Dan McHale

If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with good intentions confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.

If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will

The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with good intentions confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.

RIP Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)

YouTube video by Isaac Hayes - Topic If I Had A Hammer (Live - (Finale))

Isaac Hayes with Jesse Jackson, "If I Had a Hammer" Live at Wattstax 1972

Photo of Trae Crowder, a white male in his 30s with a beard wearing a camouflage ballcap looking off camera

Saw a standup set from Trae Crowder (aka “The Liberal Redneck”) tonight. Dude is funny AF.

Really existing liberalism, the bulwark fantasy, and the enabling of reactionary, far right politics1 Click on the article title to read more.

The same goes with the idea that the solution to the resurgence of the far right is to continue placing our faith in liberal democracy when it is really existing liberalism which has led us here

I know critical work is easy to ignore but come on...

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This is such a beautiful and heartbreaking and haunting song about the occupation

We are sailing to Cuba 🇨🇺.

Join us: buff.ly/nxJTwSK

Indian Author Arundhati Roy Pulls Out of Berlinale Over Jury’s ‘Unconscionable’ Refusal to Comment on Gaza: ‘To Hear Them Say That Art Should Not Be Political Is Jaw-Dropping’ Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlinale over the jury's pushback over politics and its 'unconscionable' refusal to comment on Gaza.

This sort of a reaction to the atrocities taking place in Gaza is a base-line human response, anyone with a beating heart inside their chest, with a soul would do the same thing. The rest of the Berlinale jurors dodging the issue are cowards.

I am starting a studio! We are small and scrappy and have no money. Why am I doing this? Because the only ones who can protect art are the ones who value it. Disney using AI? Yuck. Netflix buying WB? Also yuck. In 10 years what is even going to be left.

Well then play it. Play it again and again until there’s an answer. Make them answer for sending Nazi death troops to wage a war of terror against the U.S. civilian population.

Yeats’ "The Second Coming" Isn’t Antifascist Apocalyptic imaginings generally aren’t

wrote about Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". A lot of ppl read it as warning about fascism. But Yeats was a fascist himself...and the poem is fascist propaganda in a lot of ways.

Apocalyptic warnings aren't generally an antifascist mode. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yeats-the-...

the film adaptation is pretty good!

‘A softer touch.’ The Pres. used that phrase the other day.

YouTube video by 28 minutes - ARTE La binationalité : dualité, liberté, humanité | Fatou Diome - 28 Minutes - ARTE

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Des vérités qui font du bien à entendre et que devraient écouter nos dirigeants, comme une piqure de rappel ! Les conventions internationales, mais surtout l'humanisme, la connaissance et le bon sens. Mille merci, Fatou Diome !

📖 Ken Bugul - Le baobab fou
📖 Fatou Diome - Le ventre de l'Atlantique
📖 Léonora Miano - Stardust
📖 Ennatu Domingo - Fusta d'eucaliptus cremada
📖 Desirée Bela-Lobedde - Ser mujer negra en España

Servants of the Mafia State Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth

From 2023: "The main thing to understand is that Merrick Garland and the DOJ do not want to hold Trump accountable. The preservation of a corrupt institution and its secrets is their agenda, not the survival of our country or the welfare of its people."
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I'm still waiting for some mea culpas from the people who defended Larry Summers for years, despite him being an obvious wrong'un in so many ways before the latest Epstein stuff. Larry being a massive misogynist within the profession was not a secret and people who pointed it out were stomped

I couldn't be more thrilled with the cover art for my forthcoming book with @uncpress.bsky.social. Lindsay Starr and the rest of the art production team knocked it out of the park. Thank you to everyone involved.

It's starting to look like a book.

“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A U.S Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was 'done by a few people,’ and ‘you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said 'This was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'" "The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ordruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought 'How is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'This site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...

"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
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Who could have predicted this?!? The Academic, Business, Legal, Media, Political Elite note as they rush to collaborate, after they mocked us for the last 10 years as being crazy "Trump-Derangement-Syndrome" in our "leftist" "echo-chamber", despite us very accurately predicting this!!!

A picture of Annalee and Charlie Jane bundled up in their winter clothes, inside a tunnel made of twinkling LED lights. They are smiling and Annalee is sticking out their tongue. A friend is photobombing them in the background, popping up and smiling over Charlie Jane's shoulder.

A picture of several novels by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz. "Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz from Tor Books Supporting Miss Major Alexander L Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center" Book Bundle.

This deal is incredible & it's for the best cause! You can get ALL the fiction by me and @charliejane.bsky.social from @humblebundle.com for a low, low price -- and all sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander L. Lee Black Trans Justice Center. www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

This makes the “shock doctrine” laid out by Naomi Klein seem mild by comparison.

Landscapes Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger’s unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of the ...

Now available for preorder - Landscapes by John Berger

A brilliant collection of essays, spanning a lifetime’s engagement with art

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you

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Non, Athènes n’était pas le camp des gentils et Sparte celui des guerriers conquérants

Dernier volet de la saison d'hiver pour "C'est plus compliqué que ça"

On se quitte donc quelques mois MAIS en beauté avec un bon vieux duel comme on les aime, Athènes contre Sparte.

Les gentils contre les méchants, quoi.

Sauf qu'à bien y regarder...

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Owl of Minerva stuff here. Racial capitalism seen at the dusk of its neoliberal phase, wherein manufactured wagelessness has been reinforced by a state offering only the police as employer of last resort. Imagine if that earlier vision of a federal job guarantee had set us on a different path.

This is the collapse of the constitutional order forged from Civil Rights Era and Roe, decades when the U.S. made a real go at becoming a multiracial liberal democracy.

So I’m spending time with @profmsinha.bsky.social’s “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920”

28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month 28 Films to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

What a list from @mayascade.bsky.social for the @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social!

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Rise Up - protest songs from now & before; a mixtape with lyrics

1. No Kings - Jesse Welles and Joan Baez

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...