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Claire M

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current masters student of film preservation

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Claire M

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¿No vale un hombre, cualquier hombre, más que una bandera, que cualquier bandera?

- notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida

November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM

Claire M

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notes and forms of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida

November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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thin stick-ly trees with a few yellow straggling leaves. through them, the sky.

November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Bilbao📍

November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM

Claire M

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last night I saw the film "The Silences of the Palace" (1994), the first film by Tunisian filmmaker Moufida Tlatli, and it was so beautiful, haunting, with a plot that unspools slowly, guarding the power at the heart of it. Easily entering the top-ten list of my favorite feminist films.

November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM

Claire M

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good time to revisit this chilling piece from Mother Jones...from 2020

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The truth is that the elite world that Epstein ascended into, the one I tapped into by way of the black book, is populated with hordes of loathsome, boring, untalented people living their bumbling, idiotic lives while just so happening to wield some share of the preposterous global bounty that he and the rest were after. For all the mystery surrounding Epstein’s fortune, its existence is hardly more inscrutable than the wealth of any of his other billionaire peers. He earned it the same way they all did, which is to say precisely not at all.

This wasn’t some masterful hack into the global aristocracy. It’s what everyone does. It’s what the whole thing is. There is no scam here. It’s grifters grifting grifters all the way down.

November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM

Claire M

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When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it's a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated
encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It's so offhand you can think you're gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides," or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.

Because what this sort of
reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position you've taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf-"Can Woman Think?: We Investigate," "Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration" —that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times. And then some. (Only yesterday the Times ran this actual story, which is not parody.)

I read it over now with this kind of full-spectrum cringe of the spirit. It's the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents.
And honestly, what could be more feeble?
It's not that those things don't matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn't go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It's just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should
you.

November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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November 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM

Claire M

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karaoke supply wholesale store.
living the dream.

September 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Claire M

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from Assata: An Autobiography

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September 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Claire M

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“Many a Silicon Valley entrepreneurs nonetheless built their fortunes on what turned out to be predatory products with net-negative effects on society.”

“Instead of selling water purifiers, it’s time to consider not polluting the water in the first place”