Mark Dery

Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda | Novara Media Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything...

Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.

Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.

My report:

MAGA McCarthyism Comes to Texas State In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violen...

Professor Tom Alter, a tenured prof and respected scholar who's being railroaded by a far-right troll and a spineless, reactionary university president.
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...

10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.

#CULTUREJAMMING lives. "Israel Bombs, U.S.A Pays." NYC.

#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians

Review | A gender rebel and mystical painter speaks to us decades after death Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the British visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun’s paintings, writing and eccentric life.

My review of the protofeminist, pagan-Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun's long out-of-print, now resurrected travelogue-come-dream diary THE LIVING STONES OF CORNWALL, is live at The Washington Post Book Review www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan

@nyehya.bsky.social @mmfigueiras.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @roychristopher.com

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Mood:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, you disappoint me. Is this how the backsliding, triangulating, and equivocating begins? Inch by inch, until you're slaloming down the slippery slope?

America Mourns the Loss of the Idea of America.

Get it right @nytimes.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Supreme Court Conservatives Tell Trump He Can Destroy the Education Department, as a Treat The decision will affect millions of Americans and, surprise, not in a good way.

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the greenlight to gut the Education Department.

That sounds about right.

Please don't! Sending the PDF now!

Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America To be an American, picking your way through the debris field of what used to be, at least nominally, a democracy — before Trump and his…

Brilliant, Chris. (Bonus points for name-checking BANQUET YEARS, an early and enduring influence.) At the risk of gaucherie (ie, self-promo), did you read medium.com/@markdery/re...? It's got an extended riff on Trump as Ubu Roi. (Paywalled, sadly.)

Democracy is a burn pit, Trump is going full Orbán, and the NYT is "uneasy." Questions are being "stoked"! We're long past "questions." The cognitive dissonance induced by the chasm between the horror of our moment and the media acting as if it's just a hiccup is breaking the American brain.

And university j-schools/j-departments are doing nothing, absolutely nothing (to the best of my knowledge), to scramble a rapid response to this blithering corporate-media know-nothingism. A head-in-the-sand professoriat producing tomorrow's talking heads and pundits, sock puppets for the status quo

This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

"It's a mistake to think you're special." - John Giorno.

Is an army of DPS officers needed to remove 3 peaceful protesters & Senator Molly Cook for supporting Nicole Collier?

Nicole Collier represents Ft. Worth-district 33, of which 80% of voters are Black & Latino. Their votes will be diluted when Republicans carve them out of the current district.

#Culturejamming strikes again: fully loaded sandwich + guerrilla theater = one small step for meme warriors fed up with fascist Idiocracy.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

NY Gov. Hochul urges return of family facing deportation, including 7-year-old girl Hochul in New York City on Nov. 14, 2024. The girl, her mother and brother were taken into custody at Manhattan immigration court, officials say. [ more › ]

NY Gov. Hochul urges return of family facing deportation, including 7-year-old girl https://gothamist.com/news/ny-gov-hochul-urges-return-of-family-facing-deportation-including-7-year-old-girl