I have no plans to watch "Dutton Ranch", but I am going to resist the urge to be dismissive.
Part of the challenge of progressive politics in the USA lies in learning how to communicate with the culturally conservative with neither condescension nor compromise of core values.
Biskind was right!
#USCulture #Movies #FilmHistory #NewHollywood #Jaws #StarWars
https://deadline.com/2026/05/marcia-lucas-dead-star-wars-editor-george-lucas-ex-wife-1236930815/
I'm sure Marcia Lucas was a perfectly nice woman, but I just want to take this opportunity to say how much I hate Star Wars.
US things in need of reform: the Supreme Court, the health care system, and men's swimwear.
#USCulture #SwimmingBriefs #Speedo #Fashion #SwimWear #MensFashion
I loathe the Christian nationalist movement.
#USPolitics #ChristianNationalism #USCulture #Christianity #Religion #Protestantism #DonaldTrump
Thousands of people have streamed onto the National Mall in Washington for a daylong prayer rally. The event Sunday is billed as a “rededication of our country as One Nation under God.” President Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally, the same footage used in a Bible-reading event last month. Most speakers celebrated Christianity’s ties to American history. It's a blending of ideas that critics flagged in advance of the prayer gathering as supporting Christian nationalism. The event was organized by a public-private partnership backed by the White House. Congressional Democrats see it as a Trump-controlled end run around a commission charted by Congress a decade ago to prepare 250th anniversary events.
Pondering the assertion that in the US, since the McCarthy era, the propaganda has been "Capitalism = Good, Comunism = Evil"...
It makes me wonder if that's part of the reason why Prosperity Doctrine (the Prosperity Heresy) got such a huge hold on the US churches.
For those of you in the back, there, Prosperity Doctrine is the belief that God wants his People to be Rich, and being Rich is a sign of God's blessing. Based on various verses which say that God wants to "bless" his people -- and interprets that as blessing them with riches. It completely ignores all the other bits of the Bible which talk about the wickedness of wealthy men, and of course "thou shalt not covet" and "it is harder for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven".
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cr717nglye0o
Seriously, I do not think that the Washington press dinner shooting was staged by the Trump regime.
That some intelligent people think otherwise shows how deeply Trump and other right wingers have degraded public discourse in the USA.
#DonaldTrump #USPolitics #USMedia #USCulture #ColeThomasAllen #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner
When you read stuff like this, it’s good to keep in mind that all of this is a choice.
Why Being Middle-Aged Sucks So Much for Americans (and No One Else)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-being-middle-aged-sucks-so-much-for-americans-and-no-one-else/
#aging #americandream #unitedstates #individualism #uspolitics #usculture
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https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/behind-the-hood/
I've been thinking about the hoodie recently.
>>... no other garment is so charged, or so fraught, in this country as the hoodie. <<
My own dislike for the garment makes me uncomfortable. How much of my distaste springs from ugly prejudices about race, class, and age buried within me?
Then I start to wonder how much of my agonized reflection is not only an ultimately futile attempt to suppress my own aesthetic responses but also an unproductive focus on the individual psyche rather than on the structures of society.
Working with lots of young men in hoodies prompted these thoughts, as did...
#USCulture #Hoodie #Fashion #HistoryOfDress #Race #Class #Age
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Kerr Avonsen (she/her)
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