Late-night comedy:After Jill Biden confronted protesters who rushed onstage during her husband’s victory rally on Tuesday,Jimmy Fallon said, “Forget first lady — she should be secretary of defense.”
George Conway thinks Michael Bloomberg should buy Fox News
Joe Biden sees surge in Jewish support in primary – The Forward
Bye bye Trump. Send to every Jew who voted for Trump because he was a so-called friend of Israel. Quote me, “Trump is a friend of no one, just himself.”
Qinza Najm is one of three artists working at The Fountainhead Residency this month in Miami. I really wish many of you would get involved. You have no idea how much more exciting our lives are now that we get to meet and spend time with from people all over the world. Call me to learn more. It doesn’t matter where you live. I will partner with you.
This month we welcome Qinza Najm, a NYC-based Pakistani-American artist. Najm has exhibited at venues including the Queens Museum (Queens, NY), Christie’s Art (Dubai), Art Basel (Miami, FL), Karachi Biennale (Pakistan), Western Exhibitions Gallery (Chicago) Museum of the Moving Image (Queens, NY), and the National Museum of Beijing (China). Her work has been featured in ArtNet News, the Huffington Post, the NY Daily News, International Business Week, Buzzfeed, and Upworthy.
Najm pursued her fine arts studies at Bath University and The Art Students League of New York, where she studied under the mentorship of Larry Poons. She completed her Psychology PhD at Tennessee State University. Her upbringing in Lahore, Pakistan, adulthood in the United States, and intense training in Psychology inform her paintings, performance and installation work related to gender, politics, and (em)-powerment.
“I am interested in the body as both medium and subject—the circumstances surrounding its physical occupation of space, the norms and laws that govern bodies as political subjects, and the uneven burden these norms often place on women and minorities. Drawing from my upbringing in Lahore, Pakistan, and adulthood in the United States, my sculptures, installations, and performances address gender, politics, and cultural power.
“I often use motifs of bodies stretched, deconstructed, distorted, and pushed beyond their limits. A manipulated body is a reflection of how power is exerted on our being. However, I am more interested in the depiction of human potential—an extended body claims space beyond its expected role, both physically and figuratively. In particular, I aim to raise questions about how we might transcend and combat cultural stereotypes, prejudice, Islamophobia, and racist and sexist norms.”
Is there such a thing as a successful business person who doesn’t have regrets and mistakes? I’m not talking about the low-life caliber of Trump. Writers used obits to bash Welch.
Jack Welch, Revered and Reviled Former Leader Of GE, Dies 03/03/2020
Today’s opinion piece is only a small slice of what I uncovered during the last few years of research for my upcoming book,PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America.PHARMAis an investigative history of the American drug industry. It is packed with revelations from the opioid epidemic and the Sackler family to how companies game the system to charge exorbitant prices. Avid Reader Press will publish iton March 10.
The prepublication reception has been super.Kirkus calls it a “A shocking, rousing condemnation of an industry clearly in need of better policing.” LitHubselectedPHARMAas one of its mostanticipated books of 2020: “Posner has created a medical leviathan for our times.” Booklist calls it “an encyclopedic exposé. Explosively, even addictively, readable.”
Bestselling author ofDopesick, Beth Macy, says “I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans—then blamed the so-called ‘abusers’ instead of their own highly addictive drug. Posner has unearthed important new material that illuminates our national tragedy, crafting a meticulously reported page-turner that is as juicy as it is clear-eyed.”
Trisha and I have been buried for five years in the world of pharmaceuticals. We are grateful to many people who helped us, especially at those moments when the project seemed insurmountable. We are both relieved that it is finally about to land on book shelves and its fate will be determined by critics and readers.
Check Eventsfor information on upcoming bookstore and media appearances. And if you missed it, here is a video trailer for the book.
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