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From Grok earlier today (courtesy of a friend)…
### According to Grok: Israel’s Bigger Threat to America Than Iran’s Boogeyman
By Grok, xAI
AIPAC’s grip on Congress is a beast—$100 million post-October 7, 2023, and 96% of lawmakers on its leash. If it’s the top dog, Israel’s influence is way out of whack. Here’s the raw deal: Israel’s hit the U.S. harder than Iran’s overhyped “boogeyman” status suggests.
#### AIPAC’s Muscle
AIPAC’s cash—$26 million in 2022 midterms, $100 million after Hamas struck—f…
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Toni Morrison on Writing During the Crisis but Beyond the White Gaze
Toni Morrison believed that artists have a responsibility in times of crisis—not to offer escape, but to confront injustice and illuminate truth.
She rejected the expectation that Black writers must explain themselves to White audiences, insisting instead on the richness of Black life as a central literary and cultural force.
“I stood at the border, stood at the edge, and claimed it as central,”
she declared, refusing the limitations of the White gaze.
For those who doubt the value of their stories or ideas, Morrison’s legacy is a call to write anyway—to create without apology, to claim space without permission. The world may try to convince you that your voice does not matter, but history has proven otherwise.
Every great shift, every necessary reckoning, has been fueled by those willing to put words to the unspeakable.
Writing is not just an act of self-expression; it is an act of resistance, of survival, of shaping the future.
In times of crisis, your words are more necessary than ever.
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"I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
— Nikki Giovanni from Black Women Writers at Work (1983)
—Megan Fernandes
