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A VERY UNFLATTERING PHOTO OF DONALD TRUMP SCRUNCHING UP HIS FACE

Reading Trump's interview with bootlick Todd Sternes: "We've arrested hundreds of criminals, hard line criminals, people that will never be any good...They're born criminals, they were born to be criminals, that's all they are and we got them out of the system."

Not only evil but an awful bore too

The Night America Believed the Martians Had Landed And why we're more vulnerable to lies now than we were then.

The Night America Believed the Martians Had Landed
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Several peonies in different shades of pink from pale pink to dark pop against a leafy green background in a garden

Love all this pink in the garden! 💕 #PeonyFrolic

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

House Dems demand testimony from Noem after Padilla handcuffed in LA “If it can happen to Alex, it can happen to ... anybody,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez said.

House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

There he is loud & clear saying he is Senator Alex Pedilla ON VIDEO. And they continue to manhandle him, forcing him to the ground and handcuffing him,

Yet the FBI has issues a statement that neither Noem nor the officers did not know who he was.

Bollox

What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

Contingency and Disobedience I’m not sure if the novel is so much a working out of the ideas in the essay as it is an attempt to do as much of what you are categorically forbidden to do in a novel as virtuosically as possible …

#modernism #reviews #literature #fiction #essays #magazine #art #photography #writing #writers #authors #reading #readers #novels

Reading: Contingency and Disobedience (An interview with Lucy Ives @ L’Esprit Literary Review.)

Photo by Daniele D'Andreti

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Yours, of course, is yet another, different reaction to events. People are expressing their feelings. Being interested in their feelings is not the same as making or espousing a moral judgement.

Prosopagnosia One of my greatest fears has always been witnessing a crime — not so much being the victim of one, but rather having to identify the culprit from a lineup. How overcome with anxiety I become even w…

Quote: "I’m not bragging..., in fact I am sure there are many other mildly face-blind girls with poor spatial reasoning and impeccable comedic timing, pitch, and linguistic prowess (boys, I’m not so sure)." -- from "Prosopagnosia" by Beatriz Seelaender

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Prosopagnosia One of my greatest fears has always been witnessing a crime — not so much being the victim of one, but rather having to identify the culprit from a lineup. How overcome with anxiety I become even w…

#modernism #reviews #literature #fiction #essays #magazine #art #photography #writing #writers #authors #reading #readers #prosopagnosia #neurodiversity #Brazil #poetry #semiotics

Reading: Prosopagnosia by Beatriz Seelaender
(Non-Fiction @ L'esprit Literary Review)

Photo: Nick Armbrister

YouTube video by Ultimate Public Entertainment Americans Reaction to CEO of PEAK DESIGN Who SNITCHED on UNITED HEALTHCARE CEO K!LER LUIGI MANGIONE

#LuigiMangione #classwar #therevolution #politics #humanrights

Watching more: “Americans Reaction to The CEO of PEAK DESIGN Who SNITCHED ON LUIGI MANGIONE." (And reactions to his lawyer’s presser, too, starting @ 1:50)

Quote: “The backpack that doesn't have your
back.”

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#modernism #reviews #literature #fiction #essays #magazine #art #photography #writing #writers #authors #reading #readers

Reading:

YouTube video by Moses Lee Americans Reactions to The CEO of PEAK DESIGN Who SNITCHED ON LUIGI MANGIONE. #fafo Landed On Him

#LuigiMangione #PeakDesign #classwar #therevolution #politics #humanrights

👁️Watching: "Americans Reactions to The CEO of PEAK DESIGN Who SNITCHED ON LUIGI MANGIONE."

Quote: “Okay I don't know if you guys have heard
yet… but the CEO of Peak Design ratted our boy Luigi…” 
.
youtu.be/0lfDtkXl5hA?...

🐢 Buenas tardes, ¿están de acuerdo? 🥊

#luigi
#luigimangioni
#ceo
#libertad
#hoy

YouTube video by GeekyJustin Queer: Umbrella? Slur? Identity? Don't answer until you've heard this story.

#gay #queer #LGBTQ #LGBTQ+ #identity #generational #terms #etymology #essays

Watching “Queer: Umbrella? Slur? Identity? Don't answer until you've heard this story.” A video essay by Justin Lee @geekyjustin.bsky.social

Quote: “So why the big divide on the word queer?”

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YouTube video by Keith Olbermann TRUMP LACKEY SAYS HE WANTS TO JAIL RACHEL MADDOW - 12.18.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

#KeithOlbermann #politics #podcasts #RachelMaddow #ftrump #snark

Listening to Countdown with Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social

Quote: “Trump’s chief thug wants to put Rachel Maddow in prison… Oh and just so we are clear on this... YOU are next. Or close to it.”

youtu.be/DL2n9dWBr0M?...

#ftrump

YouTube video by Keith Olbermann NOTE TO MY OLD FRIEND BOB IGER: SELL ABC NEWS - 12.16.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

#KeithOlbermann #politics #podcasts #Zuckerberg

Listening to Countdown with Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrQ...

News clipping. Assad’s collapse triggers race to find missing chemical weapons in Syria The regime hid tons of deadly nerve agents from inspectors. With the nation in chaos, finding out what happened to the arsenal is a top priority.

#Syria #weapons #foreignpolicy

According to the Washington Post --

News clipping: Assad’s fall humiliated Putin and could dent his global ambitions. Bashar al-Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Vladimir Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power to compete with the United States.

#Putin #Russia #Syria #foreignpolicy

According to today's Washington Post --

YouTube video by Keith Olbermann DA ALVIN BRAGG TO JUDGE: PRETEND TRUMP IS DEAD - 12.12.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

#KeithOlbermann #CountdownwithKeithOlbermann #politics #podcasts #snark

Listening @ youtube to Countdown with Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social

Including a story about #JosephCotton and #MickeyMantle starting at 33:12

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They were merely the extras in his never-ending screenplay of American perfidy."

#NoamChomsky #foreignpolicy #America #bookreviews

#NoamChomsky #foreignpolicy #America #bookreviews

@scottlucas.bsky.social writes: "[As Chomsky] assailed the US system over Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Cuba, he showed little recognition of Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians and Cubans, their experiences, their fears, their aspirations...

From the Taliban to Putin, America’s enemies get another free pass from Noam Chomsky When we found a stray kitten under the bed, I named it Chomsky.

I was feeling an old ambivalence about #NoamChomsky 's role as a latter-day Jeremiah calling down curses on America. Something is missing from his polemics. Then I found this by @scottlucas.bsky.social expressing my qualms. (May require free registration to read.)
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