Stock up on popcorn. You can help it fulfill its potential and achieve its destiny, passing through what the faithful kernels call “The Rupture” via whatever device you use until they can truly say “We are risen!” (Only a few get left behind.) […]
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Democracy itself is at stake. Not just here but in Ukraine — and, indeed, throughout Europe. The fight against fascism here in the States and the war in Ukraine have a clear connection. Success for either depends on success for both. […] Michelle Obama chose, with great dignity, to speak about black history, and specifically to highlight one telling, little-known, and rarely mentioned historical fact: That slave labor helped build the White House where she and her family reside today. This was Michelle Obama’s historical moment, searing itself into the national consciousness with the same fire that blazed in Beyoncé’s Super Bowl “Formation” performance. Carefully calibrated for the occasion, surely, but just as potent in its own way. […] I skipped the the first nine Republic Party debates. They have scheduled a stupefying total of twelve; from what I’ve glimpsed, if projected in order as an endless loop they could make good on Donald Trump’s threat, if elected, to go “beyond waterboarding” in the “War on Terror.” […] |
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Election 2024: Image World (11)
I truly thought we would put Trump and what he represents on the shelf with other short-lived American examples of “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” His comeback signifies that, instead, he represents something enduring and evil in our collective unconscious. […]