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RIP Robert Redford 🙏🏻
sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day
sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
RIP Robert Redford 🙏🏻
sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day
sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the first woman to lead the Grito de Delores.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
For the First Time in 215 Years, a Woman Leads Mexico’s Cry of Independence
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the first woman to lead the Grito de Delores.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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Rothkopf: "It was not just Mamdani being a younger candidate offering fresh perspectives that was a game-changer.
The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out."
The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out."
Sometimes the most significant developments happening around us are the hardest to appreciate as they are happening. My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Do We Even Understand the Importance of this Moment?
On several levels, it is clear the news distracts us from the real meaning of the times in which we live
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Rothkopf: "It was not just Mamdani being a younger candidate offering fresh perspectives that was a game-changer.
The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out."
The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out."
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‘Maybe we only begin to understand our families when we recognise the stories we can’t bear to tell about them.’
NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Air-Conditioned Unease: Joan Didion on the Couch
We can feel imprisoned by other people’s versions of who we are, especially if their urge is to blame. On one hand,...
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June 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
‘Maybe we only begin to understand our families when we recognise the stories we can’t bear to tell about them.’
NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is.
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June 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is.
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x.com/rachelvscott...
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Sisyphus Finds Happiness
existentialcomics.com/comic/607
existentialcomics.com/comic/607
Sisyphus Finds Happiness
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sisyphus Finds Happiness
existentialcomics.com/comic/607
existentialcomics.com/comic/607
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‘“Classic” may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add up to hatred, or indeed to anything – but this may reflect a deficiency in the word rather than the film.’
Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘La Haine’
‘Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
‘“Classic” may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add up to hatred, or indeed to anything – but this may reflect a deficiency in the word rather than the film.’
Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.
In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
May 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.
In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
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Literacy is activism.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.
February 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Literacy is activism.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.
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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.
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My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)
February 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)
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A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.
February 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.
February 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.
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‘This is a narrative about what has been lost, about strange, chthonic richness succeeded by erasure and silence.’
Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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February 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
‘This is a narrative about what has been lost, about strange, chthonic richness succeeded by erasure and silence.’
Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘The police entered in civilian clothes, used Google Translate to decipher the titles of the English language books and confiscated box loads, picking out any with a Palestinian flag on the cover.’
Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Selma Dabbagh | Ransacked
On 9 February, two branches of the Muna family’s bookshops in East Jerusalem were ransacked by Israeli police. They...
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February 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
‘The police entered in civilian clothes, used Google Translate to decipher the titles of the English language books and confiscated box loads, picking out any with a Palestinian flag on the cover.’
Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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Christian Nationalism is currently the biggest threat to democracy.
February 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Christian Nationalism is currently the biggest threat to democracy.
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Capitalists who made risky investments and failed would be wiped out. But the rich and powerful do not want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run the nanny state so when they are in trouble the taxpayer will bail them out. The conventional phrase is "too big to fail."
February 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Capitalists who made risky investments and failed would be wiped out. But the rich and powerful do not want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run the nanny state so when they are in trouble the taxpayer will bail them out. The conventional phrase is "too big to fail."
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‘Ali’s knowledge of left-wing groups around the world, of their local and global struggles and the way they relate to the strategies being pursued by the US and other major powers, is encyclopedic and in wide demand.’
Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett · Bad Times: Travels with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali’s loose and digressive book is many things: a history of a left-wing elite and its enemies since the 1980s;...
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February 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘Ali’s knowledge of left-wing groups around the world, of their local and global struggles and the way they relate to the strategies being pursued by the US and other major powers, is encyclopedic and in wide demand.’
Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Remembering the great Bob Paisley, who passed away in 1996 ❤️
February 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Remembering the great Bob Paisley, who passed away in 1996 ❤️
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The problem of “putting the public in its place” came to the fore with what one historian calls “the first great outburst of democratic thought in history,” the English revolution of the 17th century. This awakening of the general populace raised the problem of how to contain the threat. (1/2)
February 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The problem of “putting the public in its place” came to the fore with what one historian calls “the first great outburst of democratic thought in history,” the English revolution of the 17th century. This awakening of the general populace raised the problem of how to contain the threat. (1/2)