Read this thread if you want an insight into what a huge chunk of the pro-Israel bloc in the US thinks is happening

At Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.

You're for this or you're against this. There's no middle here.

Yo Antonio!

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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🔴 Several of the US & Israeli officials now shaping Gaza’s postwar governance were previously central to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the Financial Times reports. The failed aid scheme facilitated the daily killings of starving Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, and brought famine to Gaza...

It frustrates me that in between the Soundies of the 40s and the Rock & Roll films of the mid-late 50s, there’s a massive gap in non-crossover Black artists on film, and that gap neatly coincides with the birth of rock & roll. Like it’s crazy to me that there’s no film of Wynonie Harris performing!

Facing the new semester?This teaching issue is full of resources, ideas, inspiration, experience, and expertise ⬇️

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The Miracles

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

Here it is. The Top 25 Mixes of 2025. Thanks for reading! michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc156-beat...

Coming in early 2026 on 64 Quartets: the Wire story is (briefly) taken over by "the band that we felt in England we had most in common with" (Graham Lewis).

Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943. “Wake up and fight.”

Alana Lentin

“Communication Breakdown” by Roy Orbison was a US #60 hit in 1967. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #royorbison #EveryHitSongEver

Open Access link: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

On shoegaze: ‘The volume on all those guitars was meant to shut the world out, to create a safe space behind high, thick walls of sound. And it seemed to carry no broader message, or social force: it wasn’t necessarily anything except its musical self. Till now.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

Genocide-backing NYT

Scholasticide

"Black and brown communities are turned into 'sacrifice zones.'" "It's all by design. Powered by colonialism, extractivism, and industrial-scale theft." "If you are going to come in to my community, and you are going to harm my neighbors, fuck off." #USA #Climate #Protest #Technology

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The editors of the classic sound studies blog Sounding Out! have put together a reader featuring past work from the blog, and it'll be out in 2026! Lots of incredible contributors in there, and I'm very proud to be part of it. nyupress.org/978147983804...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Nightmare fuel

Should assign this for students next year

Cover of the day: from December 1973, a London Borough of Hillingdon consultation document on road improvements in Hayes. A great shot of the EMI factory, which dominates the scene.

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