Paul Cohen

that would be the thing that would finally provoke the schism

not on the Colnago I hope!

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

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en effet

sarko chaussures sarko chaussures. Paris.

Quand on a besoin de talonnettes ? www.flickr.com/photos/mathi...

Photo de la devanture d'une fromagerie à Vincennes qui porte le nom, Fromagerie Platini

quand on echoue à devenir président de la FIFA

that McDonald's has concluded that American consumer culture no longer has any need of demand-doping Christmas is proof positive that we are hurtling towards a post-capitalist episteme

en rédigeant mon tweet hier, j'avais une crainte que des Vincennois(es) voient ma petite blague ridicule

je tiens à leur préciser qu'à mon sens, fromager est un état bien plus honorable que président de la FIFA !

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

i'm in love

BHL's American Vertigo?

Julian Jackson, The Fall of France

knowing NYS this bumbling fool might just well win

Photo de la devanture d'une fromagerie à Vincennes qui porte le nom, Fromagerie Platini

quand on echoue à devenir président de la FIFA

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

great to hear of your editing progress, and my thanks for your kind words, I'm delighted I could, in some [very] small way, help -- and looking forward to reading your piece in print!

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again' Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

lest we forget they were Franco's team ...

I love pétanque too! though I am terrible at it; but any sport one can play while sipping pastis or rosé is a sport after my heart

once you find a winning formula you have to stick with it

no doubt about it the Swiss make the best FIFA presidents

"The stagflation will continue until morale improves"

think i may drop football and follow pétanque instead

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet: "The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people"

"Billionaires should be abolished and their wealth nationalized, so that governments can better represent their people."

the classicalist mistake

screenshot of a Fabrizio Romano tweet announcing "USA President Donald Trump wins the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize" above a photograph of Trump with FIFA chief Gianni Infantino

hard to imagine a worthier recipient of a prize that so perfectly encapsulates FIFA's values