This winning image of a match catching fire brings to mind the wildfires engulfing our increasingly flammable world.
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This winning image of a match catching fire brings to mind the wildfires engulfing our increasingly flammable world.
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Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years ago while in college. It’s about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be making Ford Thunderbirds. But in the early 1980s, Seger sings, “the plants have changed and you’re lucky if you work.” Seger caught the reality of an American manufacturing infrastructure that was seriously eroding as skilled and good-paying union jobs were cut or sent overseas, rarely to be seen again in these parts. If the U.S. auto industry has recently shown sparks of new life (though we’re not making T-Birds or Mercuries or Oldsmobiles or Pontiacs or Saturns anymore), there is one... Read more
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Israel is losing the information war. But that is not because they aren't trying. MintPress' Alan MacLeod breaks down how the government of Israel has spent millions of dollars on targeted ads aimed at Westerners, all in an attempt to whitewash a genocide.
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Q: I’ve just learned I have COVID. Should I—
A: Wait. Are you over seventy, and/or are you functioning without an immune system, and/or did you actually listen when we told you to get a booster?
Q: Uh, no, no, and yes.
A: Ah, you’re one of the boring COVID cases then. Go ahead. Ask your questions.
Q: Basically, is there anything I need to do now that I know I have COVID?
A: You should stay home. Unless you don’t have symptoms. If you don’t, you can go out. Or you can stay home then too. Either or.
Q: Should I mask?
A: Yes?
Q: You don’t sound super sure about that.
A: If you want to mask, mask.
Q: Are you guys masking?
A: No. Well, except Linda in phlebotomy.
Q: Have any of you had COVID?
A: Yes. Dozens of times. Linda missed three consecutive months of work in 2020. It was bonkers.
Q: Okay, so I guess I’ll mask. Do I need to stay home from work?
A: Can you work from home?
Q: No, I’m a teacher.
A: Oh, thank you. Our future is literally in your hands.
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In Europe and the U.S., Palestinians say Western governments’ lockstep support for Israel opens up their communities to attacks.
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The Grayzone has obtained a letter signed by former President Trump’s fanatically pro-settler ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and sent to New York University leadership demanding the school crack down on free speech to satisfy Israeli interests. A letter sent to NYU leadership claims the school is “no longer a safe space for Jewish students” while demanding policies that would shatter free speech on campus. The letter was signed by David Friedman, Trump’s rabidly pro-settlement ambassador to Israel, as well […]
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As I noted in comments, it’s the angriest I’ve been since 2015 when Syriza crumbled to European austerity. The day that happened I was furious. I wrote an angry post and went for a walk, still boiling with anger. About half an hour later I thought “this is ridiculous, it isn’t helping the Greeks and I don’t like it” and the anger went away.
It was odd, in the sense that we often have thoughts and feelings we don’t like, but usually they don’t go away just because think “I’d rather not feel this way.”