kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY.
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
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See also: Phee throws
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She’s being snarky about how there was a widespread argument that the Civil Rights Movement was a Communist plot to destroy America. That echoed Civil War propaganda that abolitionists were just trying to destroy the South and the American way of life.
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Not odd—generational. The old guard were New Deal Democrats. The new crop were enthralled with an exciting new thing called neoliberalism.
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Quelling protests. Soothing tensions. Calming unrest.
Like one does with tear gas and less-than-lethal munitions.
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Awkward jumping is kinda his thing.
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“A post on X (formerly Twitter) seemed to indicate tensions between Elon Musk and the President over the latter’s signature Big Beautiful Bill. The President responded on Truth Social, suggesting that Musk..”
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But maybe they can run a Musk/Cheney ticket in 2028?
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They even tried to set up the non-sequitur, panicky logic of Rogue One in Andor with the repeated mantra “Jedha, Kyber, Erso,” which works to an extent—the first 2/3 of RO becomes checking off that list. The biggest flaw in RO by comparison is the excellent new characters who get no backstory.
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Uh, can you eat a ChatGPT request? Does he favor a mandated transition to a plant-based national diet?
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See also, oversight.
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That sounds teleological to me. Can you trace the genealogy for me?
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Sure, but it’s more like it’s giving us arsonists and also an ineffective mail-to-order fire blanket that they promise will work but is actually flammable.
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I, for one, will always remember Scalia as a Catholic whose comments during Castle Rock suggested that language asserting that the government “shall” offer protection does not mean that the government “must” offer protection. Makes me wonder how he read the Ten Commandments.
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Haha fair enough.
The return of Nickelback makes me wonder how the already nostalgic tenor of 90s alt-rock (longing for the 60s and 70s sonically if not always politically) works to facilitate these sorts of backwards-looking, inherently conservative attachments.
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This Is How You Remind Me: The Alt-Right Politics of the Alt-Rock Revival
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“I want to create life! No, not *that* way!”
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And on the seventh day, he put on his little honk shoes and took a snoozy pie.
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And on the seventh day, he took a little nap.
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BlackfAIce.
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As Saul Williams puts it, it’s a roach egg economy.
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The solution is to have two.
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As Achille Mbembe terms it, “necropolitics”: the power to determine who may live and who must die.
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Yes, they are. There are now two options for femmes: German milkmaid and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Why did Porter go out of her way to say that she “plays by the rules,” if not to point out that there was pressure not to? Or that others bend the rules and are rewarded, unlike her?
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No, your source is an anonymous pol quoted in the article, which also includes Porter’s perspective, which you refuse to engage.
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Your only source is a senior Dem staffer who, most likely, is close to Pelosi. All you are doing is parroting the party line. You may find it convincing, but that doesn’t make it true.
Also, Pelosi is a notorious insider trader who has opposed financial reforms in Congress. She didn’t like Porter!
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Well, Porter is now running for CA Governor. And not trying to get back into the House.
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Your position seems to be that individual Congress members are entirely responsible for their political success or failure, which presumes a world where there is no party apparatus, endorsements, political favors, etc.
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Might she have decided to try for the Senate because Pelosi, who gave some people waivers but not Porter, ran the Dem caucus in the House? Pelosi, who also supported primary challengers against several incumbent left-leaning Dems? Then Pelosi endorsed her primary challenger for the Senate seat.
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Note that the source for the excuse given for denying Porter a waiver is an anonymous senior Democratic aide—easily someone in Pelosi’s camp.
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Pelosi very famously has favorites in California politics. Porter, a protege of Elizabeth Warren, was outside her sphere of influence. Not getting favors from the leader of your caucus is enough to hinder one’s political career. Pelosi could have helped her if she wanted to; she didn’t.
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This is precisely how the Dem leadership plays favorites: it cuts off left-leaning politicians from opportunities and advances their preferred candidates. Pelosi also endorsed Schiff for the Senate seat in 2023.