joshuaphilll

joshuaphilll, 13 days ago to random

I wrote a little about how an influencer saying “let them eat cake” at the Met Gala sparked a little digital revolution against celebrities who have been silent on Gaza, and their brands.

And about how this revolution needs to grow and expand offline.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-digital-french-revolution

joshuaphilll, 1 month ago to random

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

joshuaphilll, 1 month ago to random

The house below was listed for $1.1 million in Whitefish, Montana, a town of 9,000.

Some parts of rural America are decaying, other parts are gentrifying beyond belief — a phenomenon that flies under the radar.

And something has to change. Read more: https://www.jphilll.com/p/too-expensive-to-live-but-cant-live

joshuaphilll, 1 month ago to random

When NYPD cop turned Congressman Anthony D'Esposito used an officer's funeral to threaten the public, it wasn't that different from what other cops are doing.

Attacking people who question them, threatening democracy, and embracing fascists.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-police-wont-love-you-back

joshuaphilll, 1 month ago to random

The wealth of the top 1% of Americans just hit a record $44 trillion. Corporations raked in $2.8 trillion in the last 3 months of 2023, another record.

It’s time to end the madness. It’s time to replace capitalism with a system that doesn’t put profits over life itself.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-second-and-final-gilded-age

joshuaphilll, 2 months ago to random

The New York Governor sent the National Guard into the subway. The mayor lets the NYPD assault people for protesting genocide. Atlanta won't let Cop City on the ballot. If Democrats actually want to fight fascism they should start by being less fascist.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-national-guard-is-in-the-subway

joshuaphilll, 2 months ago to random

The National Guard is in the New York subway.

LA is giving the LAPD access to camera feeds across the city, even private ones.

69 Cop Cities are in development across the U.S.

The police state is here, and we have to resist.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-national-guard-is-in-the-subway

joshuaphilll, 2 months ago to random

I wrote about how you're closer to being homeless than you are to being a billionaire, and stuff like that.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-biggest-lottery

joshuaphilll, 3 months ago to random

Americans are forced to spend more of our money on food than we have in 30 years.

The CEO of Kellogg is going on TV and encouraging us to eat cereal for dinner.

I wrote about how our individual financial choices are not the problem here.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/you-are-not-the-problem

joshuaphilll, 3 months ago to random

I wrote a little about how much I love libraries, and about why our government and society should be modeled off them.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/libraries-the-best-form-of-government.

joshuaphilll, 3 months ago to random

We're past the point of raising awareness about Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Gaza demands our effectiveness, not just our attention.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-more-trauma-porn.

joshuaphilll, 3 months ago to random

Every time you think it can’t get worse, something new emerges. Now the U.S., Germany, and six other western nations are cutting funding to UNRWA, the biggest source of aid in Gaza, based on extremely unreliable information from Israel.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-west-enters-fulls-complicity

joshuaphilll, 4 months ago to random

We need to stop letting bad actors, mainstream media, and reactionaries in general set the terms of debates.

Whether it’s Harvard or abortion we can simply choose to reject their framing.

In fact, we have to reject their framing.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-let-bad-actors-set-the-terms.

joshuaphilll, 4 months ago to random

A lot of people have unexamined assumptions where we think of ourselves as powerless and also think of power as something for other people to wield.

And that needs to change right now if we want a decent future.

Working class people need to build power, now.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/power-is-not-a-bad-word

joshuaphilll, 5 months ago to random

The very real violence of fascists should vastly outweigh the hypothetical concerns about limiting Nazi speech.

I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/substack-boys-i-hope-youre-proud

joshuaphilll, 5 months ago to random

We do not need to treat “college kids want to genocide Jews” like a good faith argument. Because it’s not.

It’s a lie meant to attack education, attack anti-Zionists, and build fascist power in this country.

We should reject it outright.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/college-students-are-not-more-dangerous.

joshuaphilll, 5 months ago to random

A real estate company backed by Jeff Bezos is giving people the "opportunity" to buy shares in residential rentals.

Now anyone can be a micro-landlord.

But it's bound to fail. Investing in the exploitation of our neighbors isn't sustainable.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/micro-dosing-landlordism.

joshuaphilll, 5 months ago to random

You're going to hear a lot about celebrating Kissinger's death.

It’s a distraction. What matters is this man embodied the U.S. willingness to kill millions civilians to further its interests.

In death he should not be absolved; the empire should be examined.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-rehabilitate-henry-kissinger.

joshuaphilll, 5 months ago to random

Elon Musk visiting Israel has nothing to do with him no longer being antisemitic.

It has everything to do with an alliance of the super-rich and the fascist right.

That's what we're seeing from Israel to Argentina to the US and around the globe.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/fascist-meetup-netanyahu-welcomes

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

The crackdown on Palestine activism is escalating.

People losing jobs, the FBI investigating vandalism, protests attack by cops.

But every act of repression is bringing more people into the movement for a Free Palestine. Keep pushing.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/oppression-breeds-resistance

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

The American people are clear: the overwhelming majority want a ceasefire.

But only 4% of Congress is calling for a ceasefire. And Biden isn't moving.

What Democrats don't see is this doesn't just mean they'll lose — it's making people want a revolution.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-palestine-realignment

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

While it's been gut wrenching to see a rise in antisemitism, it's also been horrifying to see the realities of the danger exaggerated and falsely equated with what Palestinians are experiencing. We are not facing another Jewish Holocaust. This has to stop.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-jews-are-not-facing-a-second-holocaust

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

I wrote about how the Zionist attempt to wholly claim Judaism and their insistence that our religion and their political project are one and the same actually hurt Jews.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/equating-zionism-and-judaism-hurts.

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

Our government is enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

So it’s on us to shut it down. We have to do everything we can. We need a mass, radical, bold movement to shut down the war machine and force politicians to act.

And we need it now.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/we-need-to-shut-down-the-war-machine

joshuaphilll, 6 months ago to random

The last days and weeks are been so brutal. It’s hard to have anything like hope when there’s ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide and the most powerful people on Earth are trying to deny it.

But that means we must, absolutely must, push harder.

Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/when-hope-is-hard.