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"I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." - Seamus Heaney, in Personal Helicon Let love, empathy, kindness guide everything we do. ...let's stop this divisive madness shredding our country apart. #StrongerTogether

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"I remember walking out of that luncheon feeling like I had glimpsed something important. The beating heart of the GOP no longer cared about principles or policy. There was a nihilist wing in control that scared me; they were happy to let it all burn."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
he president is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies and cuts of their revenue. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world.
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Corporate America’s Newest Activist Investor: Donald Trump
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
'..only modern president who refused to concede a certified election defeat now proclaims his authority over election rules nationwide... Having tried his best once to undermine our constitutional system, Trump is the last American..who should be entrusted to supervise the integrity of the vote.'
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's amazing it's come to this! "The case could determine whether immigration agents can rely on factors including a person's "apparent ethnicity" or speaking Spanish, as part of the "reasonable suspicion" standard that permits immigration stops."
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Supreme Court to decide if ICE can arrest based on "apparent ethnicity"
The Supreme Court will consider staying an order that limits ICE agents from stopping people based on "apparent ethnicity."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
America’s democratic system depends on the public’s understanding that law is bigger than politics. But now, Trump is sending a clear message that he is willing to go after his enemies and undermine that system.
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Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message
America’s democratic system depends on the public’s understanding that law is bigger than politics, David Frum argues. But now, Trump is sending a clear message that he is willing to go after his enem...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Trump softened America up for the ICE Gestapo by constantly saying migrants are dangerous criminals who don't lead ordinary lives. So why is ICE raiding neighborhood restaurants & immigration courts instead of drug dens & dog fights? (BTW militarization of domestic law enforcement is abhorrent.)
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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑 @ruwmi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Elon Musk's Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren Report
Warren’s report is focused on Musk’s misuse of political power for personal gain as Donald Trump’s DOGE chief.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/06/2025
Trump’s advisers have given up trying to restrict his phone use. His personal cellphone has become, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer write, “the most pivotal technological device in the federal government, directly linking Trump to the outside world.” theatln.tc/mWgdUKd0
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"Venturini’s exquisite prose and her boldness in diving deep into the consciousness of a troubled, outcast young girl, one who defiantly chooses her own uncompromising way in the world, makes this a novel well worth reading." — @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬ lareviewofbooks.org/article/open...
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Opening the Pandora’s Box of Latin American Women’s Writing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elaine Elinson reviews Kit Maude’s new translation of “We, the Casertas,” a novel by Argentine author Aurora Venturini.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Didn't get to this over the weekend...will listen later tonight Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of authoritarianism, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, joins Scott to discuss the threats to American democracy, echoes of 1930s fascism, and what still gives him hope.
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How to Fight Fascism in America — with Timothy Snyder | Prof G Conversations
YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Anyone paying attention knows we have slid into autocracy, fully enabled by lawmakers in Congress, selected to represent us but failing to do so. Further, Felon45's attacks on judges and lawyers who defend his opponents is the ultimate sign that it's over...
scientificamerican.com
The Science of Autocracy Suggests the U.S. Is Headed for Dictatorship
The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
There's so many different things he's done ...it's tough to keep track! Cut, Baby, Cut — a new report reveals the (almost) impossible task facing the US Dept. of Agriculture & Dept. of Interior as it looks to deliver on Trump's promise to deliver timber self-sufficiency.
woodcentral.com.au
Cut, Baby, Cut — Why Trump Must Ramp Up Logging 450% to Meet Order
Donald Trump will find it "incredibly challenging for the US federal timber harvest to offset Canadian wood products in the coming years" without significant ca
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
!! International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. ICC's staffers have been told that if they travel to the US they risk arrest.. hurdles for court staff since Trump slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, in Feb.
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Trump's sanctions on ICC's chief prosecutor have halted tribunal's work, officials and lawyers say
Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.”
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Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After the busy weekend of trade negotiations in Geneva, Li Chenggang, a Chinese official, replied with a wry smile and an old saying: “Good food is never too late.” Trump administration gave China a strangely good tariff deal: for the next 90 days, at least.
economist.com
America has given China a strangely good tariff deal
For the next 90 days, at least
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
While US economic model is of artificial scarcity, China has a model of abundance. Abundance is a supply side model, where there is sufficient goods for everyone at affordable prices. In China that means enough, not only for everyone at home, but for everyone in the world.
reuters.com
G7 finance leaders to seek US consensus on non-tariff issues at Canada meeting
Finance leaders from the Group of Seven democracies will strive for a show of unity when they meet this week on topics other than U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, including economic security, Ukraine and artificial intelligence cooperation.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In Crypto Rush Aftermath by Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi, residents of Akhalkalaki in the Caucasus nation of Georgia recount how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme ‘spread faster than COVID’ through their town, leaving big losses – and a few scattered winners – in its wake.
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What happened when a crypto scam swept over a sleepy town in the Caucasus | Aeon Videos
First the rush, then the reality – how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme spread faster than a virus in a sleepy Georgia town
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Stories and literature: Our narrative prison The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell? ...essay by Eliane Glaser #ToReadLater
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Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Video (5min): A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans aeon.co/videos/a-stu...
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A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans | Aeon Videos
Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Moon Marbles ! A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface..
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Moon Marbles Hint at Lunar Depths
A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ai Could Help Humans Understand Animals But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?
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AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals
But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Claw print fossils discovered in Australia hint that the ancestors of reptiles, mammals, and birds evolved around 40 million years earlier than previously thought.
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‘Turning point’: claw print fossils found in Australia rewrite story of amniotes by 40 million years
The discovery by two local fossil hunters on a river bank in Victoria has ‘potentially far-reaching implications’, scientists say
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars? Note: Gray whales migrate through a 10,000-mile route spanning the Pacific coasts of Central and North America
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Whales Run Aground by the Sun
Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) who was a German abbess, healer, poet, composer and polymath, wrote Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans (O virtue of wisdom). ...a sound as similar to a Gregorian chant.
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Music from Another Age: The Devotional Songs of Hildegard von Bingen
A woman wrote the following song a thousand years ago. The song’s name is Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans (O virtue of wisdom). Readers who are familiar with early music will recognize this sound as si…
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?" - Annie Dillard essay, This is the life
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"This Is The Life" essay by Annie Dillard
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Poem: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“She would tell me stories about her own childhood…She described the life there—how the girls slept in little beds that stood in two rows and how they went walking in two straight lines, all dressed alike. She was happier there than at home.”
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How A Jilted Mom, A Former Nun And A Shattered Childhood Inspired ‘Madeline’
Eric Carle Museum exhibit reveals Ludwig Bemelmans styled himself a carefree bon vivant, but his "Madeline" kids' books were inspired by things gone wrong.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/05/2025
“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky." -Pablo Neruda
two bare trees on the side of a road in a wildlife refuge. there are mountains in the distance and a cloud in the sky.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/05/2025
“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”
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Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Trump is more effective than the Covid virus at creating chaos" Quotable quote from Justin Wolfers is a professor of public policy & economics at the Univ. of Michigan and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & the Peterson Institute for International Economics and host of the podcast 👇
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Think Like An Economist
Think Like an Economist and you’ll see the world more clearly, empowering you to make better decisions at work, at home, and in your community. Leading economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers w...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#Music: "wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life" Colombia & Venezuela are neighbors with deep cultural ties despite different political histories. Colombia rock bands Bomba Estereo from and Rawayana, of Venezuela, have a newly released collaborative album called “Astropical.”
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Lead singers from Colombia's Bomba Estereo and Venezuela's Rawayana join forces - The World from PRX
Colombia and Venezuela are neighbors in South America, and they share deep cultural ties despite different political histories. The Latin rock bands Bomba Estereo from Colombia and Rawayana, of Venezu...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
when you think about it rfk jr. is the pinnacle of the american dream because in what other country can an ex-heroin addict who didn’t go to medical school and gets his science from 4chan become the authority on public health
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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
When kooks reign: Once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save the US -- pushing ideas like genetic engineering, limiting access to contraceptives, .believes ..plot to replace white populations with nonwhite immigrants... about who gets to reproduce, under what terms..
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What's behind the 'pronatalist' movement to boost the birth rate?
A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen and sociologist Karen Guzzo explain who's empowering pronatalism today.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Reshaping American lives ...project 2025... to listen later, or maybe not as I do not know how to deal with these changes. People wonder how Hitler got away with all that he did. Some day people will wonder about 2025-2030 also... how our lives got upended by vile people and we just stood by...
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Fresh Air for April 29, 2025: How Project 2025 is shaping Trump's second term
Hear the Fresh Air program for Apr 29, 2025
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
They think we are all stupid. “If you don’t look at the stuff Trump is doing to the economy, he’s doing a great job.." Navarro, Trump's chief trade adviser, said on CNBC that if the negative effect of the surge in imports because of Trump's tariffs is removed, "you have three percent growth."
newsweek.com
Peter Navarro says shrinking US economy is good news
Donald Trump's chief trade adviser called the news "the best negative print I have ever seen in my life."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
As a nation we have become immune to miseries our govt inflicts on civilians around the world: Since March 2025, Hegseth, Trump, Vance started not caring about bombing civilians mercilessly. Over 300 civilians killed so far - poor African migrants in camps, many women and children...
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UK joins US bombing campaign in Yemen marked by increasing civilian deaths - The World from PRX
The UK’s Defense Ministry released a statement announcing that Royal Air Force jets bombed a Houthi drone manufacturing facility in Yemen. It’s the UK’s first strike in coordination with the US, which...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Learn to live with less. Trump: China "made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."
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Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls in...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
They take us for fools. Or maybe they are just plain stupid incompetent people. Or both! AG Pam Bondi claims Trump has saved 2/3rds of Americans from dying: "3400 kilos of fentanyl. In the last 100 days. Which saved -- Are you ready for this, media? -- 258 Million lives." (Video at the link)
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From the theydidthemath community on Reddit: [Request] Is fentanyl as toxic as Attorney General Pam Bondi says it is?
Posted by thedangersausage - 1,615 votes and 537 comments
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
States’ rights was once a bedrock of the Republican Party. But in an autocracy there are no states’ rights.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/04/2025
Jensen Huang provided nearly all of the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush. James Surowiecki on how the Nvidia CEO became the new king of tech:
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The New King of Tech
How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business
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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Even knowing that for every successful immigrant there were others with equal moral claims who suffocated in vans, drowned in the ocean, or were turned back to die in the Holocaust, we willingly made ourselves complicit in the system of exclusion that divided 'legals' from 'illegals.'"
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Society as Checkpoint | Gregory Afinogenov
The constant document checks on buses and trains, whose racialized criteria are evident in cell phone videos, build on the methods of Joe Arpaio to paint crosshairs on people of color regardless of do...
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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“The leopard gazes at the caravan.” A poem by Randall Jarrell.
The snow-leopard

His pads furring the scarp's rime,
Weightless in greys and ecru, gliding
Invisibly, incuriously
As the crystals of the cirri wandering
A mile below his absent eyes,
The leopard gazes at the caravan.
The yaks groaning with tea, the burlaps
Lapping and lapping each stunned universe
That gasps like a kettle for its thinning life
Are pools in the interminable abyss
That ranges up through ice, through air, to night.
Raiders of the unminding element,
The last cold capillaries of their kind,
They move so slowly they are motionless
To any eye less stubborn than a man's…
From the implacable jumble of the blocks
The grains dance icily, a scouring plume,
Into the breath, sustaining, unsustainable,
They trade to that last stillness for their death.
They sense with misunderstanding horror, with desire,
Behind the world their blood sets up in mist
The brute and geometrical necessity:
The leopard waving with a grating purr
Cold His six-foot tail; the leopard, who looks sleepily—
Cold, fugitive, secure—at all he knows,
At all that he is: the heart of heartlessneas.
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today in ther ARB: Christopher Talker reviews “Portraits of a Mother” by Shusaku Endo tr from Japanese by Van C Gessel @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/portraits-of...
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