Nation
Tom Cotton Vs The New York Times; Queering the Debate
As the demand for “moral clarity” in journalism grows, at least among progressive journalists, I’m forced to reconsider my career as a censor, back when I was an editor at The Village Voice.
At Camp We Sang “Dixie”
Struck by the non-response of her Facebook friends to the following post, Laurie Stone kept her movement of mind going…
The Comedy of Modern Life: Conner O’Malley’s American Breakdowns
Comic Conner O’Malley caught the MAGA moment on the wing a few years ago in a series of Vines (collected here). In these six-second shots: “O’Malley — playing a deranged car-and-wealth-obsessed man — would pull up to befuddled Manhattan businessmen in sports cars, scream guttural praise for their public display of opulence, and then bike away before they knew what hit them.”
Show Your Love (Brooke Williams Remembers her Uncle)
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A Quiet Man Blesses George Floyd & Gives Us Marching Orders
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Letter from the Coast
Hey B, absolutely been hitting the streets. Here in Oakland the pigs and our pig-accomplice mayor are not fucking around. But it’s being led by kids and tutored by the elder generations (and I like adjusting to being an elder), we got such a tradition here.
The American Experiment (Per Beto & Stacey Abrams)
Beto O’Rourke sent out an email to his supporters which included this video of his short address to the Texas Democratic Convention…
Search for a Method (Vote by Phone)
Many years ago Buckminster Fuller, one of the greatest thinkers, engineers, and observers of life in all its micro and macro forms, suggested that democracy could be expressed more efficiently if people were allowed to vote by phone.
Letter From Mississippi
Hey Y’all,
Like most of y’all, my wife, Monica, is livid about the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Officer. Moreover, she is perplexed by my seeming lack of concern. She can’t understand why I’m not as outwardly angry as everyone else as she walks around the house, givin’ me that scolding black woman side-eye.
Letter from Charlie
Your editor passed on C. Leigh McInnes’ “Letter” to Charles Keil, who has long grasped imperatives of African American nationists. Keil responded with his own letter…
Brotherman
ICYMI, George Floyd’s brother Philonise and nephew Brendan…
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Nine Minutes (i.m. of George Floyd)
Five hundred forty seconds.
Time in which an athlete
Can run a mile and a half.
A couple can have rushed,
Workday-morning sex.
A teacher can teach about the stars.
A killer can keep his knee
On the neck of a man.
Simple Justice & Complex Protests
Mass uprisings are complicated ecosystems. This one especially, perhaps, because of how unbelievably complicated our world has become.