#donald levine

[graceandfamily]

Princess Grace of Monaco watching the Rowing Eight competition at the 17th Olympic Games in Rome (1960)

[gracie-bird]

Philadelphia, PA., USA: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Levine, sister, and brother-in-law to Grace Kelly, show 10-month-old Anne Kelly, daughter of John B. Kelly Jr., a United Press Radiotelephoto of her aunt Grace and her grandfather entering the Monaco Cathedral on April 19, 1956. The Levines, who are expecting their first child soon, are getting a little parental experience with Anne.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue July 1973

Lauren Hutton wears a black wool gabardine suit. By Bill Blass. Silver fox boa, by Blassport, chains, Donald Stannard, bracelets, Michael Danyon. Black tights, Round-theClock. Herbert Levine sandals. Ara Gallant. Editor, Polly Mellen.

Lauren Hutton porte un tailleur en gabardine de laine noire. Par Bill Blass. Boa en renard argenté, par Blassport, chaînes, Donald Stannard, bracelets, Michael Danyon. Colllants noirs, Round-theClock. Sandales Herbert Levine. Ara Gallant. Èditrice, Polly Mellen.

Photo Richard Avedon vogue archive

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

Why aren’t Democratic leaders standing up to the threat Donald Trump poses in one loud voice?!! For the past few years, Democratic officials warned us of the clear and present danger Trump posed to our Republic. President Biden told us bluntly that, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Vice President Harris echoed that sentiment numerous times during the 2024 campaign stating point blank, “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.” Many other Democratic leaders amplified that very point in the closing months of the 2024 campaign.

So why aren’t the same Democrats who warned us about Trump now stepping up loudly with a playbook to protect our democracy and freedom?! Why isn’t Biden, Harris, Chuck Schumer and other Democratic leaders holding just about daily press conferences to counter the dangers posed by Trump’s cabinet nominations?! Where are these leaders raising red flags about Trump on Sunday calling for putting the members of the Jan 6 committee in jail while repeating his vow to pardon the Jan 6 terrorists who waged a violent attack on his behalf to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election?! These very questions have been repeatedly posed by many listeners to my radio show. Even some Democratic insiders feel there has been a “total vacuum” of leadership from the top of the party since the election—as Politico reported this week. As one Democratic activist rightly told the media outlet, “It feels like Trump is president already.”

Worse, instead of Democratic officials taking the fight to Trump with a laser focused message, we have some Democrats now sucking up to Trump. The increasingly unbearable Sen. John Fetterman on Tuesday joined Trump’s “Truth Social” platform and in his very first post called for Trump to be pardoned for his 34 felony convictions in New York, saying the case was “bullshit.” Other Democratic members of Congress are talking about finding “common ground” with Trump. And Rep. Jim Clyburn—a close Biden ally—suggested this week that Biden should consider pardoning Trump as a way of “cleaning the slate” for the country. Are you F**king kidding me: Pardon the guy who attempted a coup?! Democratic office holders are responding to Trump is as if he actually did win in a “landslide”--as he keeps lying about. In reality, Trump didn’t even secure 50% of the popular vote and his margin of victory was a paltry 1.5%. Trump barely won, but Democrats have for the most part rolled over—not even calling for recount of key states despite nearly 50% of Democrats having sincere questions about the legitimacy of the results.

Trump is every bit a danger to our freedoms and our democracy that these Democratic leaders warned us about. He was convicted of 34 felonies for cheating in the 2016 campaign, attempted a coup, incited the Jan 6 terrorist attack and has repeatedly vowed to pardon his Jan 6 terrorists—even the ones who brutally beat up police officers. In addition, he has promised as President to shut down media outlets critical of him, prosecute political critics and use the military to go after the “enemy within.” I can assure you that Trump will attempt all of this. To be clear, some Democrats are still fighting the good fight such as Sen. Liz Warren, Reps. Jasmine Crockett, Eric Swalwell, Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin and a few more. Add to that governors like Illinois JB Pritzker and California’s Gavin Newsom have been outspoken in making it clear they will stand up to Trump. What is glaringly missing is a coordinated message from leaders about preparing Resistance 2.0 to take the fight to Trump 2.0. But the time for waiting is over—we need to lead the resistance ourselves!

In fact, when I looked back at the news articles from November/December 2016 after Trump won, what I noticed was that even then the Democratic leaders were not stepping up. It was the grassroots activists that led the charge. For example, articles after the election in mid-November 2016 talked about organizers planning an event for the day after Trump’s inauguration called the "Women's March on Washington." That was all grassroots organized, not Democratic official led. In the end, nearly 500,000 people attended that massive march—three times more than attended Trump’s swearing in the day before. Other grassroots led efforts to resist Trump at the time included boycotting Trump properties and products, donating to causes that protect freedoms like the ACLU and online organizing. One of the more enduring forms of activism was the creation of the Indivisible movement—which still exists today—that has thousands of chapters nationwide. That is what must happen again—which is why I spoke to Indivisible’s co-founder Ezra Levin. (You can watch the entire interview below.) Levin, a former Capitol Hill staffer, shared that based on his experience “the best way to build and wield the power that you have is to organize locally.” That could mean joining a local Democratic club, issue-oriented organizations, Indivisible chapters, etc.

Dean Obeidallah is spot on here. Democrats should NOT be cozying up to the Tyrannical Orange Felon, but instead fight him.

[itaviv]

Jurassic Park Novels Birdification

Do you recognize characters and scenes? 🤭

[salakmaral]

Gennaro's info cards in an exhibition for children:

[arcadiaberger]

The DoJ didn't choose the age at which donald was brought to justice.

Justice would have been far happier (as would the nation) if he had begun to pay for his crimes at the age of 66, or 56.

[The fact that he still might die in prison under those circumstances, depending on how severe his sentencing was, is another matter . . . . ]

#Politics #Crime #Punishment #Mark Levin #Fox Newslike Product #donald trump #donald #trump #trumpery

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[biblioklept]

Augusto Monterroso's The Rest Is Silence (Book acquired, some time early Nov. 2024)

So I finally made some time to dig into Augusto Monterroso’s lone novel, 1978’s The Rest Is Silence (trans. Aaron Kerner). It’s hardly a conventional novel (and seems very much of a piece with the other novel I’m reading right now, Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s 1967 novel Tres tristes tigres (in its 1971 translation as Three Trapped Tigers by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine).…

[rodgermalcolmmitchell]

Consciousness is not "conscious." It's sensing, and everything senses.

In December, we published “What is consciousness? The hard problem. And the “sensingness” solution.” The conclusion was that consciousness is hard to define because we make false assumptions about it. One assumption is that consciousness is a mystical reality concerning a brain’s self-awareness. Or, we assume consciousness is a state occupied only by living creatures, animals only, “higher”…

[poem-today]

A poem by Andrea Cohen

More Stones

for Philip Levine

Donald Justice has died twice: once in Miami, in the sun, on a Sunday, and once in Iowa City, on a Friday in August, which was not without its own sun—if not bright spot. The first time he died, he was thinking of Vallejo, who died in Paris, maybe on a Thursday, surely in rain. Vallejo died again in Paris, in April, of an unknown illness which may have been malaria, as fictionalized in Bolaño’s Monsieur Pain. “There is, brothers, very much to do,” Vallejo said between his deaths, and Phil, you must have died once in Seville, in the land of Machado, before going again last Saturday in Fresno, so you no longer write to us or bring in trash bins filled with light. Phil, I will die, maybe on a Sunday in Wellfleet, because today it is Sunday, and ice is jamming the eaves, and there is nowhere to put the snow that keeps recalling all those other snows— or the stones on more stones.

Andrea Cohen

Andrea Cohen writes: I never know where a poem is headed, but I was thinking of Phil Levine. He was my teacher when I was a kid of nineteen, and his poetry, guidance, and encouragement meant/mean more than he’d have known.

Image: The grave of César Vallejo in Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris.

[graceandfamily]

Princess Grace of Monaco (her brother John Kelly, Jr., sister Lizanne Levine and brother-in-law Donald Levine) leaves the Olympic village in Rome, 1960.

[gracie-bird]

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Levine, Princess Grace's sister and brother-in-law in the 1990s.

[simply-ivanka]

[readerviews]

"The Arsenal of Deceit" by Donald Levin

An Astute Novel Brimming With Razor-Sharp Characters #books #reading #bookreview #readerviews

The Arsenal of Deceit Donald LevinPoison Toe Press (2023)ISBN: 978-0997294194Reviewed by Lily Andrews for Reader Views (05/2023) “The Arsenal of Deceit” by Donald Levin is a compelling novel set in Detroit, USA. It’s the year 1941 and America is within a blink of entering World War II by declaring war on the Empire of Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Eva Szabó is a Hungarian…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lis Power at MMFA:

Since the beginning of former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, Fox News figures and guests have repeatedly challenged the integrity of the judge presiding over the case, Juan Merchan. Throughout the duration of the trial, figures on Fox News have lobbed at least 220 such attacks at Merchan, suggesting that the judge has an anti-Trump bias so the “fix is in,” attacking his handling of the case as “supremely biased” and “severely compromised,” and claiming the judge should have recused himself.

The figures who launched the most attacks on the judge on the network were Hannity, followed distantly by host Laura Ingraham (12 claims), host Jeanine Pirro (11 claims), legal analyst Gregg Jarrett (10 claims), and host Mark Levin and contributor Leo Terrell (9 claims each). Notably, most of those figures host shows, and five out of the six have legal degrees.  The programs that pushed the most attacks on Merchan were opinion shows Hannity (52), The Ingraham Angle (26), and the network's weekday morning show, Fox & Friends��(20). They were followed by so-called news-side show The Faulkner Focus (18) as well as weekend show Life, Liberty & Levin (13). While Fox personalities and guests issued the majority of attacks on opinion shows (150), they also impugned Merchan's impartiality 70 times on Fox’s so-called news shows. 

Media Matters For America details Fox “News”’s war on Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s business records falsification trial.