James Schamus

If you're in NYC Sunday afternoon join for the 35th anniversary screening of Raul Ruiz's wonderful The Golden Boat, the first film I ever helped produce. Kathy Acker, Annie Sprinkle, Jim Jarmusch, Kate Valk, Vito Acconci, John Zorn score, and more! www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/t...

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
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Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War” Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

Read this just for the incredible statement from the NY Times about why having staff writers help wage a pro-Israel "information war" is not a problem for them: Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War” open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ever See Our Shocking Film on Online Extremism in Israel? On the eve of the second anniversary of the Oct 7. attack, here's another opportunity to watch our acclaimed short film ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’, featuring rare interviews with those Israeli troops.

Two Years of Genocide, Captured on Social Media by Israeli Soldiers Themselves
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The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

This is what #Trump is calling #Israel stopping their attacks.

Hamas Responds to Trump The Palestinian movement appears to have, for the moment, successfully thrown the ball back into the US-Israeli court.

Hamas Responds to Trump
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National Poll: Supermajority of Democrats Support Same Sanctions Against Israel That Brought Down Apartheid in South Africa — IMEU Policy Project

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Pressure mounts on Meloni’s gov’t as Gaza protests paralyse Italy Union says more than two million took to the streets Friday, with massive turnout expected tomorrow for Rome protests.

Union says more than two million took to the streets Friday, with massive turnout expected tomorrow for Rome protests.

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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

Inside the Tony Blair Institute Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

I had no idea of just how insane Tony Blair's alliance with MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison is. Like $350 million insane. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
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Today.

NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails...

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Is the world going to let them get away with this?

🔗 Read:

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I've been reading a lot of St. Paul this past month for some reason (a real genius, btw) and for some other reason was prompted today to recall Nietzsche's rather intense appreciation of him.

We counted the days of war, until they started counting us - We Are Not Numbers Now they have decided to occupy all of Gaza. And the world does what? The world is still silent.

Read this powerful piece by my mentee Nadera Mushtha who is in Gaza City wearenotnumbers.org/we-counted-t...

The Films of Jill Godmilow Jill Godmilow, a working independent film and video-maker and Emerita Professor in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow

“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington.

The result is a patchwork approach that leaves many areas uncovered.

(Published May)

Advocacy for mass murder is a now staple mainstream American political position, uttered with impunity and with the knowledge there will be no real accountability for the monstrous depravity it is knowingly encouraging and unleashing.

Past 2 days:
—Kirk killed; media falsely says suspect motivated by "trans ideology"
—Antisemitic white supremacist shoots up Colorado school
—13-year-old found w/ 23 guns & notes idolizing mass shooters
—HBCUs, NYU get racist campus threats
—Navy cadet shot after hitting cop he thought was a shooter

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Confronted Rep. Randy Fine about why he doesn’t support fully releasing the Epstein files.

Also spoke to several Epstein survivors and Rep. Thomas Massie — who said his Republican colleagues (like Fine) are trying to pull the wool over the public's eyes by passing a bill that actually does nothing:

Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.