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JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
+ That Demosthenes of the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon, has reversed himself on the Iran war and is now, as Gen. David Petraeus said to his lover/biographer, “all in:” “President Trump’s in. We’re in, too. We’re gonna go back and re-do what Alexander the Great did 2,300 years ago.” The image of Trump as Alexander is worthy of a cartoon by Gary Larson or R. Crumb. Imagine the size of the crane necessary to hoist Trump’s gargantuan girth onto the back of poor Bucephalus, the world’s most famous war horse.
After Alexander’s army subdued Persepolis, the spiritual capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire for more than two centuries, he ordered the ancient city annihilated, in a reenactment of the genocidal destruction of Melos during the Peloponnesian War–a shocking act of depravity that many of Alexander’s admirers in the manosophere of the classical age, desperate to portray him as an enlightened despot, a philosopher king, blamed on a woman, a courtesan named Thaīs. Thaîs, a hetaira from Athens, was, along with Alexander’s childhood friend and lover Hesphastion, the Macedonian warlord’s most intimate companion during his rampages across Asia Minor and the Subcontinent. According to the Greek historian Cleitarchus, a near contemporary of Alexander, Thaīs instigated the destruction of Persepolis, claiming that she used her erotic charms to seduce the young tyrant into burning the capital in revenge for Xerxes’s destruction of Athens in 480 BCE, one hundred and fifty years before Alexander’s army routed Darius and ended the Achaemenid dynasty.
The historian Diodorus Siculus reprised Cleitarchus’ misogynistic account in 80 BCE, at a time when Julius Caesar was beginning to view himself as Alexander reincarnate: “It was most remarkable that the impious act of Xerxes, king of the Persians, against the acropolis at Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport.”
The truth is that Alexander almost certainly burned the city himself “in sport” and probably drunk, as was his violent custom. The burning of Persepolis was less about revenge for past wrongs than a brutal warning to other cities and empires that might resist against Macedonian hegemony. Alexander and his father, Philip II, had burned plenty of Greek cities in their conquest of Greece. Philip razed Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira and Alexander demolished Thebes. Later, the boy tyrant would burn and loot his way across the Levant, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and India. It’s what being a “world conqueror” is all about, as the Romans showed when they destroyed Carthage in 146 BCE and, according to legend if not fact, sowed the ground with salt so that the Punic capital could never again rise to threaten the Empire.
I’ve always been drawn to the theory that Aristotle, one of the first mycologists, arranged the assassination of Alexander of Macedon by shipping poisonous mushrooms, with detailed instructions on how to prepare them, to Babylon, after the great ethicist witnessed in horror what a genocidal psychopath his former student had become, after the burning of Persepolis and the murder in a drunken rage of his friend Cleitus the Black, who had saved his life at the crucial Battle of Granicus.
After Alexander’s death, Aristotle was chased out of the Lyceum by Athenians, who were now free to vent their anger against anyone associated with the heavy-handed hegemon from Pella. Apparently, the Athenians were unimpressed by the claims that AlexanderThaīs incinerated Persepolis on their behalf. and with good reason because the Macedonians had, in fact, allied themselves with Xerxes during the second Persian invasion and the sacking of Athens. (As for Thais, she didn’t return to Athens, but instead married Alexander’s leading general, Ptolemy, moved to Alexandria and gave birth to the dynasty that would rule Egypt until Octavian and Marius defeated Cleopatra and Marc Antony at Actium in 30 BCE.)
Saying he fled Athens to prevent Athenians from “sinning twice against philosophy” (ie, killing him after having executed Socrates), Aristotle spent the last year of his life on his mother’s old estate in Chalcis, where he died at 67 of a mysterious stomach ailment in 322 BCE. (Was he poisoned in retaliation for poisoning Alexander?)
The text of Aristotle’s remarkable will, which is clearer than any written by an estate lawyer these days, was preserved by two Muslim scholars (Al Garib and Ishaq bin Hunayn), who chose to record and translate the last testament of the conqueror’s teacher. It’s highly unlikely the Christians would have done the same. In fact, in 392, Theophilius of Alexandria, a Bishop of the Christian Church, destroyed the Serapeum and urged Christian mobs to ransack the last Neo-Platonist school in the city and murder its leader, Hypatia, one of the first (that we know of) female philosophers and mathematicians.
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E quando toca o tambor
É festa, eu canto, eu danço
E quando toca o tambor
Acende a esperança
"Não é só, nem principalmente, o resultado da pesquisa. A gente vê que esse governo não empolga. Tem pouco que possa apresentar diante do eleitorado para pedir um novo mandato. Podemos atribuir a muitas circunstâncias externas, da situação mundial à herança do governo Bolsonaro e à correlação de forças interna. Mas seria preciso um eleitorado muito politizado para colocar tudo isso devidamente na equação. E esse eleitorado politizado pensaria também se não faltou vontade política para o enfrentamento de muitas destas questões – se, paralisado por sua política de frente desmesuradamente ampla, o governo não se acomodou ao quase nada que lhe era permitido fazer."
leia a análise de LUIS FELIPE MIGUEL

Art and culture have long enabled us to confront dispossession, assert identity, and resist erasure by colonization and now genocide. Cultural resistance emerged amidst pervasive repression, becoming essential to our attempts to preserve and assert our narrative.

"Em seu segundo mandato, Trump parece ainda menos contido e mais incoerente às vezes. Ele usa mais palavrões, fala por mais tempo e regularmente faz comentários com base em fantasia em vez de fatos. Ele continua dizendo que seu pai nasceu na Alemanha quando, na verdade, nasceu no Bronx, em Nova York. Ele repete uma história inventada sobre seu tio, professor do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts, contando-lhe sobre ter ensinado o terrorista conhecido como Unabomber.
Ele divaga em tangentes estranhas —uma divagação de 8 minutos em uma recepção de Natal sobre cobras venenosas no Peru, uma longa digressão durante uma reunião de gabinete sobre canetas Sharpie, uma interrupção de uma atualização sobre a guerra com o Irã para elogiar as cortinas da Casa Branca.
Ele confundiu a Groenlândia com a Islândia e mais de uma vez se gabou de ter encerrado uma guerra fictícia entre Camboja e Armênia, dois países separados por quase 6.500 quilômetros.
Mesmo antes de atacar o papa Leão 14 no domingo à noite, e depois postar uma imagem de si mesmo como uma figura semelhante a Jesus antes de deletá-la, Trump havia chocado muitos com suas explosões contra críticos."
"Why the hell is she doing this right now? Nobody asked her. Nobody forced the issue. The Epstein noise had actually been dying down. Trump launched a war with Iran — critics allege partly to drown out the DOJ’s catastrophically inept release of the Epstein files — and the MAGA machine had, for a hot second, moved on. So why is the First Lady suddenly at the podium with the energy of someone who just checked their phone and did not like what they saw?
The answer, if you follow the thread, is a 41-year-old Brazilian woman currently sitting in Brazil — furious, freshly deported, with 23 years of receipts — who, the day before Melania’s presser, posted on social media that she was about to blow the entire thing up.
Her name is Amanda Ungaro. And before we get to her, we need to talk about the man who connects every single dot in this story. "
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"Because he doesn’t have to sell it. Because he knows the cult will believe whatever the fuck he says. He knows it doesn’t matter that it’s ridiculous on its face. It doesn’t matter that no one on the planet is dumb enough to believe he thought that was a doctor. Nobody actually believes he looked at that image and thought “doctor.” No one. Not one person with a pulse and a partially functioning cerebrum. It doesn’t matter that a plastic houseplant wouldn’t buy it, that RFK Jr.’s dead brain worm would perform immediate seppuku rather than co-sign that level of stupidity."
read stack by jojo from jerz
O seu requebrado é falsificado
Ritmo que é bom você também não tem
Dá paralisia toda vez que vai ao samba
Fica de perna bamba e não convence ninguém
This is a world destruction, your life ain't nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.
Not giving a damn about the people who live.
"As animações com o uso de Lego viralizaram, especialmente no Tik Tok e no X.
Elas são atribuídas ao cartunista Mahdi Hemmat, que é de origem iraniana e vive nos Estados Unidos.
É uma produção sofisticada, que vem
acompanhada de versos em rap que descrevem Donald Trump como um mitômano
de dedos pequenos e gordurosos, a serviço de Benjamin Netanyahu."
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History’s cattiest warmonger, Donald Trump, continues to publicly dangle a US invasion of Cuba, the island nation that his administration has been strangling to death with a brutal, months-long energy blockade.
“We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” Trump said Monday – meaning once his disastrous war in Iran actually ends.
It was an insane moment, as Trump stood next to a woman wearing a “DoorDash grandma” shirt for a corporate White House photo-op. (At the same event, Trump claimed he had only mistakenly committed blasphemy when he posted an image depicting himself as Jesus, because he thought it was “me as a doctor.”)
This isn’t the first time the president has threatened to invade Cuba. It’s not even the first time he’s made this threat during the US-Israeli war in Iran, which is throttling the global economy. “Cuba is going to be next,” Trump said two weeks ago.
It would be one thing if President Trump were only mouthing off for the cameras. He’s not.
In recent days, according to two sources familiar with the situation and another person briefed on it, officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US government were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House. The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba.
Você bem sabe
Eu sou um rapaz de bem
E a minha onda é do vai e vem


IN MEMORIAM ALVIN L
Todos eles querem
Fama, poder
Dinheiro e diamantes
Flashes excitantes
E ela nadando
Em lava fervendo
E ela entrando
Em erupção
Ninguém pra ligar e dizer onde estouNinguém pra ir comigo onde eu vouPor outro ladoNinguém pra abaixar o volumeNinguém pra reclamar dos pratos sujosNinguém pra fingir que eu não amo
I don't like walking around this old and empty houseSo hold my hand, I'll walk with you my dearThe stairs creak as you sleepIt's keeping me awake
A ascensão da extrema direita no mundo é filha das redes sociais —eis uma verdade que, se ainda não foi provada cientificamente, acredito que logo será.
Quando explodiu de vez, perto da virada do século, a internet vinha embalada em fumos humanistas de biblioteca universal e plataforma democrática de informação e voz para todos. Quem se lembra?
Era um progressismo vago que não negava a origem pós-hippie do Vale do Silício. Seu teor de ingenuidade era elevado. A internet permitia fazer coisas antes impensáveis, mas aquele otimismo inicial padecia de um grave viés do bem.
O sonho era que, tendo subitamente acesso imediato a toda a informação disponível na Terra, cada pessoa teria a chance de desenvolver ao máximo seu potencial humano e comunitário.
Os seres humanos se tornariam mais sábios e, devido ao debate permanente de suas sabedorias na ágora imaterial —sempre com a vitória do melhor argumento—, infinitamente ponderados na média.
Corta para o presidente dos EUA anunciando em rede social: "Uma civilização inteira morrerá esta noite". Opa, parece que alguma coisa deu errado, não? Convém voltar algumas casas.
Sim, é óbvio que a internet nunca foi um empreendimento humanitário —aquela era só uma das histórias que ela contava sobre si mesma. Nova fronteira de negócios basicamente privados, logo começava a bombar.
Ao lado da biblioteca e da sala de aula que os idealistas trataram de transferir para o mundo digital, transferiram-se também partes menos nobres e mais rentáveis do empreendimento humano.
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