The empty sidewalk being tweeted as a measure of success represents organized state abandoment thru banishment & displacement of poor pple from public space. Where did the former residents go? They don't care as long as their poverty is not visible. A truly ghoulish post.
“What I suspect,” he told me, “is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don’t think that’s true.”
on our moral responsibility: https://t.co/Zq4h1xI7JB
Bill Mahr speaking to actor, Henry Winkler, who is Jewish (paraphrase)—
Mahr: Israel is trying not to kill civilians. It has not been deliberate.
Winkler: Are you watching the same footage I’m watching? The killing has been indiscriminate.
Because when people watch standup comedy, they don’t want a setup or a punchline. They want to remember. Remember how long they’ve been dating, what they do for work, what their ethnicity is and how it’s different from other ethnicities. That’s a joke. That’s comedy.
Peter Falk telling Gena Rowlands that her performance in A Woman Under The Influence is the greatest ever and will be remembered 100 years from now and being absolutely correct
Just heard from Fadi that I was the first journalist in Paris to interview him. That staggers me and it says so goddam much. He has a story unlike any athlete in Paris and yet remains deliberately unheard. Makes me want to holler.