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

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+ 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."

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‘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

 

 

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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