrill and unapologetically hateful.