That is most pissed-off Junco I have ever seen

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

You are my kind of Zionist 🫡

Between this and Bessent suggesting that middle class parents buy 10 to 12 houses for retirement, one gets the impression that these folks live in a different world than most of us.

A very wealthy fam near us hosted a Gatsby-themed party for their son the summer before his freshman year in high school. A lot of people are not very perceptive readers, and only see the glitz in the novel.

Lansing, Michigan, is one of two cities where Malcolm X crosses MLK. (The other is Washington, D.C.) Malcolm spent his formative years in the area and still has family there.

Insanity!

Now do Caroline Leavitt

What's been weird to learn is that other leaders of institutions act the same way. Some of them hoard and protect their influence like it's money because they, too, are rich. You don't get rich by giving your money away and (they seem to believe) you don't get powerful by exercising your power. But, in fact, that is often how power works: using power can help build power. At the very least, power holds no value unless it is exercised, which alone is a valid reason to exercise it. If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful. I'm talking here primarily about the huge, obvious loci of power — the centers of power that exist in part to serve as checks on other centers of power. Congress vis-a-vis the presidency. The media relative to the government. Higher education in contrast to misinformation. But they often aren't serving as checks on what's unfolding, or are obviously and bizarrely using their power only sparingly, garden hoses aimed at protecting their own homes from the wildfire. So it's left to individuals, who have stepped up where institutions have not.

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
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John Oliver w/o the irony.

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage.

Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

I took it the way you did when I first saw it.

Headline from The American Bazaar, viral racist and sexist political ad triggers backlash from White House republicans committee. By Keerthi Ramesh

Political analysts say the incident highlights broader tensions in modern campaign strategy, because short digital videos and social posts can reach millions within hours and elicit instantaneous reactions from political institutions. “This episode underscores how political communication has evolved,” said University of Alabama political communication expert A.J. Bauer. “Campaigns and their allies are experimenting with highly charged visuals and narrative framing, but that’s also increasing backlash and accusations of extremism on both sides.”

I am quoted in this AI slop story from some outlet called The American Bazaar.

Not only did I not say this vague/meaningless quote. I have never seen the ad in question nor have I ever received any communication from this so-called “reporter.”

YouTube video by DominiqueHMG Monique Morelli - L'affiche rouge (Aragon, Ferré) - TV 1961

Here´s a wonderful version on French TV from ´61. It usefully has the lyrics superimposed on the screen.

youtu.be/iNkLbczgMBs?...

Ferré owns it though. I still get teary-eyed when I hear the opening choir.

do I attribute this to you?

poemes-poesie.aidenmellois.fr/poeme/laffic...

The poem is by Louis Aragon; Ferre put it to music.

YouTube video by Léo Ferré Léo Ferre - L'affiche rouge (Audio Officiel)

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A few inches down in the article:

(The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

I'm sure that won't affect their objectivity re: AI.

Thank you!

Satchel, is this new? I have sent links to Sun-Times articles before, and received replies from recipient that they were pay-walled. Was that just wrong?
I was aware that the BEZ's content was free.

Thanks.

Hey, Sun-Times. Subscriber here, appreciate all your work. I don't know how difficult it is to administer, but NYT allows one to share 10 articles a month. I realize that number may be a bit high for a smaller paper, but I think even a smaller number would spread S-T's influence & be great exposure

thanks! that's wonderful.

Thank you! I loved Lee Morgan

While I think that is true, I also think that it's in part cumulative; the outrage over Pretti's death was primed in part by the outrage over Good's.
Also, Good's car allowed people of bad faith to argue that Ross was threatened; Pretti was shot in the back, and that makes it hard to pretend.

Wild to for a jewish organization to be like "well if mamdani wasn't such a fucking rootless cosompolitan" bsky.app/profile/joel...

‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme Josep Maria García got the shock of his life when he found his image associated with the phrase online

Originally in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Direct action means insisting on your right to act as if you’re already free. If someone is doing something bad, you try to stop them, in the way you’d hope anyone would act in a free and just society. If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not treat them like authorities, you act as if they were a bunch of guys in blue costumes with weapons — that is, basically, a violent street gang." . - David Graeber