Councilman Kevin Flynn with the requisite call to harass homeless people for "health and safety" reasons.
Boulder Daily Camera editors against the camping ban.
The New Yorker's 2013 profile of Qassem Suleimani. He loved war and intrigue, and he died doing what he loved.
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a fugitive slave whose recapturing, extradition, and court case led to wide-scale public outcries of injustice, and ultimately, increased opposition to slavery by Northerners.
good interview
Just learned about August Willich who once challenged Marx to a duel (apparently because he thought Marx was too conservative to be a leader of international communism) before traveling to America to fight as a Union general in the civil war.
I started reading about his disagreements with Marx, but got bored.
A couple of weeks after I visited the Eagan Parkrun.
The latest Citations Needed podcast discusses Christian movies and they have Franky Schaeffer on as a guest.
Good article, I hadn't seen this connection made before.
Riot is the recourse of surplus populations: both Marx's "industrial reserve army" and the lumpen, the excluded — those who are "chronically outside the formal wage, or 'structurally unemployed.' "
An interview with Joshua Clover (author of Riot. Strike. Riot) on the biopolitical turn toward eco-nationalism
If someone were to make a movie about neoliberalism, there would need to be a starring role for the character of Paul Volcker. As chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Volcker was the most powerful central banker in the world. These were the years when the industrial workers’ movement was defeated in the United States and the United Kingdom, and third-world debt crises exploded. Both of these owe something to Volcker
Nobody likes terrorists
"VICE News' Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of the people who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth and the U.S.-backed coalition, as they try to rebuild among the ruins"
The only social policy the Russian state pursues consistently is the policy of atomization. The state dehumanizes us in one another’s eyes. In the state’s own eyes, we stopped being human a long time ago.
Scott Warren was found not guilty at his re-trial last month.
An episode of Trouble on cops.
