“Less than three months into his presidency, Trump’s approach to policy-making had already begun to reveal its erratic nature. His decision to impose tariffs, a move that put the global economy on the brink, did not stem from a robust economic discussion or expert consultation. Instead, as Maddow explains, the genesis of this policy was farcically superficial. Trump, lacking formal economic advisors, tasked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with finding an economic expert. Kushner’s method? Browsing Amazon for books, where he was struck by a title, “Death by China,” leading him to contact its author, Peter Navarro. Navarro, a proponent of aggressive tariff policies, appeared to have the intellectual backing for his views. However, it was later revealed that the economic expert he repeatedly cited, Ron Vera—an anagram of Navarro’s own name—was entirely fictitious. This shocking discovery implies that significant policy decisions, capable of wiping trillions of dollars off the global market and pushing the world towards a recession, were based on citations from a non-existent person. This revelation not only casts a shadow over the credibility of Navaro’s advocacy for tariffs but also raises profound concerns about the validation process of policy proposals within the administration.”
Ive been to this art installation when it was in Seattle it was made by an indigenous artist if I remember correctly it has small patches of astroturf in front of a black and white American flag with a sign that invites people “kneel and join in the screams of the American national anthem”
Please tag me if you can find it!
This piece is called Neon American Anthem bu indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin “to mourn the loss of lives, freedoms, and safety for people and lands subjected to American violence, and to protest continuing oppression.”
I don’t know where it came from, but several years ago this idea popped into my head unbidden, and for some reason it tickles me. I don’t know if it’s funny, but I like it and I made it into a zine, I hope you enjoy it.
It lays out really nicely as 3-up spreads on A4 paper, so you can print, staple and fold it, then cut it into 3 zines. It made it really easy to print up 20 of them to trade at this art social thing I went to
micron, rotring and sharpie on printer paper, coloured and screentoned digitally, 2024
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the “personal life” part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you’ll either find a major tragedy he didn’t recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she’s not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he’s done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn’t work in history, or, women aren’t auteurs, or, there just aren’t as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
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