Will Bunch puts the incident at the White House Correspondents dinner into perspective. A pliant media legitimising a mad autocrat combined with America's ever-present gun violence.
"There has, of course, been wall-to-wall coverage since the shots rang out, but one thing that seems unexplored is how this all looks to the rest of the world. They see what could have been the best democracy on earth destroyed by madness, in a land where guns are everywhere and a callous elite media dons formalwear to toast its own humiliation by our narcissist king."
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One crazy day that defined the decline and fall of the American empire
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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/laguardia-crash-tsa-ice-trump-20260326.html
Will Bunch’s column today highlighted a term that I hadn’t heard before: neighborism. He defined it as “the powerful reaction from often non-political Americans” to the thuggery of ICE, people standing up for others in their community in a way they never have before. It’s an interesting column and worth a read.
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Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.
> Kreimer told me about the instant bond in Minneapolis between the many rabbis there — the ICE raids “had a magnetic quality to them because of the echoes of the Gestapo," she said — and other faith leaders like Black clergy, who were reminded of 19th-century slave patrols, and white Protestant ministers ashamed over a rising tide of white Christian nationalism in the Republican Party.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/minneapolis-ice-killing-clergy-protests-20260125.html
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#WillBunch: "If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didn’t stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees “garbage” and a patriarchy that mutters “f---ing bitch” as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood. If it lives, it will be because we embraced the higher morality of empathy and compassion for our neighbors — and for people we don’t even know."
Another good article by #WillBunch. We are frogs in a fascist pot. No one woke up and suddenly realized they were living in fascism in 1930's Germany, no matter how clear history makes it look. It is a long slow process, enabled only be good people who don't want to start trouble.
Read ’em. Maybe Weep. Maybe Get Pissed Off. But Read ’em
Life on the Wicked Stage readers will be familiar with the Sunday Morning Reading column wherein I share good writing and interesting topics. Sometimes things fly across my radar after I’ve published the week’s column. Three pieces hit and hit hard late on Sunday after the Chicago Bears continued a mysterious, but gratifying winning streak. I’m going to share those stories here, on a Monday. The writing is too hot to let cool, and the subject matter burns even hotter.
First up, is an excellent piece by Will Bunch called The Night America’s Doomed Ruling Glass Gorged On Lamb, Blood, and Oil. Bunch puts the elite on the menu and carves them up with a bone saw.
Next, check out Anand Girdhardas’ excellent How The Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails. A vivisection that exposes what we all imagine.
Finally, read Tatiana Schlossberg’s A Battle With My Blood. A Kennedy family member, dying of incurable blood cancer eloquently tells her story, and ours.
You might think these pieces tilt into the category of just another round of depressing news and commentary. Partly that’s true. But it’s a small part for small minds. I find each of them reassuring. Reassuring that smart people, spilling words like blood on digital paper, can pour out the pain we’re all living through personal pain of their own, and decipher the day-to-day charades even as the current deadly and dangerous game continues.
I’d say the writing is courageous, but that’s obvious. The real courage comes in reading what’s written and paying enough attention to make it matter. Perhaps sharing them around this Thanksgiving week when we give thanks for our blessings with family and friends. Especially those we disagree with.
Be thankful. Be courageous.
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You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
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A way with words! Will Bunch in Philadelphia Inquirer:
“The night America's doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil”
“Time heals all wounds - even those caused by the bone saw of a Saudi dictator's goons in the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Last Tuesday, the leaders of Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, GM, Chevron, Citibank all left their moral compasses at home to toast Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It epitomized the mad cash grab of a U.S. power elite whose world is about to crash down upon them.”
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