Robert Gumpert

Only now they operate under cover of “law”

‘Running Man’ remake rekindles obsession with deadly contests: ‘Let the poor fight among themselves’ In November a remake of the 1980s classic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger will be released, aiming to appeal to audiences who enjoyed ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Squid Game.’ But why are violent dystopias ...

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Meta is shaking up its AI org, again | TechCrunch On Friday, The Information reported that Meta was preparing to tear down its existing AI org and reorganize it into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo.

On Friday, The Information reported that Meta was preparing to tear down its existing AI org and reorganize it into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo.

Correction: that’s not a reporter.

Trump complains that the National Museum of African American History discusses "how bad Slavery was."

What Happens If AI Hits An Energy Wall? The technology driving the economy has some big problems

This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts. [Disappointed that some readers didn't recognize the TS Eliot ref]

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Jensina Hardy in 2015. Photo: Robert Gumpert

At one minute to midnight on the 5th of July 2025, Jensina Hardy was pronounced dead in her room at an SRO hotel inSF’s Tenderloin District. She was 47.

Her daughter had not seen her for 15 years - The oldest has some thoughts.

Read her post on “Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week” robertgumpert.com

It Feels Like Hell on Earth, but Another World Is Possible A magazine of Black politics and culture

IT FEELS LIKE HELL ON EARTH, BUT ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Photo for Hammer & Hope
HAMMER & HOPE hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Incredible Winners of the 2025 iPhone Photography Awards Every winning photo was taken with an iPhone, proving you don’t need big, fancy equipment to take incredible images.

Incredible Winners of the 2025 iPhone Photography Awards mymodernmet.com/2025-ippawar...

Trump offers ‘assurance’ U.S. won’t send ground troops to Ukraine In a TV interview, the president suggested European nations would have troops on the ground in Ukraine, while the United States would support them in other ways.

Again in these last meetings at the Oval Office - widely covered - Trump looks out of sorts, sidelined, old and tired. Don't know perhaps he's just sick. wapo.st/4mTpdKy

Feds Demand Sensitive Illinois Voter Registration Information After State Provides Redacted Data In a letter dated Thursday, Aug. 14, an attorney in the department’s Civil Rights Division rejected the Illinois State Board of Elections’ offer of a partially redacted database insisting that federal...

The U.S. Department of Justice is insisting Illinois election officials hand over the state’s entire computerized voter registration database, including sensitive information such as driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers.

to.wttw.com/4mOHxEy

Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.

Brown: In a state of 12 million people, half a million are going to lose their insurance.

People didn’t vote for that. They didn’t vote for higher grocery bills. They didn’t vote for veterans’ benefits being slashed. They didn’t vote for any of this.

here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district

These 'neighbors from the hood' saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back “They're showing up and just kidnapping people. I think we, as Americans, should have an expectation that we should be able to walk—regardless of the color of our skin, what we do for a living, the la...

ICE raids aren’t abstract headlines. In Pasadena, CA, masked federal agents abducted neighbors and left families terrified.

Residents refused to stay silent.

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@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social

New Air Force Policy Denies Transgender Troops Hearings Before They're Discharged It is the second policy change the Air Force has taken in recent weeks to crack down on transgender service members.

Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat

Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

In court this would be perjury. Or perhaps the "law enforcement officers" are either on drugs or are fantasist

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

He is looking older and tired. And angry and bored. Every part of him is slumping: eyes, mouth, chin, shoulders, arms, stomach. Even the tie looks limp

Washington, D.C., under occupation "In the Shadow of Power" by Kike Arnal

Washington, D.C., under occupation
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Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life In midcentury Bamako, sitting for a portrait in Seydou Keïta’s studio was a defining assertion of identity.

Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life
In midcentury Bamako, sitting for a portrait in Keïta’s studio was a defining assertion of identity. aperture.org/editorial/se...

The Price of Occupation In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist.

The Price of Occupation
In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

David Hurn turns 91: Celebrating the legacy of Magnum’s unsung master photographer David Hurn at 91: The quiet genius who captures people's souls

David Hurn turns 91: Celebrating the legacy of Magnum’s unsung master photographer www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...

Moises Saman, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer: ‘Portraying people’s dignity has been my guiding principle’ The photojournalist has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Sudan for more than 20 years

Moises Saman won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography in May. english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

The Analog Allure of Photographers’ Contact Sheets

The Analog Allure of Photographers’ Contact Sheets www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a...

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Proud of our allies.

Life comes at you fast

Pray for his ear: NEWSOM 2028