Looking at my Spotify Wrapped, it tells me my listening age is 21 - not sure whether I feel flattered or insulted...definitely amused.

or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised."

Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,”

https://t.co/6xXdZhHdXT "Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass."

Die TAZ schreibt ein langes Ding, in dem sie Mamdanis Lächeln als Maske für Böses aufbauen und 2/3 des Artikels lang ist nicht klar warum. Bis sie dann zum "Mamdani ist Israelhasser" kommen...

Neither of them had the slightest problem with eulogizing a man who dragged the country into a disastrous and illegal war that killed thousands of young Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, shredded civil liberties, [and] fostered torture[.]"

https://t.co/0fDqlmlwD8 by Andrew Cockburn "For a quick sampling of the evil Richard B. Cheney injected into the American political system, it is only necessary to review the fawning obsequies posted within hours of his death by Bill Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Just your annual reminder that if private charities are collecting money for breast cancer research, this means that your currency-issuing national government has decided that this is a research topic that's not worth funding fully.

"A Native American bounty hunter has an unexplained epiphany and liberates the spawn of the CAC candidate and the dominatrix snitch, so she might show us how activism should be done in the future. Well, fuck me running."

"The black characters are snitches, insubstantial, and/or quickly dead, the notable exception being Regina Hall, who is wonderful in the rare moments she’s onscreen."

"The racial politics of One Battle After Another are a mess. The director’s fixation on black women quickly becomes embarrassingly psychosexual—and, given their relatively meager screentime, unserious and exploitative."

"The movie's radicals are self-involved and aimless, seeking metaphorical and literal orgasms via violence and mutual fetish."

Finally someone who watched the same movie I did and writes about it much better than I could.

He came around soon after, though, once the program was on the chopping block and he could point to Johnston’s presence as proof that they were a co-ed team that couldn’t be cut — also for Title IX reasons."

"[W]hen Johnston enrolled in college at UC Davis there were zero women’s wrestling teams at American universities. She had to talk her way onto the mat with help from Title IX, which her coach didn’t much appreciate at first.

“I was given a sauté pan,” said Johnston, who also medaled in the 1989 World Championships while still in high school. “The woman who won gold, she was given a food processor. I look behind me, there’s a vacuum cleaner and a serving platter."

"Again, this wasn’t 1950. And it didn’t happen in some regressive backwater. It was 1990 in Sweden, and the top women’s wrestlers in the world were being awarded a series of household gadgets to honor their achievements.

"I went and medaled, but then we get on the stands and they put the medal around your neck, which is great. Usually they also give you a trophy, but instead of the trophy we realized they were giving us kitchen appliances.”

"Household debt increased by a factor of four, from 20% of GDP when Thatcher came to power, to 80% of GDP in 2007 when the Global Financial Crisis hit. Between Thatcher and today, house prices have risen 3.5 times faster than consumer prices."

"Before World War II, household debt had been constant relative to GDP: it was 9% of GDP in 1880, and 8.5% in 1947."