Bilbo's memoir reveals a lost Mordor.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Call these Senators! www.senate.gov/senators/sen... HOLD THE LINE!!! 1 @schumer.senate.gov 2 @welch.senate.gov 3 @SenatorRosen 4 @ossoff.bsky.social 5 @SenatorBaldwin 6 @SenatorKelly 7 @SenatorPeters 8 @shaheen.senate.gov 9 @durbin.senate.gov 10 @hassan.senate.gov 11 @slotkin.senate.gov

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

The political goal of leftism is to become cringe. The social goal of many leftists is to remain cool. Therein lies the tension.

Viewing this as a mandate in favor of my “Stop making me hear about Ezra Klein” platform

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

More gold, worse government.

Really excellent @tressiemcphd.bsky.social this morning on Platner: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

The evidence of Andrew Cuomo's Islamophobia is substantially greater than the evidence of Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism, and the former deserves far more media coverage than it is getting.

A propos of nothing…

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Can't recommend John Ganz's When the Clock Broke enough. Finally someone has written a Rick Perlstein-style book that serves as a "fossil record of Trumpism". This one covers Bush 41's Administration and I really hope he's working on another volume for the rest of the 90s and the Clinton Presidency

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds. Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

please do this if you have a minute.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

the hard line of 'racism is not part of any conversation' is the very minimum to maintain to have a civilized order, and the reactionary centrists are among the biggest quislings around when it comes to that.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

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

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

Okay, I think we can now say confidently that he was a groyper

The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology