MGEmancipation
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Host, FRDH podcast www.goldfarbpod.com RU listening? MichaelGoldfarb.substack.com R U reading? Been doing this forever: BBC, NPR, NYTimes, WashPo, Guardian etc
Statue of medieval Jewish sage Maimonides in Cordoba has been defaced. I took this photo there reporting Journey to Sepharad for BBC World Service 2 yrs ago. BTW his beard is lighter because people climb up and touch it for luck (and wisdom and some say fertility) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
This corporate pr drivel in the WSJ with Zuck's name on it leads me to the conclusion that given the career trajectories of Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner, Harvard University be shut down for the good of humanity. Indeed to have a hope that humanity survives
IN France, the word of this summer is "canicule" which means "heatwave." The word clearly isn't from French. "Chaleur" and "vague" are heat and wave. Must come from Latin: cane and culus which means "dog's ass". How hot is it, Jean-Claude? It's hotter than a dog's ass.
I thank @therickwilson.bsky.social for his service but at this point in the American Crisis we don't need lectures about what's happened. We need people with multi-million platforms organizing against MAGA, not charging 20 quid to tell us what we know. Resistance is not a business model.
Do you remember how this magic place became a place of desolation? Mosul Eye does & his memoir of when ISIS came in 2014 is just out and this intv is the one of the most important I've ever done. Writing History as an act of resistance 1/
I wrote recently @ my First Rough Draft of History substack about British political journalism as a game of Trivial Pursuit but this from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Behr in today’s Guardian is an excellent summary of why Labour changed leaders and hence we have a new Prime Minister
The subject line read: "We regret to inform you You may have lost your chance to remain a member of President Trump's MAGA club." I had to open it ...
Lovely photo by Roberto Schmidt of AFP/Getty. I want everyone who sees it to forward to J D Vance, Trump, Stevie Miller & all open white supremacists in MAGAland. 1. Irony of Saka making white supremacist 3-ring sign to signal hat-trick. 2. These men rep England: 2-day!1/
Any truth to rumour Chris Nolan is planning a sequel to the Odyssey based on this book? Kazantzakis's 900 page long epic poem starts with Odysseus taking a bath to wash off blood of Penelope's suitors & realising he ain't cut out for this domestic shite & going back on the road forever
Thomas Tuchel is the Marv Levy of (association) football coaches. [Sorry if that seems obscure to my British pals. Look up Levy and Buffalo Bills]
My daily email headlines from the Times of Israel. Shabbat Shalom and תודה רבה, Bibi for your leadership into this moment hated all over the world but real estate prices -- through the roof!!!!
Can't wait for Bari Weiss to take over CNN, at least then we will be able to laugh at this kind of non-news anonymous sourced garbage as the disinfo-propaganda it is. CNN has been living off its rep for decades. Time to consign it to the Ellisons' PMC: Pravda Management Corp
Am working on a book called Behind the Velvet Rope: A Half-Century of NY Queues from Studio 54 to Katz's Delicatessen
Pulling for Trossard to score a hat trick with a coup de grace from De Bruyne and Courtois keeping a clean sheet (pitching a shut out). Everything MAGA touches turns to shit
Not hard at all if you've been paying attention to the last decade or so, Mr. Reiners
When it came out it in 1964 it was a liberal nightmare fantasy, now there isn't a liberal alive who doesn't dream that the senior officers cashiered by Hegseth/Trump aren't planning a coup to remove them
My dude, where is your sense of proportion? This is not even in the top 50 reasons. @dexanderson.com
No African team will win the World Cup, but this is without doubt the most African World Cup ever. Why do I say that? Read and find out: frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/world-cup-...
Parliamentary government is prone to rapid turnover ibn leadership. Check this chart out. UK isn't going through anything all that unusual at this moment in European history
current state of play on an ordinary work day with temps heading into the 90s in the self-styled greatest city in the world. The Tube is getting to be as bad as it was in the bad old days of the 80s -- only now every line is the misery line. Thanks for your splendid oversight Sadiq Khan
If it hasn't already @nytimes.com has squandered its claim to be newspaper of record. Every other major outlet uses words like humiliation and failure to describe the deal he bragged on at G7. Video on c-span shows leaders disdain. This is how the Times plays it on the home page:
My people!! He’s fat, got piles, He’s in the Epstein files, He’s a C***, Trumps a C***. Small hands, small Di*k He’s a fucking lunatic, He’s a C*** Trumps a C*** A pig, A rat His neck looks like a twa* He’s a C***, Trumps C***. Half Mad, half dead, What’s that on his head? He’s a C***, Trumps a C***
The week started with the FT report and ended with the @nytimes.com report. Will European nations ever pull their fingers out and do what is necessary to defend themselves? The US is not coming to help MerzMacronStarmer. Don't you get it, yet?