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One month from today - July 2 - marks the centennial of this epic showdown. I’m working on a commemorative piece for FightsATW and it’s going to be special.

On IG, the poet Martín Espada posted today about deportation, collaboration, and resistance. He posted his poem "He Could Sing, but He Couldn’t Fly," which references Two Ton Tony Galento and the movie On the Waterfront. Read or listen to the poem: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Today at 4:00 ET. InFightingFX I’ll post the link here beforehand.

the nixon tapes are a national treasure

One hour from now, I’m live talking about boxing movies!

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use

Some intense research from Grappling With History, this time about an acid-attack by the wife of bareknuckler Jem Smith’s trainer grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/06/03/the…

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The prose in genre fiction is rarely as bad as it’s made out to be, and is sometimes even much better than some of the stuff being passed off as literary fiction. This novel is so good, but it’s not some crazy outlier.

Good night comrades...

Tolstoy knew.

I bring up the fact of this guy a lot. Table all the disgusting and wrong stuff about J6 beliefs — the fact is the people in that crowd were ready to attack members of Congress, but they did not attack this guy. When you view Auschwitz Guy as being on your side, you fucked up.

Handy mask remover = guillotine.

Correction: Very stupid. Like dangerously, democracy-endangeringly stupid.

Brilliantly writtten piece by Corey Erdman. ringmagazine.com/en/news/end-so…

David Hering Tubi, Pluto TV, and Hoopla are also good, free services. And don’t sleep on the Internet Archive — they’ve got some esoteric selections on there hard to find streaming elsewhere.

Not for everyone maybe, but an inspiration.