Hudson County, New Jersey, was epically corrupt. Several Jersey City mayors have gone to jail. One day, in 1963, a reporter hung up the phone and announced, “Tony Pro is having another press conference.” Mysteriously, everybody laughed. “Let’s send the kid,” someone said.
At the Teamsters headquarters in Union City, Tony (Pro) Provenzano sat behind an immense desk, flanked by central-casting bodyguards. Other reporters lounged and smoked. Only I had a notebook ready. Tony Pro told a series of obscene jokes about Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was crusading against the Mob. And that was that. Tony Pro stood at the door shaking hands with us. Crinkle. In my palm was the first fifty-dollar bill I had ever seen. I said thanks, but I really couldn’t. I set the bill down when he wouldn’t take it back.
Staring eyes greeted my return to the paper, and the editor-in-chief called me into his office and shut the door. He said, “I don’t know what you did or what you said, and I don’t want to know. Never do it or say it again.”
what is thought to be
depends on
what is thought to be
or is assumed
it is relative truth
absolute truth is simply what is
and depends on nothing else*
Almost every day, I learn something new about the history I thought I knew. When I learn parts of history that were erased, I’m struck by how well the machine that is white supremacy works to keep marginalized people oppressed.Because white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric of society regardless of what part of the globe you live, due diligence must be taken.Anti-racism work must be approached with eyes wide open, with deep commitment, and a knowing that this is life-long work.There are no time-outs and days off.
Are betting shops placing bets for when the next shag will be discovered or who it will be? https://t.co/XvldQ7CJrN
— Politics - #Solidarity rebuild the rebel alliance (@Revoche) May 30, 2021
If you think it was a big red pill to realize that the media's narratives about the world are nothing like real life, wait til you realize that the same is true of your own narratives about your own life.
Is this actually Shatner or a celebrity lookalike? You look amazing for 90, Bill, I say cautiously.
…“Ha! Well, I don’t have any secret potions. It must be genetic. I ride a lot of horses and I’m into the bewilderment of the world, so I open my heart and head into the curiosity of how things work,” he says.
I’m not sure if “the bewilderment of the world” is an ingredient Olay can bottle, but it certainly works for Shatner. That, and horses.*
Here is why I think this govt is the most anti-Internet we’ve seen: the @S_Guilbeault online harms bill will target all content anywhere if available in Canada with blocking orders and mandated takedowns within 24 hours. No public consult on the bill. 1/5 https://t.co/mcfjOKo5Bz
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) April 16, 2021