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Good obit — though it leaves out Roubaud's many connections to US poetry & translation — by Adam Nossiter. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/b...
Jacques Roubaud, Poetic Master of Form and Whimsy, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Good obit — though it leaves out Roubaud's many connections to US poetry & translation — by Adam Nossiter. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/b...
Useful terminology & thinking via Timothy Snyder:
Why is Musk-Trump the "Mump Regime"? open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Why is Musk-Trump the "Mump Regime"? open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Why is Musk-Trump the "Mump Regime"?
Ask the Mumpers and the Mumpets
open.substack.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Useful terminology & thinking via Timothy Snyder:
Why is Musk-Trump the "Mump Regime"? open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Why is Musk-Trump the "Mump Regime"? open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Today, my old friend & collaborator Jerome Rothenberg would have turned 93. Here we are many moons ago, celebrating after a long day anthologizing... Miss you every day, Jerry!
December 11, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Today, my old friend & collaborator Jerome Rothenberg would have turned 93. Here we are many moons ago, celebrating after a long day anthologizing... Miss you every day, Jerry!
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GE boasted $7 billion in profit in 2023. So it must have paid a lot in federal taxes, right?
If you guessed $1, you’d still be high. In fact, GE got a *refund* of $423 million.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged for the rich.
If you guessed $1, you’d still be high. In fact, GE got a *refund* of $423 million.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged for the rich.
February 14, 2024 at 1:52 AM
GE boasted $7 billion in profit in 2023. So it must have paid a lot in federal taxes, right?
If you guessed $1, you’d still be high. In fact, GE got a *refund* of $423 million.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged for the rich.
If you guessed $1, you’d still be high. In fact, GE got a *refund* of $423 million.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged for the rich.
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The results of my investigation are shocking. If data brokers can help extremists target misinformation to patients at Planned Parenthood, right-wing prosecutors in red states could use that same information to put women in jail. Protecting Americans' private health data has never been more urgent.
A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads, senator says
The details in Wyden's letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what’s believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2024 at 6:53 PM
The results of my investigation are shocking. If data brokers can help extremists target misinformation to patients at Planned Parenthood, right-wing prosecutors in red states could use that same information to put women in jail. Protecting Americans' private health data has never been more urgent.