@jeffreystclair.bsky.social
editor CounterPunch, author: Orgy of Thieves, Bernie & the Sandernistas, The Big Heat, Born Under a Bad Sky
Biden has a couple of hours to free America's longest-service political prisoner...
President Biden, It's Long Past Time to Pardon Leonard Peltier
President Biden is about to leave office effective next Monday. He will be leaving under a cloud, having spent last a1 months of his single term of office
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January 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Biden has a couple of hours to free America's longest-service political prisoner...
Sister Mary Elephant Gun.
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sister Mary Elephant Gun.
Make sure they "follow through?"
Amy Klobuchar: "Our job is to hold them accountable and to make the case that they've gotta follow through on a bunch of the things they said this election."
January 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Make sure they "follow through?"
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Someone reminded me of this moment in Portland Police history when we learned that a long-serving officer had once erected public tributes to Nazi soldiers. And then he got the city to apologize TO HIM after he'd been reprimanded. www.oregonlive.com/portland/201...
Portland police Capt. Mark Kruger's past discipline to be erased -- including for tribute to Nazi-era soldiers -- under city settlement
To settle a legal claim, the city of Portland has agreed to pay $5,000 to Portland police Capt. Mark Kruger and erase two disciplinary actions from his personnel record: a suspension for his public tr...
www.oregonlive.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Someone reminded me of this moment in Portland Police history when we learned that a long-serving officer had once erected public tributes to Nazi soldiers. And then he got the city to apologize TO HIM after he'd been reprimanded. www.oregonlive.com/portland/201...
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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
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Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
How can we expect American kids to excel in geography when they turn on ESPN and learn that Stanford and Cal are playing the Atlantic Coast Conference?
January 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How can we expect American kids to excel in geography when they turn on ESPN and learn that Stanford and Cal are playing the Atlantic Coast Conference?
First Cheney, now HRC and Bono. Biden's award ceremonies are scarier than the latest version of Nosferatu...
January 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
First Cheney, now HRC and Bono. Biden's award ceremonies are scarier than the latest version of Nosferatu...
The latest from Biden's (wanted) Man in Seoul...
Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- The legal team of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol claimed Frid...
m-en.yna.co.kr
January 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The latest from Biden's (wanted) Man in Seoul...
Although it does beg the question of whether it is possible to "taint" a Washington "think tank"...
January 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Although it does beg the question of whether it is possible to "taint" a Washington "think tank"...
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The radioactive contamination from the SL-1 accident was not confined to the reactor (which had no containment structure) or even to the National Reactor Testing Station. You can read much more about the deadliest nuclear reactor accident in US history in the 2009 book “Atomic America.”
January 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The radioactive contamination from the SL-1 accident was not confined to the reactor (which had no containment structure) or even to the National Reactor Testing Station. You can read much more about the deadliest nuclear reactor accident in US history in the 2009 book “Atomic America.”
Does anyone remember Bert Lance?
"With help from his GOP enablers and voters who can’t seem to be bothered to give a damn, Trump has normalized White House corruption to an extent that would’ve been unthinkable in Carter's era."
Jimmy Carter's anti-corruption legacy is being desecrated
The contrast with Trump reflects how far our standards have fallen.
www.publicnotice.co
January 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Does anyone remember Bert Lance?
The Onion continues to be my paper of record...
January 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Onion continues to be my paper of record...
Proof Texas is still legally part of Mexico...
Mike Johnson is still suggesting that "the wide open border" had something to do with the attack in New Orleans, which was perpetrated by a guy from Texas
January 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Proof Texas is still legally part of Mexico...
The more we learn about Biden behind the scenes, the worse he gets and the more unpardonable the desperate effort by the Democrats to cover up his descent into a planet-threatening senility...
Scoop: Biden discussed plans to strike Iran nuclear sites if Tehran speeds toward bomb
Some top advisers believe the U.S. has an imperative and an opportunity to strike Iran now.
www.axios.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The more we learn about Biden behind the scenes, the worse he gets and the more unpardonable the desperate effort by the Democrats to cover up his descent into a planet-threatening senility...
The actual citizens of the US have already rendered their judgment on the Cheney family.
January 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The actual citizens of the US have already rendered their judgment on the Cheney family.
Carter started out by pardoning Vietnam War resisters & draft dodgers on day 2. He ended up approving the MX missile, funding the Muj, training death squad leaders & getting into a bidding war with Reagan over military funding.
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Jimmy Carter and the Uses of the Nobel Peace Prize
People marvel at the idiocy of these Nobel awards, but there’s method in the madness, since in the end they train people to accept without demur or protest absurdity as part and parcel of the human co...
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January 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Carter started out by pardoning Vietnam War resisters & draft dodgers on day 2. He ended up approving the MX missile, funding the Muj, training death squad leaders & getting into a bidding war with Reagan over military funding.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/01/j...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/01/j...
Here are my entries for the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, including recordings by Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Matthew Shipp, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Meyers, Jenny Scheinman, Arooj Aftab, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Charles Lloyd, Amaro Freitas & O.
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Sound Grammar: the Best Jazz Recordings of 2024
NEW RELEASES 1) Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion (ECM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5vVk2WIL4 2) Julian Lage, Speak to Me
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January 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Here are my entries for the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, including recordings by Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Matthew Shipp, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Meyers, Jenny Scheinman, Arooj Aftab, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Charles Lloyd, Amaro Freitas & O.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/01/s...
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According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
December 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.
Much of the reporting on this was actually done six months earlier by +972 magazine, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, Forensic Architecture and others, while being ignored by the NYT, as it still clung to its discredited Screams Without Words piece...
This reporting was over a year in the making. Our investigation into how Israel weakened its own internal rules on killing civilians in Gaza, to allow for one of the deadliest bombardments in the 21sr century: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Much of the reporting on this was actually done six months earlier by +972 magazine, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, Forensic Architecture and others, while being ignored by the NYT, as it still clung to its discredited Screams Without Words piece...
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Honored that my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, has made @jeffreystclair.bsky.social's Counterpunch list of the best books of 2024.
Booked Up: the 15 Best Books of 2024
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso) Everyone
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December 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Honored that my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, has made @jeffreystclair.bsky.social's Counterpunch list of the best books of 2024.
The books I learned the most from in 2024...
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Booked Up: the 15 Best Books of 2024
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso) Everyone
www.counterpunch.org
December 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The books I learned the most from in 2024...
www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/25/b...
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Very pleased to have made @jeffreystclair.bsky.social's reading list, alongside some luminaries on his listening list. (First time I've been on any list with Charlie Parker & B.B. King!) But also read his moving essay here. www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/r...
December 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Very pleased to have made @jeffreystclair.bsky.social's reading list, alongside some luminaries on his listening list. (First time I've been on any list with Charlie Parker & B.B. King!) But also read his moving essay here. www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/r...
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“Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, ‘Ain’t It a Shame?’”
By @jeffreystclair.bsky.social
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By @jeffreystclair.bsky.social
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Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, "Ain't It a Shame?"
Lame duck senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee, Lauren McFarren, ensuring that the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator...
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December 16, 2024 at 4:28 PM
“Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, ‘Ain’t It a Shame?’”
By @jeffreystclair.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/r...
By @jeffreystclair.bsky.social
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It’s easier to credibly take positions like ‘no we shouldn’t annex Greenland’ when you aren’t actively helping another country annex multiple countries.
December 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
It’s easier to credibly take positions like ‘no we shouldn’t annex Greenland’ when you aren’t actively helping another country annex multiple countries.
Pay to Pray to Play...
Donald Trump’s transition team is planning an interfaith prayer service the day before his inauguration.
Entry fee? $100,000.
Entry fee? $100,000.
At Trump’s inauguration, reports of a pay-to-pray
(RNS) — According to a report, you can pray with Trump and Melania. It'll only cost you $100,000.
religionnews.com
December 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Pay to Pray to Play...