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Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

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The US military counts all adult males killed in drone strikes as ‘militants’ unless these individuals are specifically exonerated after their death.

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"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

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Wii Sports soundtrack on white vinyl

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Arrest warrants have been issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The warrants are for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the war in Gaza that Israel launched following the 7 October attacks by Hamas.

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In its update, the ICC said it found "reasonable grounds to believe" that Netanyahu and Gallant "bear criminal responsibility" for alleged crimes. These, the court said, include "the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts".

21st November 2024

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This picture of the sun rising from behind Mt. Fuji (Japan) was taken Yoko Okamoto

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Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, 1978

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This is where we are. Anti-trans pogroms have begun and the community is living in fear. Things are so bad that some of us are unable to live anymore.

Where is the left? Where are our allies?

#TDoR2024

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Accounting is rarely considered the stuff of socialist revolutions, but the case of socialist Tanzania shows how decolonizing the economy quite literally boiled down to correctly calculating prices. At a moment when price controls, inflation, and even nationalization are again at the forefront of public debate, the history of Tanzania’s bank nationalization demonstrates why the arcane technicalities of valuation should not be left to managerial elites alone. Today, advocacy groups like Groundwork Collaborative have made corporate pricing decisions a political issue, and economists like Isabella Weber are exploring how systematically significant prices might be calculated and regulated.

18 September 2024

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Tiers, Nanjing -- April 24th, 2024

Etsy

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Tokyo, 2008.

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The big discourse on twitter right now is ‘you can’t say Columbus was a racist monster because no one knew racism was bad in 1492,’ except Isabella I (yeah, that Isabella I) threw his ass in prison for being a racist monster. There are multiple contemporaneous accounts of Columbus in the Caribbean that are basically like “holy shit, this guy is a legit, Texas chainsaw massacre psychopath.” He was considered bad even then.

When there’s documentation that the queen who got the Spanish Inquisition rolling thought Columbus was bad, I feel like it means we can all feel good about establishing another holiday for mattress discounts in this country.

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Divine photographed by Andy Warhol, 1974.