That ITT's CEO was meeting Nixon on the same day as he was plotting to block Allende is one thing that the Senate inquiry into ITT's machinations in Chile didn't unearth. Both the CIA and ITT just simply said Geneen, the CEO, was "running late" to the CIA meeting.

His smug egocentrism knows no bounds! And such an insult to tiny Nauru, which has a sad history of insults and injuries. After the phosphate economy collapsed, Nauru in desperation allowed Australia to build an infamous prison for immigrants there in exchange for aid.

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend. Will Stenberg

There is simply no way CNN can feign ignorance about the fact that they set up a sexual assault victim to be targeted and attacked on national television a day after the verdict. People were sounding the alarm about this exact scenario. They let it happen anyway without a plan.

Still ignoring the obvious at Harvard... thecrimson.com/column/betwee…

This entire interview with @AOC is 🔥. 👏

Gave ChatGPT a list of interests. Asked for a list of jobs to consider. Added that I was a woman. No additional info provided. New job list includes fashion. Said I mistyped and was actually a man. No additional info provided. Fashion is replaced by engineering. Cc @OpenAI 🫠

Oregon lawmakers are considering a proposal to provide $1,000 a month to unhoused or low-income individuals for two years to see how it affects their ability to secure stable housing or otherwise improve their well-being. (1/11)

Nice to see this photo I took doing fieldwork in Kenya looking at #MPesa still making the rounds!

A former Bend mayor died homeless. What happened? oregonlive.com/politics/2023…

There’s something about this photo, I just can’t qwhite put my finger on it. 🤔

oh my god

Catkins @ Minto-Brown Island Park instagram.com/p/Cnfq1wLPw7L/…

12 dirty little secrets of journalism. A thread: 1. When a reporter writes a warm human-interest story about a politician, it’s often an attempt to soften up the pol to get a better story later. Stories that make pols look good are known in the business as “beat sweeteners.”

Today I am haunted by the great @sarahkendzior's trenchant line: "America is purple--purple like a bruise."

And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, or you have to escalate and risk it back firing, but a good pocket veto is a tool to learn to wield well.

Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me): CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff. A layoff of 50 employees within a 30 day period qualifies. I know you didn't get that notice.

Man there’s really an xkcd for everything

What kind of human being would say this?

Accommodating depression: A student struggling with major depression fell off the face of the earth for a few weeks. They resurfaced and asked if they could make up the work they missed. I said of course. They were confused. "Will I get points marked off?" 1/5