- So Trump’s first authorized special ops raid went about as well as you would expect.
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See what you can match on this “Early Warning Signs of Fascism” sign at the Holocaust Museum to the current administration.
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Things don’t change: Dr. Seuss vs. fascism.
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One day from Melania’s diary.
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With new tech for inventing real-looking video and audio, the 2020 election will be a bonanza for fake news.
- New scholarship taking applications … but only for white men.
- No problem here: Navy SEAL convoy flying Trump flag.
- Print and read: Did you know that white supremacists have been infiltrating law enforcement for years? The FBI does.
- Bonus print and read: New York’s attorney general could be the White House’s greatest threat.
Tag: fascism
Reader’s Corner: Orwell and Trump
My article “Forget Orwell: No Book Will Prepare You for the Trump Years” was published earlier this week at Medium:
After Donald Trump’s human smokescreen Kellyanne Conway announced that the president was simply presenting the world with “alternative facts,” the connection was quickly made to George Orwell’s 1984. There is good reason for this. (And while one should be happy for any resulting increase in sales of the book, we shouldn’t presume that it will be any guide to the remaining years of the Trump presidency. More on that below.)…
Screening Room: ‘The Childhood of a Leader’
In Brady Corbet’s debut film, an American diplomat in France at the end of World War I and his wife watch their son turn from spoiled brat into something far more sinister.
The Childhood of a Leader is playing now in limited release; check it out. My review is at PopMatters:
What if the greatest conflagration in modern human history was sparked not by grander forces but by the whims of one or more determined psychopaths? That’s the nerve-rattling, if hard-to-swallow, idea advanced by The Childhood of a Leader. The directorial debut of actor Brady Corbet, this tricky, frequently overpowering film is set in 1919, just after the end of the First World War. The weight of history couldn’t be any heavier…
Here’s the trailer:
Weekend Reading: October 30, 2015
Project Greenlight, you are horrible.
- Thanks for nothing, Maureen Dowd.
- Welcome to “Minecraft Hell.”
- What’s the matter with Kansas? No, really?
- Wife-sharing as a way of offsetting the shortage of women in China.
- Traffic, techies, fires, sprawl; the California dream is dead, again.
- How to get around the rabbis’ Internet ban.
- Remember Dubya’s Secretary of Education, the one who wanted to defund PBS for showing same-sex couples? Now she’s running the University of North Carolina.
- Ravenna, Italy might have been the inspiration for Minas Tirith, and other gems from Tolkien’s newly discovered annotated map of Middle-earth.
- Print and read: Judging the world’s (supposedly) 50 best restaurants.
Weekend Reading: October 23, 2015
- From radical Indian philosopher who ran guns and worked Ho-Chi Minh to invite-only nightclub in Mexico City.
- The Mississippi judge who doesn’t seem to understand the whole “innocent until proven guilty” concept.
- More conservative than thou; or, how did Boehner last as long as he did?
- Get yer free short-stories here.
- Democratic socialism is really quite different than capital-S Socialism; as Michael Harrington often explained.
- Jeb’s guys: No, seriously, it’s all under control.
- Original “Sinner’s Bible,” yours for only about £15,000.
- In Norway, “it was totally Texas” means…
- Government as vampire; or: Can’t pay your fine? Line up to “donate” blood here.
- Print and read: Hitler’s speeches as bedtime reading, “an unalloyed joy in bullying,” demonizing the outsider, and other ways that the Donald just might be a good old fashioned fascist.
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