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Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’ Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...

‘For Battiste, it seems that fitting a white, faux-psychedelic mask over his Black experimentalism gave him a rare freedom.’

Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘Gris-Gris’, a ‘musico-magical palimpsest of New Orleans history’.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#EndCitizensUnited

These numbers are truly frightening. Plus massive funding for materiel acquisition... the county's fucked if we can't quickly reverse this.

Cable TV made "Breaking News" meaningless many years ago.

BBC Director General and CEO of News Step Down After Trump Editing Controversy BBC's director general Tim Davie and the CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned after BBC Panorama was accused of doctoring a Donald Trump speech.

so much backbone and courage, everywhere you look

The Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions, according to two people familiar with internal UN discussions.
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999

Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches

Another GOP scam. @wyden.senate.gov is right -

"...this bill “takes a reasonable protection against government surveillance and wraps it in an unacceptable giveaway of your tax dollars to Republican senators."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese tech giant SoftBank says it has sold all its shares in chip maker Nvidia for $5.8 billion.

$NVDA @apnews.com

The cracks are beginning to show.

Sherrill won... 68% of Hispanics.

What the numbers say about Mikie Sherrill’s big win in NJ governor's race | NJ Spotlight News Key observations from the turnout, early voting, polls and more

"...voters of color moved back to the Democratic party. Sherrill won 94% of the Black vote, 68% of Hispanics and 82% of Asians."

www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/11/nj-g...

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

This right here.

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

An incredibly macabre irony that at the same moment mass language archives are being looted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, our own public access to our preeminent form of archiving language is being slowly strangled to death.

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?

as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM

no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness

I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

The Legacy of War Foundation has released a press statement about their visit to Mykolaiv and Kherson with Angelina Jolie.

Angelina said: “The people of Mykolaiv and Kherson live with danger every day, but they refuse to give in. At time when governments around the world

Does anyone actually read Ross DoubtThat?

The cracks are beginning to show...

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani.

The president and his allies came after him.

Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.

He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.

His politics can win anywhere.

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.

Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.

Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.

Must redistribute or risk social disorder.

NEW: The latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have driven only a slight fall in predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century.

The UN Emissions Gap Report finds that implementing current policies would lead to up to 2.8°C of warming, down from 3.1°C. 🧵

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

Yep, he is really going to drop the sanctions hammer on Putin, yes indeed….

What New Jersey Could Reveal About the Rightward Shift of Hispanic Voters

Not the only @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social piece telling us that Hispanic voters will be voting for the GOP, abandoning the Democrats, & - apparently - unconcerned about ICE.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

“I won’t go into particular names, but they have earnings, and it looks like they have business models and profit and that kind of thing, so it is really a different thing,” - Jerone Powell

Well that's ($360 billion in 12 months) alright then.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/t...

What A Difference 3.5 Years Make A Bipartisan Failing Summarized In One Night

Last night Ukraine attacked Russian targets (including Moscow) with hundreds of drones and Russian authorities downplayed the event. Three years ago we were told if Ukraine attacked Crimea, Russia would go nuclear. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...