What I'm going to do here is adapted from a pair of articles I wrote wrote some years ago on the subject of fascism. Covering fascism and Donald Trump, they required an overview of the former (and this thread won't be about the latter).https://t.co/05m9pdv0zL
Dag always seems like a place out of nowhere; a spot that has its own heartbeat, its own rhythm. There's a drummer over there, a guitar in the corner and a weird symphony that you can't shake loose once you hear it. But it doesn't really exist. Then again it does ... every time you look away there's a ghost swaying slowly ... making you move with the violin as the flute confuses you because it's not the jazz you expected at all. It's Dag.
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To start, let's go to Egypt. Most imagine Egypt as this thousands-year lasting civ that built wonders and terrors all the time. Really?
The first pyramid, Djoser's, was built in the 2650s. The youngest, Menkaure, around 2530s. Pyramid building was a 120 year exercise. pic.twitter.com/Rn7k7pLH8w
The U.S. and the west must try to rescue & save Mikheil Saakashvili, the anti-Putinist democratic former president of Georgia whom Putin’s puppet regime there has detained, beaten and poisoned. The lowdown by @melkaylanhttps://t.co/Dx67WhWhpe and @McFaul: https://t.co/6pf3ssZroh
This by @BuddyYakov and @nils_gilman is the strongest argument I've seen for the notion that the U.S. has sloughed off neoliberalism and adopted a new paradigm of economic governance. Highly recommend https://t.co/h1qoNJQNPG
If you really want to understand what's good and what's bad about money-driven health care, read this (and do note I have changed 'profit' to 'money', because sometimes wanting to save money can have similar effects to wantng to profit financially)
ICUs have saved countless lives. But their excessive proliferation across the U.S.—especially alongside an overall drop in hospital beds—is troubling. In Baffler no. 66, @awgaffney considers critical care in a market-driven health system.https://t.co/zVVgD6xvau
Current headline: "Mayor: Teacher shot by 6-year-old ‘red flag for the country’" (So have we hit bottom for school shootings yet?)
A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was shot by a 6-year-old student in Newport News is showing signs of improvement as authorities struggle to understand how a child so young could be involved in a school shooting, https://t.co/wmZ62rvQa1pic.twitter.com/MrscZ8PliP
Sadly though anybody looking for contrition and an acknowledgement of error from the useful idiots who blamed the bogus Russiagate conspiracy for Clinton's loss will be waiting a long time.
At 93, the memoirist Yuan-tsung Chen hopes that her recollections of China’s tumultuous past will help the country confront its historical wrongs — and avoid repeating them.
Thousands faced evacuation orders or warnings on Saturday, and the authorities temporarily halted the search for a 5-year-old boy who was swept away in floodwaters this week.
On Friday, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that Iran must not carry out the execution of Akbari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister.
The attorney general's decision underscores the gravity of the discoveries, which included one set of documents found at an office space Biden used and another set found in the garage of his Wilmington home.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that he was appointing a special counsel, former U.S. attorney Robert Hur, to review the storage of sensitive documents discovered in spaces used by President Joe Biden during the years preceding his return to the White House.
While Democratic leaders seem content to let Speaker Kevin McCarthy stew in his party's disarray, liberals are excited to launch a new headache-causing House tool.
Kevin McCarthy’s concessions to conservatives did more than win him the speaker’s gavel — they empowered House progressives to wreak havoc. And they’re eager to mess with him.