I first saw Ken Russell’s incredible horror film The Devils for the first time last year. It’s a movie that feels decades ahead of its time. The British Board of Film Classification, their equivalent to the US’s MPAA, shares an article about the history of The Devils’ censorship.
I have become increasingly exhausted with US Liberals assuming their are also Left. Because the obfuscation of language is such a key component of capitalism/fascism, it has led to words like these losing their definitions. Daniel Woods talks about the roots of the term “liberal” and helps explain why Liberalism in the United States is nowhere close to being Left.
There has been a lot of bullshit said by the Trump regime and Musk’s DOGE about people on Social Security lists being long dead, thus they claim fraud. Turns out some of those ‘dead’ people are alive and well, and now have to prove they are like this poor gentleman in Seattle.
The Israeli Occupation resumed its bloody assault on Gaza this week. The death count is up to 700 since Tuesday, most of them women & children. David Hearst writes in The Middle East Eye that the West has lost any shred of credibility about being moral in regards to foreign policy.
A big part of why the US feels particularly disconnected from the world and its action is based in settler colonialism. When your culture builds itself on a supremacist ideology you lose touch with humanity.
Despite the completely unhinged right wing takes on vaccines, the push for the COVID-19 vaxx was centered in capitalism. Once the shot was available, all the very light protections put in place for working people were targeted and everyone was expected to keep serving the machine again. With Bird Flu on the rise, I worry we will see even less provided to people in the face of a crisis.
And finally, Jacobin’s Liza Featherstone talks abuot how Obama has been one of the worst ex-presidents with little regard for the public good. Though, I did see someone on BlueSky say it’s better he does stay out of the current crisis as he’d likely be on the worst side. I can’t help but recall has he was trotted out to tell Black people to be quiet and calm down in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
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