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Quem roubou a cena de mais patético da semana

AS TIRAS DO CAOS 

 

 

 

GILMAR

 

AROEIRA

 

 

Sly & Robbie - Taxi Riddim Instrumental (in memoriam Sly Dunbar)

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PLURIBUS: THE POWER OF DIVISION - by Slavoj Žižek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Five novels about the global catastrophe and its aftermath have deeply marked my thinking "

READ STACK BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK 

PLURIBUS: THE POWER OF DIVISION - by Slavoj Žižek

Preservando a memória do fanzine brasileiro

 

"!

Com esta trajetória de décadas pelo universo dos fanzines ele resolve, a partir de seu acervo particular, organizar a memória do movimento das publicações alternativas e funda, em 2020, em sua própria residência na zona Leste da cidade de São Paulo, a Fanzinoteca Zine House Brasil, se tornando também um pioneiro na preservação histórica do movimento. Com um acervo de mais de 1500 publicações a coleção vem crescendo dia a dia com novos exemplares que recebe de todo o Brasil, São Paulo (infelizmente o acervo não é aberto ao público mas, sob agendamento, ele recebe visitas dos interessados, principalmente de estudiosos e pesquisadores)."

leia repoprtagem da Revista Pirralha  

Preservando a memória do fanzine brasileiro | Revista Pirralha

Trump is doing his best to subvert his own DoJ’s case against Maduro.

 Jeffrey St. Clair >

 
+ It’s been nearly 2 weeks since Trump’s Venezuelan coup and his declaration that the US is running Venezuela. But the US still isn’t running Venezuela.

+ Trump is doing his best to subvert his own DoJ’s case against Maduro. First, in a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump accused Maduro of heading a drug cartel that his own DoJ now admits doesn’t exist. Second, in his social media post announcing Maduro’s kidnapping, he referred to Maduro as “President Nicolas Maduro,” which contradicts his DOJ’s position that Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela and shouldn’t be afforded sovereign immunity. (It was for the reason that the previous Trump administration stopped referring to him as president in 2019, when they were considering a similar operation.)

+ In his Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump claimed that Maduro was the head of “the vicious cartel known as Cartel de los Soles, which flooded our nation with lethal poison.” In fact, the term Cartel de los Soles is slang for “drug corruption in the military.” When your case crumbles before you even present it to a judge…

+ One of the Department of Justice’s key witnesses in its case against Maduro is Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan general, who pleaded guilty last year to drug trafficking charges and, in December, wrote a letter asking for leniency, in which he backed the farcical claim that Venezuela had helped rig the 2020 election for Biden.

+ The big question in Venezuela remains: who was the CIA’s source inside the Maduro government? Much of the focus has been on VP, Delcy Rodriguez, who, though she has publicly denounced the raid and kidnapping, seems to be maintaining a back-channel to Rubio. But her hold on power remains tenuous, with Chauvistas to the left of her, MUD to her right and the generals watching for any false step. Jon Lee Anderson: “I guess she’s expected to keep the heads of the military and the intelligence services from doing any power grabs or displacing her. But there may be mutual suspicions there. So it’s kind of a knife-edge situation.”

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Tenha pena de mim (Cyro de Souza e Babaú) – Olivia Byington

Ai, ai meu Deus!
Tenha pena de mim
Todos vivem muito bem
Só eu que vivo assim
Trabalho, não tenho nada
Não saio do miserê
Ai, ai, meu Deus
Isso é pra lá de sofrer

Icarus - Ralph Towner & Gary Burton (in memoriam Ralph Towner)

Groenlandia

MARCOS VENICIUS 

 

 

 

 

 

AROEIRA

 

 

AMORIM

 

 

Perfume Genius - Your Body Changes Everything

Your body changes everything
You are anchoring
Until you fit beneath me
And you're breaking like a wave

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Davos

 

 "Trump landed a deflated man. During his nearly incoherent speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump looked morose and sounded peevish. The words slurred, the fraying sentences trailing off into the ether. His insults lacked fire and punch. He rambled aimlessly. His cognitive decline, never a fall from alpine heights to begin with, was on full public display.

Was this the fearsome tyrant, so many had trembled in obeisance before? He looked like an old man, frail in body, infirm in mind. Not the new Sun King of his cult-stoked fantasies, but a patriarch deep into his autumn, struggling to find the words for retreat. Trump’s strategy (if you can call it that) for cultivating more enemies than friends was always doomed to backfire on him. The only question was how long it would take and how many he’d drag down with him. "

READ ARTICLE BY JEFFREY ST, CLAIR 

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Davos - CounterPunch.org

“Trump’s” This, “Trump’s” That, “Trump’s….and a Telling Truth (or Two)

"The FakeUSA is a religious state. Its highest holy is unrestrained scheming for private profits. The church alternates between two choirs which are funded by the monetarily-obsessed elites of the church who are quickly bored by and resentful of any voices which have redeeming, unscripted and genuine qualities and which do not help drown-out the tormented cries of the prey – whose consumption is mandated by the greed-filled desperate elites. Trump is the latest choirmaster and his effectiveness is reflected in the passions and smugness of both choirs. He out-Bushes the Bushes and he out-Obamas the Obamas and he proudly knows he has achieved a level of honest indifference to rampant suffering – in the name of monetary impunity – which his predecessors and congresses had long been striving towards. He also knows that it is the passions of both his supporters and his (supposed) opponents which reinforce the falsehood of his fake individualism. THEY make him extraordinary and they both foolishly help make his democrat and republican enablers appear as if they are to varying degrees more respectably reticent and hapless. They mistake cynicism and compliance as a sign of wisdom. Cravenness flourishes among the voters as they proudly eschew integrity in favor of what they misguidedly grasp at as pragmatism (which is, in reality, a devotion to can-kicking and lint-picking for the benefit of the greediest predators)."

more in the article by CLARKE SCOTT 

 “Trump’s” This, “Trump’s” That, “Trump’s….and a Telling Truth (or Two) - CounterPunch.org

The Donroe Doctrine is a Recipe for Two, Three... Many Iraqs

 "This is the real reason why the Donald isn’t so quick to shove a Washington snitch like Maria Machado into the presidential palace. He’s gaming on making another one of his infamous scumfuck deals with the same military brass he calls a cartel in hopes that they can convince the lower ranks to put down their gats while he siphons off the gas supply. It’s a big fucking gamble and he better pray it pays off because otherwise he has painted his ass into a corner with more than just Venezuelan crude. Latin America is one big Molotov cocktail that’s been ready to blow since the Conquistadors lit it to fire the rise the First World with the fuel of the Third and I’m not the first lunatic to eyeball that flame with a flicker of rambunctious hope either."

read article by NICKY REID  

The Donroe Doctrine is a Recipe for Two, Three... Many Iraqs - CounterPunch.org

Sidney Bechet - Blue Horizon

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Did Hunter S. Thompson really kill himself?

  

"For decades, Owl Farm was Hunter S. Thompson’s lair, the place where he wrote, drank and drugged, entertained celebrities, shot guns at all hours, commanded his quixotic campaign for sheriff in 1970 and, finally, on a snowy Sunday evening in February 2005, died in front of his IBM Selectric typewriter from a single gunshot to the head.

The next day, a doctor conducted an autopsy and reported, “the injuries were consistent with the reported self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

“Case status is Closed/noncriminal,” the chief investigator for the county sheriff’s department wrote to close out his report.

That’s where things seemed destined to remain, until quite recently."

READ LONG REPORT BY TIM ARANGO

 

 

 

ALVO

DALCIO MACHADO

 

Cristina Buarque* | Flor da Lapa (César Brasil e Wilson Baptista)

Foi a flor mais perfumada
Teve a lapa noturna a seus pés
Iludiu gigolôs
Arruinou coronéis
Carrega hoje um enorme desgosto
Foge sempre do espelho
Pra não ver a verdade no rosto

The whole world saw Trump's cognitive collapse today

 

 

"Today, as the navy curtains parted, Trump emerged into view, confused, slow to react, like he wasn’t sure whether he was walking into a meeting or waking up from one. His arms hung awkwardly at his sides. His legs were rigid and slightly bent, like he didn’t know how far to walk or what direction he was supposed to go. His shoulders were hunched forward, his mouth was open as he struggled to take full breaths, and his eyes stared eerily forward, wide, blank, and unblinking. He didn’t seem aware of where he was or that he was once again stepping in front of the world’s leading business and government leaders.

Within minutes of the image being posted on social media, people identifying as healthcare workers were commenting under it. One said, “Those are dementia eyes. As a healthcare worker, I know them well.” Another posted, “I’ve worked in dementia care for 4 solid years; Jan 2018 to Dec 2021, I recognise a dementia patient, when I see a dementia patient, and I SEE A DEMENTIA PATIENT. He is standing there lost, bewildered & utterly confused!” Someone else added, “That is literally how my 86-year-old mother stands. She’s had multiple mini strokes. She walks hunched over and she wears diapers. I love her, but I would not let her near the White House.”"

MORE INTHE STACK BY HEATHER DELANEY REESE 

The whole world saw Trump's cognitive collapse today

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O agente está na moda

BRASI_LEILA

 

 

 

NANDO MOTTA

 

 

KLEBER

 

 

Grateful Dead - 08 - Mexicali Blues

Is there anything a man don't stand to lose,
When the devil wants to take it all away?
Cherish well your thoughts, and keep a tight grip on your booze
Cause thinkin' and drinkin' are all I have today.

IN MEMORIAM BOB WEIR

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'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' What Happened?

 

 

"When I heard that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was telling a smaller tale about one character in a single location, I was intrigued. Based on Martin’s Dunk & Egg novellas, this story has no dragons, no magic, and no zipping back-and-forth across Westeros. It sounded like the perfect solution to two of the streaming industry’s largest problems: 1/ Every entertainment company wants universes of IP until they realize that scale does not easily translate into TV, and 2/ No showrunner can predict how much they can or cannot deviate from the source material and still hold their fanbase intact. So, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms took a knife to both and tried something brave by trimming the dragon fat. If it didn’t work, it’s only six episodes. But from the first forty minutes, it feels like the first story in this franchise that’s finally free."

read review by Josh Rosenberg 

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' Episode 1 Recap: What Happened?

If Trump’s deportation machine were an army

 Jeffrey St. Clair >

 
+ Sarah Lazare, In These Times: “If Trump’s deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th most heavily funded on earth. This puts it above the militaries of Australia and Canada, and just below Israel’s. This force is invading US cities, yet depicting itself as the victim.”

+ ICE agents are dressing up as utility workers in Oregon to spy on and gain access to people’s houses. In response, NW Natural Gas issued a public notice about how to identify its employees and contractors in the field.

+ New detention data published by ICE this week brings the current population to a record high of 68,990, with 92% of the growth since May driven by immigrants with no criminal convictions. A week into the new year and there’s already been a death in ICE detention. 

 

 

 

I'm Glad - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

When you first came round I was sad
My head hung down I felt really bad
Now I'm glad, glad about the good times that we've had

Walked in the park
Kissed in the dark

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Nick Lowe - "Jet Pac Boomerang"

Each time I quit I get nowhere fast
She works some kind of magic until at last
She's got me running back
Like a jet pac boomerang

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Dilbert sempre foi MAGA

 

 

"Como judeu de uma cidade liberal da Costa Leste, fui privado de ter um tio "Maga" —acrônimo de "Make America Great Again", lema usado por republicanos e apoiadores do presidente americano Donald Trump— com quem discutir.

Para consertar isso, fui atrás de Scott Adams, o cartunista de "Dilbert", amplamente bem-sucedido e sindicalizado que, por volta de 2017, havia declarado apoio a Donald Trump e reunido uma comunidade online que destilava fúria contra as elites progressistas presunçosas."

LEIA REPORTAGEM DE JOEL STEIN  

 

 

 

 

 

ICE has killed before and will kill again.

 

 

JEFFREY ST, CLAIR}

In the last year, ICE agents have fired shots at least 15 times, killing four people. They shot at people trying to warn them of children in the area of their raids and they shot people running away from them. They shot people in a very similar way that they shot Renee Good: while they were in their cars, driving away and then blamed them for trying to run over ICE officers. On September 3, an ICE agent shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican national, after dropping his daughter off at pre-school. ICE originally said that Villegas-Gonzalez was shot after he tried to run over an ICE agent, who DHS claimed had been severely wounded. Then, a video of the incident recorded the voice of the officer grazed by Villegas-Gonzalez’s car saying his injury was “nothing major.” Another video showed that Villegas-Gonzalez was driving away from the ICE officers, not toward them. DHS tried to smear Villegas-Gonzalez as a dangerous criminal with a “history of reckless driving.” But a new report by NBC News Chicago shows that he had never been convicted or even charged with a crime.

On October 4, an immigration agent shot Marimar Martinez five times while the 30-year-old teaching assistant and US citizen was driving around the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, warning residents of an impending ICE raid. The Border Patrol officer who shot Martinez pulled up beyond her car and shouted, “Do something, bitch!,” as he aimed his assault rifle at her. He later bragged about the shooting in a text message to fellow agents: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” The agents falsely claimed that Martinez had tried to ram them with her car and arrested the seriously wounded woman. The charges against her were later dismissed.

A day after the Minneapolis shootings, Border Patrol agents in Portland shot two people, a man and a woman, during a traffic stop in the parking of a medical center complex. Once again they claimed they had tried to use the vehicle as a weapon, although both of them couldn’t have been driving at the same time. DHS also claimed both were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, though they offered no evidence to buttress the charge. The couple, who are reportedly married, escaped on foot and were later taken by Portland to a hospital. The man was shot twice and the woman suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. Portland’s Mayor, Keith Wilson, called for ICE and Border Patrol to leave the city, saying “Portland isn’t a training ground for militarized agents.”

So in the course of two days, Trump’s immigration shock troops shot a mother of three and a married couple.

These kinds of raids, while shocking to most Americans, are familiar to many immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, countries still haunted by the death squads funded, armed and trained by the CIA. Horrors that they fled and have now reappeared like ghosts from the past here on the streets of Chicago and Minneapolis and Los Angeles. They know all too well that collateral damage is a feature of all paramilitaries. 

 

Grateful Dead - The Music Never Stopped

There's mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds

It's been hot for seven weeks now,

Too hot to even speak now, Did you hear what I just heard?

Say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind

But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now

Listen here it comes again!

IN MEMORIAM BOB WEIR

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‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency

 

 

"The photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she looks back at the ‘fearlessness and wildness’ of her life and times."

SEE THE GALLERY  

‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures | Nan Goldin | The Guardian

 

 

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What Is ‘Pluribus’ Really About?

 

 

"‘Pluribus’ is about the end of the world. It’s also about right now. Here are nine theories for what Vince Gilligan’s new show is trying to tell us about the state of our reality. "

 read analysis by Helena Hunt:

What Is ‘Pluribus’ Really About? - The Ringer

GILMAR

 

 

 

 

 

Sidney Gusman escreve álbum autobiográfico em que lembra fins de semana com o pai: 'Foi libertador'

 

 

 PorTélio Navega

 Muita gente gostaria de ver a vida acontecer como um dia de domingo. Sidney Gusman que o diga. Conhecido como jornalista especializado em quadrinhos e, depois, como editor de títulos do gênero — como os da série Graphic MSP, da Mauricio de Sousa Produções —, ele acaba de lançar pela editora Pipoca & Nanquim sua primeira HQ autoral de fôlego: “Domingos”. Com roteiro do próprio Sidão — como é carinhosamente conhecido — e arte de Jefferson Costa, o trabalho é extremamente pessoal e presta homenagem ao pai do autor, que dá nome ao álbum.

— A ideia surgiu em 2018 — explica Sidão, desligado recentemente da MSP, depois de 20 anos de trabalho na empresa como editor de livros. — Eu andava sonhando bastante com meu pai e, num dia, a caminho do trabalho, lembrei que ele, já falecido havia oito anos, tinha nascido e morrido num domingo.

.No embalo das lembranças, Sidão percebeu que muitos dos grandes momentos que viveu com Seu Domingos aconteceram em um domingo, dia em que a família costumava se reunir para longos almoços ou simplesmente para assistir aos jogos de futebol na TV. Ele apresenta no livro 18 dessas memórias, em histórias tocantes e de fácil identificação para o leitor. Coube a Jefferson Costa — premiado com o Jabuti por “Jeremias: Pele”, com roteiro de Rafael Calça — transformar as recordações do amigo em imagens, como se também as tivesse vivido naquela casa do bairro da Mooca, em São Paulo, praticamente um personagem do álbum.

A ideia de colocar suas recordações afetivas no papel, porém, ainda demorou a sair do papel: Sidão não queria terminar o livro com a morte do pai. Até que, no ano seguinte, em 2019, o jornalista — que tem Domingos como nome do meio — recebeu uma boa notícia que lhe permitiu fechar o álbum com chave de ouro, de forma positiva, mas sem spoiler, claro.

— Agora eu só precisava arrumar tempo e vergonha na cara para tirar esse projeto da gaveta — admite, rindo. — Até que, três anos depois, quando já estávamos saindo da pandemia, tive um apagamento de memória. Foi quando decidi que precisava fazer algo para mim.

O susto vivido por Sidão e sua família, com o episódio de amnésia diagnosticado posteriormente como consequência do excesso de trabalho, foi o estopim para reduzir a marcha e pensar mais em si mesmo:

— Eu tinha acabado de voltar da Bienal do Livro de São Paulo, em 2022, e, em casa, ao escovar os dentes, vi uma tatuagem provisória no meu punho direito e não lembrava de tê-la feito.

Sidão perguntou então à mulher que brincadeira era aquela. Ao que ela respondeu, de pronto: você fez uma tatuagem.

— Ela me perguntou onde estavam nossas filhas, e eu não soube responder, embora tivesse saído para levá-las ao aeroporto, para uma viagem. Daí pensei: fodeu, tive um derrame — lembra, aflito. — Corri para o hospital e fiquei oito horas acordado, de tanta adrenalina, mesmo com as tentativas de me fazer dormir. Eu não lembrava de nada, via meus vídeos nas redes sociais e dizia para meu filho que não tinha vivido aquilo. Até que, do nada, eu voltei, felizmente.

O autor diz que escrever algo como “Domingos”, com momentos ternos — como assistir, ainda adolescente, ao pai ganhar uma pelada — ou tensos, como a birra de Seu Domingos diante da paixão do filho por quadrinhos, foi libertador.

— Eu já havia feito quadrinhos corporativos, uma história para o fanzine “Manicomics” e outra para o álbum “Ouro da casa” — explica. — Mas eram coisas curtas. Escrever algo tão pessoal, para alguém como eu, um cara tão reservado nas redes sociais, foi catártico. Abri muito meu coração. No entanto, precisava colocar isso para fora. E, por ser autobiográfico, tinha de transmitir a verdade a quem lesse.

Sidão chega a se emocionar ao relatar algumas das reações dos leitores ao livro:

— Tem pessoas que encontram coincidências com a história. Outras dizem que tiveram um pai de merda, mas adoraram o quadrinho e querem ser para os filhos o pai que eu sou para os meus, e aquele que Seu Domingos foi para mim. 

O GLOBO 

 

 

 

Morre Scott Adams, criador da tirinha 'Dilbert', aos 68 anos

 

 

"Por mais de 30 anos, “Dilbert” retratou os absurdos do ambiente de trabalho no setor de tecnologia e satirizou a gestão corporativa. O personagem-título era um engenheiro frustrado que trabalhava em uma baia de escritório em uma empresa de alta tecnologia, enquanto seu animal de estimação antropomórfico e inteligente, Dogbert, sonhava em dominar o mundo. Outros personagens incluíam os colegas de Dilbert, Alice, Asok e Wally; o atrapalhado chefe de cabelo pontudo; e Catbert, o gato de pelagem vermelha e chefe maligno de recursos humanos.

No auge, “Dilbert” era distribuído para cerca de 2 mil jornais em todo o mundo, colocando-se no mesmo patamar de outras tiras populares, como “Peanuts”, “Doonesbury” e “Garfield”. Adams também publicou numerosas coletâneas de “Dilbert” e escreveu livros de negócios, incluindo “The Dilbert Principle”, que sustenta que “os trabalhadores mais ineficazes são sistematicamente promovidos para o lugar onde podem causar menos danos, a gerência”. 

 Ao longo dos anos, Adams fez comentários sobre mulheres e judeus que lhe trouxeram repercussão negativa fora do universo do cartunista popular. Ele usou seu podcast, “Real Coffee With Scott Adams”, para comentar livremente as notícias, uma plataforma que acabou levando à queda de “Dilbert”. Em fevereiro de 2023, ao comentar uma pesquisa do instituto Rasmussen Reports que mostrava que apenas 53% dos americanos negros concordavam com a frase “não há problema em ser branco”, expressão promovida por supremacistas brancos segundo a Liga Antidifamação, Adams disse que, se quase metade dos negros não concordava com isso, então eles formariam um “grupo de ódio”. Em seguida, afirmou que o melhor conselho para pessoas brancas seria “ficar longe de pessoas negras”.

leia obit por RICHARD SANDOMIR

 

 

Cognitive Test

 

 

 

MATT WUERKER

Joe Cocker - Bye Bye Blackbird (1969)

No one here can love or understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed, light my light, I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye

Steve miller & milt Jackson – born to be blue (mel torme)

Some folks were meant to live in clover But they are such a chosen few And clovers being green Is something I've never seen 'Cause I was born to be blue

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MIMIMI

AROEIRA

 

 

BRUNO AZIZ

 

 

 

  

NANDO MOTTA

 

 

Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia / Scarlet Begonias / Fire On The Mountain...

IN MEMORIAM BOB WEIR

Sugar Magnolia blossoms blooming
Head's all empty and I don't care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air

Pra Quem Sabe Dar Valor - Carmen Miranda e Carlos Galhardo 1933

- Amor, representa uma riqueza
P'rá quem sabe dar valor
o amor é a nobreza!

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Códigos de conduta

LAERTE

 

Elie Mystal

 In News Unrelated to the Current Chaos

Earth’s oceans once again shattered heat records last year. It’s difficult to understand just how much extra heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. Here’s how Hawaii-based reporter Jeremy Yurow put it: “The amount of heat the oceans soaked up last year is difficult to comprehend: 23 zettajoules more than 2024. That’s roughly the same amount of energy the entire world uses in 37 years.”

That’s 37 years of Earth’s total energy output being sunk into our oceans in one year.

People will die: Hotter oceans lead to worse storms.

People will starve: Hotter oceans kill coral reefs, which devastates coastal fishing.

People will drown: Hotter oceans lead to more ice melting and rising sea levels.

Oh, and at some unknown tipping point, desalinated ice water will interrupt the Gulf Coast current and turn coastal North America, which is heated by warm water coming up from the Gulf OF MEXICO, into an icebox.

But none of this will bother Elon Musk or any of the tech bros who are consuming as much power as possible to produce AI-generated child porn. None of this will bother Joe Manchin or any of the coal bros who make billions off of greenhouse gas–producing power. None of this will bother Donald Trump, who can’t blame rising sea temperatures on Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

This should be urgent news, but nobody in power in our country is doing a damn thing to stop it. That’s why I’ve classed this unmitigated existential horror as  “unrelated to the current chaos.” It’s not even a real issue to the people with the political power to do anything about it.

Like I said, I’m pretty gripped by despair right now. I’m part of a failed party, a failed country, and a failed species. No matter how wide I open the aperture of the lens to let the light in, everything appears bleak.

I won’t give up, though. I have children. I have to properly model “fighting despite unwinnable odds,” because that is going to be their whole life.

Worst Argument of the Week

ELIE MYSTAL

Donald Trump gave an interview to The New York Times in which he talked about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I’ll just quote him: “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university to college.… So I would say in that way, I think it was unfair in certain cases.”

And, there’s more: “I think it was also, at the same time, it accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people—people that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job. So it was, it was a reverse discrimination.”

You don’t have to be an expert in white supremacy to understand the core animus Trump is expressing here: White people “deserve” jobs, opportunities, and anything else they want. Non-white people do not. Any non-white person who holds a position holds it at the expense of some more deserving white person, and that is “unfair” to the white person.

Folks, that’s MAGA. That’s Trumpism. That’s the whole freaking reason Trump has been part of our lives for a decade, right there. Any explanation or analysis that seeks to explain Trump without understanding his core racial beliefs, and how popular those racial beliefs are with his racist fans, fails its first contact with reality.

White folks like Trump will never accept equality. They will always see a non-white person as less deserving than a similarly situated white person. All Trump has done is expose that there are more white people who are like Trump than white people would have you believe.

Most white Democrats are still struggling with what to do with this information. But I’ve had 10 years to process it, and I’ve come to one overarching conclusion: fuck ’em. If a majority of whites will not accept equality, then the majority of whites must be defeated by everybody else.

It’s that simple. It’s always been that simple. A majority of whites have never accepted equality. They’ll never like it. But they can be forced to deal with it. NATION

In ICE Cold Blood

Jeffrey St. Clair

Many of the people who have spent the last five years denouncing the killing of Ashli Babbitt for raiding the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election are celebrating the murder of Renee Nichole Good, a terrified mother killed by masked men from unmarked cars who chased her down a neighborhood street and shot her in the face.

At 9:30 on Wednesday morning, Renee Good was sitting in her Honda Pilot, with her life partner and dog, on Portland Avenue in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, when two unmarked cars approached her. Good waved her hand, signaling for the unmarked cars to go around her. Instead, they stopped.  Masked men got out. Good told them: “I’m pulling out.”

As two of the men advanced near her maroon Pilot, one of them told her to “Move, move, move,” while the other shouted, “Get out of the fucking car.” These contradictory instructions are a frequent tactic, since, however you respond, you violate one of the orders, and offer an excuse for escalation.

One of the masked men tried to open the passenger door and reach through the window toward Good. Another of the agents walked casually around Renee’s SUV holding his cellphone above his shoulders, filming the encounter, as many ICEmen have been ordered to do by DHS so the agency and the White House can use the footage for social media propaganda. This is the man who would moments later shoot Good. Good put her car in reverse, backed up a little, then pulled forward slowly, turning away from the masked ICE agent who was slightly in front of her. He moves out of the way, almost casually. As the officer who would kill her seconds later stood outside the window of her Honda, Good said, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you. Then the officer dropped his cellphone, grabbed his gun, fired three shots into Good’s car, hitting her in the face, and grunted, “Fuckin’ bitch.”

As she slumped forward, her foot reflexively pressed down on the accelerator and the car lurched forward, hitting a parked car and a light pole a few yards down the street, where it came to a rest. Her partner was heard screaming, “They’ve killed my wife! “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do. They shot her in the head.”

A bystander who witnessed the shooting rushed forward to help, but was stopped by an ICE agent. The man said he was a doctor and could render medical aid to the woman who was shot. The ICE agent responded brusquely: “I don’t care,” and ordered him to stay back. Fifteen minutes passed until an ambulance pulled onto Portland Avenue. But it was blocked from coming to Good’s aid by ICE vehicles. Finally, two paramedics trekked through the snow to the scene of the shooting, where they tried to treat Good’s fatal wounds. She was later pronounced dead at Hennepin Hospital.

Before her blood was even dry, the President and his henchmen had smeared this bright young woman, this mother and poet, as a domestic terrorist, as an attempted assassin, as a leftist thug. They smeared her before knowing anything about her, what she’d done that day, how she lived her life, who she loved and cared for, what her friends and neighbors and colleagues thought of her. To Trump and his minions, she was an obstacle, someone standing in the way and, therefore, someone who deserved whatever she got, even if it was a bullet in the face.

Now the FBI is blocking Minnesota law enforcement officials from analyzing evidence from the shooting. You wonder why they bother. What is there to hide? 

The murder of Renee Good happened in plain sight. We’ve all seen it from various angles. There was no one in front of Good’s car when she pulled out. No one was run over. The shots were fired from the side, not the front of her Honda. The ICE agent shot her and he walked away. He didn’t limp. He didn’t flinch in pain. He simply walked away. He didn’t seek treatment from the paramedics on the scene. Or show any wounds to his fellow agents. He just walked away.  He walked around the scene for three minutes. Then he got in a car and left. (The Intercept identified the alleged shooter as Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent based in St. Paul.) Renee Good was denied medical care and left to bleed out in her car. There’s nothing left to cover up.

Renee Nicole Good. Photo: Old Dominion University English Department/Facebook.

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