Links of the Month: July 2026

image by Layers on Pixabay (please check out the rest of her extraordinary and anonymous work at the same link) I’m in the process of writing an essay, and a song, about how, when it hurts too much, we reach the point we have to stop reading, stop watching, and even stop caring ‘too much’ about the endless atrocities happening everywhere in this world, and the suffering they cause. I keep linking to some of the news and articles about this, but I can no longer bear to read them, or internalize them, in full. An example is Cara Marianna’s latest article about how Israel’s US-funded and US-armed genocidal savagery has now expanded beyond Gaza and to other countries. This article includes first-hand accounts of Israel’s overt, deranged, unimaginable brutality in the West Bank. I couldn’t finish reading it. Half-way through I jumped to the end, to read this: Let us keep on bearing witness together. Palestinians I know tell me how much this means to them. But, however important, bearing…