Month: May 2024
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Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine | The New Yorker
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Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-the-summer-could-be-disastrous-for-ukraine The Russian leadership is now starting to think of the war like, This is a four-year war and…
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The Case to End College Football
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The Case to End College Football Big-time college football is one of the most egregious sites of economic exploitation in U.S. society today, the authors argue. via Sportico.com: https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2024/case-to-end-to-college-football-1234779221/ Ted Tatos and Hal Singer have calculated that Black football and men’s basketball players lose out annually on a $1.2 to $1.4 billion racial transfer of wealth…
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How Kid Rock Turned Into A Republican Mouthpiece And Trump’s MAGA BFF
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How Kid Rock Went From America’s Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans. via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kid-rock-republican-mouthpiece-trump-maga-bff-1235019530/ Two days after meeting with Ritchie at his house, I’ll see this…
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A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz | PetaPixel
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A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz The banality of evil. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/22/a-nazis-chilling-photos-show-how-he-wanted-to-remember-auschwitz/ Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich wrote about the Nazi photo album in their 2018 play, Here There Are Blueberries. The award-winning play’s title highlights the carefree berry-eating put to photographic film just outside the site of the…
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America’s Monster – The New York Times
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America’s Monster How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/world/asia/afghanistan-abdul-raziq.html “You will learn to respect me and reject the Taliban,” Raziq said after the killings, which took place in the winter of 2010, according to the witnesses and relatives of both men. “Because I will come back and do this…
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Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother – Mother Jones
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Lessons from a mass shooter’s mother A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/05/threat-assessment-mass-shooting-elliot-rodger-isla-vista-mother/?src=longreads A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy. https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/05/threat-assessment-mass-shooting-elliot-rodger-isla-vista-mother/?src=longreads
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What George Miller Has Learned in Forty-five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies | The New Yorker
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What George Miller Has Learned in Forty-five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies In a series of conversations, the director of “Furiosa” explains why silent films have the best action, audiences are seldom wrong, and his wife is always right. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-george-miller-has-learned-in-forty-five-years-of-making-mad-max-movies In a series of conversations, the director of “Furiosa” explains…
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I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. Send Help. – Mother Jones
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I read everything Elon Musk posted for a week. Send help. If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/?src=longreads He believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a…
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