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UnSafe at Any Distance: Todd Haynes' Visual Culture of Health and Risk - "Safe"
“In the world SAFE claims for Carol, itself, and viewers, there are no safe social spaces, no safe healthcare practices, no safe critical perspectives, and, lest we forget, no safe cinema.”
Fear and Loathing in the Democratic Primaries: #bullying, #gaslighting, and #wolfpackjournalism
Bernie Sanders Interview with Rachel Maddow, March 4, 2020: closing words
Here are the concluding minutes of the interview. A dry, verbal excerpt from the full interview doesn't quite capture the flow of leading questions and Sander's responses and how Sanders's maintained a dignified posture throughout with a hostile host.
(Compare with Maddow's warm, sympathetic interview with Elizabeth Warren the following day.)
Mike Bloomberg's Corporate Raid on the Democratic Party
Should the Democratic establishment think nominating Bloomberg will not only defeat Trump but also help preserve its control over the party, Democratic leaders may be in for a nasty surprise. In their minds Bloomberg may be a stone that can kill two birds (Trump and Sanders) but Bloomberg’s actions are also those of a corporate raider engaged in a hostile take-over bid of a company faced with implacable competition (the GOP) and burdened with a sclerotic, inept management (the DNC) and falling stock price (after the failed attempt to remove Trump and the Iowa caucus fiasco), and over which frustrated employees (liberals and progressives) now wish to assume ownership.
Mike Bloomberg's Corporate Raid on the Democratic Party
Creating Courageous and Robust Strategies, Part II: Confronting Acts of Political Intimidation and Domestic Terrorism
Part Two of a two-part article on how the Democratic Party and its liberal and progressive allies should anticipate and counter rightwing political intimidation and violence. I argue that if ignored, such violence could threaten to undo the achievements of the Blue Wave and cause to founder the best efforts of Indivisible, Swing Left, and other new activist organizations to “pave the way to the post-Trump era” (Indivisible on Offense, p. 2).
Part Two reviews the challenges of dealing with the threat of rightwing domestic terrorism in the U.S. as a political problem and proposes possible responses to it as an existential threat to democratic institutions and progressive values.