Like a still from a music video by Ministry

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

"El anarquismo, al proponer una crítica radical al poder, también nos obliga a repensar la historia desde los márgenes, no sólo como nostálgica anécdota, sino como práctica transformadora: cómo se hace, quién la hace, para qué y con qué consecuencias." arnoldodiaz.substack.com/p/el-ayer-arde

El ayer arde

Pasados en disputa

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I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

“Do you stand with CNN and our effort to completely restore access to covering President Trump?”... “Of course,” Ellison replied. www.status.news/p/donald-tru... I have been waiting for this. Ellison and Trump are on a collision course, and that is where news coverage of the new CNN should begin.

Freelance gaming writers who are NOT attending TGA, hit me up. I may have an opportunity for you.

"This book achieves the unthinkable: it makes it possible to dislike Gianni Infantino even more that you already do." If you didn't know FIFA's God-Emperor wrote a self-aggrandizing book (to put it mildly), then let @uglygame.bsky.social be your guide! theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/t...

The End of Fifa

Review of ‘Forward: The revolution in football: The first 10 years of Gianni Infantino at Fifa’ by Alessandro Alciato.

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Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

We put together a list of 25+ stories we'd like to publish. Take a look and please pitch us! Our email is editors@asimov.com. We pay $1+ for reported features, and $1200 for shorter essays. We're after extremely deep, mechanistic writing about big ideas in biotechnology.

Even the folks who kept their jobs at The Indy are stellar folks and I can vouch for any of them. Any supervising editors at other news outlets can absolutely DM or email me and I will personally vouch for them.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just being told that The Independent's US division is laying off a large number of employees today and that it impacts pretty much every department, including the news desk, culture, politics, etc. Some journalists have already posted that they've been let go, such as @ericmgarcia.bsky.social.

Last night we had a kickoff for a beginning journalism cohort of high schoolers from rural communities in Kentucky, and they spent a solid 20 minutes of discussion ranting about AI in their schools.

ICE has been showing up at and near polling places, and voting rights groups say it’s scaring naturalized citizens and immigrant families away from the polls. Help us keep eyes on the polls: https://demdock.com/3TR0Gga

Warner bros was literally using the watertower a few weeks ago to promote LANTERNS

Ray Pride@raypride.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday” GETTY IMAGES

Looking forward to sharing this extraordinary book with the San Diego science fiction community #Dune @sdsulibrary.bsky.social www.sdsu.edu/news/2026/10...

Prized book gets a day outside the University Library vault | News | SDSU

A screening of a documentary on the “Dune” film that never was gives fans a chance to see an ultra-rare volume of its storyboards and artwork.

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i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7d ago

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

"Baldomero 'Melo' Almada joined the Boston Red Sox in 1933, and although he was raised in Los Angeles, he possesses the superlative as the first Mexican-born player in MLB," Alex Nuñez. Both Melo Almada & older brother Lou Almada were star athletes (baseball & football) at Los Angeles High School.

The Organization of American Historians@oah.org · 6d ago

The MLB Postseason is underway! Interested in the history of Mexican and Mexican-American players in the league? Read Alex Nuñez’s “Field of Sueños: Baseball and the (Mexican) American Dream” from The American Historian at https://tinyurl.com/36m7jtk6.

I want to shoutout the Latino Baseball History Project, a collaboration between the Baseball Reliquary and the John M. Pfau Library of CSUSB (my undergraduate alma mater): baseballreliquary.org/latino-baseb...

Latino Baseball History Project - Baseball Reliquary

About Pitcher Elias Baca, the first Mexican American player at UCLA, circa 1932. A collaborative effort between the Baseball Reliquary and the John M. Pfau Library at California State University, San ...

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The Organization of American Historians@oah.org · 6d ago

The MLB Postseason is underway! Interested in the history of Mexican and Mexican-American players in the league? Read Alex Nuñez’s “Field of Sueños: Baseball and the (Mexican) American Dream” from The American Historian at https://tinyurl.com/36m7jtk6.

The plagiarism machine is at it again! www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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To wit: USMNT built a 34-year, 17-match unbeaten streak vs CanMNT, who were plucky but hapless over much of that time. Les Rouges finally beat the Yanks 2-0 in a 2019 CNL game in Toronto; they're 4W-3L-2D vs US since. CAN were ranked 75th in 🌍, today they're 27. The US were #21; today they're #16

Bill DiFilippo@billdifilippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

not a perfect comp but a lot of similarities between how the US viewed mexico for years and how canada views the US now

Two Ivans united for this one! Plus I got to quote MF DOOM in the deck!

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 2w ago

To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers

Étonné que l'on parle si peu de l'élection présidentielle au Brésil. Si Bolsonaro Jr. gagne, c'est l'établissement d'un terrible axe d'extrême droite sur ce continent, de Trump à Milei en passant par de la Espriella en Colombie et Kast au Chili (qui est le fils d'un ancien soldat nazi)...

You've heard of aerial duels, ground duels, but let me introduce you to ---

Pardeep Cattry@pcattry.bsky.social · last wk.

welcome to this very serious game that included an inflatable with branding I was completely unfamiliar with until reading an email two days ago! #USMNT

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Nayib Morán Rivera@nayibmoran.bsky.social · last wk.

Chucky done for this camp due to injury, at least he did proper shopping at Fifth Ave.

A lot of these stories popping up this week. To be expected. And impossible to know how legit they are. But, if anything, it underlines how serious the Premier League are about this Man City case. If you’re going to open Pandora’s box, make sure it’s worth it.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

On a separate, but related note, I'm seeing lots of "content creators" and "influencers" overuse, abuse, and misuse the word "psy-op," as in the original post. Someone make it stop!

🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃@historykeeper.bsky.social · last wk.

Settler colonialism is an ideology not a psy-op. It materially and psychologically benefits settlers, that's why they believe in it and engage in vigilante action to protect their interests. Certainly, the State & Capital reinforce it, but it's not simply elites brainwashing rabble settlers.

Wrestling is fake, but sometimes it’s too real. #AEW #RIPPac

Now with alt-text:

All Elite Central@allelitecentral.com · 2w ago

PAC’s final opponent, Andrade El Idolo, has spoken about his passing. PENTA reached out to ask whether there had been any issues with their match on Saturday. Andrade shared his admiration for PAC. (via Andrade El Idolo on IG)

To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers

For comparison, below is a screenshot of the same search via Startpage. And as someone else pointed out, the text in the Google search comes from a reply to Mamdani's tweet, NOT his actual tweet linked by Google. Sheeeeeeesh...

Warren Terra@warrenterra.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?