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Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 13d

that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

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Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 13d

that's all in *one month*

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 13d

it's completely indefensible. but there it is! here's nyt:

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 13d

that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

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Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 21d

that is *who she is*

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 21d

it would be rational to fact-check everything she has ever written

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · 21d

Heather Cox Richardson, in "Letters from an American" on Sep 12, gathered every rumor and innuendo she could find to make Tyler Robinson a right-winger. Has she reflected?

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Christopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · Aug 19

I was essentially bullied into reading and watching the original Harry Potters. So I’m very much looking forward to bullying all the people who watch the new ones. Oh how the tables have turned.

Journalists planning to cover McCormick, Perry event in Pa. must prove their U.S. citizenship

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Amy Worden @newsy1.bsky.social · Aug 19

A first? Foreign journalists barred from Pennsylvania event featuring members of Congress via @pennlive.com by @iveythewriter.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2ftztmfa

One media attorney finds it problematic that members of the media who are not U.S. citizens are barred from covering an event at BAE Systems in York County on Tuesday featuring Sen. Dave McCormick, Re...

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Amy Worden @newsy1.bsky.social · Aug 19

A longtime local York newspaper columnist - US born - couldn’t cover the event either because he has neither a Real ID or passport.

The Profound Ethics of Non-Violence in Judith Butler

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Aug 15

20th and final episode of Peace Now! Great American Pacifists podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Podcast Episode · Peace Now! Great American Pacifists · 08/15/2025 · 32m

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Violent Echoes of Violence

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Aug 11

the holocaust is one of the causes of slaughter in gaza www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

The slaughter in Gaza is an echo of the Holocaust. || Crispin Sartwell

www.splicetoday.com

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Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 31

what judith butler gets right about gender.
youtu.be/_TKGGJqLnZM?...

Judith Butler and Gender as an Aesthetic Repertoire

How Pacifism Survived Into the Twentieth Century

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 21

it's true! despite all the myriad problems, it gives you an aesthetic experience, particularly if you come to it from a modest or rural environment.
the capitalist sublime

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 21

youtu.be/0BMgHimGuwE?...

Opinion | The Beauty of Walmart Shopping

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 20

if (for example) vanderbilt university, the maryland institute college of art, or dickinson college wanted their names associated with projects like this, they should have pulled back just a bit on the extreme humiliation and pointed extrusion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Big-box retail constructs its infinite aesthetic array out of hundreds of thousands of brush strokes.

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Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 19

what is beauty? youtu.be/lD4W-LGAV80?...

Beauty: A Brand-New Account

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 17

likewise! great to meet cassell too.

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

but it's a better-than-average dylan lyric because he doesn't merely lean on meaningless twaddle. the answer isn't 'ablowin'' in the wind, and it's not that we'd be ignorant 'and but for the' wind, etc.

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

also, 'gonna take a lot of river' is closely based on a real american folk tradition: the music is cajun, complete with fiddle and accordion. blowin' in the wind is based on a pete seeger show? folk music was nothing if not inauthentic. listen to country instead.

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

unlike 'blowin' in the wind', which is hapening everywhere and nowhere, and also not at all whatsoever.

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

but the key moment of 'gonna take a lot of river' is the wonderfuly apt and perfectly rhythmic word 'monongehela', which also serves to signal that the events are happening in western pa. somewhere, in other words,

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

also, 'gonna take a lot of river' actually does use the sound of words poetically, whereas i say that the dylan is flat as a pancake, although less arbitrarily pretentious than most dylan lyrics.

Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social · Jul 16

how many deaths does it take to know that too many people have died? the answer is blowin' in the wind, though it might well be howling from your newspaper. but the sentiment is banal.