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J Hoberman
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Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Mar 21
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Coming, May 27
Everything Is Now
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, a...
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2h
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“This deal could have been done a long time ago,” writes longtime Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin, “Hamas agreed to all of the same terms in September 2024.” In other words, Bibi held off (& sacrificed lives) waiting for Trump's return to power.
What Israeli “Victory” Looks Like
The Trump deal doesn’t destroy Hamas but it does further Palestinian dispossession.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 6h
That was me as a 22 year old wise-guy
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 6h
Agree w both points. The author is a wise guy w little understanding of & appreciation for municipal socialism. Years before Trump, it was Reagan who called government "The Problem." (On the other hand, I've seen municipal socialism dismissed and even derided as a fake panacea by some on the left.)
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 8h
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FYI, JH
Triumph of the Will
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18h
Going through my Ken Jacobs file I found this 2012 conversation. It was organized by Violet Lucca who was also responsible for the pedagogical projection alluded to in our talk. (The picture below is so far as I know the only record of the event.)

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Heretical Heuristics: J. Hoberman and Ken Jacobs Explain the Movi-verse
Film Comment Selects Interview: J. Hoberman and Ken Jacobs on multiple projections.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
No fact checkers need apply
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d
welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
Shouldn't this tired story be "some rightwing pundits worry about Mandami becoming the NYC mayor"? The real scoop would be "some NYPD officers welcome Mandami's ideas."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d
CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports
The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
Sacco & Vanzetti deserve something as well. There's also Simon Rodia, creator of America's greatest single art work, the so-called Watts Towers. My childhood congressman Vito Marcantonio ("the most consequential radical politician in the US in the 20th c" per Monthly Review) also worth mentioning.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
My sister sent me this photo of our dad's 1963 painting of his mother's store--a place less cubist than cluttered. My favorite detail is the spiral gumball machine. There were actually 2 chained beside the door. One sold a handful of red-dyed pistachio nuts for 2 cents. Zabars eat your heart out!
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely. Trump is a practiced con artist, Johnson is a natural toady. Vance's performed belligerence suggests profound insecurity. He knows that he's a fraud.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d
This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
You just need to find the right peg. I assume the editors know your background. They might let you stretch out a bit. Worth a try if you're interested.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
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Qatar and Qatari money will surely have role rebuilding Gaza as a Palestinian "state" cum "protectorate" complete with gated Kushner coastal tourist zone
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d
Write it for the NYT
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Got it. (I mentally added the quotes, then cited McCarthy to suggest that crying "antifa" is the new redbaiting.)
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Not sure what you mean
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Wasn't Joe McCarthy an "expert" on imagined communists?
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Totally agree--not least for its heavy Ronald Reagan, first seen scowling, squinteyed & leathery in the company of his servile gofer (Norman Fell!) Reagan’s last movie, it was the first I ever saw & his Teflon image notwithstanding, it left an indelible impression

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Unfortunately, Trump is the only entity w any leverage over Netanyahu & he cares not for Palestinian rights. Bibi may be loathed by the demoralized Israeli left but they are no match for the rightwing settlers who were encouraged to colonize the West Bank.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
No doubt. But M's charisma & media savvy are real. (So sad to say is Trump's outsider appeal.) Insulting hed aside, you might say a charismatic socialist is the oligarchy's worst nightmare. (Trump though is licking his chops. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to put a victorious M under arrest.)
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
Bernie is an obvious omission in this piece (Obama too if you think about it) but he's right to focus on Mamdani's outsider charisma. Lindsay and (going back further) LaGuardia won as much on anti-establishment energy as policy. I don't care how M wins, the main thing will be how he governs.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
He's more useful as a domestic target.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Despite the misleading hed, this is a not uninteresting analysis
Opinion | With Mamdani, the Left Finally Has Its Trump
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
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"The main driver was Trump’s pressure on Netanyahu... As the inestimable Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea noted, Mr. Trump doesn’t threaten Mr. Netanyahu, he orders him." Where there's life there's hope but Bibi's reward will be a greenlight to annex the West Bank.
Opinion | A One-Side Peace Plan Still Gives Palestinians Hope
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
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"Casablanca" ban next?
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d
I would never do that. (Besides, Ford's ridiculous allegiance to Sons of the Pioneers precludes his appreciation for swingers like Burt or emo-hepcat Gene.)
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