#Michael Crosley

[valeriacarlos]

vintage

esta foto la tome un dia en mi universidad, ese dia estaba con 2 amigos, ellos me caen muy bien, se puede deir que son personas muy transparentes, y en ese momento mientras caminabamos, vi estas cosas en el piso, las estaban vendiendo, y todos concordamos de que eran cosas que nos encantaria rener en nuestras casas cuando seamos independientes

[rattlinbog]

Books Read in 2022

January

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan 

The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine 

February

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #6) by Ransom Riggs 

Eifelhelm by Michael Flynn 

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer 

March

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (reread)

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

April

The Parted Earth by Anjani Enjeti 

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar 

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 

The Last Blue by Isla Morley 

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler 

All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burns

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

May

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reread)

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein 

June

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Dubois 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

July

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey 

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Calypso by David Sedaris

My Antonia by Willa Cather 

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe

English Animals by Laura Kaye

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

August

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (reread)

The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross 

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

September

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music by Douglas B. Green

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (reread)

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin

The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

October

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

The Reddening by Adam Nevill

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

November

It Happened in the Smokies... A Mountaineer’s Memories of Happenings in the Smoky Mountains in Pre-Park Days by Gladys Trentham Russell

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres 

I Was Told There’d be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

December

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (reread)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)

Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans.

In many of these cases, the donations were attached to their official email addresses, raising questions about the use of public resources in supporting such campaigns.

The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, revealed the details of some donors who had previously attempted to conceal their identities using GiveSendGo’s anonymity feature, but whose identifying details the website preserved.

The beneficiaries of donations from public officials include Kyle Rittenhouse, who stands accused of murdering two leftwing protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August. Rittenhouse traveled from neighboring Illinois to, by his own account, offer armed protection to businesses during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Rittenhouse, who became a cause célèbre across conservative media throughout late 2020, and was even supported by then president Donald Trump, held a fundraiser on GiveSendGo billed as a contribution to his legal defense. According to data from the site, he raised $586,940 between 27 August last year and 7 January .

Among the donors were several associated with email addresses traceable to police and other public officials.

One donation for $25, made on 3 September last year, was made anonymously, but associated with the official email address for Sgt William Kelly, who currently serves as the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia.

That donation also carried a comment, reading: “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong.”

The comment continued: “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

Another Rittenhouse donor using an official email address was Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah. This donor gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August.

Donations also came to Rittenhouse associated with official email addresses for Keith Silvers, and employee of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Meanwhile, several Wisconsin police officers donated to a fundraiser, “Support Rusten Sheskey”, held for the Kenosha police department officer whose shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, led to the protests that drew Rittenhouse to the city.

Two $20 donations to Sheskey’s fund were associated with email addresses of a pair of lieutenants in Green Bay, Wisconsin’s police department. One, given under the name, “GBPD Officer”, was tied to an address associated with Chad Ramos, a training lieutenant in the department; another anonymous donation was associated with Keith A Gehring, who is listed as a school resources officer lieutenant.

Another donation to Sheskey was associated with the official email address of officer Pat Gainer of the Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin police department. Given under the screen name “PPPD Motor 179”, the donation also carried the comment: “Stay strong brother.”

About 32 more donations, totaling more than $5,000, came to Sheskey from private email addresses associated with Kenosha officers, but under badge numbers rather than names.

More anonymous donations on the site came from city employees of Houston, Texas, who were objecting to the actions of the then police chief, Art Acevedo, who fired four Houston police officers after they shot and killed a man, Nicolas Chavez, who was on his knees, and in an apparent mental health crisis.

One anonymous donation of $100 was associated with the official address of that city’s fire chief, Samuel Peña, who has himself faced recent employee revolts over cost-cutting, but who has been publicly supportive of Acev edo, describing him in a tweet as a “brother & partner in Public Safety” in March, when Acevedo announced that he would be taking up an appointment as Miami’s chief of police.

Another anonymous donation of $400 was attributed in site data to an email linked to Chris Andersen and carried the comment: “I think that Chief Acevedo is part of the ‘unrecognized form of police corruption’ that Chris Anderson [sic] wrote about in his book’. Hang in there guys!!!”

Andersen’s book, The Sniper: Hunting A Serial Killer – A True Story, purports to tell the story of the hunt for a serial killer by Houston police at a time when “the United States was experiencing a wave of civil discontent regarding the unwarranted shootings (either true or perceived) of black men by law enforcement (the Black Lives Matter era)”.

In his Amazon bio, Andersen describes himself as a “39-year veteran of the Houston police department”, and as having worked in roles including homicide detective, supervising a Swat team and internal affairs.

In an email, the Green Bay police chief, Andrew Smith, wrote of the donations that “we are looking into the matter”, but added on Sheskey’s actions that his department “does not take a position on other agencies use of force”.

Lynda Seaver, director of public affairs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wrote in an email that Michael Crosley had made “an honest mistake”, and had “never intended to use his Lab email on this matter”.

All other agencies and individuals who were included in the Guardian’s reporting did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Guardian previously reported on the use of the site for fundraising purposes for far-right groups like the Proud Boys, who have been banned from other crowdfunding platforms after violent incidents including the alleged participation of members of the group in an attack on the United States Capitol building on 6 January.

[looking-to-the-future]

Shadow Order Book Cover Set by Dusty Crosley

Book series on amazon

[thethoughtdump]

My cousin lent me some vinyls today; I couldn’t be happier

[oberynmartell]

List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:

infographic on why YOU SHOULD NOT DONATE TO CHANGE DOT ORG

one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and well researchd compilations of blm related resources (includes petitions, donation links, venmo accounts, names of people in need, etc) thats out there. please share this link everywhere and anywhere. 

a black lives matter carrd that includes petitions, donation links, blm movement information, links on how to donate to BLM without spending money, black owned businesses, etc. 

a black lives matter carrd that lists all the petitions that need to be signatures all in one place!

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd 2

Justice for George Floyd 3

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Stand with Breonna

Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder

Justice For Tamir Rice

Justice For Tamir Rice 2

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Justice for Belly Mujinga.

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Dion Johnson

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Tete Gulley

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Darrius Stewart

Justice for Shukri Abdi

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice For Zinedine

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Christopher Josey

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Tamla Horsford

Justice for Collins Khosa

Justice for Sean Monterrosa

Free Siyanda

Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case 

Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality

Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child 

Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles

Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training

Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test

stop immigrants being poisoned by ICE

Ban the use of inhumane rubber bullets

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Join Campaign Zero

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!

Reopen Kendrick Johnson's Case

Abolish Prison Labour in the USA

Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff's Office

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

Sign the Police Accountability Act into Law

Justice for Elijah Nichols 

Exonerate Eric Riddick

Justice For Luz Gonzalez!

Support a new law to be made in Trayvon Martin's name to stop from claiming self defense after aggravated murder

Justice for James Scurlock

Justice for Philando Castile

Issue a State executive order to hold police accountable for unlawful action

Don't let Julius Jones be executed by the state of Oklahoma

Help pass the Hands Up Act, which prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens and carries a mandatory 15-year prison sentence if there isn’t a weapon found after someone has been shot by a police officer

A twitter thread linking to many, many Brazilian Petition that still need signatures

Justice for Jamarion Robinson

Justice for Elijah McClain

Fire Jared Campbell

Dismiss the charges on Marshae Jones and charge the one who shot her and her unborn baby

Justice for Anderson Arboleda [Petition only in Español] 

Drop Charges Against Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer

Justice for Julian Cole

Reopen Kenneka Jenkins Case

Justice for LeVena Johnson

Justice for Matthew Tucker

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet 

Justice for Christopher

Abolish Confederate Branding at Richland High School

Justice for Justin Howell

Justice for Brad Levi Ayala

Justice for Mike Ramos

Justice for Brad Levi Ayala

Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Make Lynching a Federal Crime

Tell Congress you support making lynching a federal hate crime

Demand Capezio provide skin color inclusive dance clothing

Justice for Kylie Lindsey and Isabella Chinchilla

Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.

Justice for Alaa

Justice for Robert Fuller

Justice for Elijah McClain

Justice for Elijah McClain 2

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 2

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 3

Reopen the case of Sandra Bland

Reopen the case of Kenneka Jenkins 

Justice for Jonas Joseph

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Cláudia Ferreira

Justice for James Scurlock

Justice for David Dorn

Demand Justice for Darren Rainey

Justice for LeVena Johnson!

Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.

Justice for Alton Sterling

Justice for Dana Fletcher 

Justice for Dominique Fells

Justice for Gregory Johnson, Jr.

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Arrest Jennifer Watson for Attempted Murder

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Christopher Josey

Grant Clemency to Crosley Green

Ban The Use of Tear Gas on Civilians

Justice For Tyler Lumar

Justice for Alaa

Ban The Confederate Flag From Public Schools

Remove 20ft Confederate "Stonewall" Jackson statue from Manassas National Battlefield Park

Justice for Tshego Pule

Justice for Tyler J Evans

Donation Links

A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd's child)

Black Lives Matter

We Cant Breathe

43 Bail Funds to Support

Homeless Black Trans women fund

Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers

Minnesota Healing Justice Network

Women for Political Change

Spiral Collective

When We All Vote

National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses

Venmo names of black trans people that need help

Latino Community on Lake Street

Black Immigrant Collective

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha

Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief

Al Maa'uun

Remembering Shana Isuroon 

Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses

Joyce Preschool

Black Table Arts

Northside business support

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund

Unicorn Riot

Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy

Pimento Relief Fund

Southside Harm Reduction

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition

Division of Indian Work

TC Care Collective

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Jamee

Justice for David McAtee

Donate to Brandon Saenz who was shot in the left eye by a rubber bullet, and lost the eye, several teeth, and had facial fractures that required several surgeries

HOW TO DONATE INTERNATIONALLY/SITES THAT ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY 

HOW DONATE WITH NO MONEY

HOW TO DONATE WITH NO MONEY BY STREAMING THIS

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM BY SHARING LINKS

A list of black owned businesses we should be supporting! + a list of black owned businesses we should be supporting that accept international currency!

DO NOT DONATE TO SHAUN KING

DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG

Donation for Justice for Saraneka “Nemo” Martin — pregnant protester shot during protest

Donations for Mike Ramos

Donations for Elijah McClain

Donations for Elijah McClain 2

* this list is constantly updated (new links added at the bottom) so please keep checking back for new information on petitions and ways to donate!!

updated as of 11 october 2020 — please continue to send me the petitions and fundraisers that you come across so i can add them!!  

[ellenash]

ANIMALS is on Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s most anticipated books of April review! I can’t believe I am on a list with Alexander Chee and Leslie Jamison! 

[rolloroberson]

Iggy Pop in one of rock’s most iconic photos, imho. Photographed by Tom Copi during a concert at Crosley Field on June 23, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

[okaykey]

Crosley

[96thdayofrage]

A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans.

In many of these cases, the donations were attached to their official email addresses, raising questions about the use of public resources in supporting such campaigns.

The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, revealed the details of some donors who had previously attempted to conceal their identities using GiveSendGo’s anonymity feature, but whose identifying details the website preserved.

The beneficiaries of donations from public officials include Kyle Rittenhouse, who stands accused of murdering two leftwing protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August. Rittenhouse traveled with weapons from neighboring Illinois to, by his own account, offer armed protection to businesses during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Rittenhouse, who became a cause célèbre across conservative media throughout late 2020, and was even supported by then president Donald Trump, held a fundraiser on GiveSendGo billed as a contribution to his legal defense. According to data from the site, he raised $586,940 between 27 August last year and 7 January .

Among the donors were several associated with email addresses traceable to police and other public officials.

One donation for $25, made on 3 September last year, was made anonymously, but associated with the official email address for Sgt William Kelly, who currently serves as the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk police department in Virginia.

That donation also carried a comment, reading: “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong.”

The comment continued: “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

Another Rittenhouse donor using an official email address was Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah. This donor gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August.

Donations also came to Rittenhouse associated with official email addresses for Keith Silvers, and employee of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Meanwhile, several Wisconsin police officers donated to a fundraiser, “Support Rusten Sheskey”, held for the Kenosha police department officer whose shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, led to the protests that drew Rittenhouse to the city.

Two $20 donations to Sheskey’s fund were associated with email addresses of a pair of lieutenants in Green Bay, Wisconsin’s police department. One, given under the name, “GBPD Officer”, was tied to an address associated with Chad Ramos, a training lieutenant in the department; another anonymous donation was associated with Keith A Gehring, who is listed as a school resources officer lieutenant.

Another donation to Sheskey was associated with the official email address of officer Pat Gainer of the Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin police department. Given under the screen name “PPPD Motor 179”, the donation also carried the comment: “Stay strong brother.”

About 32 more donations, totaling more than $5,000, came to Sheskey from private email addresses associated with Kenosha officers, but under badge numbers rather than names.

More anonymous donations on the site came from city employees of Houston, Texas, who were objecting to the actions of the then police chief, Art Acevedo, who fired four Houston police officers after they shot and killed a man, Nicolas Chavez, who was on his knees, and in an apparent mental health crisis.

One anonymous donation of $100 was associated with the official address of that city’s fire chief, Samuel Peña, who has himself faced recent employee revolts over cost-cutting, but who has been publicly supportive of Acevedo, describing him in a tweet as a “brother & partner in Public Safety” in March, when Acevedo announced that he would be taking up an appointment as Miami’s chief of police.

Another anonymous donation of $400 was attributed in site data to an email linked to Chris Andersen and carried the comment: “I think that Chief Acevedo is part of the ‘unrecognized form of police corruption’ that Chris Anderson [sic] wrote about in his book’. Hang in there guys!!!”

Andersen’s book, The Sniper: Hunting A Serial Killer – A True Story, purports to tell the story of the hunt for a serial killer by Houston police at a time when “the United States was experiencing a wave of civil discontent regarding the unwarranted shootings (either true or perceived) of black men by law enforcement (the Black Lives Matter era)”.

In his Amazon bio, Andersen describes himself as a “39-year veteran of the Houston police department”, and as having worked in roles including homicide detective, supervising a Swat team and internal affairs.

In an email, the Green Bay police chief, Andrew Smith, wrote of the donations that “we are looking into the matter”, but added on Sheskey’s actions that his department “does not take a position on other agencies use of force”.

Lynda Seaver, director of public affairs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wrote in an email that Michael Crosley had made “an honest mistake”, and had “never intended to use his Lab email on this matter”.

All other agencies and individuals who were included in the Guardian’s reporting did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Guardian previously reported on the use of the site for fundraising purposes for far-right groups like the Proud Boys, who have been banned from other crowdfunding platforms after violent incidents including the alleged participation of members of the group in an attack on the United States Capitol building on 6 January.

[twilightcomet]

Drawing and message in support of Black Lives Matter from 2nd July

The images containing only text read:

“I am not Black.  It is not my place to speak on behalf of the Black community. Instead, I urge that you listen to the voices of the Black community / BIPOC / BAME communities and educate yourself on instances of systemic racism and police brutality.

Nobody said your life doesn’t matter. But all lives can’t matter until Black lives matter. Yes, everyone’s life should matter. Then start working towards that being true! Don’t make excuses. Actions speak louder than words. Speak out against injustice whenever you can.

Here’s some resources where you can find out more:

-> ally.wiki is a document that contains links to many petitions, places to donate, how to contact officials, and where you can go to further educate yourself

- > impact.crd.co contains links with info relating to BLM as well as other global issues that you should know about” (end of text slide 1)

“Say their names. Say as many as you can. There are countless others who have already been forgotten. Do not let any more slip away. We must continue to demand justice for all.

We must say the names of and demand justice for those who have been discriminated against, mistreated, injured or murdered, including:

Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Emmett Till, Elijah McClain, George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Dion Johnson, James Scurlock, Tamla Horsford, Dafonte Miller, Dominique Fells, Tshegofatso Pule, Riah Milton, Robert Fuller, Robert Anthony Wood, David McAtee, Ala’junaye Davis, Ndella Jack, Belly Mujinga, Joāo Pedro, Pamela Turner, Ahmaud Arbery, Emerald Black, Amiya Braxton, Darrius Stewart, Jennifer Jeffley, Dreasjon “Sean” Reed, Althea Bernstein, Oluwatoyin Salau, Rayshard Brooks,Anthony Evans, Justin Howell , Willie Simmons, Anthony Wint,  Albert Wilson, Chrystul Kizer,   Crystal Mayson, Cameron Green, Amari Boone, Collins Khosa, Rashad Cunningham, Jonas Joseph, Tazne Van Wyk, Eric Riddick, Angel Bumpass, Chaffin Darnel Y, Kenneth Reams, Ashton Dickson, Anderson Arboleda, Kyjuanzi Harris, Cláudia da Silva Ferreira, Crosley Green, Kenneka Jenkins, Shantel Davis, Christopher Terrell, Mubarak Soulemane, Sheku Bayoh, Martin Gugino, Cameron Lamb, Darrien Hunt, Matthew Tucker, George Dreher, Shukri Abdi, David Dorn, Darren Rainey, LaVena Johnson, Sandy Guardiola, Maurice Gordon Jr, Jemel Roberson, Dana Fletcher, Taliya Denham, Dominique Clayton, Michael Dean, Wallace Gardner Jr, Jaleel Stallings, Lakith Smith, A’Donte Washington, Robert Fuller, Kevin Penn, Nina Pop, Kayla Moore, Marcus Malone, Rodey Reed, Tshego Pule, Jamelia Hinds Vicks, Alaa Massri, Oliver Campbell, Jamarion Robinson, Kimmie Duncan, Kadijah Madinatu Saccoh, Ryan Twyman, Kendrick Johnson, Tyler Lumar, Cornelius Fredericks, Donny Sanders, Christopher Kalonji, Kenneth Walker, Muhlaysia Booker, Merci Mack, Brayla Stone, Elijah Nichols” (end of text slide 2)

Please note the names were only the ones I could gather from research at the time of the drawing.

Statement copied from my Twitter:

“I support #BlackLivesMatter. I will be making an effort to be actively anti-racist and anti-discrimination, and will continue to self-educate.

Drawing this made me reflect on how little I draw Black characters. Apart from Quinn from Final Space, I realised that I can't remember the last time I drew someone who was Black. I'm making it my goal to improve diversity in my art and practice drawing more varied characters.“

[birdlord]

Every Book I Read in 2018

Again, better late than never??

01 On the Town; Marshall Berman - A freewheeling personal and general history of Times Square, which had some great historical tidbits I’d never read before. I think I would have got more out of it if I were interested in Broadway musicals...

02 Stephen Florida; Gabe Habash - A slim little book that follows a college wrestler. One of those books that is described as muscular, when what they mean is brutal. 

03 Green Grass, Running Water; Thomas King - Four plot lines intertwine in a story blending mythology, creation, and modern First Nations people dealing with massive transformational change to their lands. I did sometimes feel like I would have enjoyed it more as an audio storytelling experience. 

04 People who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman; Richard Lloyd Parry - I don’t often read books like this, but this is essentially a true-crime sort of story, about the murder of a British woman who works as a bar hostess in Japan. Parry covers not just her story, but the whole aftermath, which even pulls in Tony Blair, eventually. 

05 My Brother’s Husband; Gengoroh Tagame - Weirdly, two Japan-related books in a row! Another culture-clash tale, when the Canadian husband visits his deceased husband Ryoji’s single-parent brother. The couple had never been to Japan while Ryoji was alive, and so the story of slow acceptance (helped along by little Kana’s openhearted curiosity) is suffused with sadness. 

06 Ghosts of the Tsunami: Life & Death in Japan’s Disaster Zone; Richard Lloyd Parry - And, let’s make it three! When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, I remember thinking that the reaction seemed so orderly, so...Japanese. But this examination puts you right in the various affected communities, following different people, including schoolchildren from Okawa primary. Like with the other Parry book above, we hear about all of the grief, ghosts and lawsuits that follow the disaster. 

07 Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History; Rhonda K. Garelick - Once she became famous, Coco Chanel built a scaffolding of lies about her past, and the purpose of this biography is to attempt to see the truth behind them. Garelick concentrates heavily on Chanel’s collaboration with the Nazis, which must have been a challenge given that her company still exists, under her name.

08 Kubrick; Michael Herr - “They speak about the dumbing of America as a foregone thing, already completed, but, duh, it’s a process, and we haven’t seen anything yet. The contemplation of this culture isn’t for sissies, and speaking about it without becoming shrill is increasingly difficult, maybe impossible.” Whoa!

09 Call Me by Your Name; Andre Aciman - I did read this after seeing the film, so as usual it was hard to divorce it from the movie experience. 

10 The Left Hand of Darkness; Ursula K LeGuin - A thought experiment about a genderless world, seen from the perspective of an off-planet envoy, who has a range of reactions to the world’s inhabitants. The most enduring section of the book involves a brutal 3-month expedition undertaken by the exiled envoy and a local, a trial by ice, wind and snow. A winter read. 

11 Stamped from the Beginning; Ibram X. Kendi - I don’t think I’d really fully grokked the idea that southern white supremacy built itself in order to prevent an uprising of the black and white underclasses, together. The basic rubric of this book is separating American movements, parties and individuals’ thinking into one of three categories: assimilationist, segregationist or genuinely antiracist. Supporting results like abolitionism does NOT make one antiracist, since support could come those with less pure motivations. I highly recommend this one, though it was copy-edited in a pretty haphazard manner!

12 Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers; Barbara Ehrenreich & Dierdre English - A short book charting a couple of parallel stories, of women healers in Europe being dismissed as witches, and the masculinization of medicine (particularly midwifery and the medicine of birth) in the USA. 

13 Her Body and Other Parties; Carmen Maria Machado - Short stories skirting the edge of a lot of genres; horror, science fiction, dark comedy. These are women’s stories, that refuse to be dismissed as chick lit. It didn’t connect with me as deeply as it has for some, but I see the appeal. 

14 Look Alive Out There; Sloane Crosley - Largely comedic set of essays by a writer whose earlier work I read, about a decade back. It’s a strange experience, to return to someone who has written memoir that seemed to exemplify that late-2000s era and discover that she - and you - have grown. 

15 Homesick for Another World; Otessa Moshfegh - Moshfegh’s choice of words (not to mention her characters themselves) remain utterly revolting. I often found myself looking up, shaking my head as if to say THIS BOOK. Considerably funnier than Eileen, which was the first of hers that I read. 

16 My Year of Rest & Relaxation; Otessa Moshfegh - After reading this, I found out that Moshfegh basically set out to get her work noticed by populating it with these vile young women. Well, it worked! Your tolerance for unlikeable main characters will be tested by this rich Columbia grad who decides to prescribe herself into a virtual coma within her NY apartment, at the turn of the millennium. And yes, it ends where you think it does. 

17 They Can’t Kill us Until They Kill Us; Hanif Abdurraquabi - This collection of music-related writing is wildly far-ranging, poetic and emotional. For myself, I did find I was more interested in those that were related to bands or musicians I had some experience with myself , which was not always the case. 

18 The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully; Aaron Carroll and Nina Teicholtz - If you’re a reader of the food media, most of what’s in here will be familiar to you, debunking fears of meat, GMOs, gluten, MSG. The authors keep their own experience, taste and interests very much in the forefront, which ends up feeling smug and irritating. 

19 The Mere Wife: A Novel; Maria Dahvana Headley - My knowledge of Beowulf is scant at best, but this retelling stood very much on its own two feet, set in a tony suburb and comparing the experience of two very different mothers of two very different sons. 

20 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays; Alexander Chee - I’m very much On The Record as being against writers writing about writing, but this might just be an exception. 

21 Vancouver Special; Charles Demers - A sort of update on Douglas Coupland’s City of Glass, a book I loved and reread many times. This one has both a more historical bent, and an actual political viewpoint, contrasting with Coupland’s Gen X remoteness.

22 Crudo; Olivia Laing - A rushing frantic little novel, incorporating Trump tweets and Kathy Acker quotes throughout. A difficult read so close to the events described, but I can see this being an amazing window into this weird time, once a few years have passed. 

23 Hits & Misses; Simon Rich - This might also be on the line of “writers writing about writing” but Rich manages to do so in a charmingly self-deprecating way. 

24 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the US; Jeffrey Lewis - Speculative fiction written as a government report, responding, as we all have been doing, to the endlessly unprecedented Trump presidency. It all started with a tweet, of course...

25 A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; Rebecca Solnit - This book is intended to counter the idea that disasters (“natural” and otherwise) lead people to indulge their worst sides. Solnit looks at the aftermath of some 20th C disasters like the Halifax Explosion, 9/11 and various earthquakes to find examples of people banding together to help the wounded and homeless, even taking the opportunity to create new institutions when authorities fail to do so. A tonic for a world in which disasters are likely to become increasingly common. 

26 How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them; Jason Stanley - When I lived in Scotland in 2010, I went to an anti-fascist rally in Edinburgh, and I remember feeling like those attitudes were closer to the surface over there, where at home in Canada they felt abstract. This book traces how fascist policies lurk within democratic frameworks, and can sometimes metastasize to take over the host. Suffice it to say I was probably wrong then, and I’m definitely wrong now.

[skepticaloccultist]

The Cult of Golgotha

"The Cult of Golgotha" Craig Williams

In his previous work "Entering the Desert" Craig Williams outlined a fascinating current of occult practice centered on a form of practical tantric gnosis. Williams' penchant for finding beauty in desolation and initiation in self contemplation provides that volume with a steadfast outline of self initiatory practice.

With his latest, the "Cult of Golgatha" Williams takes a more philosophical approach, drawing extensively on Vaidika tantric ritual, esoteric physics and gnostic voudon. Weaving a current out of these ancient traditions and modern alchemies Williams draws a complete circle that was begun in "Entering the Desert".

While the influence of Michael Bertiaux's Voudon Gnostic explorations permeates the work, the ultimate sources of its insights comes from the author of its preface, thanatologist Leilah Wendell and her Westgate Necromantic community and Dr Reginald Crosley, author of The Vodou Quantum Leap.

It is a contemplative work, less practical manual and more philosophic inquiry. Dipping into the dark waters of Louisiana, India, and Tibet for its understanding of the Death Gnosis and the embrace of the dark Cult of Golgatha.

The book itself is stunning, bound in a wine coloured silken cloth with matching endpapers and gilt stamping on the covering and spine, pages of a cream thick vellum paper and heavily illustrated by Murk Jelena it has a heft and feel that one has come to expect from all of Anathema Publishing's wonderfully designed and typeset works.

For those interested in Gnostic Voudon ala Bertiaux, Crosley & Wendell, and the intersection of tantra, voudon and western esotericism in a contemporary left hand path current this volume is for you.

Get your copy at Anathema:

The Cult of Golgotha

[deanpeterson]

Books I Read 2021

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (1/18/21)

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1/25/21)

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (1/27/21)

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (2/10/21)

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (2/28/21)

Jack by Marilynne Robinson (3/13/21)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (3/16/21)

All I Did Was Ask by Terry Gross (3/17/21)

Stoner by John Williams (3/24/21)

U and I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker (3/28/21)

Marry Me by John Updike (4/8/21)

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (4/14/21)

Weather by Jenny Offill (4/16/21)

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (4/20/21)

Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey (4/20/21)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (4/27/21)

Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (5/10/21)

Grant by Ron Chernow (5/10/21)

The Clasp by Sloane Crosley (5/14/21)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (5/15/21)

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino (5/19/21)

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (5/19/21)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (5/27/21)

Sanctuary by William Faulkner (5/2/21)

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (6/9/21)

Roderick Hudson by Henry James (6/14/21)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (6/20/21)

Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery (6/26/21)

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr (6/26/21)

Inferno by Dante Alighieri (6/26/21)

Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown (6/27/21)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (7/6/21)

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (7/8/21)

Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts (7/9/21)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7/13/21)

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (7/14/21)

Pastoralia by George Saunders (7/19/21)

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry (8/2/21)

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton (8/8/21)

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfield (8/15/21)

Second Place by Rachel Cusk (8/19/21)

The Girls by Emma Cline (8/22/21)

Agapē Agape by William Gaddis (8/23/21)

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (8/30/21)

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (9/2/21)

Dune by Frank Herbert (9/5/21)

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (9/15/21)

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker (9/19/21)

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard (9/27/21)

A Really Big Lunch by Jim Harrison (10/1/21)

The Centaur by John Updike (10/25/21)

L’étranger by Albert Camus (10/29/21

Dans le Jardin de l'Ogre by Leïla Slimani (11/17/21)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (11/31/21)

Charlie et la Chocolaterie by Roald Dahl (12/17/21)

[the-sayuri-rin]

Among the donors were several associated with email addresses traceable to police and other public officials.

One donation for $25, made on 3 September last year, was made anonymously, but associated with the official email address for Sgt William Kelly, who currently serves as the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk police department in Virginia.

That donation also carried a comment, reading: “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong.”

The comment continued: “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

Another Rittenhouse donor using an official email address was Craig Shepherd, who public records show is a paramedic in Utah. This donor gave $10 to Rittenhouse on 30 August.

Donations also came to Rittenhouse associated with official email addresses for Keith Silvers, and employee of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

[petitionslist]

Petitions

One effective way of making change is to support petitions. The following is a (far from complete) list of petitions in need of signatures. Please take a few minutes to add your name. (This list will be updated whenever possible.)

Tell Congress you support making lynching a federal hate crime

Justice for Breonna Taylor

De-escalation bill

Justice for Cornelius: Shut Sequel down

Justice for Cornelius Fredericks

Justice for Elijah McClain

Reopen Darrius Stewart's Murder Case

Justice for Sheku Bayoh

Make the KKK illegal

Commute the sentence of Willie Simmons

Pass Georgia hate crime bill

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Hands Up Act

Correcting a wrongful conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Reopen Kendrick Johnson's case

Justice for Tamir Rice

Free Siyanda Mngaza

Exonerate Eric Riddick

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice for Emerald Black

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Zinedine

Retrial for a wrongful conviction

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Free Albert Wilson

Justice for Amari Boone

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Reunite detained immigrant children with their parents

Reunite every child now

Children don't belong in cages

Dismiss the charges against Marshae Jones and charge the one who shot her and her unborn baby

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice for Dion Johnson

Reopen the case involving the death of Tamla Horsford

Pardon Crystal Mason

Justice for Cameron Green

Ban the use of rubber bullets

Stop ICE from poisoning immigrants

The Trayvon Martin Law

Free Darnel

Support Former Buffalo Police Officer Cariol Horne to Receive her Pension

Conditions of workers in Italy

Drop False Charges Placed on Police Brutality Victim and Hold The Officers Accountable

Consequences for excessive force used on Quentin Suttles

Free Kenneth Reams

Justice for James Scurlock

LIFT THE HOODS: Classify White Supremacist Groups as Domestic Terrorist Organizations

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Reopen Sandra Bland's case

Justice for Brad Levi Ayala

Justice for Jonas Joseph

Justice for Dominique Clayton

Free Curtis Price

Grant clemency to Crosley Green

Justice for Tyler

Justice for Alton Sterling

Justice for Katera

Justice for Darren Rainey

Justice for Tawana McGowan

Exonerate Rodney Reed

Free Fate Vincent Winslow

Justice for Rayshard Brooks

Justice for Robert Fuller

Reopen Jasmine Lawrence's case

Justice for Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos

Please support the Eric Garner Law

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer

Justice for Dorsey

Justice for Jamel Floyd

Justice for Sean Monterrosa

Reopen the investigation of LaVena Johnson's death

Justice for David Dorn

Arrest William Daniel Short

Justice for Desmond Franklin

Justice for Alajunaye Davis

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Joel Acevedo

Justice for Julian Cole

Justice for Belly Mujinga

Justice for Giovanni Lopez

Repeal the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act

Justice for Jamarion Robinson

Justice for victims of police brutality

Police Accountability Act of 2020

Law Enforcement Accountability

Indict the U​S in the UN for systemic racial discrimination & killing African-Americans

Justice for Robert Forbes

Justice for Darius

Justice for Freddy Gray

Justice for Jonathan Salcido

Enact The Dana Fletcher Bill, making body cam footage public record

Justice for Keith

Take Down the Confederate Monuments in the U.S.

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Philando Castile

Justice for Matthew Tucker

Demanding a new law to protect Black men and women from racist killing

Recognize Timothy Caughman not his killer

Convict the semi truck driver who plowed into a crowd at a protest

Justice for Jamee

A retrial of officer Philip Mitchell Brailsford, who murdered a man begging for his life

Justice for RJ Williams

Release Joshua Williams

Justice for Joseph

Free Matthew Rushin

Justice for Bernardo Palacios

Justice for Tony

Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.

Justice for D’Andre Campbell

Protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19

Disciplinary Action Concering Bridgewater Student Hate-Filled Image

Justice for sexually abused immigrant children

California: Repeal The Qualified Immunity Act of 1967

End Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Non Violent Crimes in the United States

Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation 2020

Justice for Antwun “Ronnie” Shumpert

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Demand The Ban on Chokeholds - Preventing Excessive Force

California: Issue a State executive order to hold police accountable for unlawful action

Justice For Steven Taylor

End the whitewashing of school textbooks

Reopen the case of Korryn Gaines

Justice for Pamela Turner

Change the name of the Washington NFL team [As of July 13, 2020, the name will at last be changed.]

Free Grace

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