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“Prosecutors denied intentionally flouting the law or regulations, but admitted making mistakes, which they attributed to not knowing the relevant case law before they demanded the reporters’ data.” 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources (Gift Article)
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
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Vigilante community policing business is using a mix of ceorcive tactics—from monetary incentive to intimidation, stopping short of physical violence—to “relocate” homeless, vandals, and petty thieves from around Venice. Social innovation, I guess. 😬 Good reporting. lamaterial.com/p/ghost-town...
Inside Ghost Town: The Firm Clearing Venice's Encampments
An unusual private company takes on homelessness — with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes ex-gang members. Clients love them. The people they move do not.
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The rampant incompetence. At this point, it’s certainly a humiliation kink, right?
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Ahahahahahaha Faced with the actual logistical nightmare of running the largest course anyone has ever imagined...forever, not even the usual intellectual grifters are willing to take the gig. The "Center for Intellectual Freedom" will return, "substantially reimagined" I am sure
Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Iowa Board of Regents voted to suspend all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom until 2028 as the search for its permanent director continues.
The venom of these critics on the question of the Odyssey and each other is so eighteenth century I love it!!! We are in Whig vs Tory land!!! We are in The Dunciad!!! And it’s all about the ancients vs moderns as well
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · last wk.Okay now it's getting real
Data centers (under current specs) must be stopped.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.
“The judges wrote that if the president’s order were allowed to go into effect for the midterm elections in November, ‘it would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.’” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Ranier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke!
ALT: Ranier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke!
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New Glacial Errata (No.81) out this morning. @colindickey.com will see your ‘Fuck AI’ t-shirt and raise you a Georges Bataille phone case. (Side note: my first literary encounter with trinitite was reading Coupland’s _Generation X_ when I was 15.) glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...
Glacial Errata, No. 81
Five Things for the Week of July 27, 2026.
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There is a disease of concentrated power spreading around the world. theworld.org/stories/2026...
From liberator to dictator: Nicaragua’s Ortega says no more elections - The World from PRX
Sunday marked 47 years since the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) toppled Nicaragua’s dictatorship. To mark the occasion, the former leader of that guerrilla movement and now president of t...
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I have never once clicked over to Kanopy and found the film purported to be available there actually available. Wth?
This is great. And, on a Bresson I haven’t seen. (Now I feel like I need to find a screening, somehow.)
David Hering@davidhering.bsky.social · 2w agoNew article from Notes from the End of Cinema, in which I thought I was going to write about The Odyssey but ended up writing about Bresson’s L’Argent davidhering.substack.com/p/visible-go...
Does anyone remember the name of the Nordic noir series set in very small village with female mayor and cowboyish police chief investigating murder(s) that also were vaguely tied up with some Russian science experiment lab buried from the 1950s? There was an ice hotel?
Homelessness up by 7.9% this year in the city of Los Angeles (total 45,194) among people living outdoors or in their car, and 3.4% overall (including those temporarily housed in shelters). www.latimes.com/california/s...
Homelessness has increased in L.A., dealing fresh setback to Mayor Karen Bass
The numbers from this year's point-in-time homelessness count delivered a major blow to Bass, who is seeking reelection and has made the issue a central part of her agenda.
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"Political uses of the unconscious foreclose the possibility of being surprised by the otherness they seek to defang; they often refuse to engage an otherness within. No longer another scene, no longer even very strange, the unconscious has been made subservient." criticalnoise.org/the-unconsci...
The Unconscious – History of the Present
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Recalling the time it took more than 3 hours to make the return journey from the Getty Villa to my place in Silver Lake. Took an extended detour in Culver City, which included unplanned stop for dinner & bathroom, before resuming slow crawl along the 10-East.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Jack Powers (Stone Soup) Collection at UMass Boston preserves the poetry of Gary Hicks (1946-2022) whose writing “provides us with valuable insight into an activist and artist’s reaction to Greater Boston’s development and financialization during the 1980s.” blogs.umb.edu/archives/202...
Gary Hicks: Roxbury Native, African American, Political Activist, Political Prisoner, Poet
Author: Evan Ringle, Archives Assistant and graduate student in the English department at UMass Boston The Jack Powers collection in University Archives and Special Collections has plenty to offer …
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🎶 Penis Hegseth, Rabid Trump, ICE murders, Take a Dump Wash Your Greens, Lindsay Graham, Transgender CHIPS Bad Cilantro, Todd Blanche, Hormuz Lies, End Daylight Savings Time Diarrhea Parasite, Hydration Pause We didn't start the fire
dorian@doriantaylor.com · 3w ago"diarrhea parasite" is definitely going in this week's We Didn't Start the Fire
Heat emergency in my house not conducive to work; and yet I must. 82F on the ground floor. 🫠
Hammer her with this 24/7 until November.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 3w agoMaine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!