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Bugonia Is Yorgos Lanthimos at His Best

Eileen Jones Jacobin
In Bugonia, Emma Stone plays a kidnapped pharmaceutical CEO trying to convince her deranged abductors that she’s not a sinister alien in disguise. As a portrait of our political impasse, it’s a shocking, wild ride with an ending you won’t see coming.

Tidbits- May 22-Readers Comments: After-Tax Income Under Trump-GOP Budget; One Brief Shining Moment; How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission; Take Action in Defense of NYU Student Logan Rozos; How Can Academics Support Workers’ Organizing at Amazon

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Readers Comments: After-Tax Income Under the Trump-GOP Budget; One Brief Shining Moment; How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission; Take Action in Defense of NYU Student Logan Rozos; How Can Academics Support Workers' Organizing at Amazon; more;

Dr. Strangekennedy

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
The reactionary playbook frames all COVID-era public-health measures as an elite conspiracy to enrich what it calls “a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders.” It's also flypaper for conspiracy theorists on the left.

Friday Nite Videos | September 27, 2024

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Mark Robinson Could Tank Trump in NC. Paint It Orange | Song Parody). Winner | Movie. NY Mayor Eric Adams Indicted in Turkey Bribery Scheme | The Daily Show. What the Maker of Ozempic Doesn't Want You to Know.

Tidbits – Apr4 2024 – Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Israelis Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; the Black Scholar Journal: Legacies, Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6&7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May1

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Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Why Do Israelis Feel So Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; The Black Scholar Journal: Legacies and Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6 & 7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May 1

Obamacare Created Big Medicine

Matt Stoller The Lever
Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.
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