[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, toots … you name it]
[Videos]
David Cross | Worst Daddy in the World (Full Comedy Special)
Why We Can’t Build Better Cities (ft.Not Just Bikes)
EVOLUTION of New York City 1524 – 2023 | 3D Animation
Waymo driverless car vandalized, set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Never mind the #Berner #Fasnacht. Here's the #Schnitzupönks 2024
Ticktective: Long Covid: What We Have Learned About Chronic Illness from the Front Lines
[Music]
Little Simz – Mood Swings (Official Audio)
Burial – Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above
[Podcasts]
Stream Collapse w/ Dean Spade (02/22/24) Death Panel [.soundcloud.] – “Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them.” Very interesting to observe how they try to square the circle between Spade’s anti-statist views and Adler-Bolton’s much more reformist views.
#N95s4UCSF w/ Alice Wong (02/01/24) [death panel podcast]
“Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Alice Wong about Alice’s campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections.” This is the transcript, since this episode was for patreon subscribers only.
Declare Long Covid A National Emergency w/ Long Covid Action Project [.soundcloud.] – “There is not a single face of Long Covid. Long Covid can be people in their prime, of working age. It can be people a little bit older. It could be people without any preexisting health conditions. It doesn’t discriminate in terms of who it strikes, and I think Congress needs to know that. It’s not the sick and the weak. It’s not middle-aged women only. It’s everybody. Until they pay attention to that, they will not be able to get a handle on the problem.” It sounded like it was to be the start of a series. But since then there were no episodes on LongCOVID.
191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz) [conspirituality] – “Taylor has been covering internet culture since starting in social media for the Daily Mail in 2011, which led to positions as a technology reporter for Business Insider, the Daily Beast, and the NY Times. In her insightful book, she details the history of internet culture, and she joins us today to discuss reporting in an age of conspiracy theories and online trolling, the challenges of covering long Covid in an age of overwhelming health misinformation, and what it’s like to be extremely online.” I do have a lot of questions about the recent interview Lorzen did of LibsofTikTok, but this is an interesting conversation.
Masturbation abstinence is popular, and doctors are worried [npr] – “Spokespeople of online forums like NoFap, for example, have been very concerned with distancing themselves from anything having to do with extremism,” says Burke. “Alt-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, antisemitic — they are very clear to say we are not that. But they’re not willing to recognize what I think is just an empirical reality, which is that some people who buy into porn addiction rhetoric also buy into these more extremist beliefs.” Anti-masturbation as a recruitment tool for the far right, who would have thunk.
The German Question w/ Emily Dische-Becker [the dig] – “Featuring Emily Dische-Becker on how Germany became attached to a wildly narcissistic anti-antisemitism and Israeli proxy nationalism that have made it one of the most anti-Palestinian governments on earth.” This is a nice summary of the rampant anti-anti-semitism in Germany. I can’t believe what is happening in Germany. And it scares the shit out of me.
[Toot Threads]
[Pandemic Roundup]
Pandemic Roundup: February 29, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: February 22, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: February 15, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: February 8, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: February 1, 2024
[The Must Read[s] This Month]
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco | Rebecca Solnit [lrb] – “‘the great withdrawal’. People on the street often seem to have their eyes elsewhere, usually on their phones: they might video a crime, but they might also not notice it’s happening. Many seem to flinch at direct contact with strangers or pretend the apparent intrusion didn’t happen, so I’ve come to avoid the tiny interactions that seem much more welcome in New Orleans, even in New York City.” When i lived there i loved the city so very much. Since then tech assholes seem to have broken it for good.
A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World | Nate Bear [substack] – “Hospitals should be places of treatment, safety and comfort, especially for the most vulnerable in society. They should not be places of danger.
When the places in society that should be most safe from infectious disease become the least safe, this is a sign that something is going badly wrong. Yet where are the headlines? Where is the outrage? Where is the professional reaction? Where is the political reaction? It’s a huge scandal. Off-the-scale medical malpractice and negligence. With masks and air filtration these are entirely preventable deaths.” For months already i don’t dare to go to my medical doctor despite having several medical problems i would need to show.
Notes on Love [crimethInc]
“We live on a paradise of a planet that we have wrecked beyond all reason because we saw ourselves as somehow separate from the rest of the natural world. I want to escape the shackles of civilization and accept my place as part of nature. To love is to be human. Our longing for it is primal. Human beings are animals, and we are social animals. We are evolved to need each other, live communally, and care for each other. The desire to love and be loved is in our bones.” I loved this. No really. Despite the fact that it was released on Valentine’s Day. Love as revolutionary practice. It’s what we do, since 31 years, i love you, my love, and it’s because “my” is wrong in that sentence.
Illusions of Safety | Mariame Kaba [thebaffler]
“Safety is a rhetorical weapon wielded to make people feel less safe. We are in an endless cycle of fear, which generates an authoritarian reaction, generating more fear and more authoritarian reaction. How do we break free?” Yes, how do we break free?
[Articles English]
CW: Aaron Bushnell self-immolation
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” [crimethinc] – “On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza” Crimethinc almost playing it down too much.
In His Right Mind [current affairs] – “Letting the world move you is dangerous when your world is built like Omelas, perched on top of intentional suffering. Compassion for the world, for nature, for others, and for yourself means that you disturb the balance. Your weighty self shifts things as you step in to help others, making it easier for people to see behind the curtain. Once you learn about the suffering at the core of the world—and I mean really learn, have it lodged in your soul so deeply that every time your heart beats it hurts—you have only one choice to make: abandon the system and the cruelty that makes your world run, or choose it.” This piece moved me the most.
In the Land of Burning Children | Margaret Killjoy [substack] – “I can’t say I think others should follow Aaron’s example. I doubt he wanted anyone to. An act like this needs attention, not imitation. What we can follow is the moral courage. What we need to decide for ourselves is how to act, not whether or not to act. I don’t have any answers for me, and I don’t have any answers for you.” Historical context.
//end CW
Artists Mourn Death of Flaco, the Owl Who Inspired Millions – “A large oak in Central Park bears drawings, photographs, letters, and other odes to the beloved bird.” I <3 Flaco!
The German State Claps Only for Israelis – “Berlin’s film festival ended with an award for a movie on the West Bank and an Instagram hack damning Israel’s war. German cultural figures rushed to distance themselves from pro-Palestinian statements, in a craven display of conformism to state power.” I can’t believe what is happening in Germany. And it scares the shit out of me. Because this begets that:
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’ – “To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger,” Abraham told the Guardian. “I don’t know what Germany is trying to do with us,” he added. “If this is Germany’s way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning.”
“style as a form of refusal.” | Raechel Anne Jolie [substack] – “But how we dress is just one tool we have to subvert. And this is always the bottom line for me: even in the realm of culture, I want to know where the teeth are, what are the stakes? I want to believe that our personal taste is deeper than algorithmic pressure because I know the algorithm will never pressure us towards real liberation.” Do it. But see right through it.
Santa Monica Film Festival full of red-pilled conspiracy theories [boingboing] – “The 18th annual Santa Monica Film Festival, which held in-person screenings on Saturday, February 3 and which is running online screenings through February 28, chose to feature and then give awards to some dangerous right-wing conspiracy theories masquerading as “documentary” films.” You can also simply listen to the conspirituality podcast linked to at the bottom.
It All Ends in a Boring Dystopia | Antonio Melonio [substack] – “The idea of ‘boring dystopia’ gained recognition through the brilliant work of the late Mark Fisher, a cultural theorist and philosopher with a keen eye for the ways our capitalist structures breed disillusionment, alienation, and apathy. Boring dystopia is a departure from the flashy, explosive end-of-the-world scenarios we were fed by Big Hollywood. No, ours is an apocalypse of slow, creeping malaise — bureaucratic, stagnant, grey, and deeply unsatisfying. (There’s not even a Goddamn climax.) It’s a deep, comprehensive intuition of how the world is broken beyond repair, but that nothing will ever truly change; a perpetual limbo where grand visions of both anarcho-communist utopia and fiery apocalypse have faded, leaving a vast, empty middle ground.” When i was a young punk rocker i had a big tag on my leather jacket that read “BORING”.
When is journalism hacking? [verge] – “Journalist Tim Burke is facing charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. After all this time, is the federal anti-hacking statute still broken?” Sure, but stop with the SEO headlines, please.
Our Mourning for Nex Benedict Calls Us to Action Against Transphobia and Fascism [truthout] – “Nex was a gender-expansive 16-year-old whose mother was a member of the Choctaw Nation. Nex died on February 8, after enduring a beating in their high school bathroom on February 7. Nex’s grandmother and adoptive parent Sue Benedict said of their identity, “Nex did not see themselves as male or female. Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”” This is the result of the anti-trans discourse. Or see the next article:
Libs of TikTok targeted a district, then a non-binary student was killed on campus [daily kos] – “Violent attacks on transgender and non-binary youth have been increasing across the nation as a legislative blitzkrieg from Republican lawmakers targets their collective rights to exist. According to a report from UCLA’s William Institute School of Law: 33% of transgender and non-binary youth in the United States have had gender-affirming healthcare key to their existence banned by their local governments.”
Solving the puzzle of Long Covid [science] – “Tied with the antiscience, antivaccine movement, a tide of Long Covid denialism is rising. This movement sows doubt about the scale and urgency of Long Covid, conflates Long Covid with vaccine adverse events, and seeks to hamper progress on addressing the care needs of people suffering from this condition. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, but like any pharmaceutical agent, they are not free of adverse events.” Topol always manages to slide some weird half-truths in, but hey.
Punk Custodians [thebaffler] – “This is a time when there were a lot of expectations in a country like Switzerland about how you are supposed to move through the world. In this Switzerland scene specifically, most punk shows happened in the basement of a gay bar. So there’s this intersection of queer culture, punk culture, these things that were definitely existing on the fringes in a way that we don’t necessarily understand as people who grew up in a world where these things have been way, way normalized for us by earlier generations.” Back in the day i thought Kleenex were fashion punks, but now i need to admit, that they did made great music.
Long COVID patients need scientific ambition, not defeatism [gavi] – “The emergence of Long COVID is an opportunity to right the wrongs of this history, to properly fund biomedical research into infection-associated chronic illnesses for the very first time. This research has significance well beyond Long COVID. Viruses are implicated in the development of some of humanity’s most feared neurodegenerative diseases.” And fucking now!
Dear white people. Candice Breitz – “When I draw on Hannah Arendt7 and Audre Lorde to suggest that our silence will not protect us in the current geopolitical climate, I do so not because I wish to make a literal call to everybody who is gathered here today8—or to everybody within cultural community—to raise their voices. Nor do I do so in judgement of those who feel they cannot raise their voices. For there are many among us—people who are not protected by whiteness and a number of other social and political privileges and advantages; people who are economically, politically or emotionally precarious; people who do not carry the advantages and protections of citizenship—for whom the price of speaking up would simply be too high. My call goes out, instead, to those among us in the cultural community who are at the least risk; those among us who are best equipped to survive the stigmatisation and other repercussions that may well follow when we speak out, the increasingly inevitable consequences of choosing to break the weight of the silence that is choking us collectively.” This was the speech by Candice Breitz for Tania Bruguera’s performance, ‘Where Your Ideas Become
Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading The Origins of Totalitarianism),’ at the Hamburger Bahnhof. For this speech Breitz was then demonized in the media, among other places in the formerly leftist newspaper taz. I can’t believe what is happening in Germany. And it scares the living shit out of me.
Bad Religion [the baffler] – “The number of Americans who identify as pagans rises fairly reliably each year, up from less than ten thousand in 1990, to more than three hundred thousand in 2008, to as many as 1.5 million in 2014. These days, American pagans vastly outnumber the cumulative ranks of the quintessentially American peace churches (which includes the Amish and the Mennonites, the Church of the Brethren, and the Quakers) and rival in numbers the Greek and Russian Orthodox, Anglican, and Congregationalist churches. And young people, it seems, are paganism’s fastest-growing demographic: at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, one particularly vibrant niche of social media was the self-proclaimed #WitchTok, where young influencers educated their followers in everything from spells to the intricacies of appealing to patron gods and goddesses.” Baffled how the author could get through this entire article without mentioning the influence of feminism in neo-pagan and wiccan movements. Think Starhawk, Adler and many other authors.
How do we handle the #NewlyDisabled Surge? [everywhereaccessible] – “Since they do not see themselves as disabled. though by definition they absolutely are, their thought process defaults to the standard opinion of popular culture, which is the hatred of disabled people, whether directly and with intent or indirectly and perhaps, subconsciously. This of course perpetuates internalized ableism, and ironically, interferes in the ability to achieve justice for themselves. It also splits them from the guidance of the disability community, many of whom are going through the same struggles, and have addressed many of the problems they will face.” Yes, we the newly disabled can and need to learn from those who have been struggling with ableism for a long time. But it can go both ways, newly disabled folks can also bring experience and knowledge to the movement.
January 2024 Global Climate Report [ncei] – “The January global surface temperature was 1.27°C (2.29°F) above the 20th-century average of 12.2°C (54.0°F), making it the warmest January on record. This was 0.04°C (0.07°F) above the previous record from January 2016. January 2024 marked the 48th-consecutive January and since March 1979 with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average.” So, i was kidding, this is NOT fine.
Life Is All About Work, Didn’t You Know? | Antonio Melonio [substack] – “Indentured servitude dressed up as freedom and prosperity. That is what it is and nothing else. And not even that in most parts of the world. Leaving society is illegal, living off the land is illegal, traveling is illegal — obtain permits and visas, be questioned and probed to cross imaginary lines. Can’t even fucking kill yourself. Your life isn’t yours to take. It belongs to someone else. It belongs to society. And society needs workers so other imaginary lines go up, up, up.” I think Melonio helps me in my drift towards nihilism.
YouTube Livestreamers Made Money ‘Hunting’ for Migrants Along the US Border [wired] – “Even while in the middle of harassing the migrants, the livestreamers could still be heard thanking those who were sending them money via YouTube’s Super Chat function or through other platforms like Venmo and the Christian-aligned crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. In one situation, while Fulfer was shouting at migrants in Arizona telling them to go home, he stopped briefly to call out a supporter who had sent him $50 on Venmo.” WTF How?
Do not reply to deny my lived experience – “Stickers to Manage Replies By” Some of these are so on point. Stop #Mastodonsplaining.
Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza : An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Necessity of Anti-Colonial Strategies for Liberation [crimethinc] – “The human rights discourse that has hijacked the political left in recent decades has drawn us away from a framework of liberation and effective action. It is now clear that we must track back from liberal thinking in order to reestablish strategies that disarm and deconstruct power. The moral complicity with Israel’s crimes that is represented by the ICJ’s refusal to order an immediate cease fire forces us to do this. It offers a convincing argument that we all need to break with the current failed system.” Fuck the liberals and their glib bothsidesism. Fuck Jon Stewart.
Mass Disabling Event Denial | Nate Bear [substack] – “it’s also no surprise that societies built on supremacist foundations and eugenicist tales of the strong conquering the weak are unable to look honestly at physical, bodily deterioration. It’s no surprise that ableist societies are disabling themselves. A genocidal mindset is coming home to roost. The truth is our relative privilege as citizens of the imperial core could only ever last so long. Our comfort and safety has always been traded off against out-groups and the exploited, both historically and in the present.” So grateful for Nate Bear.
Known-Unknowns or: How to Spit the Taste of Your Own Death Back at That Which Seeks to Sustain Itself Through Your Annihilation [substack] – “There are two things to be done: firstly, the final extinguishing of capitalism and the entire mystifying ethos of private property; secondly, the social revolution against every form of repression, every violation of autonomy, every form of surveillance and every technique of mind-manipulation—the social revolution that must happen before, during and forever after the political revolution that will produce a classless society. If these things do not happen well within the limits of this century, within the life-span of most of us now living, our species will be doomed to rapid extinction.” Beatrice Adler-Bolton at their best.
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Helicopter Ride : On the Death of Sebastián Piñera [crimethinc] – “On February 6, 2024, the ex-president of Chile, Sebastián Echenique Piñera, died in a helicopter accident. Beyond being a ruler of the territory dominated by the Chilean state, Piñera was also an economist and businessman. He was the owner of LAN airlines and a number of media channels and outlets.” This, of course, is not without irony, given how the Pinochet regime used to drop people from helicopters, among other methods, to weaken the opposition.
Geopolitics for 2024 | Peter Gelderloos [substack] – “We rarely know how to achieve any continuity from one generation to the next within the alienation and scarcity of capitalism, so we commit the same mistakes again and again. And under the colonial spirituality of rationalism we have forgotten that the real world cannot exist without imaginary worlds. We let capitalism do all our imagining for us until our imaginations become atrophied, so we can no longer turn to revolution as a meaningful concept because barely anyone knows how to imagine a revolution anymore.” Ageism will end up weakening us so much on the radical left.
Astra Taylor on What “Security” Really Means [current affairs] – “When you go back to the Latin root of the word security, the word “care” is in there—care is at the heart—and that’s the key. The security we need is the security of caring for each other and building bonds of solidarity, of recognizing our shared vulnerability and insecurities, in finding a kind of collaborative, cooperative, and sustainable form of security that is in direct opposition to this defensive, individualistic, and toxic form of security.” And interview following up on her recent Massey lectures on the same topic of insecurity.
“To Repulse the State from Our Uteri” [duke university press] – “They maintained that abortion restrictions were a form of state violence, especially as they corresponded with the structural violence of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Anarchists argued that feminists must oppose the state itself as the ultimate patriarchal institution and the source of much of the violence they faced. Thus, rather than the slogan “We’re prochoice and we vote,” anarchists often marched behind a banner reading “We’re prochoice and we riot!”” Team anarchists.
Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship. [literary hub] – “Let it also be clear that this is a cancellation of a residency and an event we previously agreed on, based solely on my decision to leave a publisher. It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide. You should also know that you have now added yourselves to the long and infamous list of cultural institutions which cancel artists who refuse to stay silent when the world is screaming.” I can’t believe what is happening in Germany. And it scares the splattering shit out of me.
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT [nyt] – “The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.” Tell us, Noam.
The Twitter Files: Some Observations [znetwork] – “In a functioning democratic society, engaged citizens would be able to sift out the sensible from the nonsense in the Twitter Files and use it as part of a push for greater democratic control of society. Of course, as Z readers are aware, the United States is a long way off from being a functioning democratic society.” Yeah, let us do take some things serious that were revealed by the so-called twitter files. But Taibi is a goner.
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany [alexwlchan] – “I could keep going. And I did. Eventually I ended up with a PDF that Preview claimed is larger than the entire universe – approximately 37 trillion light years square. Admittedly it’s mostly empty space, but so is the universe. If you’d like to play with that PDF, you can get it here.” Why Germany? But okay, fine.
Germany entered a recession last year because the average worker needed 20 sick days | The Gauntlet [substack] – “The “kill the vulnerable to save the economy” approach was first favored by the Koch network of shadowy libertarian thinktanks and neatly summarized in the famous Great Barington Declaration. The open letter, roundly repudiated by public health bodies at the time, put forth the argument that abandoning mitigations and fully reopening would exterminate the weak in the short-term, but lead to herd immunity in the long term.” A bit of historical context.
[Articles German/French]
Polizeigewalt und Rassismus: Wann erfolgt die erste Verurteilung? [woz] – “Vergangene Woche hat das Berufungsgericht den angeklagten Polizisten im Fall Wilson A. freigesprochen. Die Geschichte veranschaulicht, welche strukturellen Probleme auch bei ähnlichen Fällen bestehen.” There have been a number of cases of racial profiling by the police in Switzerland in front of the courts, but still no convictions.
Das gefährliche Netz der Abtreibungsgegner [zdf] – “Rechte und rechtsextreme Gruppierungen schließen sich verstärkt der Anti-Abtreibungsbewegung an. Die Recherche von „Die Spur“ zeigt, wie weit ihr Einfluss reicht und wie gefährlich das sein kann.” Documentary about the pro-life network in Germany is one to hate-watch.
Threads, Bluesky und Mastodon: Die Chance ist jetzt [netzpolitik] – “Mastodon steht mit seinem dezentralen, offenen und nicht-kommerziellen Ansatz tatsächlich auf der richtigen Seite, und ist zurecht Vorbild. Aber genau daraus sollten wir auf Mastodon die Aufgabe ableiten, uns aktiv an der Entwicklung großer, dezentraler, sozialer Netzwerke zu beteiligen, moralischer Kompass zu sein – und uns eben nicht abzuschotten. Es braucht endlich Mut statt Mauern!” Stop building walls in Mastodon, it is silly.
Das Jammern der Täter [das lamm] – “Es ist schlimm genug, wenn jemand die Grenzen einer Person überschreitet und ihre (körperliche) Autonomie verletzt. Wenn andere der betroffenen Person aber auch die Schutzwürdigkeit oder die eigene Wahrnehmung der Verletzung absprechen, kann das menschliche Grundvertrauen in die Brüche gehen.” The victim-perpetrator reversal needs to stop.
Wer den Populismus von heute verstehen will, muss seinen Unterhaltungswert erkennen [woz] – “Wut, der Affekt, der Langeweile durch die Mobilisierung von Ressentiments lindert, macht Plattformen rentabel. Facebook hatte früher seine Algorithmen bekanntlich so optimiert, dass die Nutzer:innen aller erdenklichen politischen Präferenzen, aber in genauer Abstimmung auf diese, mit möglichst viel Wut erzeugendem Material konfrontiert wurden; verbunden mit dem Angebot, ihrer Wut sofort Luft zu verschaffen. Jeder Post ein verbales Selfie mit hochrotem Kopf.” Social media is too often rage-driven, but it still could and in some cases can be network-driven.
Misogynie ist doch lustig [daslamm] – “Es ist unendlich viel kraftvoller und lustiger, wenn die Pointe eines Witzes jemanden in einer Machtposition blossstellt, statt die Person, die sowieso schon mit Diskriminierungen zu kämpfen hat. Letzteres ist, als würde man jemandem, der schon im Regen steht, einen Kübel Wasser über den Kopf leeren – unnötig, langweilig und schlimmstenfalls schädigend.” The sad story of how politically incorrect humor has arrived in Switzerland as well. *yawn*
[Older articles, still great]
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism [boston review] – “Long before Nazi violence came to be conceived of as beyond analogy, Black radical thinkers sought to expand the historical and political imagination of an anti-fascist left. They detailed how what could seem, from a European or white vantage point, to be a radically new form of ideology and violence was, in fact, continuous with the history of colonial dispossession and racial slavery.”
Debatte: Extremismustheorie [bpb.de] – “Für die Sicherheitsbehörden spielt die Extremismustheorie eine wichtige Rolle. In der Wissenschaft ist sie umstritten. Worum geht es der Theorie? Und was wird kritisiert?” A video to drop, when people use the extremism theory (it’s mostly propagandist bunk).
R.I.P.
Too many in the wars and by COVID-19.
Aaron Bushnell (see above)
Alexei Navalny he is contriversial, but multi-faceted
Nex Benedict (see above)
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