@BerkGormless
@berkgormless.bsky.social
Seattleite, citizen, postlapsarian cognitive flaneur.
"There is hope, infinite hope. Just not for us." -- Kafka
"There is hope, infinite hope. Just not for us." -- Kafka
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Oh good grief. This is what happens when we devalue expertise. Journalists, Librarians, Booksellers, Writers, literally ANYONE WHO READS could have made a real list of real books that actually exist.
Yep- the bogus summer reading list from the Chicago Sun Times is real. Here I am with it from a few minutes ago.
(Support your local library!!)
(Support your local library!!)
May 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh good grief. This is what happens when we devalue expertise. Journalists, Librarians, Booksellers, Writers, literally ANYONE WHO READS could have made a real list of real books that actually exist.
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A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (Published 2018)
The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:
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Still the best two sentences on climate action.
December 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
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These are two amazing artists. The fact one of America's foremost modern Jewish chroniclers of the Holocaust is turning to Gaza should also not be lost on anyone
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:07 PM
These are two amazing artists. The fact one of America's foremost modern Jewish chroniclers of the Holocaust is turning to Gaza should also not be lost on anyone
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My top mobility policy of 2024: Higher parking fees for huge cars
Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps.
Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...
Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps.
Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...
Parisians Vote to Triple Parking Fees for Big S.U.V.s and Other Hefty Cars
The city authorities say that large cars pollute more and are dangerous for pedestrians. Opponents say the mayor is on a crusade against motorists.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 1:27 PM
My top mobility policy of 2024: Higher parking fees for huge cars
Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps.
Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...
Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps.
Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...
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The one way to save money and jobs….
Congress gives PBMs another escape hatch, as fundamental reforms to the way we pay for medicines and the incentives that often work against drug affordability yet again get swallowed into the abyss of DC politics. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/19/a...
Pharmacists bemoan loss of prescription drug middleman reforms from government spending package • Ohio Capital Journal
A vast array of legislative priorities are in doubt after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk worked to sink a bipartisan deal to fund the government, including a deal to rein in pharmacy drug ...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The one way to save money and jobs….
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It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
December 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
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Shameful that three Senate Democrats - Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin - helped the Islamophobic GOP block this well-qualified Muslim judge.
Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’
Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate court judge, wrote an angry letter to President Biden describing bigotry he faced in the confirmation process.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Shameful that three Senate Democrats - Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin - helped the Islamophobic GOP block this well-qualified Muslim judge.
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The story of Jan 6 is like this now. Trump supporters throw out several different and sometimes contradictory explanations: that it was a just cause, that it wasn’t a big deal, that the FBI did it. The point isn’t to convince but to sow doubt in the truth… of an insurrection attempt incited by lies.
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
The story of Jan 6 is like this now. Trump supporters throw out several different and sometimes contradictory explanations: that it was a just cause, that it wasn’t a big deal, that the FBI did it. The point isn’t to convince but to sow doubt in the truth… of an insurrection attempt incited by lies.
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A key to the success of the whole Bari Weiss grift is that a lot of top media people actually sympathize with it. She pretends it's like pirate radio but it's actually a major strain of thinking throughout mainstream media.
News: Chuck Lane, deputy opinion editor for The Washington Post, is leaving the newspaper.
He’ll be joining The Free Press.
He’ll be joining The Free Press.
December 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
A key to the success of the whole Bari Weiss grift is that a lot of top media people actually sympathize with it. She pretends it's like pirate radio but it's actually a major strain of thinking throughout mainstream media.
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Can confirm it takes years and years and years and is deeply humiliating and that’s if you’re lucky enough to have both parents be ok with it and live in a country that supports care (like Canada, for now)
It’s genuinely shocking if you’re remotely familiar with the basic facts of trans care and youth medicine.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court
December 4, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Can confirm it takes years and years and years and is deeply humiliating and that’s if you’re lucky enough to have both parents be ok with it and live in a country that supports care (like Canada, for now)
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not good, not good
www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...
December 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
not good, not good
www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...
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America needs a legislative opposition as valiant as South Korea's.
December 3, 2024 at 7:28 PM
America needs a legislative opposition as valiant as South Korea's.
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"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie."
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie."
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
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The dangerous alliance between the criminal Kushner and Netanyahu families goes back decades. An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
The dangerous alliance between the criminal Kushner and Netanyahu families goes back decades. An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:
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I say again, support your local public libraries!
We visited ours today to file our toddler’s first-ever passport application. It’s a major public service not all libraries offer, so we are super thankful this is a thing here. The whole process took just an hour (including a stop for pastries).
We visited ours today to file our toddler’s first-ever passport application. It’s a major public service not all libraries offer, so we are super thankful this is a thing here. The whole process took just an hour (including a stop for pastries).
November 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM
I say again, support your local public libraries!
We visited ours today to file our toddler’s first-ever passport application. It’s a major public service not all libraries offer, so we are super thankful this is a thing here. The whole process took just an hour (including a stop for pastries).
We visited ours today to file our toddler’s first-ever passport application. It’s a major public service not all libraries offer, so we are super thankful this is a thing here. The whole process took just an hour (including a stop for pastries).
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today in the 1996 archive: three denver DJs pull a "prank" of invading a mosque to play the national anthem, and then the next day they feel super bad and apologize BY FAX
November 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
today in the 1996 archive: three denver DJs pull a "prank" of invading a mosque to play the national anthem, and then the next day they feel super bad and apologize BY FAX
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Still not like jury nullification. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Still not like jury nullification. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
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Ah yes, surely one of the main takeaways from #MeToo was that if police didn’t arrest someone for a sexual assault, then the sexual assault didn’t happen.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Senate Republicans are more receptive to Hegseth despite Gaetz’s exit
Senators stressed that police had investigated a 2017 allegation that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, had drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at a California political conference ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Ah yes, surely one of the main takeaways from #MeToo was that if police didn’t arrest someone for a sexual assault, then the sexual assault didn’t happen.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
November 21, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
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Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries."
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Rep. Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms
The South Carolina Republican’s resolution comes two weeks after the historic election of Democrat Sarah McBride, a trans woman, to Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries."
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...