Peter C. Baker

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

researched this same question myself for a discarded novel -- very much yes.

JENNY HOLZER-ISH FORMATTING REALLY ADDS A CERTAIN SOMETHING SOMETIMES

It feels appropriate that the best reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times has been by seasoned war reporters who understand the stakes and, by extension, the need to protect sources or sensitive information.

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

An NYT headline reads “Federal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolis”

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

Homeland Empire • EQUATOR From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity

A brilliant essay linking Trump's imperial ambitions in "our hemisphere" to the mass deportation and nativist hysteria empowering ICE and CBP as the new, unaccountable federal policing authority at home. The end goal? "Governing populations as subjects rather than citizens." @equatormag.bsky.social

Yep!

My introduction to US history 1960 -2000 came almost entirely from reading collected Doonesbury volumes and asking my dad to explain stuff I didn't get.

if they did January 6 today, it'd be called "January 6-7." Thank you for reading. RIP Ashley Babbert

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

Weirdly makes total sense to me, though I can't yet articulate why. It's some kind of reflection of his whole (pretty warped, imo) thing with 'culture.'

it's abysmal on the teacher end too.

I think this moment - an internet native tech magazine choosing to cover authoritarian overreach via a zine - is pretty significant.

Print is a rent strike.

Niche illinois question: I keep resubmitting my insurance application through Get covered. No matter what I put in as our family MAGI (which is over 318% of FPL), the system automatically slots my kids into 'All Kids.' why???

TritonGPT is Here and Ready to Help The latest innovation developed at UC San Diego, TritonGPT is redefining how students, staff, faculty and researchers work together. Its suite of artificial intelligence assistants act as helpers, tut...

At this time I would council students to avoid institutions making these kinds of investments. It's a signal that they are eager to move away from human contact and interpersonal exchanges and outsource it to generative AI. They are declaring their values. today.ucsd.edu/story/triton...

If you insist ...

I wrote a novel about extraordinary rendition, marriage, being a parent, having parents, small-town North Carolina, Rome, school board politics, cats, and more -- and it's available in stocking-friendly paperback.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676700...

The Noise of Desire Caroline Polachek: 'Welcome to My Island' + Suburban Soccer Pickup + Waiting + Wanting + Crying at Costco

My intermittent blog/stack/media empire TRACKS ON TRACKS -- where writers explore their relationships to individual songs - is back for a holiday season run.

First up, Deborah Shapiro on listening to Caroline Polachek in the car with her 14-year-old son after soccer practice...

It's toasted

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. ٠١٨٨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION

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The National Movement to Halt the Spread of Multifamily Housing, 1890-1926 Efforts to prohibit apartments, rather than merely regulate their construction and condition, began in the 1890s. Through the early 1920s, major cities used stringent building codes to achieve this...

'Through early 1920s, major cities used stringent building codes to [prohibit multifamily]. During this era housing experts played a leading role in nurturing the ideology that multifamily housing was an evil.'

wow.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Deeply deeply Northwestern move tbh