Stephen Shapiro

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August 8 2025 NYC, NY Mass arrests outside the ICE building at 26 Federal Plaza as anti-ICE protesters blocked the street during a demonstration demanding access to detainees. Among the demonstrators were faith leaders, who said they were denied entry into the facility.
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Revolutionary tech transforms lives of the visually impaired – DW – 08/08/2025 Could AI and robots improve the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired? Here's a look at some innovations like robotic guide dogs, AI canes, and accessible video games.

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This is a keen insight.
The new alt-right are basement dwellers who were forced to stay in the basement longer than even they wanted to do.

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YouTube video by WXXINews Vandalized Frederick Douglass statue replaced in Rochester

Restorative Justice works
5 years ago 2 white men toppled a statue of Frederick Douglass near a #rochester, NY point on the Underground Railroad.

When the statue was recreated, the men asked to be allowed to physically carry it to the site and screw it back in.
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The best, slightly earlier presentation is E.T.A. Hoffman's The Golden Pot, which asks the question if a salamander can be a loyal subject (and Čapek later has an anti colonial answer in The War with the Newts)

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature: Foucault, Neoliberalism, Algorithmic Governmentality, and the Loss of Liberal Culture Stephen ShapiroDownload this chapter as a PDF.Neoliberalism as a New Epoch of Historical CapitalismEven by 1978, Michel Foucault was aware of claims that neoliberalism was not anything new or differen...

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Shapiro, Stephen. “Foucault, Neoliberalism, Algorithmic Governmentality, and the Loss of Liberal Culture.” In Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature, ed by Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro. Dartmouth College Press, 2019. pub.dartmouth.edu/ncal/foucaul....

That time Benito Mussolini declared war on Italian pasta To modern-day Italians, pasta is more than a food; it’s a part of their heritage the fascists could not destroy.

Mussolini tried to banish spaghetti
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Séverine, la démolisseuse du vieux monde Militante libertaire, journaliste engagée, Séverine est tombée dans l’oubli après sa mort en 1929. Si son parcours n’est pas dénué d’errements politiques, il témoigne d’une constance à défendre les p…

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YouTube video by WXXINews Vandalized Frederick Douglass statue replaced in Rochester

Restorative Justice works
5 years ago 2 white men toppled a statue of Frederick Douglass near a #rochester, NY point on the Underground Railroad.

When the statue was recreated, the men asked to be allowed to physically carry it to the site and screw it back in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAo...

A lot of folks don't realize that apart from the opening sequence (in the far west of West Berlin) and the scenes in P'lauerberg (in the East), the entire film is shot within a tight 100m radius.

Wim Wenders: Cinema and the 'art of getting lost' – DW – 08/07/2025 As the German auteur turns 80, a retrospective looks at how his global journeys and cinematic vision have been shaped in part by the beauty of losing his bearings.

I confess that the first place I visited on my first trip to Berlin, was the Stadtbibliothek in search of angels.
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A Kenneth Cole 1992 Print Ad

"When Vice President Dan Quayle was corrected by a sixth-grader for adding an “e” onto “potato” during a spelling bee, we just couldn’t resist. The Republicans then went on to lose the election that year to President Bill Clinton."

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Enys Men is excellent as is Bait (2019).

Revolutionary tech transforms lives of the visually impaired – DW – 08/08/2025 Could AI and robots improve the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired? Here's a look at some innovations like robotic guide dogs, AI canes, and accessible video games.

www.dw.com/en/revolutio...

Leaning to Reform would be one of the more idiotic ideas in an industry already pretty thick with them.

Instead, a robust EDI strategy is the real financial opportunity to the funding crisis as thanks to the American buffoon, the UK can proudly show it is open to foreign students.

gleichschaltung, baby, UK-style

ICE arrests in L.A. plummeted in July, new data show The number of arrests of undocumented immigration in the Los Angeles area appears to have dropped significantly since June.

gestapo theater
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when they're right, they're right
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when they're right, they're right
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Wim Wenders: Cinema and the 'art of getting lost' – DW – 08/07/2025 As the German auteur turns 80, a retrospective looks at how his global journeys and cinematic vision have been shaped in part by the beauty of losing his bearings.

I confess that the first place I visited on my first trip to Berlin, was the Stadtbibliothek in search of angels.
www.dw.com/en/wim-wende...

Rushanara Ali resigns as homelessness minister after rent hike ‘hypocrisy’ In a letter to the PM, Ms Ali said remaining in the role would be a ‘distraction’ from the work of the Government

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ICE arrests in L.A. plummeted in July, new data show The number of arrests of undocumented immigration in the Los Angeles area appears to have dropped significantly since June.

gestapo theater
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Big changes could be coming for your 401(k) | CNN Business President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that could make it easier for 401(k)s and other workplace retirement plans to offer employees the option of investing some of their savings...

the financial crash of 2008 is on the phone for you
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French pessimism rocks!

Commentary: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out With the Games happening in a presidential election year, Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation aggressions to proclaim his mission acco...

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