"1970, the year in which Reichardt’s film takes place, is a hinge between the utopian visions of the 1960s and the nihilistic spirit to come, one which touts creativity and human ingenuity but keeps its eye squarely on the profit line."
Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, art, and AI.
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
"We do not live in a gerontocracy. We live in an oligarchy where a disproportionate number of the oligarchs happen to be old. That’s a different social problem, requiring a policy response focused on affordability and economic justice, rather than intergenerational equity."James Chappel on Sam Moyn
Palestinians living in the West Bank cannot feel safe anywhere.
Raja Shehadeh reporting from Ramallah on the sharp rise of settler violence and IDF complicity since the start of the war.
"On May 11, 2022, Shireen was covering an Israeli raid on homes in the Jenin refugee camp. Despite a valid press credentials and a well-adjusted protective vest and helmet, an Israeli sniper found the small vulnerable area of flesh between the two and shot my cousin in the head without warning."
Deborah Chasman
First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
the booing is an important tactic in the movement to BRING BACK SHAME
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social takes us from tactic to strategy:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
So many Haitians were placed in detention that even the Reagan administration acknowledged the situation “could create an appearance of ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by blacks.”
@policingblack.bsky.social on the ways that anti-Black policing have shaped today's deportation regimes.
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths.
This is a health crisis and a moral crisis.
Follow along for details.
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Our new issue, FOREVER WARS, heads to press soon.
Featuring a roundtable on Iran with @peymanjafari.bsky.social, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, @naghmehs.bsky.social, @alexshams.bsky.social.
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @harshawalia.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social +
Older people are not holding everyone else back. A more just society requires a different fight.
"Tech workers are not like artists for a great many reasons, the biggest one being that they don’t make any art.”
Now online from our Spring issue, Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, theft, and the work of art in the age of AI:
In the West Bank, the war has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...
