Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
johnedwinmason
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I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
I weep for my country. We can blame Trump. But the sickness, of which this is a small symptom, is much deeper.
The Cursed Cup.*
* Cursed = Touched by Trump (and/or FIFA)
I wrote about Haiti's Men's World Cup team and diaspora:
theconversation.com/haiti-at-the...
A Post review shows President Trump built a more male-dominated Cabinet this term, and every departure has been a woman — with a man chosen to replace each of them.
The trend reflects broader dynamics within the GOP, as noted by experts and data. https://wapo.st/4ec617J
sylvia townsend warner in 1926, foreseeing the type of author who would use AI:
Every word.
“We have fire onboard, we have fire onboard.” Two dozen Indian sailors aboard an oil tanker struck by a U.S. missile off the coast of Oman on Monday sent frantic SOS messages for more than two hours before they were rescued.
I'm struck by the title of this remarkable photo by Marco Ugarte: "La bendición del guanaco" — in English, "The blessing of the guanaco."
Chileans call water cannons guanacos after the camelid (which spits). The protestors were part of a non-violent movement against torture that is still active
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
