Vol 76: ASSETS goes out to subscribers today, here’s what’s inside thenewinquiry.com/magazine/asset
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FWIW i think claiming there’s a “news blackout” often misidentifies the ways in which capital does successfully kill stories—it’s much less “we have orders from the CIA” than “capital has ensured newsrooms are staffed with dilettantes who have no idea how to cover this” twitter.com/theferocity/st…
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After the uprisings & I wanted to read & hear from folks organizing & thinking about how we change our current condition. It didn't exist so we made our own. We hope you read it. Share it. Sign up to get it. It's free. Hammer & Hope is live today.
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The Biden Administration has declared an end to the public health emergency and is promising a “orderly transition” to the private market. In today’s episode we talk about how orderly abandonment is still organized abandonment at the end of the day.
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In our latest, we look at the many weak arguments in defense of the public health emergency ending May 11th, and what the termination of these measures will mean going forward
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The fact that residents of East Palestine were extras in the Airborne Toxic Event part of White Noise might be the thing that finally sends me over the edge
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I would like to remind everyone that the Ohio River runs into the Mississippi river and down into the gulf.
From the food chain to national trade, we will be seeing the effects of this everywhere.
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I've written a couple of other things on Krasznahorkai:
1. this review of The Last Wolf/Herman in on similar themes (couple sentences I wish I could get back though): thenewinquiry.com/misery-loves-c
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2. this poem in on The Turin Horse
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"[Taking] Sontag as a model of femininity is a way of ensuring that, despite the public spectacle of transitioning, it is still possible to be taken seriously... That this was not a recipe for happiness should come as no surprise." thenewinquiry.com/cool-women/
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Kristen Stewart will star as writer, philosopher and political activist Susan Sontag in an upcoming biopic from director Kirsten Johnson.
(screendaily.com/news/kristen-s)
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I have very sad news to deliver to all of you.
South Dakota has become the 2nd state in 2023 to ban gender affirming care for transgender youth. This will result in medical detransition.
It even contains a provision by which the medical detransition should take place:
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South Dakota's HB 1080, banning gender affirming care for minors, passes the SD Senate in less than 40 minutes of debate on a 30 YEA - 4 NAY - 1 EXC vote. It will now head to the Governor's desk.
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As usual, french high school students show the world what courage means in this cursed century.
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Tensions au lycée Racine à Paris. Mêlée et utilisation des gazeuses contre les lycéens #greve7fevrier #manif7fevrier
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As a alum, I am deeply ashamed of this behavior. Cutting healthcare and tuition benefits is not just a ruthless strikebreaking technique, it punishes low-income and working class students trying to make ends meet and get an education.
Solidarity with !
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In our latest, we speak with and about how medicalized antifatness operates in health policy and public health, and critique the controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics
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“Rent increases are a legal form of eviction...an eviction is a court process. But it’s also a policing process.” - .
Phenomenon 🔥 convo on housing struggles with , , , and .
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If you're following #StopCopCity, this is huge. The mayor has consistently touted the community advisory committee's role in the process.
Now, one committee member has quit in protest, and another member has appealed the permit that would allow destruction to begin. Thread!
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not dedicated to it, but loves to publish thoughtful and unique essays from new writers :)
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No electricity. No water. No heating. No bread. No medicine. A decade long war. And now an apocalyptic earthquake. The west must lift its sadistic sanctions on Syria and stop suffocating the Syrian people for political agendas. Syrians need to recover.
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Before the Memphis Police Dept. releases the video of 5 MPD officers murdering #TyreNichols during a routine traffic stop, and that heinous video inevitably goes viral, I want to amplify THIS video of Tyre LIVING his best life. 🛹👑🙏🏿😔✊🏿
#JusticeForTyreNichols
🎥: Austin Dean
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James Boggs, “Think Dialectically, Not Biologically” intercommunalworkshop.org/james-boggs-th
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Despite public outcry, the Florida High School Athletics Association is standing by its decision that girls submit menstruation info to schools: including age of their first period, how many days are typically in between their periods, and the date of their most recent period.
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In our latest, we look back on Jeff Zients time as covid response coordinator and why his new appointment as Biden’s chief of staff, coming as the administration prepares to end the public health emergency, is such a bad omen
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"No longer will there be a pretense that industry-fueled prosperity will trickle down into gov't budgets; instead, civilians will now be taxed indirectly by the police."
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"Local gov't has turned to ticketing and forfeiture as their primary means of filling their budget. Rather than mine for raw materials, the gov't mined its people’s wallets without helping them earn a living." thenewinquiry.com/organized-plun
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"[We] have these police officers intruding on us, on our regular everyday lives, and we can't get the basic things we've been asking for. But we can get more and more police officers," says Black Lives Matter Memphis organizer @Amberisms_ about Tyre Nichols' death.
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The only real "accountability" that occurred after the Uprising of 2020 was of protesters, policing has gone left unchanged but lives of countless people who wanted a world where people didn't have to live in fear of police have had their lives ruined.
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Two young New York lawyers lost their licenses to practice law after burning an empty police car during a protest days after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. One of them will be sentenced on Thursday, and he may also lose his foster children. nyti.ms/3Jix4R7
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BREAKING: A new survey that Atlanta filled out to get a loan for Cop City shows that 43% of training will be for cops who live outside the State of Georgia.
Meanwhile, they are calling all out-of-state protesters “terrorists”.
This is not just a local struggle #StopCopCity
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In our latest, we speak with about how to make sense of the increasingly large pool of new covid variants, what we can do to stop them, and why he suggested the name “Kraken” to refer to XBB.1.5 in the first place
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BREAKING: After killing a climate activist in Atlanta, police hit 7 more protestors with bogus "terrorism" charges. The total number of activists protesting Cop City who face "terrorism" charges now stands at 13.
Pure intimidation. Stand strong.👊⤵️
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Arkansas committee on City, County, and Local Affairs just unanimously passed a drag ban that bans "singing, dancing, or performing" while "exhibiting a gender identity other than assigned at birth" for "prurient interest."
This bill could ban all trans people from performing.
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A lovely review, and a seriously excellent analysis of the current glut of Trad propaganda across media spaces
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I loved @A24’s Lamb and wrote about both the movie and the rise of Trad propaganda, which this film offered relief from ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/review-lamb-
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I’m definitely going to read that next issue of about the trads! Though I loathe to say it excites me, I’ve spent too much time being forced to think about these people bc my presence on this website
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this whole thing, but especially the line about blaming people for having choices
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I loved @A24’s Lamb and wrote about both the movie and the rise of Trad propaganda, which this film offered relief from ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/review-lamb-
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"normalizing covid and turning a collective responsibility into a matter of individual risk."
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This is such a 🔥🔥 episode: we talked about ' recent piece for on histories of trans care diy. We discussed the general baroque state of our times, the urgency of uniting health justice struggles & limits of top down power of the clinic & medicalization 🔥
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In our latest, we discuss the complicated history of DIY healthcare and DIY transition as a story of class struggle, and how this history can complicate how we talk about physician expertise, abortion, single payer, and more
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BREAKING: NYC nurses strike to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals were reached with both and Hospital. Nurses won concrete enforceable safe staffing ratios in both deals and will be back on the job.
🔗: nysna.org/press/2023/bre
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In our latest: officials and press spent years mocking China’s zero-covid policy. When it ended, the same people warned the change could produce a new variant. Then we look back on how China’s actions were portrayed as self-defeating from the very start
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BREAKING: Over 7,000 nurses in NYC are now on strike at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center. The nurses are demanding increased staffing, better wages, and an end to benefit cuts.
Video via , and we'll share updates from them and others in this thread.
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Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift
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