Tom Roche"truly Grim" performance--RG's defense of mass migration is astonishingly poor, even for this indefensible policy
Ryan debates Oren Cass, the Executive Director of the American Compass, on Immigration, Biden, and the economy.
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Tom RochePart 2 of 2 (audio @ https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/145450314/9b67fa028cee96b6e11ccd3c49cc07bb.mp3) not quite as good as part 1 of this Chomsky interview (not /covering/ so much as /lightly touching over/ c1950-2022) but still very worth 40 min of your time
In light of recent health news about Noam Chomsky, we wanted to re-release Danny and Derek’s discussion with him from 2022.
Danny and Derek sit down with linguist and antiwar critic Noam Chomsky to discuss his biography and a bunch of other subjects, from the responsibility of intellectuals to the antiwar movement to what to do in our present situation. And Chomsky disagrees with Danny. This is the second of two parts.
Tom Rochesome interesting bits sprinkled amidst waaay too much culture-war-on-populism of the sort that in the US is associated with the Corporate Democrats (and maybe New Labour in the UK?) (and I've no idea what the Oz equivalent is)
In his new book, George Monbiot says the trend towards neoliberalism began in the 1930s, and has so dominated the political narrative that its now seen as the natural way of things. So as the far-right once again marches to power, is this moment a political tipping point in the direction of fascism? And can this be reversed before the planet reaches its own ecological tipping point?
Guardian columnist and author, George Monbiot. His new book The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) is co-authored with filmmaker Peter Hutchison and published by Penguin Australia.
Tom RocheVERY EXCELLENT
It's now 30 years since the Rwandan genocide that saw almost one million citizens die in just 100 days in likely the fastest genocide in history. Soon Rwandans return to the polls where it's almost guaranteed that President Paul Kagame, the leader now for 20 years, will be re-elected.
Despite a dire human rights record and the assassination of perceived critics and enemies, at home and abroad, Kagame remains the "global elite's favourite strongman" and continues to be economically propped up by the West.
Guest: Michela Wrong is the author of Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Tom Roche5:16 teaser only
Happy Father’s Day! Patrick Wyman, host of the Tides of History podcast and author of The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World, returns to the program to talk about the all-important topic of fathers. Since it’s American Prestige, though, the group decided to focus on one of the great dads of history: Philip II of Macedo…
Tom Roche(not much) Chris+Felix+Will+guests, very funny (esp the readings--WSJ on Elon Musk as uncanny-valley sexpest of female employees, WaPo on the trainwreck that is Laura Loomer), mostly just bant
To celebrate Pride Month, we’ve got Hesse and Ben from Seeking Derangements on the show to look at a slew of recent headlines in queer news, some recent moments of straight excellence (like John Fetterman crashing his car into an old lady), and a long and truly depressing story on one Laura Loomer.
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Tom RocheMovie Mindset excellent as usual
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We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder “King” George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. It’s a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a lot of ideas about work, employment, ownership, power, performance, alienation, and an (unhealthy?) obsession with the past, all in the context of a very particular modern workplace.
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Tom Rocheamusing start to new season of News Quiz
Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing all the answers are Ian Smith, Geoff Norcott, Shaparak Khorsandi and Anushka Asthana.
In this first episode of the new series, the panel catches up on all things General Election, Trumped up charges (all 34), and a recently discovered royal kid.
Written by Andy Zaltzman
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Tom RocheVERY EXCELLENT
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Independent journalist and bête noire of White House press flacks Sam Husseini returns to Bad Faith to break down the Biden administration's spin over who is really responsible for stalling a ceasefire deal that would bring an end to the carnage in Gaza. Husseini reacts to Hasbara from Jake Tapper and analyzes how hostages have been cynically weaponized by pro-Israel actors to generate sympathy for Israel's siege (and oust progressive news hosts), all while the families of hostages have clearly said that they are far from Israel's priority. Husseini also discusses a new UN report out Wednesday that confirms that claims of mass rape on October 7th are completely unsubstantiated, but that Israel likely implemented the "Hannibal directive" against its own citizens and enacted gross abuses -- including sexual assaults -- on Palestinian victims.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
Tom RocheBessner and (mostly) Davison global week-in-review EXCELLENT as usual
Another Friday, another roundup courtesy of Danny and Derek. This week: in Gaza, Israel carries out a hostage rescue operation, massacring more Palestinian civilians in the process (0:30), while ceasefire talks amble along (10:54); Israel also kills a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon prompting an armed response (14:32); the field is finalized for Iran’s upcoming presidential election (17:41); in Myanmar, rebels advance in Rakhine State (21:21); tensions rise between the DPRK/North Korea and South Korea (24:20); an update on Sudan and the situation in El Fasher (28:44); coalition talks begin in South Africa in the wake of the recent election (30:31); the Right sees wins in European Parliament elections, plus Macron tries a gambit amidst the fallout in France (35:20); the G7 meets and pledges further support for Ukraine (41:26); the US considers expanding its nuclear arsenal (44:14); and a new Pew poll finds that global support for America/Biden is declining (46:03).
Tom RocheEXCELLENT on Chomsky and his world from 1928 birth (and some prehistory) to c1966
In light of recent health news about Noam Chomsky, we wanted to re-release Danny and Derek’s discussion with him from 2022.
Danny and Derek sit down with linguist and antiwar critic Noam Chomsky to discuss his biography and a bunch of other subjects, from the responsibility of intellectuals to the antiwar movement to what to do in our present situation. This is the first of two parts.
Tom Rocheamusing, much better than th 17 May show
Recorded at the Hay Festival 2024. Mordant topical satire from the usual team with voices by Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey and Jess Robinson.
With writing from Tom Jamieson, Nev Fountain, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Rob Darke, Edward Tew, Sophie Dixon, Sarah Campbell, Cody Dahler, Joe Topping, Rachel Thorne and Christopher Donovan.
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Tom Rocheconsistently EXCELLENT, esp closing interview with PTI now-US-based spokesperson Shabbas Gill on the not-only-US-backed but CorpDem-Biden-Blinken-initiated current military dictatorship in Pakistan
Ryan and Emily discuss Hunter Biden convicted, Alito wife wars with neighbor on pride flag, Biden admin gaslights on Israel ceasefire, feds investigate UAW, Fox caught editing Trump Epstein interview, Pakistan abducts Imran Khan allies.
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Tom RocheVERY IMPORTANT guide to an excellent set of Git features exposed by ... Emacs! (via the excellence of Magit)
We all know how to use git commit --amend to fix up the very last commit.
How beautiful would it be to have a command like:
git commit --amend=3
to extend this power to fix up the 3rd to last — or any other past — commit?
Enter git fixup.
Add this alias to your .gitconfig:
[alias]
fixup = "!f() { TARGET=$(git rev-parse $1); git commit --fixup=$TARGET ${@:2} && GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --autostash --autosquash $TARGET^; }; f"
Then, use it as follows:
git add .
git fixup <SHA-1>).Some devs are scared by the very notion of rebasing, but in fact a rebase is an embarassingly simple thing: just a series of cherry-picks.
With a tree such as:
* 84831ab (HEAD -> branch) branch 3
* 65b297f branch 2
* 66fe73c branch 1
| * 7208745 (master) five
| * 6f3ab93 four
|/
* 85f4b7e three
* 7011e1f two
* 76ec393 one
rebasing branch on top of master with:
git rebase master
is just equivalent to:
git reset --hard master
git cherry-pick 66fe73c # 1st commit
git cherry-pick 65b297f # 2nd commit
git cherry-pick 84831ab # 3rd commit
Adding the --interactive flag to git rebase lets you fine tune the
series of cherry-picks before their execution.
If instead of the previous:
git rebase master
you run:
git rebase master --interactive
your preferred editor will pop-up, with this content:
pick 66fe73c 1st commit
pick 65b297f 2nd commit
pick 84831ab 3rd commit
This gives you the chance to do all sorts of magic before rebasing, such as
and the like.
In other words, --interactive creates a transient todo-list file, a
little script of commands for Git to execute.
This is the first key to understanding how git fixup works.
The second key revolves around a little known option of the git
rebase command: --autosquash.
As a matter of fact, not only can the user edit the todo-list file,
but Git itself also interprets the commit messages in search of
commands. This is similar to the functionality often used with GitHub
to close an issue by mentioning its number with a special syntax such as
#fixes 42 in a commit message.
Indeed, during an interactive rebase:
If a commit message starts with “squash! “, “fixup! “ or “amend! “, the remainder of the subject line is taken as a commit specifier, which matches a previous commit if it matches the subject line or the hash of that commit.
In order to instruct Git to interpret those commands, you shall use
the (confusingly named) --autosquash option.
So, the trick for fixing up the 3rd to last commit is to add a new commit with a properly forged message mentioning its message:
pick 3732234 fixup! 3rd commit
pick 66fe73c 1st commit
pick 65b297f 2nd commit
pick 84831ab 3rd commit
and then running an interactive rebase with the --autosquash option.
We are almost there. Let’s fine tune this idea. As a matter of fact, you don’t even have to type that message. Just type:
git commit --fixup 84831ab
and Git will diligently copy the 3rd to last commit message, prefixing
it with fixup!.
Now it’s a matter of executing the interactive rebase, with this magic
--autosquash option.
The only outstanding problem is that for this fixup to work, the
rebase must be interactive and this is not what you wished: you don’t
really want to be asked for any input. You prefer having a git fixup
command completing all the necessary tasks without bothering you.
The trick is to use true as the interactive editor.
true is a little tiny program that does nothing, successfully (it
takes 80 lines to do so).
This should give you all the ingredients to interpret the alias.
If you are one of those horrible developers who refuse to copy-paste a
snippet of code before they really understand it, here’s a breakdown.
| Part | Meaning |
|---|---|
!f() { ... }; f |
Define a shell function named f; at the end, execute it. |
TARGET=$(git rev-parse $1); |
Get the full commit hash of the target commit, specified in the first Bash argument ($1). |
git commit --fixup=$TARGET |
Create a new commit setting the commit message to fixup! <commit message of the target commit>. |
${@:2} |
Optionally, allows you to pass additional arguments to commit. ${@:2} in Bash refers to all the command line arguments starting from the second one. |
&& |
This is a shell operator that executes the next command only if the previous one succeeded. |
GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true |
Tell Git to use true as the dummy editor for the interactive rebase. true always succeedes, actually turning the interactive rebase as non-interactive |
git rebase |
Start the rebase… |
-i |
interactively… |
--autostash |
stashing any uncommitted changes before rebasing… |
--autosquash |
squashing the fixup commit into the target commit… |
$TARGET^; |
from the commit before (^) the target commit ($TARGET). |
Magit, the amazing Git client running on top of
Emacs, offers a very convenient way for selecting the past
commit to modify. Just make your change. Then, instead of committing on
top of the last commit, run magit-commit-instant-fixup and select
the commit you want to amend. That simple.
The feeling is like having a non-read-only Git history. So sweet!
If this is not enough, Magit offers a command called
magit-rebase-edit-commit that lets you mark a past commit as
editable and perform whatever change you desire.
Yes, Magit is magic. But, of course, under the hood, there’s nothing but a simple, fixup rebase.
Enjoy rewriting history!
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Danny and Derek welcome back to the podcast Benjamin Fogel, head of publishing at the Alameda Institute and contributing editor to Jacobin, to talk about the May 29 general election in South Africa wherein the African National Congress (ANC) lost its 30-year majority.
Alameda is a research institute that connects with social movements to understand how…
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Danny and Derek once again speak with Bryan Pitts, assistant director of the Latin American Institute at UCLA, this time to conclude our series on the history of Brazil. We’re now in the post-dictatorship era, with the group delving into the 1988 constitution, the economic and political situation of the 1990s, Lula da Silva’s political rise, he and the …
Tom RocheCiarán+Uma EXCELLENT as usual
As Uma and Ciarán dust off our missing star EU hoodies before promptly throwing them away again for yet another 5 years we talk the EU elections before the results come out.
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I went on Black Op Radio to talk with Len Osanic about the new James Angleton material and its very heavy implications! I pasted the shownotes here below for convenience:
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This bill will result in the most significant expansion of Canada's hate speech laws
The justification for this new law is to "protect children"
How the new bill might be misused
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Tom RocheBessner and (mostly) Davison global week-in-review EXCELLENT as usual
Once again, it’s your patented AP News Roundup™. This week: in Palestine/Israel, Biden pushes a new ceasefire plan (0:30), an update on the situation on the ground in Gaza (8:06), Slovenia recognizes Palestinian statehood (11:37), and Congress (prematurely?) announces a Netanyahu visit (12:37); things further escalate between Hezbollah and Israel on the border with Lebanon (13:55); registration opens for candidates in Iran’s upcoming presidential election (16:45); India’s election sees another Modi victory, but the end of his BJP party’s 10-year majority (19:41); in Sudan, accusations of genocide in Darfur while another RSF atrocity is carried out in the country’s Gezira state (22:49); the results of South Africa’s election, where the African National Congress (ANC) has lost its parliamentary majority (25:21); Ukraine appears to have taken Blinken’s cue to begin using US/Western weapons in Russia (28:01); the results of Mexico’s election (31:02); Joe Biden issues a new executive order limiting asylum at the southern border (32:06); and the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that May 2024 confirms 12 consecutive months of record-breaking global temperatures (35:12).
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Derek welcomes back to the program Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, to talk about this week’s election in India. They discuss the issues facing voters, Modi’s presidential victory, his Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) surprise loss of i…
Tom Rocheamusing
A surprising guest appears at the Met Gala, and Rishi Sunak has an urgent message for Elon Musk.
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It’s Debate Day here at American Prestige, and Alexandre Lefebvre, professor of politics and philosophy at The University of Sydney, has graciously agreed to join us to discuss the major points of his book Liberalism as a Way of Life. He and Danny (along with Derek’s patented color commentary) have a spirited debate over the true nature of liberalism, h…
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Danny and Derek are once again joined by Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, this time to break down Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico. Topics include reactions to Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory, what we might expect in her upcoming tenure, and what this means for left-wing movements around the world.
Tom Roche4:24 teaser only
Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, to discuss the election happening Sunday, June 2, wherein left-wing party MORENA’s Claudia Sheinbaum will face the conservative National Action Party’s Xóchitl Gálvez and center-left Citizen’s Movement’s Jorge Máynez to see who will succeed Andrés M…
Tom Rochegreat 1st/monolog segment (Greenwald vs deepstate/USCFM COVID-19 lies and censorship, esp the farce that was the recent US House of Representatives hearings with Fauci), followed by VERY EXCELLENT 2nd/interview segment with Ivan Katchanovski (U Ottawa) regarding Russia-Ukraine and /those/ many lies, much censorship, and (unlike COVID-19, which was not /quite/ as catastrophic as it might have been) fundamental deepstate/NATO policy failure. (And in case you're wondering--Ukraine is losing the war, and will lose the war, which has been inevitable ever since the US-G7 sanctions failed to even dent the Russian economy.)
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Tom Rocheanother EXCELLENT Altman outing from Hesse+Will+guests
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Tom Rocheturns out the dudes from the 'All Lawyers are Bastards' podcast are seriously funny!
The original bastards of law Tim (@GarlicCorgi) and Andy (@wyatt_privilege) of the ALAB Series podcast stop by to chat law and courts today and WHAT TIMING because the Donald Trump guilty verdict dropped about 10 minutes into recording this ep. So we discuss that case, the verdict and the potential legal ramifications for Trump and the election in general. Then, we look at what’s going on with these Supreme Court Justices’ batty wives, the corruption of the court itself, and the docket of cases set to come before it this summer. Finally, we look at the ICC/ICJ and discuss shifting attitudes towards Israel in international law.
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Tom RocheVERY EXCELLENT, very funny
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Tom Rochemostly excellent, exc 3rd seg (identitarian Laura Carlsen pretends Sheinbaum is a massive win for women who will be better than AMLO because no Y-chromosome)
Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo