Your Daily Negation (with apologies to Laplace).

Hugely honored to have an essay in Perry Vásquez's exhibition catalogue-cum-"minifesto" _25 PALM TREES IN PARADISE_. Vásquez, a fellow San Diego homeboy, is one of the most fascinatingly Ballardian artists the city has produced. #perryvasquez #southerncalifornia #palmtree #sandiego

AIPAC OUT OF U.S. POLITICS! If you're going to grease the palms of politicians on behalf of an apartheid state, at least register as a foreign lobbyist! Sign up to learn more about the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, AIPAC Out of US Politics! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/... #AIPAC

Want to Get Into It, Get Involved but don't know how? The Working Families Party--architects, along with the DSA and Indivisible, of many of the Dem victories in the recent Republican rout--is a painless way to transition from keyboard warrior to grassroots activist. www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

Honored to be tapped by @roychristopher.com to write the foreword to POST-SELF, his foray into black-metal philosophy and "the dark urge to escape flesh and mortality by any means necessary" (Christopher). A grimoire for the Misanthropocene. #eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective

Note to NY Times editors: If your aim is to alienate and drive off your core readership, letting Ross Douthat off the hook like this is definitely the way to go. But if not . . . . (BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

More to the point, what if Ross Douthat went out with a whimper?

Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.

Desperate for relevance after years of both-sides-ism on MAGA and pandering to the anti-woke with trolls like Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, Douthat, NYT offers @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social its plastic pearls of wisdom, counseling (what else?) appeasement--after its smear-and-fear campaign against him #NYT

Working Families Party is *on fire*. They were the locomotive piston driving progressive-populist wins all over. "Get into it, get involved!"--by joining the WFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldu... #WorkingFamiliesParty

What's wrong with the reactionary, GOP-Lite, intellectually ossified, morally challenged neolib gerontocracy driving the Democratic party off a cliff, in one sentence. What we need is a massive dinosaur die-off, the political equivalent of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. #democrats #ChuckSchumer

PHILOSOPHERS ON DRUGS: My review of Justin Smith-Ruiu's "mind-stretching, almost manically polymathic meditation on 'psychedelics, philosophy, and the nature of reality," _On Drugs_, is live at The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1... #TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy

Who knew that flat-earth fundamentalism founded on the moral code of superstitious, fear-haunted, Iron Age patriarchs would be a gift to hanky-panky?

🎧: Should politicians be allowed to be “news” presenters, such as Nigel Farage on GB News? @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social weigh in.

Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

THEY LIVE! Oligarchic, Mind-Controlling Alien Parasites for Cuomo! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n... #Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich

Achtung! Making mock of the Horst Wessel of die MAGA partei is now a thoughtcrime. Loyal subjects of the Reich will report any trolling posts or comments to their local Geheime Staatspolizei HQ. Heil Trump! theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c... #Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk

Mood:

WANTED: Members of that endangered species, homo Scriberlus. Must be willing to train the tireless, unquestioning, unpaid automata that will ensure your own extinction. #PRECARIAT #ENDOFWORK #WRITERS #WRITING #CAPITALISM #AI

Everyday Americans, gleefully telling Anus Horribilis and his fascist kakistocracy to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and doubling down on ANTI-FASCISM. Not shown: Best sign of the day, which read: THIS IS MY RESISTING BITCH FACE. #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #TrumpismIsFascism #magaFascism #FuckTrump

REAL AMERICANS: ANTIFASCIST SINCE 1941. See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot. #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening. Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza. My report:

Professor Tom Alter, a tenured prof and respected scholar who's being railroaded by a far-right troll and a spineless, reactionary university president. CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: [email protected], 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...

10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.

#CULTUREJAMMING lives. "Israel Bombs, U.S.A Pays." NYC. #Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians

My review of the protofeminist, pagan-Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun's long out-of-print, now resurrected travelogue-come-dream diary THE LIVING STONES OF CORNWALL, is live at The Washington Post Book Review www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... #ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Mood:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, you disappoint me. Is this how the backsliding, triangulating, and equivocating begins? Inch by inch, until you're slaloming down the slippery slope?

America Mourns the Loss of the Idea of America. Get it right @nytimes.com

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the greenlight to gut the Education Department.

That sounds about right.

Democracy is a burn pit, Trump is going full Orbán, and the NYT is "uneasy." Questions are being "stoked"! We're long past "questions." The cognitive dissonance induced by the chasm between the horror of our moment and the media acting as if it's just a hiccup is breaking the American brain.

And university j-schools/j-departments are doing nothing, absolutely nothing (to the best of my knowledge), to scramble a rapid response to this blithering corporate-media know-nothingism. A head-in-the-sand professoriat producing tomorrow's talking heads and pundits, sock puppets for the status quo

This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

"It's a mistake to think you're special." - John Giorno.

Is an army of DPS officers needed to remove 3 peaceful protesters & Senator Molly Cook for supporting Nicole Collier? Nicole Collier represents Ft. Worth-district 33, of which 80% of voters are Black & Latino. Their votes will be diluted when Republicans carve them out of the current district.

#Culturejamming strikes again: fully loaded sandwich + guerrilla theater = one small step for meme warriors fed up with fascist Idiocracy.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

NY Gov. Hochul urges return of family facing deportation, including 7-year-old girl https://gothamist.com/news/ny-gov-hochul-urges-return-of-family-facing-deportation-including-7-year-old-girl

i say let these degenerates have their little ku klux klavern www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

The federal officer who arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention center in May suggested that he was following the direction of the DOJ's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, according to bodycam footage.

San Francisco attorney John Keker isn’t mincing words.