Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
This seems like very thinly-disguised retaliation against a prof for criticizing university policy, with the clear effect and likely intent of intimidating other would-be critics https://t.co/PmVnhb9RKe
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 17, 2022
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 1:15pm
Would like to emphasis below racecraft is everywhere in this country and especially:
We are obsessed with constructed census categories.
I'm a real believer that if we did away with race on the census, miracles would happen. Just like that a lot of the country's political problems would be gone. The impact would be enormous once politicians and policy stopped pandering to racial distinctions they only know about because of the census. Furthermore, it's just becoming more and more inaccurate every day as there are more mixed race people who don't know how to answer. If we have "systemic racism" in this country, race on the census is the cause.
This whole university stuff would cease too. The arguments would switch to where they belong - merit, economic class and gender, i.e., what kind of elite institution do you want to have...
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 2:19pm
p.s. everyone born here is indigenous, deal with it.
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 2:22pm
I'd say that wokedom is a forced response to the unraveling of identity that previous generations in the US implemented. You had hippies casting aside their lineage and calling themselves stuff like "Ocean Light," their children don't quite have that luxury and want to know who they are. Everyone wants to belong and have a sense of who they are.
by Orion on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 3:18pm
Of course their children have that luxury. How does "knowing who you are" relate to "belonging"? I met a Kazakh girl yesterday. I mentioned a Kazakh woman working at a nearby restaurant. She didn't care - her group was young hackers and the like - ethnicity had little to do with it - she's a global Citizen in this niche.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 7:29pm
you seem to me to often project your own background experience into incorrectly interpreting elite boomer counterculture with an entire generation and time period. I was there, I wanted to be part of the elite counterculture but it was not dominant, you realize there really was a "silent majority" and most young people wanted for nothing more than having a life and culture just like their parents, a small suburban house and a nuclear family. Certainly 90% of my huge high school in Milwaukee was people like that, they even rejected rock music, didn't like it. It may have been different where you grew up if it was in a famously liberal rorthwest area, in most places It really was a counter culture and remained so until like when Clinton/Gore ascended to the White House. A presidential candidate who wore shades indoors while playing the sax and going on late night tv talk shows, that was a shocking announcement that the main culture had finally accepted the counter culture.
so to take that to your argument here - that would mean you are presuming the elite woke of today are ALL the actual biological children of the elite outliers of the boomer generation, that they are reacting against their own parents, and that both generations were/are able to co-opt many larger demographics somehow.
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 5:04pm
p.s. did you ever see Born on the Fourth of July? that one's a good narratve about what the main culture was like and how some Viet vets came to be part of the counterculture from their experience. the point: the counterculture was not dominant in any way! It was even rejected by many of its main adherents in the Reagan years, i.e. Jerry Rubin of the Chicago 7 getting into promoting business networking...
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 5:11pm
if you actually dig into the (stupid) census categories, you can prove all sorts of things countering the popular racial narratives, like this great new example:
my point is: the census race question has us wasting a lot of time countering faux narratives, it incorrectly frames a lot of important issues the wrong way, people end up doing studies that counter it when they should be spending time on more fruitful research that would better help class-related problems like crime or poverty or access to education, or immigration policy. Sub-culture is not about race, it 's about sub-culture. Doing the same with ethnicity doesn't help either, because people can easily escape the ethnic culture if they chose to do so, i.e. Peracles Kazakh girl not wanting to be equated as part of the Kazakh tribe but with the techie tribe.
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 4:46pm
It's kinda racist to lump all "Asians" together. (and yes, same for Africans, tho i cant tell you if African cultures are so diverse - my bad i suppose)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 5:19pm
Megadittoes (does anyone use that anymore?) and I am reminded I did a whole thread of the counter-productivity as far as politics is concerned:
RACIALIZING A POLICY ISSUE IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IN U.S. POLITICS
People really don't like it! It's just that simple.
Edit to add: unless you live in Rwanda in the early 1990's, are Hutu or Tutsi heritage, and only have access to the radio for information, or currently live in Russia with little access to outside information
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 5:54pm
Jeez, Teradittoes or Petadittoes at least - you're like nursing a 1990s ditto machine. And Burundi deserved part of Rwanda's fame. Hope they've made some progress down there since.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 8:13pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/21/2022 - 1:22pm
oh god, praying for this to be true, would be so nice that it mostly returns to college students only
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/22/2022 - 4:35pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 9:33am