TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

I remember when I thought Dick Cheney was the worst GOP scumbag war criminal possible.

#GoodTimes

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What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A model of a Star Wars walker stands outside a sliding glass door in the snow.

“First you bug me to go out, and now you want to come right back in? You've been out there for like thirty seconds. Did you at least pee? Tell me you at least peed."

FAR more ironic - and tragic - than "Murphy Brown's daughter" (Chloe Malle) knifing @teenvogue.com in the back is that she's also the daughter of Louis Malle, director of Au Revoir Les Enfants, a great film about children being disappeared from classrooms by a fascist state. "Never forget", Chloe.

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

a man and a woman are touching noses in a black and white photo . ALT: a man and a woman are touching noses in a black and white photo .

Lois Smith, an actor who has played scenes with both James Dean and Tom Cruise, turns 95 today.

Look, I don't care how much you all love sports, you can't be posting like that as long as Donald has the nukes without at least mentioning you're talking about baseball.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

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Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...

‘A persistent challenge​ to anarchism is that it can’t work because human nature “isn’t like that”. People are too selfish. David Graeber responds by casting doubt on the idea that human nature is so simple.’

Richard Seymour reads David Graeber:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I am grateful for the small things the internet has given us, like the ability to watch a rare flower bloom that most of us would never have the chance to see otherwise. That is kinda cool, right?

We feed you.
They hunt us.

I feel like “fuck you guys, we don’t gotta explain shit” should be more of a scandal than it is.

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

We were thrilled to have the one and only Valerie Mahaffey star in 3 of our movies. She was smart, funny, kind & an amazing actress. As one critic said, When Valerie Mahaffey comes onto the screen it's like somebody opened a bottle of champagne.

"There seems, indeed, a decided lack of sympathy for noncombatant men in war zones. Even reports by international human rights organizations speak of massacres as being directed almost exclusively against women, children, and, perhaps, the elderly. The implication, almost never stated outright, is that adult males are either combatants or have something wrong with them." . - David Graeber

In 2015, David Graeber wrote, 'The Bully’s Pulpit: On the elementary structure of domination.'

Here is an extract.

davidgraeber.org/articles/the...

YouTube video by Canada 150 Archive The Late Show Trailer- Art Carney, Lily Tomlin (1977)

RIP Robert Benton, amazing career as a writer/director, highlights ranging from co-writing Bonnie & Clyde and Superman to directing Kramer vs Kramer and Nobody’s Fool. I recommend the Seventies Vibes classic The Late Show youtu.be/_TEA1XV0jsc

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber

I feel as if making Stephen Miller the National Security Advisor could result in us all dying in a really innovative and non-cliched way. Like not a Tom Clancy disaster but like some kind of John Kennedy Toole way where our demise is the manifestation of incel inadequacy

The Canadian Liberal Party trashes Donald Trump relentlessly, and yet he just helped them achieve an improbable come-from-behind victory. Where does he go for his apology?

Not a fan of this reboot of the 1996 movie Beautiful Girls

Standing signage reads “Verizon Prepaid. The only prepaid that’s also Verizon.”

it will take approximately 21 years to pay back the student loan debt incurred for the marketing degree that resulted in this sign

Charlie’s father “worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste ... But …however hard he worked, and however fast he screwed on the caps, [he] was never able to make enough” to feed his family.

Roald Dahl

Tessa Hadley · Packing Like a Fury: Marvellous Mavis Gallant The sheer quantity and variety of Gallant’s output is fascinating. She’s dislocated, a traveller, eager for clues,...

‘Mavis Gallant’s temperament is the opposite of a universalising one: she doesn’t believe that people’s experiences and feelings are the same under their different clothes. She thinks, like an anthropologist, that the clothes make all the difference.’

Tessa Hadley: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.