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political/social awareness

• How Does it Feel to Be a Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi – I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Bayoumi does extensive interviews and research about young Arab Americans and how their lives were affected after 9/11. Several perspectives from women and men from different backgrounds.
• RIP Free Speech (1992 – 2025) – Just a good overview of where our freedoms in the United States are as of now. NonCompete and his partner Luna are communists who live in Vietnam.
• Is This The End of The Autism Acceptance Movement? – IANW goes through RFK’s entire speech, fact checking him along the way. Great video, and I love Megan.
• Meet Feroze Sidhwa: A Trauma Surgeon Who Worked in Gaza – Free Palestine. Free Sudan.
• Lisa Simpson visits a police station – We are currently revisiting the first seasons of the Simpsons.
• Squid on Strike, Spongebob Squarepants – Episode says it all, we love Squidward.

critiques/explorations

• Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan – I cannot describe how much this memoir affected me. Amy Tan writes so beautifully and emotionally in a way I have never seen. Her way of analyzing and interpreting her memories and how they have grown into her is intuitive, but hard to put into words. She does it. I haven’t read her fiction, but I want to now. I want to read The Kitchen God’s Wife. She writes in her memoir about her mother being the inspiration for that novel, as well as the confusing nuanced love and connection she and her mother have.
• Why Do Republican Women Look Like That? – This is the first place I saw Katie Britt’s unsettling address to her constituents or whoever she was talking to.
• Why does everyone hate children? –
• J.Lo’s Horrible Therapy Movie – Don’t care too much about celebrities, but this was pretty good analysis for a pretty ridiculous situation.
• I was raised in Christian Nationalism (it’s a cult) –
• You’re Being Gaslit By Generational Wealth –

mmmmm art

• The Legend of Ethan Klein  | Aamon Animations – If you don’t know who Ethan Klein and/or Hasan Piker and/or Sam Seder of the Majority Report, and what went down earlier in 2025. This may just be just some unsettling creepy animation slop (although you better appreciate the work put into it). Now, if you were around to see Ethan fall deeper and deeper into a hole he dug for himself to defend Israel, this animation is PRETTY FUCKIN’ AMAZING.
• DOMi & JD Beck – Madvillainy Tribute (Madlib – MF DOOM) – I mean, just listen.

albums that album

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i love music, i’m an album listener and these are some that never fail front to back.