@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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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...
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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 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?
First Cheney, now HRC and Bono. Biden's award ceremonies are scarier than the latest version of Nosferatu...
Although it does beg the question of whether it is possible to "taint" a Washington "think tank"...
Stephen Walt@stephenwalt.bsky.social · 2y agoWe have the best Blob that money can buy: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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.”
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.
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The actual citizens of the US have already rendered their judgment on the Cheney family.
Dahlia Lithwick@dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 2y agoCarter 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...
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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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...
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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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.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
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...
Sheera Frenkel@sheeraf.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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...
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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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...
“Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, ‘Ain’t It a Shame?’” By @jeffreystclair.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/r...
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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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.
You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
On the eve of thanksgiving, the most pro-Israel editorial page in America is running excerpts from a pilgrim’s diary and headlining it “a desolate wilderness.” Coastal Massachusetts was of course inhabited by natives like the Wampanoag Anyway happy holidays
My piece on how Delaware cops tried to end Thelonious Monk's career–if not his life–by battering the pianist's hands (and head) with their nightsticks. 2 years later, Miles Davis got the same savage treatment https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/18/the-night-the-cops-tried-to-break-thelonious-monk/
