Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general after Matt Gaetz’ withdrawal, used to influence Capitol Hill on human trafficking issues for the Qatari government.Kelsey Warner (www.semafor.com)
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
https://www.thecollector.com/german-museum-returns-ancient-head-greece/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The repatriation of such artifacts is "a matter of national importance and high political priority," said the Greek Culture Minister.Emily Snow (TheCollector)
Watch now on #CLTV
The creepy MAGAt team are commenting on Matt Gaetz pulling out of his AG nomination.John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
Has anyone else found that they're using masks for more than just Covid protection?
Cleaning the litter box? You bet I'm wearing an N95 😻
Studies show pollution levels inside cars are higher than outside where NO2 emissions are dissipated into the wider atmosphereDavid King (The Guardian)
The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity by Karen Bloom Gevirtz, 2024
A groundbreaking genealogy of for-profit healthcare and an urgent reminder that centering women's history offers vital opportunities for shaping the future.
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Waly Dia, toujours en forme 😉
Cette semaine, l’humoriste évoque le procès du Rassemblement national, la colère agricole et les milliardaires qui mettent la main sur une école de journalisme.Waly Dia (Mediapart)
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Release all the sex secrets in Washington, the QAnon Klan Mom demands.John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
On why Trump won the election, a long view: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a-farce-or-a-tragedy-or-perhaps-both/
(Education, it's education, so much about education)
Why Trump Won The making of the electorate Trump just won, and thusly the United States we have now, started decades ago in school. The Conservative Takeover of America was not secret, it was worse than secret; it was boring and bureaucratic.Quinn Norton (emptywheel)
You hated Discovery because it was too woke.
I hated Discovery because it wasn’t woke enough.
We are not the same.
Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, is reportedly the sister of the lawyer who defended Elon Musk and Tesla against federal securities fraud charges.jacobin.com
The most interesting thing about "Gladiator II" is that while it has been stuck in development hell for nearly 25 years Ridley Scott decided pretty much immediately that any "Gladiator" sequel would not include a role for Russell Crowe, so Crowe got annoyed and hired a screenwriter to write his own version of "Gladiator II," and for some reason the guy he hired was Nick Cave (yes, THAT Nick Cave), and Cave delivered a script titled "Gladiator 2: Christ Killer" that everyone involved (including Cave himself) instantly recognized was too wild to ever get produced, and of course now it's a PDF you can download
https://www.gq.com/story/nick-cave-lost-gladiator-sequel
An award-winning blockbuster franchise. A postpunk legend as screenwriter. What could go wrong? A lot, actually.Alex Pappademas (GQ)
So RFK Jr. may take himself out of the running...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/11/21/rfk-jr-raw-milk-difference-taste/
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America by Rita Omokha, 2024
What do the struggles of the past teach us about the urgent challenges in our own time? Resist chronicles the inspiring story of young Black activists who have fought tirelessly at the helm for justice over the last century, from the 1920s to the Trayvon generation—how they reshaped America, left an indelible mark on history...
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Lord have mercy.
"In a special statement from the Kremlin just after 8 p.m. in Moscow [Thurs Nov 21], the Russian president said the war was escalating towards a global conflict, though he avoided any nuclear rhetoric."
https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-sends-missile-message-west-back-off-2024-11-22/
You know what mainstream media has never had to say?
Let alone as loudly and insistently as a preschooler wailing by the slide that they ARE TOO Iron Man?
WE ARE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WE ARE EVERYTHING YOU SEE, HEAR, AND KNOW.
Pete Hegseth considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
"In the Russo-Ukrainian war, a much smaller apolitical mixed-gender army, the Ukrainian one, has held back a much larger, politicized, patriarchal, anti-woke, anti-gay, and anti-transsexual army, the Russian one"🔥
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-crusade-against-america
Shapiro will give SEPTA $153M in federal funding to avoid cuts and fare hikes
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/11/pennsylvania-septa-federal-highway-funding-governor-josh-shapiro/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gov. Josh Shapiro’s announcement came less than two weeks before SEPTA planned to follow through on dramatic fare hikes.Stephen Caruso (Spotlight PA)
Topics:Art & Politics, Palestine
Palestinian American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha called on writers to use the power of words and their platforms to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza as she accepted the National Book Award Wednesday for her poetry collection about Palestine, “Somet…Democracy Now!
The human species isn’t on a steady decline into stupidity—it just feels that way. Why? because now everyone has a microphone.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/dont-confuse-volume-with-truth/