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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JANUARY 2, 2024  
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January 2, 2024
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_ Will 2024 be just a hangover from 2023? _

, Ryan Pagelow

 

* Boots Riley Unloads
* If There’s a Hell Below, They're Both Gonna Go
* The Undead Beatles
* The FBI is Still Fixated on the Left
* The Purpose of Corporate Feminism
* The Gay Bishop in a Conservative Suburb
* The Golden Globes and Neoliberalism
* Activists’ Post-Dobbs Inventory
* Elders' Struggle of Self-Reliance
* A Conversation About American Fascism

BOOTS RILEY UNLOADS
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By Steve Rose
The Guardian

“When you’re a kid, you’re like: ‘Why are there homeless
people?’ And nobody really has an answer. Then all of a sudden, you
join an organisation that is like: ‘There are homeless people
because this happens, and this happens. Here’s a way to change
it.’ In retrospect, that’s probably what I was looking for in
comics: people that had control of the world around them: people that
could make a difference.”

IF THERE’S A HELL BELOW, THEY'RE BOTH GONNA GO
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By Valeria Berghinz
World Crunch

The list of notable deaths in 2023 includes Henry Kissinger and Silvio
Berlusconi, who many believe had already overstayed their public
welcome before our writer was even born.

THE UNDEAD BEATLES
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By Owen Fatherly
New Left Review

McCartney’s project of going back in time to the 1960s and 1970s and
using advanced software to scrub the historical fact of the Beatles’
shabby, acrimonious end and replace it with a series of warm, friendly
fakes is proof of JG Ballard’s claim – that the science-fictional
future, when it arrives, will turn out to be boring.

THE FBI IS STILL FIXATED ON THE LEFT
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By Arturo Dominguez
Unicorn Riot

A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation document titled
“Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide” links common protest symbols
to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of
conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist
violence within the United States. 

THE PURPOSE OF CORPORATE FEMINISM
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By Constance Grady
Vox

The conversations about _Barbie_ and Ozempic are mirror images of
each other. A moment that is ostensibly about teaching women to love
their bodies is bumping up against the enormous amount of money there
is to be made by selling women stuff that teaches them to hate their
bodies. They are testaments to the failures of the past decade of
mainstream neoliberal feminism.

THE GAY BISHOP IN A CONSERVATIVE SUBURB
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By Jonathan Cohn
Huffpost

Two churches on opposite sides of the political spectrum have become
focal points in a community’s war over gender, sexuality and the
well-being of children.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES AND NEOLIBERALISM
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By Luca Celada
il manifesto Global

The Golden Globes had always retained at least the pretense of
independent judgment, that of peers or critics. The acquisition of the
Globes by Eldridge Industries has now set a precedent for a different
conception: awards as commercial asset, directly managed by a
corporate entity, part of a vertically integrated entertainment group.

ACTIVISTS’ POST-DOBBS INVENTORY
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By Eleanor J. Bader
Truthout

Despite financial, legal and political obstacles, many clinics in
states that have banned abortion have pivoted, continuing to provide
essential reproductive health services such as contraceptives, STI
testing and treatment, and routine gynecological exams, with some
expanding to deliver prenatal and gender-affirming care. New clinics
have opened in states where abortion remains legal.

ELDERS’ STRUGGLE OF SELF-RELIANCE
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By Rebecca Gordon
Yes!

Suppose the disabilities of age mean you can no longer safely live in
your own home. Unless you can afford to move to some kind of
assisted-living facility, your main alternative is to spend
down what you own so you qualify for the pittance that your state
Medicaid program will pay a nursing home (most likely for-profit) to
warehouse you until you die.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT AMERICAN FASCISM
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By Rachel Maddow and Kathleen Belew
YouTube 

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s latest book 'PREQUEL: An American Fight
Against Fascism' tells the World War II story of a committed group of
public servants and courageous private citizens thwarting the
far-right’s attempts to align our nation with the Nazis. Historian,
author and Northwestern University professor Kathleen Belew joins her
to explore the rise of this wild strain of authoritarianism.

* Boots Riley
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* union contracts
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* artificial intelligence
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* The Beatles
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* Paul McCartney
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* FBI
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* US Left
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* Feminism
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* Barbie
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* corporate power
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* botox
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* Pastor Casey Tinnin
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* Placer County CA
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* LGBTQ
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* Golden Globes
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* Eldridge Industries
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* abortion rights
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* abortion restrictions
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* elders
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* Rachel Maddow
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* Kathleen Belew
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* American fascism
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* Prequel
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