Like me, you may think you understand the horror of measles and the murder being committed by RFK & co. Read this, if you can handle it--my eyes are tearing up for this splendid child lost--and learn just how much more terrible and heartbreaking it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
Upon learning that James Agee wrote a script for his friend Charlie Chaplin casting the Tramp as the last man alive after nuclear apocalypse...
Oh, I have his very valuable annotated edition of Let Us Now Praise. But wait! Does this script exist???
They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.
Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.
FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.
No less at a premiere for an inspiring biopic about a star whose estate legally buried a documentary about the very plausible allegations of two men who say they were molested by the star as boys.
I didn't either, but I learned here that Agee considered him one of the greatest of actors. Who is the Agee scholar?
Searched "James Agee" here. Fascinating that his film writing is by far the most-cited, followed by his novel A Death in the Family, with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (rereading & teaching now) a distant third.
HIRE KATHRYN. In an age of journalism in a death spiral, she's the real deal as investigative journalist, an excellent writer, a true thinker, and a real human being. She knows Christian nationalism as well as anyone.
And you put it more clearly than me! Apologies for the confusion.
What do you call endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theorist podcaster? Almost channeling Protocols in his talk of an vast, unnamed but very organized "they" who have "always" been secretly undermining "us"? Staying weirdly quiet on an open Nazi endorsement? Changing tattoo stories three times now?
I prefer "borrower."
Apologies. I must have responded to the wrong post. Someone was asking about Platner.
And yet I don't believe that conspiracy theory or peddle it. So what are you proving by attacking it? I think he does support a progressive agenda--and he's proven himself a dangerously opportunistic narcissist who'll lie and hurt people to get ahead. More likely to harm the agenda than advance it.
Platner. I'm sorry, no disrespect but why would I suggest that you're this?
Thing is, I don't think Platner is actually an antisemite--but like Trump he's figured out he can simultaneously signal hate speech and be defended by those less aware who'll defend him to the end. What's worse, he's very historically literate. He knows what he's invoking.
I think it's a fair question. It's not the same as Trumpism, but Trumpist rhetorical styles infect everything. "From sorry about the tat" to "akshually." His rhetoric around Epstein goes from obvious legit anger to conspiracism of international, unnamed, organized "they" who've "always" been there.
I didn’t say he was Nazi Manchurian candidate. I said, explicitly, that I don’t care what he “really believes.” I’m just talking about the observable facts, which for me are more than enough to conclude he’s an asshole. You, meanwhile, are rather pointedly not talking about the facts, only “optics.”
Former leftists, infected by Trumpism, are the most dangerous as they abandon history, compassion and reality.
inthesetimes.com/article/form...
And? I’d say that’s a bigger problem, not a smaller one.
He’s currently the highest-profile example of the way Trumpism infects even its opposition and the initial stages of the left to right slide about which I’ve written for @inthesetimes.com and which I think is a threat far larger than the politics of Maine or any state.
Ah, but I don’t make my moral decisions based on the guidance of rightwingers. I don’t need their help to say no to a man who’s been fash trolling for years. Why, there are so many people — billions — who’ve never fash-trolled at all!
I see you're a labor lawyer, so to make it real simple: Which side are you on? And is it for you circumstantial? Are you ok with a little wink-wink yourself if it means a win? How many winks are allowed? Or do you do the "what about Mills" thing? To hell with Mills. And to hell with Platner, too.
Unlike some, I don't think Platner is actually particularly antisemitic. I don't care what's "in his heart." But it's a fact he's wink-winking at it for whatever reason. The difference between us isn't "conspiratorial thinking"; it's whether you give a damn.
1. Lifelong WW II buff gets very obvious Nazi tat that likely prevented him from re-enlisting, changes story about it multiple times. 2. Endorses antisemitic conspiracy theorist podcast host. 3. Stays mum on open Nazi endorsement of him. 4. Uses Protocols of Elders of Zion language.
Nope. Double nope. Because a) three strikes & then some is enough for any honest person to realize that at BEST Platner's trolling for rightwing votes without concern for real harm done. b) We live in the world where lives are at stake, not a know-it-all comic strip. No excuse for ignoring politics.
Thread on a fake story about Platner sieg heiling. He did NOT do this. Rightwingers drumming it up, tho, because Platner brings so much actual trash to the table that they know some will believe it. Which is a good reason not to support people w/ *any* Nazi trash. Not even just a li'l bit of Nazi!
This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.
We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.
Climate removed from top level navigation on BBC News.
Yeah Hampshire didn’t have legacy admissions either and with what pitiful money it had worked toward social justice. But no, there are other ways than sports scholarships. You shouldn’t have to be great at sports to go to college.