– Ezra Pound, “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
The problem with American politics isn’t that it’s polarized (we need more polarization over inequality, over war, over climate), but that it’s polarized around two of the most inept and ridiculous figures in American history. The only two people Americans can apparently think of to run their dying Empire have both lost their frigging marbles, if they ever had any, which is a sure sign that your Empire is in fact dying.
Biden is now being pursued, including at a UAW rally. Trump tells other people he’s going, even if he doesn’t actually know who they are, like when he confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi on the eve of the New Hampshire Primary. And confusing Haley with Pelosi was perhaps the least strange thing he said: “You know, when she comes here, she gets nine other people, and the press never reports on the crowds. . . You know, by the way, they never report on the crowd. ” . January 6. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. By the way, you know, you know they destroyed all the information, all the evidence, erased and destroyed all that. Because of a lot of things, like Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley was at security range. We introduced her to 10,000 other people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they needed. They refused. They don’t need to communicate about it. What was it about?
Never mind. Supporters of either nursing home don’t seem to care much that their applicants don’t seem to know where they are or what they’re talking about. Frankly, about anything. When Biden’s anti-war protesters gather (if that’s what you call them, I think it’s an exaggeration), chant “Stop killing babies” or “Stop genocide,” their slap, like doomed automatons, screams. reflectively: “Four more years!” Another 4 years of slaughter?
– Katie Rogers (@katierogers) January 24, 2024
Biden bombed 4 other countries. . . this week: Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. He admitted that the bombings don’t seem to have much, if any, effect, but vowed to continue to do so anyway. That’s a hell of a way to run for president.
Stephen Semler: “Joe Biden’s foreign policy is fundamentally a set of unfortunate, costly, and violent ‘solutions’ to the disorders that would exist without. . . Joe Biden. »
What prevents me from calling Biden’s foreign policy “incompetent” are the odds. The law of averages dictates that the incompetent end up stumbling upon a plan that involves less bloodshed, more. This is the case with Biden.
It will be the sixth presidential election since the start of the war in Iraq. In four of them, Democrats nominated a candidate who voted for the war, while the two presidents-elect continued to fight it.
Percentage of the Swiss population that accepts its government as loyal: 84%
+ In the US: 31%, sandwiched between the Czech Republic (34%) and Lithuania (30%)
+ After outlawing abortion 16 months ago, Texas has seen more than 26,000 rape-related pregnancies. Nationwide, at least 60,000 women and girls have gotten pregnant after being raped since the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Few of these women were able to legally get in-state abortions.
+ Yet Biden’s “big steps” to support “access to abortion,” perhaps the biggest issue the Democrats have left for the 2024 elections consist only of…
Once again, Biden proves that he is one of the worst politicians – regardless of his political orientation – who has ever been president. Surely he is deaf. Biden has made his mark by opposing the FDR/LBJ-era Democratic base: tough on crime, anti-welfare, deregulation, pro-banking, and aggressive. Biden also supported the Hyde Amendment, which banned abortions for failing women through an economic executive order. (i. e. , without federal funds) almost every year it is in the Senate. . . You just can’t do anything else authentically.
Biden’s arguments for saving what’s left of reproductive rights appear to have been written for a collection of insurance reform actuaries from an angry popular movement that needs Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett to be exiled to a synthetic island in Gowanus. .
According to a Pro Publica study, states with the highest percentage of male-dominated legislatures have passed the strictest abortion bans in the country. Of the 10 states where men made up the largest percentage of legislatures: 8 have strict abortion bans and five allow exceptions. for rape.
Meanwhile, “pro-life” Mike Pence (back in the U. S. after signing his appeal on a U. S. -made missile. in Israel that the IDF was possibly preparing to release in a pediatric ward in Gaza) says the first things a conservative president (i. e. , the guy who sought to lynch him on the steps of the Capitol) do: 1. Order the Department of Justice to stop investigating and charging anti-abortion protesters outside abortion clinics; 2. “Withdraw the abortion pill from the market. “
Mississippi plans to reinstate ballot initiatives, but would particularly rule out any measure that would overturn the state’s abortion ban.
During a debate in the Wisconsin Legislature on a proposed 14-week abortion ban, state Rep. Ron Tusler endorsed forced childbirth regardless of fitness considerations by citing the biblical precedent of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist: “For example, Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. He is estimated to have been 88 years old when he said he was going to have John the Baptist.
Nikki Haley after being asked about her statements that America has never been racist and that she has “black friends”: “We were the only Indian family in our small southern town. I joked every day because I’m brunette. So anyone who needs to check that can step back and take a look at what I said about how hard it is to grow up in the Deep South, as a brown girl. To say that I had black friends is a source of pride. To say that having white friends is a source of pride. If you need to know what it’s like to grow up, they disqualified me from a past looks contest because I’m not black and white, because they didn’t know where to put me.
+ Maybe that’s why she identified herself as “white” on her voter registration form…
+ The DeSantis campaign spent more on air travel than TV advertising. One reason why: his wife Casey “won’t fly commercial.”
+ I challenge you to make up this narrative arc and try to sell it to a Netflix showrunner…
David Wallace-Wells: “There is much to reveal about the presidential extinction of Ron DeSantis, yet one of its lessons is that no meaningful reaction to pandemic mitigation policies has materialized in American politics. Those who predicted or exalted a backlash were wrong.
Rep. Nancy Mace, a rape survivor who just endorsed rapist Trump in front of her South Carolina colleague Nikki Haley on Jan. 6: “Not only were our lives in danger, but if my children were here, their lives would have been in danger as well. “. . . The two most valuable people in my life. . . We want to hold the president accountable.
Senator Susan Collins, perplexed, says she doesn’t see herself supporting Trump. . . “At this point. ” Of course, it never does. . . until “at this point”.
+ This must be one of the most Democrat things ever…A NH Democrat told Dave Weigel of Semafor: “I told friends two weeks ago, after two margaritas, that I couldn’t possibly vote for Biden because of this Middle East thing. But I’ll mellow out before Tuesday. And I’ll be sober.” All it takes is two margaritas to break down party programming and an aspirin & a cup of coffee to snap it back in place.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We’re not just President Trump, we’re his policies, and any Republican who doesn’t need to adopt those policies is absolutely eliminated from the party. ” Eradicate!Eliminationist rhetoric is spreading. . .
New York Post (Not the Onion). . .
The NYPD is the best-funded police branch in the world. It has a budget of $11 billion a year, plus another $1 billion in overtime. All with little or no accountability. To fund the police, the mayor must cut investments in schools, libraries, fitness centers, and housing.
+ Last week NYC Mayor Eric Adams quietly vetoed a measure passed by the City Council to ban solitary confinement in city jails.
Nearly every copy of a small-town Colorado newspaper was stolen from newsstands on the same day that the Ouray County Plaindealer newspaper ran an article about the alleged rape of a 17-year-old woman at a party with minors at the police. While the leader was at home.
Several D. C. police officers have been forced to offer confidential data on victims of twists of fate to local attorneys in exchange for referral fees.
The war on drugs has also been a war on women. Drug-related arrests of women have increased by 216% since 1985. More than 25 percent of women incarcerated are for drug-related crimes.
Last year, the Alabama Parole Board held 3,583 parole hearings in fiscal year 2023; However, it granted parole in only 297 cases (about 8%) even though the board’s own rules recommend that more than 80% of eligible inmates be eligible for release.
After Brittany Wise was briefly jailed for a traffic ticket in Georgia, she was unable to regain custody of her seven children because she did not have a solid home. The children have been in foster care for nine months.
+ Two former LA County Sheriff’s deputies have now been sentenced to federal prison for abducting and framing a skateboarder in Compton in 2020. In his victim impact statement, Jesus Alegria told the former deputies: “What goes around comes around.”
At least forty-five other people died while in Los Angeles County custody at the Men’s Central Jail last year. Three other people have already died there in the first three weeks of 2024.
The FBI raided the homes of four Albuquerque police officers and the office of a local attorney. They also towed a patrol car, allegedly as part of an illegal scheme to drive. The raids came shortly after Albuquerque District Attorney Sam Bregman ignored more than 150 CFA cases in which those agents were involved. Police officers who act in DUI cases are among the highest-paid officers, largely due to the amount of overtime they earn during their court testimony.
+ Without dissent, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama’s experimental execution of Kenneth Smith with nitrogen gas, an unprecedented method, on Thursday.
“I’ve never noticed rats jumping so high, so fast and looking so agitated. They broke their nails trying to get out. It’s terrible to see” – A doctor who used nitrogen to euthanize rats.
+ Federal Judge Jill Pryor of the 11th Circuit on Alabama’s effort to execute Kenny Smith with nitrogen gas after a previous failed attempt to execute him by lethal injection: “The cost, I fear, will be Mr. Smith’s human dignity, and ours.”
New York City will buy millions of dollars’ worth of medical debt and then pay it off in an effort to help up to 500,000 city residents. I hate Eric Adams, but why doesn’t Biden do things like this every day (even if he doesn’t intend to deliver on his promises) surely doesn’t make political sense. . . Instead, he will wage war in Yemen.
Top recipients of U. S. funds since World War II (adjusted for inflation):
1. Israel: $312. 5 billion
2. Vietnam: $184. 5 billion
3. Egypt: $183.7 billion
4. Afghanistan: $158. 9 billion
5. South Korea: $120. 7 billion
Katie Porter explains why she didn’t call for a “ceasefire” in Gaza: “Ceasefire is not a magic word. You can’t say and do it that way. Too bad, the empire is powerless.
Regardless, Turkey has approved Sweden’s application to join NATO. Putin would have possibly managed to expand Russia from two Ukrainian provinces, but he also expanded NATO to include two countries that had long resisted joining the alliance, Finland and Sweden, with 3 others in the waiting room: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Sweden and Ukraine.
Taking advantage of the stalemate in the Ukraine-Russia war, rats and mice have infested the trenches of eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine admitted this week that it had shot down a Russian plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. This is a war with no winners or losers, whoever they are.
After experiencing several near-meltdowns at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant during the Russian invasion, Ukraine needs to start construction work on FOUR new nuclear reactors within the next year. Two of the factories are based on the old generation Russian imported from Bulgaria and two on Westinghouse models. What can go wrong?
A report by the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union says September’s deadly floods in Lithrougha will require $1. 8 billion in reconstruction and recovery costs. The crisis displaced an estimated 1. 5 million people, or 22 percent of Lithrougha’s population. According to the UN humanitarian company OCHA, 4,352 deaths have been confirmed and another 8,000 people are still missing.
Violent crime in Britain doubled the decade of Thatcherite austerity and has fallen by 80% since then. . .
Among the bribes allegedly given to Singapore’s Transport Minister S. Iswaran through Malaysian property tycoon Ong Beng Seng were tickets to English Premier League football matches, Formula 1 races, and plays, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hamilton and Kinky Boots, as well as a business-class flight from Doha to Singapore in 2022.
+ Americans on whether Israel’s devastation of Gaza constitutes genocide:
Among Biden 2020 voters:
(Economist/YouGov)
Thus, a portion of Biden’s Democrats (and a portion of all young Americans) in Israel are committing genocide, according to The Economist poll. Those poll numbers may not suddenly start to rise in Biden’s favor, even if they start killing a group of young Somalis, Houthis, Syrians, and Iraqis to show Americans that he doesn’t just despise young Palestinians, which turns out to be his plan. . .
+ Let’s check the scoreboard for how the Climate Prez is doing: the United States is now producing more oil than any country in history: 13 million barrels per day (International Energy Agency). The US now produces one-in-five barrels of global oil production.
Since 1970, the Greenland ice sheet has lost more than 6 trillion pieces of ice, or more than 700 million lost based on the number of people on the planet today.
A new report says climate change, not El Niño, was the main culprit behind the Amazon drought in 2023. The study concluded that climate change has made agricultural drought in the Amazon 30 times greater, likely from June to November. In the state of Amazonas, 59 of the 62 municipalities are facing drought and 15 of them are in emergency situations, according to the Amazon Working Group. In some areas, rivers have fallen to their lowest levels in more than 120 years. The drought has increased the spread of wildfires and led to mass killings of fish and dolphins.
+ Because climate change isn’t producing the expected increase in atmospheric moisture over dry regions, according to a study from the National Science Foundation: “We could be facing higher risks than what’s been projected for arid regions like the SW, which has already been affected by water shortages and extreme wildfire…”
+ In most parts of the country, charging an EV is equivalent to a gasoline price of $1 to $2 per gallon. The national average is $1.41 per eGallon, which is less than half the current gasoline price of $3.07 (as of Jan. 16, 2024)
+ On one of the coldest days of the year in Texas, solar output hit a record high of more than 14,000 megawatts of production, contributing about 20% of the total production of the ERCOT power grid.
Authorities in Portugal’s southern Algarve region plan to cut water allocations for agriculture by 70% and families by 15% this year. But the region’s reservoirs are still at risk of drying up during the summer. One official said, “The scenario is catastrophic. “
+ In the last three years, renewable energy cut over $1 trillion from the fuel bill of the electricity sector worldwide.
On the same day, a Human Rights Watch report revealed that 56% of communities of color are located near sites that generate cancer-causing waste, a federal ruling barred the EPA from enforcing a provision of the Civil Rights Act in the ” Cancer Alley” in Louisiana. “According to him, the ruling said that “pollution does not discriminate. “
+ The EU announced it will ban diesel trucks by 2040. Medium and heavy-duty trucks constitute about 3% of the vehicles on the road but they account for 30% of the pollution.
A new study shows that ammonia-powered ships can be less expensive to operate than a fossil-fuel-powered fleet and reduce emissions by up to 80%.
+ Just one of the 23 planned LNG facilities could lead to as much greenhouse gas being emitted over the course of its expected operating life, as the EPA’s new methane rule is projected to save in total over the next 15 years.
According to an article in Scientific American, China used more cement in 3 years (6. 6 gigatons from 2011 to 2013) than the United States did in the entire century (4. 5 gigatons).
According to a study released last year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the direct economic burden of car accidents in 2019 was $340 billion, or about 1. 6% of GDP, with the societal burden being much higher.
A new paper published in Economics of Transportation shows that the leading cause of the pedestrian death crisis in the U. S. is the one that is the most important cause of the pedestrian death crisis in the U. S. UU. es the upper hood of SUVs and trucks, which is linked to much higher rates of pedestrian fatalities: “A 10cm increase in vehicle height from the front is related to a 22% accumulation of death threat.
A recent study found that pollutants could have been reduced by 30% between 2010 and 2022 if cars had remained the same size.
Last December, there were about 50% more bicycles than cars on city streets.
+ After a year of record deaths on LA roads, LAPD Chief Moore blamed cyclists riding on streets that don’t have bike lanes and pedestrians who don’t wear reflective clothing…
+ Desperate to hold his fraying government together, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just appointed David Frost, the peer who praised rising temperatures, to Britain’s climate commission. Frost: “At the moment, seven times as many people die from cold as from heat in Britain. Rising temperatures are likely to be beneficial.”
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” guidance report for the Department of the Interior calls for the reinstatement of oil and fuel leases at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the expansion of the Willow allocation from 3 to five drilling rigs, and the opening of nearly all of the 23 million acres of the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve to oil and fuel leasing and development.
Wind and sun in Southeast Asia have increased by 20% in a single year. . .
Fire in the hole!
Apparently, the left has been the World Economic Forum all these years. Who knew?
In a consultation in Davos titled “How to Accept the Truth in the Economy,” ECB leader Christine Lagarde accused economists of forming a “tribal cabal” whose models rule out the option of pandemics, climate change-induced weather events and sudden resource shortages.
Housing is now unaffordable for a record share of all U. S. renters. According to a new report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The largest increase in unaffordability since 2019 is among families earning between $30,000 and $74,999 per year. Those who work full-time, one-third of all renters still face significant costs.
UAW Chief Shawn Fain: “We’re doing a general strike. Let us all go, as is the case in other countries.
Workers in Argentina have introduced a. . .
– teleSUR (@telesurenglish) January 24, 2024
+ According to a new report from the Inspector General of the Dept. of Homeland Security, ICE performed hysterectomies on two detainees for whom medical necessity was not documented.
The Food Not Bombs trial in Houston had to be postponed after too many jurors objected to a $500 fine for feeding the homeless.
Ohio pastor Chris Avell has been indicted after being charged with 18 counts of violating zoning law, similar to keeping his church open to take in the homeless in Bryan, Ohio, a city of 8,500 other people about 50 miles southwest of Toledo. “A lot of people have been banned through their families and separated through their communities,” Avell said. “So if the Church is not willing to lay down its life for them, who will?This is what we are called to do.
In the latest newsroom purge, the LA Times this week laid off 100 employees and added some of its most sensible reporters and columnists.
Christopher Ingraham: “Reports say the LA Times is losing $40 million a year. Its owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has an estimated net worth of about $5 billion. Even if he never makes another penny he could cover those losses every year for a century and still have more than $1 billion left over in the bank.”
In 2010, about 260,000 people worked at U. S. newspapers and fourteen years later, there are fewer than 80,000.
In 1930, American families subscribed to an average of 3. 1 newspapers.
Journalism layoffs in the 10 days: Sports Illustrated, Pitchfork, LA Times, National Geographic, TIME, and Business Insider.
+ In 1964, Marshall McLuhan predicted the ultimate demise of newspapers: “The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press. Should an alternative source of easy access to such diverse daily information be found, the press will fold.”
+ This week a Florida House committee approved a GOP bill to let employers schedule 16-and-17-year-olds for over 8 hours of work on a school night and more than 30 hours a week. One lawmaker defended the bill by saying, “We’ve been weakening our society” and the remedy is to have kids “start working full-time.”
Child labor violations in the US increased by 50% in 2023. A single Wendy’s franchise in Pennsylvania was fined $300,000 for 766 child labor violations, including failing to give breaks to 81 kids, 18 kids working without permits, and 10 kids working without parental knowledge.
Jodie Foster on Gen Z: “They’re annoying, especially in the workplace. They say, “No, I’m not sorry today, I’m arriving at 10:30. “» Or, for example, in the emails I’ll tell them that this is all grammatically incorrect, haven’t you checked your spelling?And they say, “Why should I deserve to do that? It’s rarely a little limiting. “»
Excuse me, Jodie, Generation Z wants to talk to you. . .
He works 40 hours a week and can’t live sola. pic. twitter. com/LIircVCwHN
– A More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 23, 2024
Donald Trump, Jr. : “I’m the son of a billionaire. And if I take it to the supermarket or fast food on the weekends, I’m surprised by the stickers.
+ Half of recent US inflation is due to high corporate profits, according to a new report by the Groundwork collective.
What are the chances that McCardle ever did more than grab her purse tightly and run across the street when she saw what she thought was a deficient circle of relatives heading toward her?
If you’re looking for job security in the news industry in an era of brutal downsizing, specialize in writing articles arguing that policies that make life a little more bearable for the poor, black families, and immigrants are very bad for them. You’ll be the last one to go.
The European Central Bank is asking banks to closely monitor social media activity for a deterioration in customer confidence, which could simply lead to deposit runs.
A Colorado pastor accused of collecting $1. 3 million from a crypto formula advertised through his church has claimed that “the Lord told us. ” Flip Wilson’s old “satan made me do it” regime seemed more authentic. . . But of course, this was before cryptocurrencies.
People like this guy (the Bay Area business school graduate most likely to hold a position in the Milei regime in Argentina) exist and show their faces in public. . .
It is very comforting to hear the YIMBYs say these things out loud. Private developers have no plans to build new homes while rents are cayendo. pic. twitter. com/AtVTrzsfhm
– Lee Hepner (@LeeHepner) January 19, 2024
The superintendent of the Barbers Hill Independent School District ran a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle protecting the suspension of Darryl George, the black student expelled from school for wearing dreadlocks. The ad read, “Being an American requires conforming to the positive benefits of unity. “
Charlie Kirk furious about DEI in the booth: “I’m sorry. If I see a black driver, I’m going to think, “Boy, I hope he’s qualified. “Kirk even added a “guy” to see how well he might get away with it. . .
– PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) January 23, 2024
+ Any rational racist would be more paralyzed with anxiety over the fact that the cost-cutting managerial types with MBAs from Stanford and Harvard who are running Boeing have cut so many corners to maximize profits that passenger plane doors and nose wheels are falling off in mid-flight…
+ Maybe these guys couldn’t’ve stormed the Capitol after all…
– Ben Von Klemperer (@BVKImages) January 21, 2024
Evan Power, the newly elected chairman of the Florida Republican Party, was arrested in 2018 for driving, a car twist of fate and was discovered with a loaded gun and a bullet in the bedroom. The police report also mentions that he had a lot of money. Bars. In a video of the arrest, Power can be heard laughing as police take him to jail. Maybe you deserve to call Robert Menendez’s lawyer?
The GOP-controlled House Ethics Committee investigating Florida’s Matt Gaetz has contacted the U. S. Department of Justice about Gaetz’s alleged involvement in sex trafficking, as well as a woman the congressman allegedly had sex with when she was 17.
Meanwhile, Colorado’s most sensible Republican in the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Lynch, announced he would resign after a report surfaced about his arrest in 2022 for driving and possessing firearms.
+ A federal appeals court ruled that Mexico can sue American gun companies for making and selling assault weapons trafficked across the border to arm drug cartels. The court ruling cited the rise of gun violence in Mexico correlates with the expiration of the US assault weapons ban in 2004. Seven U.S. gun manufacturers produce more than 68 percent of American guns trafficked into Mexico—up to 597,000 guns each year are illegally diverted into Mexico for criminal use.
Number of gun outlets in Mexico: 2
+ Percentage of firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico originally purchased in the United States: 70
Like the United States, Europe is also experiencing a sharp increase in measles cases. According to the World Health Organization, more than 30,000 cases were reported between January and October in 40 of the 53 member states in the Region. Compared to the 941 cases recorded in total through 2022, this represents a more than 30-fold increase.
Many Americans have refused to get the latest booster shots, a trend that exists even among those who received the flu shot this year.
According to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, more than one in four Gen Z adults in the United States is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
~100,000: The estimated number of young people on Facebook and Instagram who are subjected to online sexual harassment every day, according to internal Meta documents.
Apparently, the angels have the time, power, and operational discretion they’ve been given to locate someone’s glasses, but they forget to divert the 2,000-pound bombs to kill children. What kind of cosmology is this?
Your explanation? An angel made. pic. twitter. com/PuN46o8Q66 it
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) January 23, 2024
On October 15, 1943, FDR wrote a note to Henry Wallace advising him how to deal (gently) with Four Freedoms grievances. . .
Dear Enrique:
I’ve talked to Morris Ernst about little books about the Four Freedoms and I’d love to hear them if you want to write one of those books.
Personally, I would use a soft overview of the warring parties of the Four Freedoms, but in a friendly tone. For example, comparisons can be made between them and the aristocracy of France at the beginning of the French Revolution; with the small but noisy minority that opposed the Magna Carta; with the troublemakers of Athens who drove out many sensible men; and with the turbulent young men of Israel who made Moses break the tablets of stone.
Like yours
Franklin D. Roosevelt
+ And people actually buy self-driving cars from this guy?
+ Musk visiting Auschwitz is like getting a papal indulgence for endorsing 5000 anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi Tweets…
Death camp tourism is the strangest form of tourism.
Blazing Saddles and The Life of Brian are the two political films ever made. . . Prove me wrong.
Interviewer: This film is clearly looking for the right story. What do you think of this moment in which the fact is being attacked and the forces are seeking to ban books in schools?
Lily Gladstone: “Like ‘The Flower Moon Killers,’ which is banned in Oklahoma. I would mention Addie Roanhorse, who worked in the film’s art department. Addie said, “You can ban the book, but you can’t ban Scorsese. (Variety)
Tim Shorrock on Oppenheimer: “Oppenheimer” and its director’s inability to feature a single Japanese or Korean face is an extremely shameful act in a film that glorifies the political plight of the bomb’s inventor. Poor poor Oppy!
How many more people did your father kill in the war?
+ It was entirely predictable that the Academy would shower Bradley Cooper’s ego-fest, Maestro, with nominations. But the film is in many ways an insult to its subject, Leonard Bernstein. For example, the only black person in the film is a student Bernstein tries to hit on, instead of the black radicals he raised money for and free jazz musicians, such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, he championed….
Baby, pull your teeth, everything will be alright, there will be nothing left to smile about.
Little Pieces of Burning Hell
“American television is full of smiles and getting better and better teeth. Do they want us to think they’re smart people?Not yet. The truth is, they don’t need anything from us. . They just need to show us their teeth, their smiles and admiration is all they need in return. They need to be looked at, that’s all. Their best teeth, their best bodies, their best manners, as if they were constantly moving away from the sun and they were little pieces of fire, little pieces of scorching hell, here on this planet were only meant to be worshipped. – Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives