Wrote a little thing on Facebook for my non-online friends and relatives about caution around Charlie Kirk’s killing. It’s public so feel free to share it with your non-online friends and relatives too. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DS2...

I wonder why it is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...

Anybody watching this Trump program knows that it’s all fiction & performance. His “instincts;” his “deal-making;” his status as “the ultimate CEO.” It’s utter fiction. It’s awful that media figures w/a reasonable level of sophistication pretend that the silly stories from Trump camp are credible.

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.

Please say this AGAIN for the people in the back. ALSO let's please discuss the racial and gender and class differences within Gen X.

Has a Dem introduced a "no law enforcement with masks, no I.D.s and a right to hold you indefinitely" bill? Or put more simply, "defund ICE"?

some people confuse the "ruthless pursuit of power *in order to win advance one's political projects, principles, and values*" Realism with "ruthless pursuit of power that betrays the absence of political projects, principles, and values" Realism. there's nothing serious or adult about the latter

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

They will tell the courts to get fucked but they can only tell your union to get fucked if you let them! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

To the #BrokenPost, shredding the Constitution in a fascist, authoritarian coup is a "power move." Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.

"But even as the Trump administration has carried out a series of controversial deportation flights to other nations, deportation totals are roughly the same as they were during President Biden's last year in office." If you’re basing your argument around the idea Dems didn’t do this you’re wrong.

As someone who very much thinks that the Biden story matters a lot, it's so awesome that the press is completely uninterested in the 5+ times (off the top of my head) that Trump just openly has no idea what his administration is doing.

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

Substack paid Matt Yglesias 250,000 tp start a newsletter so he can spread his smart takes like “DEI is bad.” Am I saying that fool is a Nazi? No. But I’m saying it is different than other platforms that simply allow Nazis. They pay the people they want to launch newsletters. A LOT OF MONEY.

In some ways Newsom's trans athlete ban feels like just another day for Dems, but in others it feels like a watershed. The biggest state in the country just caved to Trump immediately to attack trans people. I've been hoping Dems wouldn't go the way of UK Labor, but it's looking that way.

I can't stop watching this: youtu.be/TrTZjp6kPoY

The reason all of this matters & why I’m writing this right now is not to say that a “mature” fascist state is inevitable, but that the best way out at this point lies in organizing, mass protests, & widespread disruption of systems & processes. In short, we must become unruly & ungovernable.

The best example of the blurring of state & vigilante violence is the masked maybe-uniformed-maybe-not “ICE” officers. Are they ICE? Doesn’t seem to matter. It’s treated as lawful. Please recognize this threat for what it is.

This is what fascist state capture looks like in practice—a pervasive blurring of the boundary between state & vigilante violence under the aegis of the law.

voluntary recognition of unions (for one example) and bargaining in good faith are things that actually can and do happen and we should shame companies when they don't

"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."

They're not scared of him, they agree.

What’s useful here is he makes the subtext explicit by stating the discourse is about “particularly white men” and his prescriptions all amount to rolling back efforts to address racism.

Hijacking the world's biggest economy in order to carry out a $3 billion pump-and-dump crypto scheme is like taking over a nuclear power plant with armed commandos in order to steal electricity to power the kegerator on your back patio

The son of the US president and the son of the Commerce Secretary are both raising billions of dollars to invest in crypto assets that their fathers will use federal government policy to inflate the value of. Most nakedly corrupt presidential administration in history. www.ft.com/content/cc55...

Will Democrats ever accept the fact that they are playing a game against people who cannot be reasoned with?

Anyone see a parallel between the right's (a) using antisemitism as a pretext to attack academia (including DEI) and (b) cynically trying to sell the campaign to end affirmative action (mostly benefiting whites and harming Blacks & Latinos) as a way to protect Asian-Americans (tinyurl.com/mrx8cx78)?

Americans HATED MLK for criticizing American imperialism and the Vietnam War. Eartha Kitt was blacklisted for years for being against the Vietnam war and saying so in the White House. What a lot of liberals don't like to admit is that they *like* and support America's power through force.

We will be discussing this in my Race, Media and International Affairs 101 course this summer.

music feeds the soul that we need now just gonna make this an ongoing thread of covers because I feel like it and because editing this thing I'm editing is tedious

With all the (deserved) attention on immigrants, Palestinians, LGBTQIA (from a whiteness frame😶), & other vulnerable groups, the danger of this admin’s virulent anti-Blackness is often overlooked. These👇🏽are some pivotal cases before SCOTUS that we should not sleep on. Eyes open👀. My Evening Read:

Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

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"Around 14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours if more aid trucks did not reach the population, U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC on Tuesday." Democratic and Republican establishments both support this by the way. It's a genocide.

This is an aggressive hagiography for a man of such limited accomplishments. To write such a piece after the destruction he’s helped wreak on our international alliances, the forces of xenophobia he unleashed on law-abiding Ohio residents who are Haitian refugees? Journalistic malpractice.

Pick up any honest history book and read it. Because this is who America has always been.

The three professors of authoritarianism who keep writing and doing media about their choice to flee the country made me want to write about staying, and fighting. www.jphilll.com/p/do-we-figh...

The righteous cartoonist Shay Mirk made a very cool zine version of my "Gangster Party" essay www.instagram.com/p/DJo2S01CPH... Free to download and print at this link: static1.squarespace.com/static/59b30...

The eradication of DEI programs is a good time to think about how to seize those rare moments of opportunity to extract forms of power that can't be taken away. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-to-ge...