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except the water was to wash away the effects of the tear-gas in our eyes.

I remember how supportive the teachers were--in a sense they taught us how to think of ourselves as citizens. Today I saw a clip of an elderly couple leaning out of their window to fill the water bottles of high-school kids who'd been kettled by the cops. Back then, the elders would do the same

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 5h

decides the hijab doesn't correspond to those values; sometimes, as here, when the students are attempting to affirm those values at their best, and they see their elders supporting them, then, yes, they understand that they, too, can be supportive. As an old soixante-huitard (survivor of May, '68)

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 5h

Having gone to a French high-school myself: there's a very strong tradition that goes back to the nineteenth century, of seeing the high-school teacher as a teacher of republican (in the French sense) values. Sometimes it goes seriously wrong, as when a French teacher in the banlieue

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 9h

British archives remind me of a (very, very) old quip by the biographer of Thomas à Becket in the XIIth c. Something about the Abbey of Pontigny (where he'd been in exile) as the kind of place where you risked being fleeced by a sheepskin. Good luck!

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10h

YESS! That's my old high-school, the snootiest of the snoot! Macron, tu es foutu! Henri IV est dans la rue !

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11h

Just like in in '68, except in '68 the water was to wash away the gas. Comme en '68, sauf qu'en '68 c'était pour se rincer les yeux après les lachrymos. www.youtube.com/shorts/99Brv...

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Alors que des lycéens sont bloqués dans une rue par la police, un couple leur donne de l'eau

YouTube video by Brut

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 15h

When the fawning wannabe next visited the studio, he found that the two artists had taken the comb and glued it to the canvas. If my meaning seems obscure, I suggest you ask AI for assistance.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 15h

In the hopes of ingratiating himself, the sycophant (a human AI, if you will), brought them a pattern comb, an instrument that would allow the user to duplicate wallpaper patterns with ease and speed.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 15h

A Fable of AI At the time when Braque and Picasso were producing their Cubist collages (moving from Analytic to Synthetic), a sycophantic hanger-on noticed they were both spending an inordinate amount of time duplicating the patterns of wallpaper.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23h

Then don’t put your grubby fingers on them, schmuck.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the major French trade union, which has opened its locals to student organizers, unlike in 1968; the fact that vast swathes of society (fire brigades, ecological groups, farmers etc.) are joining the movement. Solidarité!

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So perhaps instead of relaying rip-n'-read journos, we should give our readers the other side: the deeper roots of the crisis, which go far beyond the lycées; the unyielding support of La France Insoumise (in particular Bally Bagayoko, Mayor of Saint-Denis in the Banlieue), the support of the CGT,

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A police union source said he appeared to have picked up a sting-ball grenade fired by riot police and & it exploded in his hand." Nope. According to a witness the grenade hit the student in the hand--in other terms it was directly aimed at him. Shallow and biased reporting. You can do better.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

7 :00 : ‘Tit déj. 7:30: Regarder par la fenêtre pour voir si je me vois passer dans la rue.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you! In addition to your sharp use of Hannah Arendt, this piece reminds me of Robert Jay Lifton's discussion of "enlightened" mass murderers in Nazi Germany.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually the count isn't finished. Right now it's Bolsanaro 47.11% to Lula 45.07% and trending Lula with 99.63% counted. Picky, I know, but we need every bit of hope we can muster.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eh, I turn to Alquié. Kant reads better in the original French.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're into hermeneutics it's the only way to go. French, German, Latin and Greek are no problem, though for my latest (a brief quote from Pushkin) I gave in. Ezra Pound would have been embarrassed.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think I'm gonna throw up.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Appreciate. I have a Substack page. The payments account goes through Sprite--or Spike, or whatever they call it. If it would do one iota of good for me to cancel my account with them I would gladly do it. That's all. Be well.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you weren't so busy screaming perhaps you'd have heard what I said.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the same Stripe that collects payments for all those progressive Substack accounts? Just asking...

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

האַלט אָפּ צו קוועטש

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In my mind's eye I can still see Eric leaning back with a faraway smile on his face while some wannabe leftie ranted on about his sins. I wonder when we'll start hearing that Eric took cocaine like Freud, or supported Stalin like Jean-Paul Sartre, or had boils on his ass like Marx. Get a life.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, right. That's like saying Hitler didn't really like the Jews that much. Bardella's garbage isn't just alleged, and it isn't just midly conspiratorial, it's full fledged Alain Soral criminal.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hanna Arendt makes a similar point (On revolution):

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Telling us Jews how we should think." Projection, much?

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tell me the boycott is working without telling me the boycott is working.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

L’ORTF était en grève de soutien—occupée aussi à un moment si je me souviens bien. De toutes façons on était assez bien renseigné grâce à Radio Luxembourg et Europe 1, qui couvraient les manifestations en direct.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, what do you know. A LRB review by someone who knows their shit.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Moi non plus, sauf que je suis soixante-huitard. Sexualisation, oui, mais de mon temps gnangnan c’était dans un sens plus positif, plus patriarcal aussi. J’ai quelque part une affiche qui proclame qu’il n’y a que les Situs qui sachent baiser. Heureusement, là, je ne parle pas d’expérience.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think it was the Rambam who said that the highest form of charity was when the giver and the recipient don't know one another. Sadly, I'm further down the ladder. I'll be bringing a copy to my friend Gitte in São Paulo: well into her 'nineties and speaks Yiddish better than English. Good enough?

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m sure he’ll be welcomed back with open arms. Isn’t that what Israel is all about? A refuge for persecuted Jews?

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It does. It's what Marxists call "Rhetorical Maximalism."

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You live in NYC? 'Cause a neighbor who call themselves a "Mamdani fan" is either a New Yorker with confused ideas or an out-of-town bullshit artist forgive the redundancy.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is Hasbara trolling to come up with bullshit conspiracy theories. Bye' now, troll.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Angie Nixon’s +20 & Hack Jeffries is at -10. It averages out.😛

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the fuck-king…

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Dr. Paul A. Pisk, ‘Can the Workers learn to relate to Contemporary Music?’” on Academia.edu. Check it out. Pisk was Schoenberg’s assistant and exclusive reviewer for the Socialist press.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right. It is the historic task of the Party to teach them uneducated hicks the true meaning of Socialism. Get over yourselves, guys.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's all ya got? A *printed* book from 1490?! Come on, Johnny, we know you can do better than that.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

also: only folks who've never been to the Met.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well, I was warned. You go through hoops until you find out that the offer only applies to folks who've never been to the "opera," by which is meant, I assume, the Opera. Regular attendance at the Theater an der Wien don't count. Sorry, suckers.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Than you! Source: Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the ID, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925), p. 50.

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's some weap...I mean, "meaningful contribution to the discourse." (Still needs a bit of re-editing): theorangepress.substack.com/p/fe70b418-1...

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