"Recognition is not an endpoint. [...] But recognition remains the necessary first step – an acknowledgment that Palestinians will remain on our land. We cannot, and will not, disappear." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Important and illuminating new @aaup.org report on the administration’s weaponization of Title VI: www.aaup.org/news/new-aau...

“Common decency, then, stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association, as Russell exemplified. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.” Excellent column from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“My partners down in the emergency room […] have reported to me that two days ago they lost six children under 12 to single shots to the head. We have seen multiple isolated neck wounds.” Children, with single shots to the head. These reports are widespread and longstanding. Stop this genocide.

"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

I’d like you to watch the bit that got the FCC to strongarm ABC into suspending Kimmel. Then I’d like you to find someone who declared overly sensitive college students the central free speech propblem of our time and take a giant shit on their desk.

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

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go. A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“Kirk’s eulogists have praised him for his commitment to discourse, dialogue and good-faith discussion. Few […] of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist of college and university professors, lecturers and academics.”

“It's important to be specific about what Kirk argued for when he was holding a microphone. He hated Muslims. He hated trans people. He referred to the Civil Rights Act as a "huge mistake." He supported Israel and its role in the Gaza genocide.” defector.com/this-is-who-...

"It's quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigot, whose career achievements were pushing for hatred and violence toward those he saw as inferior to him." defector.com/this-is-who-...

ezra klein is a leading voice on modern politics who doesn't fucking remember the violent aftermath of the 2020 election that was stoked by charlie kirk himself

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Trump confronted by protestors in a DC restaurant…

It is not possible to sufficiently underline how egregious a violation of any basic code of moral or legal conduct it is that Israel just targeted officials literally in the act of engaging in good faith diplomacy. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

“What is happening has been clearly announced by the Israeli government: the eradication of Gaza City, of the north of Gaza.” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

“In so decisively shredding the norms they helped establish, together with their associated moral and legal architecture […] Western powers are presiding over the final collapse of their credibility in ways they do not appear to recognize or understand.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I think our disciplines' broad failure to meaningfully respond to a genocide and to help people think about the relationships between genocide, fascism, and authoritarianism represents a far more fatal crisis for the humanities than anything AI might ever pose.

If even Cambridge University Press can’t be bothered to learn the difference between a beta and an Eszett, what the fuck are we doing here? What, I ask, even is knowledge?

No more politicians who won’t say this.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au... "When ‘international journalists’ relay unfounded Israeli allegations against Palestinian journalists, they are legitimating murder."

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... “Meanwhile, Americans at home became fond of watching torture in films and TV shows. Before 9/11, prime-time television showed fewer than four scenes of torture per year; after 9/11, it showed more than a hundred.”

Excited to have the bodily liberty of my friends, neighbors, & family hinge on the “subjective determination” of the incel gamers they recruited at a Dulles job fair last month

newrepublic.com/article/1990... “We are doubling back around the same circular path, where agencies such as DHS downplay white nationalist violence, both potential and actual, while they draw recruits from those same ranks.”

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/... Over 200 reporters and media workers killed in this genocide so far. Shameful silence and lack of professional solidarity from mainstream US press

In addition to temperature, precipitation, and AQI it would be really useful if the weather app included the Gini coefficient of the local area.

This world we’ve made.

“How much power the workers can exercise – and how much profit the capitalist can extract – is an open question, answered only in the struggle itself.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

“As is often the case, the apparently utopian is the only genuine realism.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Important summary by Adam Tooze, drawing on de Waal, of the genocidal starvation of Gaza. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The Guardian covers Harvard publisher canceling an entire journal issue on Palestine. "To us, it sounded like a textbook example of the killing of speech and academic inquiry related to Palestine.” --Kirsten Weld, Harvard AAUP President @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

let's take stock here: (Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it. Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

“But what do you do when an entire village is erased, when a whole way of life is destroyed?” With the Gaza genocide, this ethnic cleansing in the West Bank constitutes an ongoing Nakba. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Too many breezing by these headlines. Whether we notice or not; whether we care about these massacres or not; all of us are tethered to funding this. That will eat your guts out if you see it. If you pretend not to, a price is paid for that as well. And we lack an electoral option to make it stop.

"Chemistry – the Job with a Future"

As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.

The NYT is so in touch with progressives that it assumed it could fabricate a “race faker” scandal about Mamdani and leave leftists to eat him alive. That is how utterly distant their editors are from actual, living souls whose brains haven’t been rotted by the mediasphere.

If that NYT hit piece on Mamdani was the last straw for anyone out there, it’s a convenient fact that the all-access Times subscription you may be about to cancel costs the same ($25) as monthly membership in the DSA. Coincidence? You be the judge.

Trying to figure out how to explain to my kid that this government is taking away people’s healthcare and food to give more money to billionaires and build out their network of secret police and concentration camps

Thoughtful op-ed by Polgreen on some of the only truly good news lately: "why are Democratic leaders so reluctant to embrace the politician who has captured [these] votes, and against such long odds?" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

Getting ready to write by logging into the OED and grabbing the Chicago Manual of Style off the shelf like PLUG ME INTO THE MAINFRAME