"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

The subtle influence of early-modern Calvinism on American ideas about the poor has a lot to answer for.

I mean, obvs, right? For chrissakes Ds

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

For those who partake

He's even more frightening when he tells the truth, he hates 60% of Americans and think they deserve violence being visited on them www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

“The pretext for [Kristallnacht] was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.”

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

apropos of everything, "The novelist Thomas Mann noted in his diary on March 27, 1933, two months after Hitler had become German chancellor, that he had witnessed ... 1/2

/6 I decline to give SCOTUS -- or the academic and cultural institutions and people who have made it what it is now -- any benefit of doubt or of cleverly constructed arguments in these matters.

there's a scene in A FAREWELL TO ARMS where a british officer is getting drunk after the disastser at caporetto and keeps saying some variation of "we're cooked," and when i read it in college i thought it was a such a cool way to put it but then i learned it was a bowdlerization of "fucked"

i think people may be treating the dept of war thing a bit too much as a joke. words matter. trump is taking us to a place of violence and aggression, the opposite of defense.

Well this made me cry.

A great resource on #Vienna and #Austria for English speakers, like me ☺️🇦🇹

I went to YouTube with a vague memory of a Star Trek parody song with the refrain "he's dead Jim" and I found this lovely track that I have not listened to in 40 years. youtu.be/25dzGlCZGV8

Don't turn away. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/the-...

Fascists. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment. Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1995...

Breakfast in Amsterdam, aperitifs in Vienna: how to make the most of your time in Europe’s sleeper train hubs

I’m having all the usual thoughts that hobbyist urbanists like me have after a week in Europe (sigh), but one is about scale. Rapid, constant trains between Brussels and nearby Leuven, connecting huge stations and vast, dense pedestrianized downtowns…these places are a 25-min highway drive.

i don't cycle as transit in my city specifically because i have tried and know how scary it can be and i think this should be a required part of getting a driver's license

The previous owner of my copy of Arendt's "Antisemitism" wrote, "Jewish neoconservatives are the new court Jews" on the cover page.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-fatal-...

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

“Another officer says, ‘They’re starting to resist more now,’ to which an officer replies: ‘We’re going to end up shooting some of them.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

I have compiled every NBA uniform "known" as of 7/18/25 at 1:03 pm, to be worn this year into one graphic. I will add more once they are released/leaked. Read below for more info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In November 2024, I then predicted that Trump 2.0 would nudge Americans back toward pro-immigration views and that a hard crackdown would only speed the swing. I also warned Republicans: the more the overreach, the faster the opinion would reverse. That aged well: goodauthority.org/news/trump-2...

This.

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular, fiscally disastrous, callous and cruel and devastating to Americans in need. And still we have national Democrats out on the Sunday morning TV shows criticizing their own party's mayoral candidate. A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.

Sigh.

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

panicking people for no reason is irresponsible and dangerous! panicking jewish people for no reason without regard to their safety to advance your political project looks a lot like antisemitism!

As a Bostonian living in Los Angeles, I cannot overstate how much it pains me to type these words, but... Great work, New York.

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

The media does 500 stories about "are the Democrats commiting political suicide by deposing deportations?!" when Trump is +2% on immigration, but when Trump is 20 points underwater on Iran they don't ask the same thing about Republicans. It's interesting!

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

Worth it and I've subscribed just now! Really terrific beer publication and well-written too

„‚We've all been Vienna-pilled,‘ says Emily Gallagher, New York state representative who went to Vienna in 2022.“

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

"It makes me feel sad because a lot of the people I see here, a lot of guys back here, a lot of Marines, they're all Hispanic...They are in a tough spot.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social speaks with Ross Fuentes, a former Marine, about the military presence in L.A.