my friend tim has the handwriting of a novelist in 1910

constantly kicking myself that i didn't get to see him perform King Lear when i had the chance in london

update from my constantly fighting neighbors that i can hear through the walls: apparently the boyfriend has been calling his side piece with his GIRLFRIEND's phone

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

the entire UK economy seems to run on some variety of comedy panel format and we need to impose sanctions immediately

THIS IS ALREADY ILLEGAL. FUCKING USELESS

getting it in the prenup that my future wife MUST care if i live or die

Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!

I am writing a book.

spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...

You know it's bad because The Free Press felt it needed to publish this.

has he not done this before and then months later gone back to being a nazi

YOU ARE THE POLICE. ARREST THEM. YOU ARE LITERALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE IN SOCIETY WHO CAN DO SOMETHING

Slow news week

Trying as hard as I can and I just cannot imagine any one of these people actually putting up a fight against ICE in any meaningful way. The country is just speeding into a wall at the moment.

looking up bars in the east village. go fuck yourself

I wrote for @theintercept.com about the plans for a "New Rafah" built behind IDF lines, the American reconstruction plan for the Strip where villages are turned into AI data centers, and how all of this may be a smokescreen to expel Gazans anyway. theintercept.com/2026/01/21/g...

Trying to find Lindsey Graham's memoir for an upcoming piece and I'm just shocked at how this thing just disappeared off the face of the Earth. No links on Amazon or eBay, no PDF on any pirate sites, not a damn person, even in passing, has thought about this book since 2015.

Had a wonderful (?) dream last night and all I can think about now is that I need to read more Bolaño.

God save me from such a joyless existence as this

About to become more annoying than you people could possibly fathom

"To those currently in power, the U.S. doesn’t even need to claim to uphold higher principles — they would be wasted on the ungrateful." - @seamus-malekafzali.com thedriftmag.com/be-grateful/

Sometimes I'm watching a film and I just see a frame and I have to pause to say out loud, "God, what a shot!" From "The Strange Case of Angelica" (2010):

had hiccups for like 30 minutes yesterday and i'm gonna be for real if i was bolsonaro and hiccuping for months straight i would just choose not to be on the earth anymore

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NEW FREE HELL! @seamus-malekafzali.com on "The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack" at @thenation.com. The US and the west have been enabling Trump since 2020 so Venezuela shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Join to keep our site free! www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

Great piece in the newsletter today by the one and only @seamus-malekafzali.com on media cowardice in the aftermath of the American power grab in Venezuela newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/when-the-m...

using this as an excuse to post one of my fave matt rants that plays in my head every time Greenland gets mentioned (i know it's from a compilation vid i swear I'm subscribed)

lmao don’t vote for a fucking DHS budget at all!!!

I wrote for The Nation about Maduro and the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, and how the West's indifference to the killing of a sovereign state's military commander outside of war paved the way for indifference to the abduction of a sovereign state's president. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I wrote for @theintercept.com about Israel's rush to exploit Iran's cost-of-living protests, with Netanyahu's gov publicly attempting to utilize demonstrations over inflation, aggravated by US sanctions, as a pretext for military intervention. theintercept.com/2026/01/05/i...

coffee does nothing for me but i do love getting a 5 hour energy from a bodega and downing it in one gulp like the grubman that i am

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Remember when everyone was not only obsessed with this woman but people would make entire careers out of copying her aesthetic and facile, overlong analysis wholesale

the dream of the 1980s female-sung power ballad with a sick electric guitar solo is still alive in pyongyang

History basically just happens as farce again and again and again and that's the whole thing

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Translation: "I was hand-picked for this job by the country's leading fascist propagandist, and I accepted the offer. Do not trust me."

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

20 December 2025 Wasim Said: The situation in Gaza is catastrophic, catastrophic in a way that cannot be described by any means.

I interviewed Wasim Said, author of "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide", from Gaza about current conditions in the Strip, the process of writing a book amidst a genocide, and his critiques of popular narratives about Palestinian resilience. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-rapid-...

I wrote about the un-mourned death of Yasser Abu Shabab, how Bari Weiss attempted to promote the virtues of the ISIS-linked militia leader, and how he existed as a cover for Israel's real plan: to use Rafah as a staging ground to expel Gaza's population. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/whatever-h...

EPISODE 7: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM Adom Getachew joins us to discuss self-determination, pan-Africanism, and the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. open.substack.com/pub/turbulen...

Arash is making this argument because everyone who has ever interacted with him personally has hated every minute of it

Please for the love of God, downgrade our credit rating again

i don't think it's necessary to be pumping everybody so full of chemicals that 71-year-old men expect to be able to do full pull-ups

are you gonna cry