Just minutes after white nationalist Richard Spencer finished his speaking engagement at the University of Florida on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times published a report that made clear who had won in the latest overhyped battle of anti-fascists and college students versus professional hate-mongers: “‘You are trying to stifle our free speech,’ white nationalist Richard Spencer tells Florida protesters,” read the headline.
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Rain is falling on leaves, a whole forest full of them. The frame is filled with stems and green. Then the camera moves and it turns out it wasn’t a forest after all; that we were in Thibault’s windowbox all along. He is just giving his plants a little water while his colleagues from the Paris chapter of ACT UP talk in his living room. This gesture is repeated several times in BPM (Beats Per Minute), the new movie about HIV/AIDS activists in the Paris of the early 1990s from director Robin Campillo. Читать дальше...
Rain is falling on leaves, a whole forest full of them. The frame is filled with stems and green. Then the camera moves and it turns out it wasn’t a forest after all; that we were in Thibault’s windowbox all along. He is just giving his plants a little water while his colleagues from the Paris chapter of ACT UP talk in his living room. This gesture is repeated several times in BPM (Beats Per Minute), the new movie about HIV/AIDS activists in the Paris of the early 1990s from director Robin Campillo. Читать дальше...
At the end of July, the White House was at rock bottom. The president was tweeting at all hours of the day and night. Everyone was leaking anything they could get their hands on. Anthony Scaramucci was hired as communications director and fired ten days later. And John McCain killed what may have been the GOP’s best chance at repealing Obamacare with a Gladiator-esque thumbs down. Enter John Kelly.
President Donald Trump has turned the Environmental Protection Agency into a department at war with its core mission. His pick to run the agency, Scott Pruitt, relentlessly sued the EPA as Oklahoma’s attorney general, has close ties with polluting companies, and denies climate science. Pruitt’s deputy is a former coal lobbyist. An official overseeing chemical safety was a chemical industry lobbyist; the person nominated to be her boss has been a consultant to chemical companies for many years. Читать дальше...
Me too. But I’m done dredging up my painful experiences.
After The New York Times and The New Yorker unveiled decades of predatory behavior by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, women who have experienced sexual harassment and assault were encouraged to post stories of their abuse on social media with the hashtag #MeToo. The point was to give everyone—but, most especially, men—a sense of the depth and breadth of this problem.
The people who were emboldened to speak out are incredibly brave... Читать дальше...
