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Puffing on a vape, Peter Kennard flicks through an old notebook, showing me cutouts of his first commission. The images are already fixed in the now iconic Kennard style — an ominous Richard Nixon delivering his State of the Union address, whilst Edward Heath and a crowd representing the British public subserviently pay witness. The […]
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank and now on Lebanon as well, something very different happened recently in a poky classroom at Columbia University. Two young men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, both of whom had lost people they deeply loved to the conflict, came to speak not about fear and anger, revenge or oppression, but about reconciliation, friendship, and peace. One of them was Arab Aramin, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Jerusalem whose little sister, Abir, had been shot and killed in front of her school by an Israeli soldier. She was 10 years old. The other was Yonatan Zeigen,... Read more
“Donald Trump’s candidates keep delivering… for Democrats. Republicans didn’t learn their lesson in 2022 as MAGA mini-mes could once again cost the party winnable races.” — Vanity Fair, 9/30/24
As a party, we have to apologize for how things are going. We’re just having a minor “candidate quality” problem, but things should be back to normal once we’ve fixed this glitch.
There’s nothing wrong overall. Our party is healthy and strong. We just accidentally ran extremely low-quality candidates up and down the ballot. Whoops.
Our policies are not out of step with the American public. At least, not if we deny any association with the nine-hundred-page authoritarian manual that outlines them exactly. The only problem is our candidates, many of whom are running campaigns entirely staffed by the writers of said manual. It’s a bummer, but it doesn’t represent us.
As a New York transplant originally from the South, my body is hard-wired to welcome the fall season once the temperature hits 70. I’m not proud of it, but I have been known to dust off my sweaters and light a cider-scented candle during the final week of August. This year, as my neighborhood Target started to swap sunscreen for pumpkin carving kits, a new seasonal item caught my eye: a cinnamon-creme chocolate bar called the Kit Kat Ghost Toast.
Once September began, I figured it was socially acceptable to give this Kit Kat a taste test. Store after store, however, the Ghost Toast was sold out. My interest was doubly piqued: why is this spooky-themed treat taking the city by storm in early September? Are shoppers in New York buying autumnal goods to seek a reprieve from the dog days of summer, or is the candy just that delicious? As a chocolate connoisseur and a Halloween hobbyist, I knew what I had to do. I made a trip to the motherland (Hershey’s Chocolate World in Times Square) to answer my question: Will I be able to boast that the Kit Kat Ghost Toast is the candy I love the most, or will I be forced to pen a roast because the flavor is gross?
We finally arrived in Gaza at around 7pm. Since there is no direct route into Gaza, we had to fly into Cairo before making the drive to the Rafah Crossing. I had lost count of the number of Israeli checkpoints we passed through — a daily reality for Palestinians living under apartheid. We were staying […]
One of Bell’s last actions before taking Rep. Cori Bush’s seat in Congress was to charge protesters arrested on the 10-year anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr.
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One theme of this blog, for the last four years or so, has been the end of the unilateral, American, order.
Let’s review:
The US & NATO poured support into Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are losing the war. This is clear now, and anyone denying it is either lying, stupid or a complete captive of propaganda.
The West can’t produce enough weapons or ammo. There have been massive drawdowns of stocks and production is not enough to replace it, nor is production ramping up either enough, or quickly enough, to deal with the issue.
Russia, however, was able to ramp up weapons and ammunition production fast. At the start of the war, and for far too long afterwards there were cries that the Russians would run out of missiles, shells and so on. No such thing. Their allies came thru, plus they massively increased their production.