Former hack, author, "actor" and grad school dropout. I'm reading Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair and trying to sort out where Eugene Debs got it wrong.
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1. A string on a trenchant conversation between @TADurkin, @JoeFergChicago, @HeerJeet and me (not so trenchant) on the decidedly disturbing civil liberties implications of the lately (un)reformed section 2 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
First Zohran: NYC isn’t everywhere. Now Michigan isn’t everywhere. Where is everywhere? Some reactionary corner of rural Kansas?
Dem strategist Lis Smith argued a potential El-Sayed win in Michigan doesn’t prove progressives can win elsewhere.
“Michigan isn't everywhere,” she told @DashaBurns. “If you can win in Michigan, you can win in Michigan.”
Listen to #TheConversation: politi.co/4BAXcze
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
Any Democrat who has said anything critical about AES in public since he clinched the nomination is objectively pro-Trump and should be treated as such going forward. If the shoe was on the other foot they'd be saying that about us, and they'd have a point.
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
Israelis watched, without protest, as their politicians endorsed the largest mass slaughter of children in modern history.
Then, when the dust settled, when no one could claim they weren’t aware of the full extent of the horrors, 90 percent voted for those same politicians again
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
Samuel Beckett, Banville’s greatest literary influence, was a member of the French Resistance, but then Beckett was a lot of things John Banville will never be 💅
‘Second-rate artists and mediocrities can take a stand. Real artists don’t take a stand on anything’ — John Banville buff.ly/HSmql5q
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
What you call the “Jewish center” were parties (Bennett, Liberman) every analyst considered as far-right a few years ago.
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
À gauche, le @JLMelenchon qui se recentre (refus de nationaliser Total, refus de sortir de l’euro, etc.).
À droite, un @JLMelenchon plus radical (reprise en main de la monnaie, des centaines de milliards pour l’hôpital et les services publics, sortie de l’euro).
@mbompard
In two hours and fifteen minutes -- by turns witty, self effacing, scathing and melancholy -- Melenchon, running to be President of France and in with a legitimate chance to win (running from what the @nytimes refers to constantly as "the far left") makes substantive reference to (*not* name dropping) Garcia Marquez, Earskine Caldwell, Faulkner, Goethe, Shakespeare, Democritus, Marx, Hegel, Averroes, Rousseau, Robespierre, Aristotle, Camus, Philip K. Dick; I could go on. He quotes passages of text and scenes from the movies from memory and in detail. Duffus-Americanus will sneer and snark about communism and antisemitism but the simple truth is the guy's absurdly interesting. Canadians will want to mark his having been the only European leader of any note with courage enough to defend us against Fatso right out of the gate. Two plus hours and worth every minute. youtube.com/watch?v=5qS3PZkp…
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
Vive Lula, vive le Brésil de la dignité. Les sondages et les commentateurs experts bla bla prédisaient son échec certain.
Il vient de gagner ! Il a battu l'extrême droite et les ingérences étrangères.
La magnifique campagne de masse a rassemblé le peuple des favelas et les salariés dans les urnes contre la dictature de l'argent-roi et du mépris du peuple.
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
Thomas Piketty and the Twilight of Macronism via @Truthdig truthdig.com/articles/pikett…
Dull, pinched and parochial Brad Bradford is devoid of principle and full of rot. If it's mediocrity you seek in the Mayor of Toronto he's your man. Otherwise you know what to do.
Jamie Dimon carefully picks the peanuts out of Trump's scat and gobbles them down. @doughenwood
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon mocks The Economist during a tense exchange after being told he’s sounding like Trump: “I’m not Trumpian. I’m factual.” 🇺🇸
Interviewer: “You’re sounding Trumpy.”
Jamie Dimon: “I’m not Trumpian. I’m factual. I don’t agree with this binary shit that goes on all the time.
I think The Economist is the absolute best, most admirable thing in the world, and you should continue that.”
Dimon delivers the last line with apparent sarcasm, poking fun at the publication while pushing back against the idea that agreeing with Trump on certain issues makes him a Trump supporter.
Magnifique! (As against Ezra Klein and Sarah Longwell agreeing strenuously that beyond the price of those books politics has nothing to say nytimes.com/video/opinion/10… )
bellye66 (Douglas Bell) retweeted
“Whether Netanyahu wins or loses, the reality here will not change. As I see it, their goal is to destroy Gaza and the foundations of life here.”
"‘Gaza’s suffering has become campaign fodder’: Palestinians fear the worst from Israel election. Humanitarian catastrophe largely ignored as rivals Gadi Eisenkot and Benjamin Netanyahu vow to end Hamas rule"
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
