A. Jay Adler

Besides nothing says "heritage" like antisemitism. Our roots are deep!

The World According to Julia Dean According to me

My commentary on the work and career of #photojournalist, street #photographer, visual #artist, and my life partner, Julia Dean.

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God is an ironist.

The NYT has defenders?

DC says it all

For your children and grandchildren and theirs to come. For yourselves.

If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.

Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.

And it's good only in effect (so far), not intent, because Trump's intentions are only always for himself.

Tyranny of the Senses Art Disbelieves the Brutalitarians

To imagine the tyrant is a tyranny of the senses.

Art is the sword of the senses in a free mind opposed in its nature to tyranny.

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No kings. No liars. No plutocracy. No kleptocracy. Democracy.

What is this -- like the plane in the storm in Almost Famous?

I wrote a trans paper! (Updating for the times.)

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

This Is Who We Are Until we stop it

Your Fellow American Is a Fascist and Other Hard Truths of Feckless Submission and Complicity

"You are what you do while you’re busy claiming who you are."

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This language incites violence and terrorism.

So in other words, Judge is only the second player in major league history, after Babe Ruth himself, to hit over 50 home runs four separate times.

In ‘Dead Center,’ Joe Manchin Says He’s Been Right All Along

Joe Manchin has never been right one second in his life. "Dead" center is right. Why not "More of the same that got us here, how 'bout that, how'd ya like that?"

In ‘Dead Center,’ Joe Manchin Says He’s Been Right All Along www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Trump Signs Order Targeting Antifa Movement

Next, he'll outlaw the Force.

Trump Signs Order Targeting Antifa Movement - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

<Mary L. Tabor> on Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler A brilliant play that rightly won awards and that raises serious questions now, in the life we live now about the humane, the moral, and ultimately what freedom means.

What We Were Thinking Of, conclusion
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Yeah. It’s Fascism. Earmuffs, JD.

"Twenty years before MAGA, Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of fascism.

Eco warned in the 1990s of the ghost of fascism re-emerging to stalk the world. That ghost has become a clear and present danger today."

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Absolutely the single unchallengeable justification for AI.

Ladies and gentlemen and kind people, your U.S. FBI director.

Van Nuys car wash owner raided by ICE speaks out | Haystack News The 80-year-old owner of a Van Nuys carwash, an American citizen, suffered multiple injuries after he was run over and tackled by federal agents, who detained him and five of his employees. Carlos Sau...

This kind of thing is now going on across the United States -- no kind of genuine, professional policing, but rather brutal, arms-weilding, military-style assaults -- on a carwash and an 80-year-old man, with pedestrians just walking by in the America we now live in.
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In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission

This breaking news from Peter Baker and the New York Times 10 years on.

Remember the unity Trump sought on January 6, 2021?

Remember the unity message of the 2016 campaign?

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MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for suggesting that Charlie Kirk helped foster the social conditions that killed him.

And this Nazi euthanasia abomination?

Two more reasons: the acquiescence of institutional journalism to the delusional, alternative reality of the MAGA lie; and the number one reason Charlie Kirk's politics are being sanitized: more Trump.

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil

Brazil, “America.” Anerica -- Brazil.

Bolsonaro Convicted by Supreme Coury of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, could face decades in prison.

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Homo Vitruvius - An Interview with A. Jay Adler A Beyond the Bookshelf Profile

My interview, published today, by the prepared and perceptive Matthew Long of Beyond the Bookshelf. It was a great exchange. Thank you to Matthew for the opportunity to introduce myself to new readers.

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These cops need to fired and charged with assault. Every supervisor who hasn't yet disavowed these practices needs to be fired. The mayors and the governors of the two states need to be called to account.

It's coming, everyone.

Trump's masked thugs are dying to shoot people.