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Curtis Yarvin = on my mind a lot recently - has advocated the USA be run by a Monarch for many years. He must be very very happy now. Yarvin is a darling of JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Musk, & other reactionary far-right nutjob power brokers. They think his brand of fascism is impressively intellectual.

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BIG: Federal Board Agrees With OSC Order to Halt Firings talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-f... "...this is the reality that Trump and Musk are breaking laws right and left."

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"Kate Moss at Cafe Lipp, Paris, Vogue Italia, 1993" photo by ARTHUR ELGORT

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www.faheykleingallery.com/exhibitions/... Opening Reception: next Thurs Mar 6 7 - 9pm.

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Trump's dictatorship of stupidity & incompetence bulldozes on. Naming nut job clown car chaser Dan Bongino as incompetent, petty asshole Kash Patel's #2 at the FBI last night is indicative. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/opms-...

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Steve Bannon used it at always-creepy CPAC a day ago. trump's minions keep telling us who they are: the Nazi Sieg Heil Salute used more & more, proudly, in public.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cXC... ANDREW SCOTT starring in the video is the main attraction. SAM FENDER's new album gets an enthusiastic rave over at NME & a basic yawn at Pitchfork. Troye Sivan tracks this ain't (unfortunately for my $); Fender seems mostly a Springsteen disciple heavy on bombast.

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apnews.com/article/butt... PETE anyplace anytime ASAP.

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Suit by Handmacher 1953. source: Stolen from the myvintagevogue tumblr.

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www.talkhouse.com/dennis-coope... “We don’t want to be the new indie film darling. We don’t want to be like the Safdie brothers … I want to make something really strange and really original, and it’s not sexy or flashy. A lot of people aren’t going to get it.”

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Photo by Lucas Lei source: malemodelscene

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by Rene Magritte, 1967.

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"trump has proudly made the USA one of the main villains in the world now." --The Bulwark, paraphrase Absolutely true, as trump bends over backwards to accommodate & glorify putin & toss democracies & NATO into the toilet. & not one "Republican" speaks out against.

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Is This Why Musk Keeps Using the Same Dozen Tech Micro-Bros for Each Takeover? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th... "...Congress had the power of the purse. This whole operation involves seizing that power away from Congress. That’s the big, bad act...But there's more specific criminal conduct."

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"US citizens did not vote for a Dictatorship. We did not vote for a coup. Because this is what we're getting [with trump/musk]. The result is chaos." --Paraphrasing (but not much) AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes (D)

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnAG... A legit recording of this tune by Teresa Stratas has been in my possession & a fave for years. This countertenor Performance Art version leaves me just a bit speechless. Question: are you allowed to like something & dislike it simultaneously?

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#détournement #hyperreality #spectacle

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Some drives were 14 hours. During that time, 4 hours can go by where no one says a word…

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www.interviewmagazine.com/art/inside-t...

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jabberwocking.com/madness Very good summation of the insane destructiveness of the trump/musk monarchy currently on a rampage. "...governance gone mad, with no explanation or apparent reason." Well, the reason IS: both trump & musk are psychopaths who've been given unlimited power.

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NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a... Every day is bringing new & dangerous outrages from the destructive monarchy (trump/musk) now intentionally running our country into the ground. Josh Marshall = a lone voice telling the truth. Will keep sharing his posts

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Re-watching R Polanski's +enjoyable THE NINTH GATE makes me want to read ALEXANDRE DUMAS. DICKENS, TWAIN, 3 or 4 by PROUST, 3 by R LOUIS STEVENSON, BRAM STOKER, BARRIE, CARROLL. No Dumas. Not sure why the Polanski film pushes me here but it has. Currently looking at lists of DUMAS books. This one.

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denniscooperblog.com/ken-jacobs-d... "It was also an indication of the direction in which Jacobs would proceed, wherein actors and narrative would fall away, replaced by a concentration on the rigorous pleasures of the cinematic unconscious."

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6'6" NBA Star, SGA, is setting the lens on fire. Photo by Alvaro Beamud Cortés for VMAN

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T Jefferson wrote about Presidential Immunity in 1810: he was clearly against it. For all its glorification of antique views that are narrow-minded & right-wing (reactionary Sam Alito in particular), the Roberts Court now conveniently erases what President Jefferson said in order to have their way.

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Follow-up to the tighter, (relatively) cooler, (subjectively) more restrained/controlled debut album HORSES (considered the Masterpiece, rightly) - RADIO ETHIOPIA = torrent of blazing hot emotion raw nerve, unfairly put down when released. I always loved its excesses. The emphatic tunes gnaw deep.

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DARK SEED™ is backed by an open=scale unsupervised language model capable of generating novel author functions. The process intakes random cultural elements to predict subsequent cultural states… Louis Armand [ louisarmand.bsky.social ] free PDF: atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/d...

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Been re-watching a lot of films which I do not list on Letterboxd, such as Roman Polanski's NINTH GATE, Ridley Scott's HOUSE OF GUCCI, PT Anderson's LICORICE PIZZA, etc. All pretty wonderful to see a 2nd time.

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+ 2021

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Only the poetic revitalization of language will open the way to an emergence of a new social autonomy… Franco "Bifo" Berardi The Uprising [ semiotexte.bsky.social ] www.semiotexte.com/the-uprising

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Woke up & watched several youtubes on the recent Paris MEN'S FW, then had a great wanting to hear LED ZEPPELIN'S album HOUSES OF THE HOLY & the CLOSE TO THE EDGE album by YES. Strange, haven't craved to hear that specific fantastic music for many years. In my headphones now.

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More on Trump’s Effort to End Basic Medical Research in the United States talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-... one thing to streamline red tape/another to hurl the country back into the dark Dark Ages = what trump is doing.

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Can anyone tell me why bluesky will not suddenly allow me to copy & paste from another source when making a post? I access this site on Firefox, which was recently automatically "updated". Did Firefox dismantle the copy/paste feature or something that affects it?

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A Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis With No End In Sight talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo... Not to be an Alarmist but facing facts is facing facts. "something that is no longer a democracy with Trump as an Amrican Strongman. . . We may already be there."

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IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFO -- Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-... "DOGE team has already made extensive changes. . . .for the payment system.....including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. "

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Just a few weeks ago MAGA lunatics were howling at the moon at China accessing and stealing all American citizens data through TikTok, but now they’re suddenly okay with corrupt billionaire immigrant Nazi Musk stealing that very same data. The hypocrisy is never ending.

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All movies are political. How much you wish to engage with them on that level is your choice.

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jabberwocking.com/wheres-the-r... "no Republican has raised so much as a peep about any of this. trump is the boss and that's that. It's a poltroonish performance of astonishing depth." One way to deal with the appalling trump coup on democracy: icy cold sarcasm as K Drum uses here.

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