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Marina Harss reviews Red Star, White Nights for Wendy Perron’s annual round-up of dance books of note.

I had never heard of a couple of these books–Wendy is performing a public service!

Just heard about another, pre-emptive ambush by the “own voices” movement. Totally unprofessional and unjust.

On the one hand we have a resurgence of the most virulent racism unleashed by fascists like DeSantis and Trump.

On the other hand we have institutional prejudice being hard-wired into the publishing/media industries in the name of combatting that very same racism.

As Truthout, Tyler Walicek describes how SF’s Proposition M “will disincentivize large landlords from leaving units unfilled, while the revenue it brings in will go towards homelessness prevention and affordable housing.”

The moral vacuum leading Florida wants to loosen gun restrictions while demonizing life-saving vaccines.

Floridians re-electing him have signed up for the destruction of their state.

Imagine if I, as a white half-Jew, suddenly announced that no person of color should be allowed to write about the Holocaust?

That is what is happening in reverse in the publishing industry, as it gloms onto yet one more fad–the insistence that only a member of a subject or minority population can write about that population.

I am hearing more and more first-and-second hand stories of noted and accomplished writers being told that their book cannot be bought because the publisher simply cannot allow a straight white man to publish a novel concerning a member of the LGBT community. . . and crap like that.

This is an utter refutation of imagination, artistry, and empathy.

of an America stupidified and deculturized by Republican design.

Back in 2017, when Trump was trying to kill the NEA and the NEH, Christopher Knight noted in the Los Angeles Times that:

“Since Ronald Reagan, the arts agency has been whittled away to a mere shadow of its former self. In inflation-adjusted terms, it spends $100 million less today than it did 20 years ago.”

I was fingering some type of commemorative medallion that my father’s father received when he mustered out of the US Army following World War I in 1918. On the back there’s a raised letter inscription “THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION,” and a listing of all the countries on the Allied side. I wonder if Grandpa understood the hype quotient.

have been utilizing Ye to promote fascism for a long, long time.

At Salon, Amanda Marcotte reports on the long-standing matrix of evil between Fox, overpaid Murdoch puppet Tucker Carlson, & Ye, and, of course, the Republican party, which is all in.

is integral to his political platform, and fits right in with his complete lack of a moral compass. He is totally transactional. He deems the support of neo-Nazis crucial to his future political fortunes, heaven help us.

Heather Digby Parton at Salon gets inside the conniving, amoral ambition motivating DeSantis.

As part of an ongoing pattern of brazen complicity between City Hall and the private development sector, the unique character of the Village is now going to be assaulted by two residential skyscrapers slated to rise at the corner of Washington Street and Houston.

Brian Pape at the West View News reports that the buildings were originally to include 30% “affordable” and “senior” housing units, but, well, that apparently was no longer considered necessary to win the ever-so-stringent approval permits. Not even worth going through the motions anymore.