Paul Hood
@paulhood2.bsky.social
Lefty Progressive, critical intellectual but spiritual with atheist friends. I would rather that America not destroy itself and the world with stupidity and greed ( oops, too late? )
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March 31, 2025 (Monday)
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln. Less than a month after Lincoln had taken office, Seward...
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April 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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He 'Understood the Assignment': Support for Al Green Pours In After Disruption of Trump Speech www.commondreams.org/news/al-gree...
He 'Understood the Assignment': Support for Al Green Pours In After Disruption of Trump Speech | Common Dreams
"Al Green stood up. Would like to see more people stand up," wrote Ezra Levin, the co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
He 'Understood the Assignment': Support for Al Green Pours In After Disruption of Trump Speech www.commondreams.org/news/al-gree...
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
An Artist’s Dispatches From Luigi Mangione’s Hearing hyperallergic.com/991983/an-ar...
An Artist’s Dispatches From Luigi Mangione’s Hearing
I showed up at the Manhattan courthouse with my watercolor pencils and paper in hand only to find that everyone wanted “the shot,” and that this work is not for the faint of heart.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
An Artist’s Dispatches From Luigi Mangione’s Hearing hyperallergic.com/991983/an-ar...
Luigi Mangione Cleans Up Nicely in New Courtroom Sketches hyperallergic.com/991692/luigi...
Luigi Mangione Cleans Up Nicely in New Courtroom Sketches
Jane Rosenberg's latest sketches show the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter gazing into the distance in a green sweater and bulletproof vest.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Luigi Mangione Cleans Up Nicely in New Courtroom Sketches hyperallergic.com/991692/luigi...
February 20, 2025
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February 20, 2025
On Monday, James Marriott of The Times, published in London, noted that the very stability and comfort of the post–World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish...
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February 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Donald Trump Brings Back “Degenerate Art” hyperallergic.com/991223/donal...
Donald Trump Brings Back “Degenerate Art”
The president’s obsession with cultural control is evidence of a continued fascist creep, and not just another joke exercise in narcissism.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Donald Trump Brings Back “Degenerate Art” hyperallergic.com/991223/donal...
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
February 11, 2025
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January 14, 2025
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January 14, 2025
Shortly after midnight last night, the Justice Department released special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on former president Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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FB won't let me post this for some reason. www.newsweek.com/unitedhealth...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Updates: Luigi Mangione's manifesto revealed
The man being questioned in connection with the murder of Brian Thompson has been named as Luigi Mangione, 26. Follow Newsweek's live blog for updates.
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December 9, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Ah, the faces of cowardice.
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Ah, the faces of cowardice.
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While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
BREAKING: Republicans try to UNDO Democratic win
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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December 6, 2024 at 3:22 AM
While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
Ugh.
I only taught journalism for years but every part of this seems pretty unambiguously wrong and also un-American
December 6, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Ugh.
OMFG, Enron again.
The smartest guys in the room. What could go wrong?
Enron is back cryptoslate.com/enron-is-bac...
December 3, 2024 at 6:46 AM
OMFG, Enron again.
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"Patel is a purveyor of far-right conspiracism in other ways that overlap with QAnon. He claims a nefarious Deep State controls the US government and is arrayed against Trump and conservatives. He encourages paranoia and calls for revenge."
How Kash Patel, Trump's FBI pick, embraced the unhinged QAnon movement
His extremism goes far beyond assailing a supposed Deep State.
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December 2, 2024 at 9:49 PM
"Patel is a purveyor of far-right conspiracism in other ways that overlap with QAnon. He claims a nefarious Deep State controls the US government and is arrayed against Trump and conservatives. He encourages paranoia and calls for revenge."
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The conundrum of our politics is that we may need a populist message to win back the working class, but once you start down that path you could horseshoe into pet-eating hateful nonsense.
December 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM
The conundrum of our politics is that we may need a populist message to win back the working class, but once you start down that path you could horseshoe into pet-eating hateful nonsense.
December 1, 2024
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December 3, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Biden should invoke the MOU between DOJ and his office, as well as the Presidential Transition Act, to investigate thoseTrump says he wants to put in office. The MOU triggers background investigations of nominees “at the request of the [sitting] president.”
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Opinion | Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks
The FBI has conducted background investigations of White House nominees since at least the tenure of President Dwight Eisenhower’s time in office.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Biden should invoke the MOU between DOJ and his office, as well as the Presidential Transition Act, to investigate thoseTrump says he wants to put in office. The MOU triggers background investigations of nominees “at the request of the [sitting] president.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Mmmm, nah, bumbling but not evil is not the worst.
November 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Mmmm, nah, bumbling but not evil is not the worst.
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