Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 136 - Reinventing the Cultural Revolution
Pretty awful week but here's the update!
Reinventing the Cultural Revolution
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) 2025-04-12T18:02:52.457Z
Evil Vegans!
"Lib Dem vegans, Sir. thousands of em"
— Dougal D'Arcy (@mrdarcydog.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T09:06:46.684Z
Rommel the Bad General
Overpromoted division general or brigade colonel?
#OTD in 1941 Rommel kept adding to his mistakes. Any general less closely tied to Hitler, or fighting in a theatre that actually mattered, would have been sacked over command failure at this scale. #desertwar #ww2 @cedricmas.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social
— The Crusader Project (@crusaderproject.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T05:37:13.614Z
Staying Alive!
The (completely made up) New York magazine feature that became Saturday Night Fever. Illustration by James McMullan
— LondonLee (@londonlee.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T15:44:59.198Z
Bond sell off
Trump will declare an American moratorium
The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2025-04-12T10:30:06Z
America's lazy Himmler
FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been quietly removed as the acting ATF director after he stopped showing up to work.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T17:36:01.459Z
Absolute nonsense
No, this isn't how it works. Check out Ian Garner's Z-Generation instead.
If you’re wondering why, as I have been, here’s the answer. From Ben Meiselas. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
— Carey N MD (@careynesmithmd.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T13:23:12.835Z
It didn't. Deportation was a code name for murder
They're following the blueprint for fascism.
— GemmaGem (@tippytaff.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T22:19:05.461Z
Smuggling into America is wild
The War on Drugs is lost, long live the War on Eggs
— Christoph Harig (@charig.bsky.social) 2025-03-17T17:11:07.951Z
Such a good film!
Rassling
100% banger of the week
100% banger of the month
Our (prescient) book is still out
Phil has a new book out now!
Also on Amazon.
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