M Tuman

The Hidden DH Lawrence (Routledge Oct 2024); other lit studies of family trauma include The Sensitive Son (2019) & The Stuttering Son (2022). NO Pelicans

[M Tuman @mctuman]

A new look at & a new appreciation of a lyrical genius!
https://t.co/4pVQL31NgB

[The Compass Report 🧭 @Compass_Report]

"DON'T GIVE THEM ANY MONEY. THAT'S THE MONEY AGAINST US."

Selma James is 95. Jewish. And she remembers her mother's words from the Brooklyn underground, when donation boxes came around for the Zionist project:

"Don't give them any money. That's the money against us."

Her mother knew. Before the state. Before the displacement. Before the world pretended it didn't see.

"We knew they were racist. We knew they wanted the land from Palestinians. We were against it. Just another form of racism. Just stealing other people's land."

A Jewish mother in Brooklyn said it plainly. Decades later, her daughter still refuses the money. Still refuses the silence.

The clarity was always there. The world just chose to look the other way. 🧭

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!

Haaretz investigation is a MUST-READ!

The Netanyahu gov received numerous warnings - incl from the UAE's ruler 10 days before Oct 7 - that Hamas was planning an attack.

The ultimate source of the warning was Hamas' own Sinwar.

Netanyahu ignored all the warnings and took no precautions. He didn't even convey it to the Israeli intelligence apparatus.

But there's more. Immediately after Oct 7, Hamas offered to release all the civilian hostages - without asking for anything in return. The Biden admin was aware of this as well. But Israel wasn't interested, leaving both Hamas and the Qatari mediators baffled.

So much bloodshed could have been avoided. So many innocent lives could have been spared. But Netanyahu appeared to have been uninterested - and Biden, of course, never put any real pressure on Israel - effectively allowing Netanyahu to determine US policy.

https://t.co/EJUwMiwEzq

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@Calvbetton Streamlining matches as has been done with ATP doubles should allow for MORE matches. Best of 3 or 5 scoring was developed for players not spectators or TV. Other sports uses it for a multi-day series not for a SINGLE MATCH Why not 2 longer "sets" (or halves) & a pro tiebreaker?

[Philiponet Rémi 🇨🇵 @RPhiliponet]

Le président Vladimir Vladimirovitch Poutine s'adresse aux Allemands, en particulier à Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪 choqué par les résultats obtenus par l'AFD.

« Nous ne voulons pas vous attaquer ! Pourquoi le ferions-nous ? Cette époque est révolue depuis longtemps ! Quiconque a encore toute sa tête et sait réfléchir le comprend.

1) Vous avez déjà une dette nationale de 2 500 milliards d'euros, et aucun économiste sérieux ne sait comment vous comptez la rembourser.
(Alice Weidel déclare son pays en faillite.)
Et maintenant, vous voulez emprunter 1 000 milliards de plus pour vous armer contre nous.
2) Votre pays regorge de millions de migrants qui vous coûtent 50 milliards d'euros par an.
3) Une partie considérable de votre population est tellement dérangée qu'elle croit pouvoir influencer le climat en faisant du vélo et en mangeant des insectes.
4) Votre système éducatif était autrefois exemplaire. Aujourd'hui, dans de nombreuses salles de classe, il n'y a pratiquement plus d'enseignement car presque personne ne parle allemand.
5) Vos infrastructures tombent en ruine et vous n'arrivez pas à suivre le rythme des réparations.
6) Vos chemins de fer faisaient autrefois la fierté du monde entier. Aujourd'hui, vos trains circulent comme en Inde.
7) Nous n'avons pas besoin de vos célèbres ingénieurs. Pendant les sanctions, nous avons appris que nous pouvions nous en passer. Mais si nous en avions finalement besoin, nous nous tournerions vers la Chine. Là-bas, ils sont non seulement moins chers, mais
aussi meilleurs.
8) Vous ne possédez ni matières premières ni sources d'énergie. Alors, pourquoi devrions-nous conquérir votre pays ? Pour résoudre des problèmes que nous n'aurions même pas autrement ? Soyons réalistes : même si vous nous appeliez,
si vous capituliez et hissiez le drapeau blanc, nous ne viendrions pas pour autant ! »

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@christophclarey Best of 5 not especially made for TV, definitely not made for night matches!

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

"My credit card doesn't work, I can't pay or make transfers; my health insurance was canceled, and I can't book hotels. I feel like Pablo Escobar. All because I said, 'Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.'"

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Black Death arrived in England in 1348. Within two years, somewhere between a third and a half of the population was dead.

The peasants who survived noticed something within a generation.

There was nobody left to work the fields. The labour shortage was so severe that landlords, for the first time in English history, had to bid for workers. The peasants, suddenly possessed of leverage, demanded payment partly in meat. Beef, mutton, and bacon began appearing in the manorial accounts of agricultural labourers' wages.

Skeletal records from English burials in the late 1300s and 1400s, set against pre-plague remains, show measurable increases in average adult height. Bone density improves. Dental health improves. Iron-deficiency markers decline.

The peasants got taller. The peasants got stronger. The peasants started causing political problems on a scale they had previously been too undernourished to attempt.

In 1351 Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to cap wages back at pre-plague levels. The peasants noticed. In 1381, well-fed, the same peasants marched on London in the largest popular uprising in medieval English history.

The nobility, in the centuries that followed, expanded the Forest Laws. Killing a deer in a royal forest was a capital offence. The Game Laws of the 1600s and 1700s extended the principle. Meat available to the peasant shrank back toward what it had been before the plague.

By 1850, the average British army recruit from the industrial slums was so short and so undernourished that the height minimum for enlistment had to be lowered repeatedly to keep the regiments staffed.

The single greatest improvement in working-class height and health in English history was caused by a plague that made meat affordable for two generations.

The single greatest decline was caused, in significant part, by a political decision to make it expensive again.

You can see the whole sequence in the skeletons.

The skeletons are in the museums. Go and look.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The manufactured meltdown over Rula Jebreal's "AIPAC monkey" gaffe is a cynical psy-op designed to bury the grassroots rebellion against one of the Israel lobby's most critical assets.

Grassroots Democrats are in open revolt against Israel, AIPAC and the Gaza genocide, and there is no one more poised to stomp on their faces than Hakeem Jeffries. As the recipient of over $1.4 million in Israel lobby donations, he's one of AIPAC's most important investments. Under no circumstances can he afford to defy the all-White cast of Jewish supremacist millionaires and billionaires who fueled his rise.

Jeffries is so thoroughly controlled by Zionist forces that he once paid tribute to apartheid Israel by paraphrasing George Wallace's infamous "segregation forever" inaugural address. He knew exactly what he was doing, and which elements he was pandering to.

For her part, Rula Jebreal has no formal role in the Democratic Party, and negligible influence. She's a Palestinian pundit who made her now-notorious comments on the podcast of Wajahat Ali, a Muslim Democratic operative who's generally parotted the pro-war positions of party leadership, but who's drawn the line at the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

The two instantly became punching bags for the most opportunistic factions of Black misleadership, who depend on AIPAC and corporate America to sustain their positions. This includes much of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has traditionally functioned as a mechanism for elite control of Black politics. (Browse the corporate advisory council on the CBC Foundation's website for a quick look at who pulls its strings).

If and when Jeffries becomes House Speaker after November, he will present his rise as a landmark of racial progress, and the ratification of his personal vision. But like Barack Obama, whose career was propelled by a pair of wealthy pro-Israel Chicagoland families, Jeffries owes the Zionist billionaire class for his place in history.

As Speaker, Jeffries will therefore be expected to ram through wildly unpopular bills supplying arms and aid to Israel's genocide machine, cancelling free speech on campus, and further integrating Israel's military-intelligence apparatus with America's.

By making road kill out of Rula and Waj, Jeffries' backers hope to terrify his grassroots opposition into silence. If you even refer to him as AIPAC Shakur, or describe him as a servant of AIPAC, the toxic remnants of KHive will brand you as the bastard love child of Strom Thurmond and Eva Braun, and the CBC and Neera Tanden will boost their attacks in tandem with the NY Post.

The DSA, Abdul Seyed, Zohran, and everyone in between have been delivered with marching orders: fall back on the whole Gaza genocide thing, stay in your lane, and most importantly, don't knock the hustle.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

This is Sprinter Press.
Details of a new so-called peace plan for Ukraine have been released. According to reports, representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump may have brought the document to talks in Moscow and Kyiv.
The plan envisions a complete ceasefire, territorial concessions by Ukraine, and the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from Donbas and parts of the Zaporizhzhia region, with a possible deployment of a United Nations contingent there. It also refers to a referendum and elections, as well as constitutional amendments.
Kyiv would be asked to renounce the forcible return of territories that would come under Russian control, to lock in Ukraine's neutral status, and to renounce membership in NATO and other military alliances.
The outline also mentions limits on the size of the Ukrainian armed forces, agreements on language issues, and the signing of a full peace agreement by a new Ukrainian government, followed by ratification through a special procedure at the United Nations.

We will keep following the story.

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@PelicansLead Never has been an above-average 3 pt shooter, presumably going back to highschool 😉

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium wearing a keffiyeh, performed "Hind's Hall" with Gaza footage on the screens, and told 80,000 people he wanted those in Gaza and the West Bank to know "they have not been forgotten."

He said every human being deserves "the exact same freedom, to know safety and peace before knowing the sounds of violence."

He called ICE a "terrorist organization" and shouted "Free Palestine, free Cuba, Congo, Sudan and Iran."

The Israeli-American Council petitioned to drop him from remaining tour dates.

[Chris Wright @ChrisCWright1]

One of the wonderful legacies of Foucault was to promote this whole discourse of “bodies” (as opposed to “people”—and class!)—black bodies, white bodies, female bodies, fat bodies, fit bodies, dysgenic bodies, the state’s regulation of “bodies,” etc. As if we’re just bodies and not selves, whose identities are formed partly through their locations in class structures (given that such structures are what primarily allocate resources). Since this discourse uses different language than Marxist discourse, more subjectivist and individualist language that serves to distract from objective/collective class relations, it’s been useful to the ruling class.

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@chrismartenson Don't think we've had a massive new public policy since Medicare - over 60 years! 😳

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@Maysaloon @academic_la A vote doesn't mean all that much when in a closed two-party system, both sides controlled by the same oligarchs 😉

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up

The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

A superpower in rapid decline, defeated by its own hubris and incompetence. Not necessarily because it lost this war militarily -what is far more detrimental is the irreversible loss of perceived invincibility and of the narrative.

Yes, the Iran war is the biggest blunder in US history, but the final nail in the coffin of US hegemony is not a mere military defeat. It is the complete destruction of its superiority and credibility by surrendering its sovereignty to special interests and foreign powers.
The end of US dominance started long ago when it turned itself into a political auction house. It started with Super PACs, Super Delegates and Citizens United -with Miriam Adelson, Benjamin Netanyahu and AIPAC.
And it will end with them.

The US today may be able to kidnap or assassinate political leaders, steal resources in broad daylight, and bomb schoolchildren, weddings, hospitals and universities. It can commit genocide and drop phosphorus bombs on the refugees it created inside an open-air concentration camp. It can project fear like a rogue terrorist entity. But it cannot pretend to be the good guy anymore. It cannot expect to be trusted anymore. It cannot influence its allies anymore. It cannot convince its own people.
And it will never again be able to convince young Americans to die in its illegal, horrendous wars.

US world domination is falling apart in real time.
Iran just accelerated the inevitable collapse.

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@Zion___Szn @PelicansLead 😉

[M Tuman @mctuman]

@ShamsCharania But he can't shoot!