Geriatric Gardener

Lest we forget: “Oliver #Eagleton’s book ‘The Starmer Project’ is packed with detail about Starmer’s political and legal career. It often makes for unpleasant reading: his political life is defined by duplicity; his legal notable for defending the state while prosecuting activists. His leadership bid was an act of fraud”

- via .@Terina Hine in @counterfire

@UKLabour

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#UK #Starmer #Labour #Duplicity #Fraud #Lies #Hypocrisy #Genocide #WarCrimes

How the right took back control of Labour: The Starmer Project review

Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project shows the Labour…

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Dorothea Lange

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Prjects i.e. Projects Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness

#Idabel #Oklahoma #Krebs #PittsburgCounty #Eagleton #McCurtainCounty #third #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

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rotenotes

“The idea that there is a single ‘normal’ #language, a common currency shared equally by all members of society, is an illusion. Any actual language consists of a highly complex range of discourses, differentiated according to #class, #region, #gender, #status and so on, which can by no means be neatly unified into a single homogeneous #linguistic #community.”

— Terry #Eagleton, “Introduction: What is Literature?,” Literary Theory: An Introduction

Bob Kopp

Science and Politics webinar

#Rutgers #Eagleton Institute of Politics virtual panel on December 6, 1-2pm EST: "Scientists in State #Politics", with four scientist-legislators: Georgia Rep. Jasmine Clark (D-microbiology), California Asm. Bill Quirk (D-astrophysics), and NJ senators Sam Thompson (R-physical chemistry) and Andrew Zwicker (D-plasma physics) eagleton.rutgers.edu/event/eag