Month: July 2022
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‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat
‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat Organisers claim there’s nothing far-right about next month’s Frontnacht festival. But the lineup suggests otherwise. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/07/28/our-songs-are-manifestos-why-music-matters-for-belgiums-far-right/ skinhead carrying a guitar takes his place in front of the microphone in a Budapest park. A few hundred metres away, a police cordon and…
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Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave | The New Yorker
Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave In hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/01/living-through-indias-next-level-heat-wave Across much of northern India, where more than a billion people live, temperatures have regularly soared past a hundred and ten degrees, and slightly lower temperatures have often…
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Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult? | The New Yorker
Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult? Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/01/will-wisconsins-republicans-make-voting-meaningless-or-just-difficult “You have to wonder if people are thinking very deeply about what they’re doing. Do they realize what the alternatives are to a functioning democracy?”
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The Age of the Superyacht | The New Yorker
The Haves and the Have-Yachts Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny. The ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts Nobody pretends that a superyacht is a productive place to stash your wealth. In a column this spring headlined “a superyacht is a terrible asset,” the Financial Times observed, “Owning…
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Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles – The New York Times
Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles A veteran war reporter in Afghanistan was told she would go to jail if she didn’t tweet an apology for her reporting. She has since safely left the country. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/business/media/taliban-reporter-lynne-odonnell.html In one of the coerced tweets, posted on Tuesday, Ms. O’Donnell wrote: “l apologize…
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How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right – The New York Times
How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right The movement to reinstate President Trump has gone far beyond him — and now threatens the future of American elections. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/magazine/stop-the-steal.html The movement to reinstate President Trump has gone far beyond him — and now threatens the future of American elections.
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How Hate5six Captures the Hardcore Universe | The New Yorker
How Hate5six Captures the Hardcore Universe In a subculture that thrives on spontaneity and obscurity, Sunny Singh’s video library stands out as a lovingly curated record. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-hate5six-captures-the-hardcore-universe Singh is the creator of hate5six, an extensive video library of punk and hardcore shows, mostly from cities across the Northeast. Singh is bafflingly…
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Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation | The New Yorker
Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/alan-dershowitzs-marthas-vineyard-cancellation Yeah, of course. So I’ve been cancelled, basically, by the Chilmark Library. That has resulted in lots of people in Chilmark calling me and calling…
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How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Became a Grim Joke — New York Magazine – Nymag
How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Became a Grim Joke — New York Magazine – Nymag From the March 13, 1995 issue of New York Magazine. via New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/47548/ Across the room, Elliott, Hiscock, Garofalo and a college friend, and Mark McKinney are crammed into a banquette. Jim Downey, jocular, the pressure off for a…
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Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy? | The New Yorker
Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy? Its founders believe that they can use the tools of the Western art world to help heal the effects of more than a century of plunder. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/can-an-artists-collective-in-africa-repair-a-colonial-legacy He spent a couple of weeks parading through rubble and Chechen refugee camps, playing…
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How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany
How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany – Longreads Rainer Sonntag was a far-right vigilante. He was also a Communist spy. via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2022/07/06/follow-the-leader-neo-nazi-communist-spy-atavist-magazine/ Throughout the evening, far-right youth—some with shaved heads, others with the feathery mullets still fashionable in the Eastern Bloc’s dying days—gathered in nearby bars and outside the boarded-up Faun Palace porn…
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On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’ – The New York Times
On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’ Election fraud claims from 2020 are widespread on talk radio, contributing to the belief that the midterm results cannot be trusted. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/media/conservative-radio-democrats-cheat.html “You don’t get as specific as a particular company so they can’t come back and sue you,” said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor…
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Haiti a Year After the Presidential Assassination | The New Yorker
Haiti a Year After the Presidential Assassination Justice evades Jovenel Moïse’s family and the rest of the country. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/haiti-a-year-after-the-presidential-assassination In June, a social-media-savvy gang known as 5 Segonn—Five Seconds—took over one of Haiti’s largest courthouses using military-type weapons and drones. The attackers burned documents and seized computers and safes filled with…
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Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial – The New York Times
Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial Sixty years after the execution of Adolf Eichmann, the logistics chief of the Holocaust, an Israeli documentary airs his confessions in his own voice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/world/middleeast/adolf-eichmann-documentary-israel.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News Exposing Eichmann’s visceral, ideological antisemitism, his zeal for hunting down Jews and his role in the mechanics of mass…
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End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense | WIRED
End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/end-to-end-encryption-abortion-privacy/ “Effective, uncensorable, secret communications are certainly far more valuable to resistance movements than small arms are,” says computer security consultant Ryan Lackey. “If…
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The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs | The New Yorker
The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. Amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs They accused one another of lowering the water table and drying up neighboring wells. “I am so sorry for your…
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Joseph Smith and the Birth of Mormonism | The New Yorker
Joseph Smith and the Birth of Mormonism The cartoonist Noah Van Sciver explores the life and times of an American prophet. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/joseph-smith-and-the-birth-of-mormonism His latest book, the graphic-novel biography “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” will be published at the end of July. It is a nuanced and complicated portrait of Mormonism’s founder.…