Knowing your taste, go for Mamoun's for shawarma, on Sullivan in the Village or St. Mark's Place.

The reports that Trump may designate Antifa as a foreign terrorist group reminds me of Voltaire's dig at the Holy Roman Empire -- It was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Antifa is not foreign, is not terrorist, and is not a group.

Sure you, a pessimist, sees blatant Nazi propaganda, but me, an optimist, sees a promise of full employment for closeted 50’s matinee idols.

YouTube video by Samguitar27 Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic

The Minutemen understood that showing a President bombing Americans was not a good look for the President in question. Trump's superpower is indeed his shamelessness, but he's losing traction and just keeps on getting weirder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDr2...

Task: I never knew murderous bikers listen to a lot of Richard and Linda Thompson. And not even "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"!

Btw, my mother went to two rock concerts in her entire life. One was seeing The Tubes in Paris.

A cappella Beths just won't be the same. :-(

There was a strain of conservative thinking during the Reagan Admin's glorification of the private sector which amounted to the Divine Right of Corporations. Capitalism was doing God's work in ending poverty, so any govt obstruction to their work was a sin. Same old, same old.

I still remember the colloquium at which you reported that 90s teens thought the 70s were so cool, and those of us who had been teenagers in the 70s just broke out laughing in dismay. But yeah, 70s paranoid thrillers were a nice subgenre. Also: the Ramones.

And beyond Hegseth's clear belief in white supremacy, he must also fear that black soldiers will be less willing to do Trump's dirty if and when push comes to shove.

No, it is because only the clean shaven can be effective soldiers.

Pentagon says troops can only be exempt from shaving their facial hair for a year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service.

No real reason to do this unless you want to drive Black soldiers out of the armed forces.

Daniel Marcus and Oliver Vodeb: Capitalism's Addictions

The new podcast episode is out: CAPITALISM’S ADDICTIONS! Daniel Marcus and Oliver Vodeb discuss ideas from the chapter we co-wrote in Radical Intimacies, showing how capitalism hasn’t just shaped addiction—it actively relies on it to grow. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/459u4mzu

I teach Do the Right Thing all the time and it continues to have a great impact. Sunset Boulevard also works, especially if students have been taught some silent films already.

Call me old-fashioned, but I ask you:

WHY do we let the tech industry do whatever the fuck it wants?

I, for one, don’t WANT the future Silicone Valley is shoving down our throats.

NO to strangers being able to dox me as I walk down the street.

NO to them being able to do it to my daughters.

So to recap, the current US administration is erasing the 20th century in order to restage the 19th century with 21st century technology.

Venice, off-season. Back-up for non-obvious answer: Zagreb.

Trump told the fossil fuel industry that if they fund his campaign, he'll do everything for them. Putting his funders above his voters, as the GOP always does.

Trump told the fossil fuel industry that if they fund his campaign, he'll do everything for them. Putting his funders above his voters, as the GOP always does.

Such an unrecognized film.

The What

Jane's Propensity

It’s an accessory for Fascist Barbie.

I thought 2025 would see vigilante militias parading through mid-sized cities in Red states, intimidating Trump opponents. Like the Freikorps militias of Weimar Germany, which morphed into the Nazis. I didn't think it through enough. Trump actually deputized them, and they're now in blue cities.

For a taste of the potential for abuse, look at the Florida sugar industry's use of the special H-2 designation to mistreat immigrant workers. See Alec Wilkinson's book Big Sugar and Stephanie Black's amazing documentary H-2 Worker.

For a taste of the potential for abuse, look at the Florida sugar industry's use of the special H-2 designation to mistreat immigrant workers. See Alec Wilkinson's book Big Sugar and Stephanie Black's amazing documentary H-2 Worker. 2 of 2

Trump's floating of a plan to tie immigrant workers to specific employers has rightly been denounced as a form of slavery, making the vulnerability of workers to abuse even greater than faced currently. 1 of 2

Going well. Students are talking, and the A/C works. What's not to like?