Steve Wexler

Emma Goldman, ca. 1910.

#ResistanceRoots

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause.”
— Emma Goldman

With Dems like this, who needs enemies?

BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:

“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”

Tonight was a very bad night.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David H...

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The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another” Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” “even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Florida has announced that it will end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren. We hear the new rides at Disney World are sick! See of the coming attractions: nyer.cm/D2wAbzi

“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury In Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” the fight against American fascism is a family affair.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, “One Battle After Another,” is a father-daughter epic, with an unusually personal gush of feeling, Justin Chang writes.

Thunderbirds remembered on 60th anniversary of first TV series Gerry and Sylvia Anderson co-created the hit science-fiction puppet series, which ran from 1965.

5 4 3 2 1 - Thunderbirds is 60
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Honestly if you support this shit on any level I think you’re an evil person, like wtf is wrong with you.

A lonely sauropod, Huashanosaurus qini, singing by himself in the marshlands of southern China during the Early-Middle Jurassic

The newly discovered Huashanosaurus qini singing by himself in the marshlands of southern China during the Early-Middle #Jurassic
#dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just told the FCC chairman to hire a lawyer and preserve records because they will be held accountable in 2027 when democrats take the House.

Oh and he’s wearing a Jimmy Kimmel hat.

#Chargers! 🙌🏈✊

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

“There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto.”

There’s more of us. . .

Black and white photograph of the writer Ray Bradbury holding a cigarette lighter in one hand and a paperback copy of Fahrenheit 451 in the other. I messed around with the image at the printing stage so it looks as though the book is smouldering.

Ray Bradbury (1984) photograph by Anne Billson

Harvard’s Mixed Victory A resounding win for the university in court still leaves the Trump Administration with plenty of ways to force schools into submission.

A lower-court judge has sided with Harvard in its lawsuit against the Trump Administration, concluding that the Administration “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”

JD & boss.

RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors.

Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after Annunciation Catholic School shooting:

“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying!”

Stop paying for a f-cking minute and demand action by people and not just God.

YouTube video by Robert Reich Fascism 101: Trump’s Takeover of D.C. | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

A fascist takeover of an American city.

An economy buckling under the weight of tariffs and chaos.
A Project 2025 contributor in charge of government data.

We break down the week’s biggest stories on a new Coffee Klatch.

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The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.