Новости за 20.10.2022

“I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said during an interview on Sunday, when asked if she would adhere to the election results in a few weeks. When pressed further by CNN host Dana Bash, Lake repeated the same answer, word for word. Lake’s own refrain—her inability to say that she’ll accept the will of voters in her state if she loses—sums up the core of her entire campaign, and it captures one of the most destabilizing things about the 2022 midterms... Читать дальше...

Why is Kanye West interested in buying the far-right social media platform Parler? The answer likely isn’t that different from the reason why Donald Trump started his own alternative social media network. Having been locked out of Twitter and Facebook for antisemitism—just as Trump had been banned for lying about the results of the 2020 election and fomenting a coup—Kanye just wanted a place where he knew he could always post. “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial,”... Читать дальше...

In 2009, C-SPAN conducted a series of interviews with the Supreme Court justices about the judicial branch and its role in the U.S. constitutional order. Justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor all took part, as did the retired Sandra Day O’Connor. The most obvious participant was also the most unlikely one: Chief Justice John Roberts.

Shortly after the United States recorded one million deaths from Covid-19, Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, made a jarring remark: “We are stronger economically than we have been in history.” From a business perspective, she wasn’t wrong. Over the past two years, billionaires have more than doubled their wealth. The economy grew faster than it has in decades.

The protests were clunky, juvenile, and designed to outrage: On October 15, activists with the animal rights group Animal Rebellion marched into supermarkets in cities across the United Kingdom, including Whole Foods, as well as posh Harrods. They brandished banners that read “Plant Based Future” and began opening and spilling bottles of milk on the ground and onto display cases selling fresh meat. Coming just a day after climate activists with Just Stop Oil splashed tomato soup onto the glass... Читать дальше...

Deepak Bhargava has a big idea: America should live up to the best parts of our national identity and become the most welcoming country on earth for immigrants and refugees. Bhargava’s Statue of Liberty Plan proposes welcoming 75 million people over the course of the next decade. To do that, and to counter broad authoritarian appeals, we need a new narrative about immigration, rooted in progressive values.

For Erika Meitner

It all men’s chiseled cheeks & bone
Bronzed as in sun kissed
Bristle as in beard needs combing
Bone as in cracked against rifle butt,
But who gets old on Miami Vice

Breasts are plump & high
Eyes shaded by the lens of too much money.
Honey poured over the backs of hairy johns.
Jealousy leads to blown up yachts
& armed men floating in the harbor
Crockett & Tubbs, such Anglo names
Such pretty men chasing villains... Читать дальше...

While I lived elsewhere, the cockroaches built
nests—hives without honey—inside the walls
of my apartment: slipping their shiny backs