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Artist, educator, one-time scholar & sometime activist. Eat politics for dinner.
What could constitute a more blatant effort to overturn an election? From pressuring GA’s top election official to find votes to blasting media with false reports to tampering with voting machines and intimidating witnesses, it’s not clear what more DJT & allies needed to do to warrant indictment.
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What could constitute a more blatant effort to overturn an election? From pressuring GA’s top election official to find votes to blasting media with false reports to tampering with voting machines and intimidating witnesses, it’s not clear what more DJT & allies needed to do to warrant indictment.
Discovering and falling in love with pockets of the country .. new citizens out flexing their rights, friend and neighbors out honking their horns
‘Why just me?’ Charlotte man says Border Patrol broke pickup window, stole keys
“Are you an illegal immigrant?” the man said an officer asked. He replied that he didn’t have to answer and asked why he was singled out.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Discovering and falling in love with pockets of the country .. new citizens out flexing their rights, friend and neighbors out honking their horns
“I could have easily not gotten the story and…said, you’re a fucking pedophile and I can’t see you anymore.
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
The Journalist, The Murderer, and The Epstein Files
Michael Wolff got the story
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“I could have easily not gotten the story and…said, you’re a fucking pedophile and I can’t see you anymore.
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
Agog any serious artist can consider representing US at this year's Venice Biennale (even if we are usually a pretty craven lot). Little chance Mexico-based Alma Allen's work can (or aspires to) counteract the toxicity of this regime. Is it to his credit that we'll be spared Curtis Yarvin?
Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
hyperallergic.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Agog any serious artist can consider representing US at this year's Venice Biennale (even if we are usually a pretty craven lot). Little chance Mexico-based Alma Allen's work can (or aspires to) counteract the toxicity of this regime. Is it to his credit that we'll be spared Curtis Yarvin?
This hurts but here is a bit of glinting light on a stormy sea. In 2001, legions of Muslim men were rounded up, held, aggressively interrogated, persecuted .. and except for a few news reports, everyone stayed mum. No excuse but different times & circumstances. Question: Do we care more now?
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This hurts but here is a bit of glinting light on a stormy sea. In 2001, legions of Muslim men were rounded up, held, aggressively interrogated, persecuted .. and except for a few news reports, everyone stayed mum. No excuse but different times & circumstances. Question: Do we care more now?
So the good news is he is wiping out the talent, which could hurt his plans for a putsch. The downside is perhaps they are the generals with scruples? Their firings too will intimidate the rest. Who hopefully won’t delay coming to their senses, as did the good Prussian officers of the 20 July plot.
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So the good news is he is wiping out the talent, which could hurt his plans for a putsch. The downside is perhaps they are the generals with scruples? Their firings too will intimidate the rest. Who hopefully won’t delay coming to their senses, as did the good Prussian officers of the 20 July plot.
Celebrating, but had to sniff out NYT back-handed compliment.“The Mamdani campaign gave a lonely generation something to bond over. ‘Addicted to their screens, strapped for cash, spiritually unmoored and socially stunted by the pandemic, young New Yorkers needed a reason to get out of the house.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Celebrating, but had to sniff out NYT back-handed compliment.“The Mamdani campaign gave a lonely generation something to bond over. ‘Addicted to their screens, strapped for cash, spiritually unmoored and socially stunted by the pandemic, young New Yorkers needed a reason to get out of the house.”
With electricity and communications down across Jamaica, it’s impossible to know the extent of harm—but they’re saying as hurricanes go, it is one of the worst.
Hurricane Melissa Has Arrived in Cuba
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
With electricity and communications down across Jamaica, it’s impossible to know the extent of harm—but they’re saying as hurricanes go, it is one of the worst.
Thinking of Sally Mann’s Civil War battlefield photos. Wondering if we will find our way back .. no, not to some gilded non-existent past, but maybe to that one unnoticed moment when more of us were decent. www.sallymann.com/new-gallery-3
Battlefields — Sally Mann
www.sallymann.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Thinking of Sally Mann’s Civil War battlefield photos. Wondering if we will find our way back .. no, not to some gilded non-existent past, but maybe to that one unnoticed moment when more of us were decent. www.sallymann.com/new-gallery-3
Just incase you wondered what democracy demo looks like…
From the washingtondc community on Reddit: An Excavator demolishing the East Wing of the Whitehouse Yesterday, A National Historic Landmark
Posted by Spacecowboy78 - 252 votes and 86 comments
www.reddit.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just incase you wondered what democracy demo looks like…
How many diehard NYT readers are sick to death of their unrelenring anti-left bias. Dems not willing to kill off healthcare affordability for millions are to blame? Really? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Democrats See No Need to Capitulate, Nor Republicans to Cut a Deal
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How many diehard NYT readers are sick to death of their unrelenring anti-left bias. Dems not willing to kill off healthcare affordability for millions are to blame? Really? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Did Baudrillard & De Lillo get this one right? We hear about disassociated groypers & edge lords socializing in shooter games & trading memes in irony-clad echo chambers. Language is alienating as signifiers are freed from signified. Until someone wakes up with a plan, involving a ladder & a gun.
September 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Did Baudrillard & De Lillo get this one right? We hear about disassociated groypers & edge lords socializing in shooter games & trading memes in irony-clad echo chambers. Language is alienating as signifiers are freed from signified. Until someone wakes up with a plan, involving a ladder & a gun.
Was the shooter an extreme-right Groyper (which his meme use suggests but the NYT does not address)? OR was this revenge on behalf of his trans beloved? OR why bother seeking rational answers in irrational times? For Gov. Cox however why make claims without proof? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Was the shooter an extreme-right Groyper (which his meme use suggests but the NYT does not address)? OR was this revenge on behalf of his trans beloved? OR why bother seeking rational answers in irrational times? For Gov. Cox however why make claims without proof? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Astute points from another trench operative. Calls to mind parallels between, say, groyper “brain rot” & Weimar era fractures .. Dada yes, but maybe more aptly Pound, Eliot, Celine, with tech bros. standing in for Italo-fascist futurists.
Now however it’s the poetics of memes & guns.
Now however it’s the poetics of memes & guns.
Hasan Piker on Charlie Kirk
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Astute points from another trench operative. Calls to mind parallels between, say, groyper “brain rot” & Weimar era fractures .. Dada yes, but maybe more aptly Pound, Eliot, Celine, with tech bros. standing in for Italo-fascist futurists.
Now however it’s the poetics of memes & guns.
Now however it’s the poetics of memes & guns.
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While written as an intentional misdirection toward the reader, the "...practicing the very act that gave birth to this nation" hits closer to the target when you consider the economic "machinery" of much of the pre-industrial US.
September 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
While written as an intentional misdirection toward the reader, the "...practicing the very act that gave birth to this nation" hits closer to the target when you consider the economic "machinery" of much of the pre-industrial US.
Charles Blow on leaving the NYT: “The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice.“
Even Krugman has said: “I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.”
Even Krugman has said: “I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.”
I'm Back! Welcome to 'Blow the Stack'
"A Fierce Voice in Terrifying Times."
substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Charles Blow on leaving the NYT: “The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice.“
Even Krugman has said: “I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.”
Even Krugman has said: “I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.”
Redolent of the Blount, Philby and company MI6 debacle?
Gabbard abruptly ousted CIA Russia expert days after Trump-Putin meeting | CNN Politics
Shortly after President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Alaska, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard abruptly ousted a CIA expert who had helped brief Trump’s team in the le...
www.cnn.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Redolent of the Blount, Philby and company MI6 debacle?
Beautiful outcome as long as it lasts. There is a rare and fragile habitat that warrants protection. But so does human life. Beyond incarcerating the innocent, AA appears to have been modeled after France’s notorious Devil’s Island.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Beautiful outcome as long as it lasts. There is a rare and fragile habitat that warrants protection. But so does human life. Beyond incarcerating the innocent, AA appears to have been modeled after France’s notorious Devil’s Island.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Black Federal Reserve governor, Black Attorney General, both women, both same “trumped up” allegations. Starting to feel like we dialed back to 1883?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Steps Up Attack on Fed as He Demands a Governor Resign
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Black Federal Reserve governor, Black Attorney General, both women, both same “trumped up” allegations. Starting to feel like we dialed back to 1883?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
“Judge Dominic W. Lanza acknowledged that the Resolution Copper mine will destroy one of the Apache people's most sacred sites, could potentially inflict devastating environmental effects and use tremendous quantities of water as Arizona endures a historic drought.”
Court refuses to halt land swap that will let Resolution Copper build mine at Oak Flat
A federal judge conceded that a planned copper mine will destroy a site sacred to the Apache people, but refused to stop a land swap at the site.
www.azcentral.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“Judge Dominic W. Lanza acknowledged that the Resolution Copper mine will destroy one of the Apache people's most sacred sites, could potentially inflict devastating environmental effects and use tremendous quantities of water as Arizona endures a historic drought.”
A fascinating account of the intersections between foreign policy-making and back rooms filled with Russian mobsters, oligarchs and despots, NY developer wannabes, the laurel-wreathed academies & more tellingly unquestioned friendships and uncertain alliances. Yum. open.substack.com/pub/journalo...
Gangster Summit
Is First Friend Steve Witkoff Trump's Mini Me? And Putin's Patsy?
open.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A fascinating account of the intersections between foreign policy-making and back rooms filled with Russian mobsters, oligarchs and despots, NY developer wannabes, the laurel-wreathed academies & more tellingly unquestioned friendships and uncertain alliances. Yum. open.substack.com/pub/journalo...
Throwback to the 1990s? Reminded of time Trump accused five innocent teenagers of an act of extreme violence — only it wasn’t true. And for his purposes it didn’t need to be. He trained the spotlight on himself while igniting racist fears of urban “wolf packs”. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Trump Takes Control of D.C. Police, Citing ‘Bloodthirsty Criminals.’ But Crime Is Down.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Throwback to the 1990s? Reminded of time Trump accused five innocent teenagers of an act of extreme violence — only it wasn’t true. And for his purposes it didn’t need to be. He trained the spotlight on himself while igniting racist fears of urban “wolf packs”. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
As the saying goes, A people hire A people, B people hire C people…and (in this case) so on down the line
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
A Clash Over a Promotion Puts Hegseth at Odds With His Generals
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As the saying goes, A people hire A people, B people hire C people…and (in this case) so on down the line
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...