janeiro 2025
Henrique Rodrigues cria o Instituto Caminhos da Palavra para promover a literatura nacional
Idealizado pelo gestor cultural, escritor e colunista do PublishNews, o novo instituto será destinado à formação de novos leitores e de professores
Facebook’s New Free Speech Policy Shows Business Getting Back to Business
Big tech seems to be getting out of the censorship business, and it’s about time. After years of increasingly awkward attempts to placate demands from activist groups and the government to suppress allegedly hateful speech and an amorphous category of “disinformation,” Facebook owner Meta is joining X (formerly Twitter) in substituting user-generated community notes on contested posts for top-down muzzling. There’s no doubt that political shifts in the U.S. heavily influenced the rediscovery of respect for free speech. […]
Thank Jimmy Carter for Cheap Airfare
Social media is replete with memes showing photos from the glory days of airline travel, where well-dressed travelers—think scenes from the TV show “Mad Men”—reclined in comfy seats, drank wine, and ate cooked meals. It’s a huge disconnect from our modern airline experiences, which are punctuated by surly crowds, automated systems, and long TSA lines. The point of the social-media photos: Look at how good things were then and how awful they are now. Like all nostalgia, they […]
How many of you know that national highway act destroyed and decimated many functional and/or prosperous black(some of them middle class) communities to pave the way for easier transportation access to the white suburbs. NHA provided a free subsidy to the car industry pretty much/
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Novo chefe de comunicação do governo demite secretário de imprensa da Presidência
O novo chefe da Secretaria de Comunicação Social (Secom), Sidônio Palmeira, decidiu exonerar o secretário de Imprensa da Presidência, José Chrispiniano, nesta quinta-feira, 9. O novo nome para ocupar o cargo deve ser o de Laércio Portela, atual secretário de Comunicação Institucional. Sidônio Palmeira, que assumiu a Secom no lugar de Paulo Pimenta, está em fase de montagem de sua equipe e já despachou com o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). + Leia mais notícias de […]
Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford
In September 1975, two California women each tried unsuccessfully to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The podcast Rip Current examines both women’s stories, plus the radical politics of a counterculture whose desperate last gasps informed their worldviews. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a 26-year-old Charles Manson disciple, tried to shoot Ford in Sacramento, but her gun misfired. Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old housewife who had gotten in too deep with radicals, fired at Ford in San Francisco 17 days later, but a bystander […]
Review: Cabaret’s Broadway Revival
Cabaret begins with the Kit Kat Klub’s flamboyant master of ceremonies enticing the audience to leave their worries outside: “Life is disappointing? Forget it!” It ends with the same character—an unforgettably haunting performance by Eddie Redmayne when I saw the show this past summer, though Adam Lambert took over the role in October—donning a boxy suit and attempting to blend into a world where drawing attention to yourself in certain ways is no longer safe. That’s the real tragedy […]