the iconography of white supremacy has always been wild

i exclaimed in anger no fewer than 3 times while listening to Greenblatt's interview on NPR this morning.

my god this is good. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

sometimes i imagine trying to explain to my son why at one point in our national history there was a high-profile jury trial for a man who threw a sandwich at another person.

accusing workers of "extreme misconduct" for gathering at your office to ask reasonable questions is big "I have to move out of my house because someone wrote 'save democracy' in chalk on the front sidewalk" energy.

Attention has (justly) gone to the abuses in Chicago but the assaults in Los Angeles never ended. The military left but they were guarding building. DHS paramilitaries remain active in L.A. it's bad.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life" is *incredible*

staten island gonna staten island

if i were him i'd absolutely frame this

If you live in NYC and you don't pay for @hellgatenyc.com, you should.

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

[slams head on desk]

well, fuck.

Obsessed with the Louvre heist? Eager for an eat the rich story because you're mad as hell? Meet the prolific art thief who robbed America's aristocracy blind. magazine.atavist.com/2025/blue-bo...

i hate it here.

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

SNAP benefits run out in 6 days.

A surprisingly hopeful perspective from a reporter who asked random folks on the east coast how they were doing, learned we’re all having a really bad time, and chose to highlight the shared humanity in that.

Big huge thanks to @seywarddarby.bsky.social for this thoughtful summary of my recent piece on valley fever for the @longreads.com newsletter. Full piece is here: grist.org/health/valle...

a thing i've been thinking about a lot is how, when i started researching my book (2016), "antifa" was the bogeyman of neo-nazis. now it's the bogeyman of the white house. the math here isn't hard to do.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

lol

wtaf

honestly at this point i'm more likely to donate to democratic candidates if they pledge to stop texting me forever.

oh my god?

Feels like a good day to re-up this great profile of the buffoon running the Pentagon. nymag.com/intelligence...

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

"We’re traveling nearly 2,000 miles on I-95 from Miami to Maine, and pausing at virtually every rest stop. Our project is simple and vast at once: to ask fellow travelers where they’re headed, and where they think America is going too." New from @atavist.com. magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

o rly

Sharing for this strong opening graf. “President Trump, a slumlord at heart, is quietly halting enforcement of the Fair Housing Act...” newrepublic.com/post/200749/...

nah.

today in the death cult running our country.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

what very smart person is writing a very smart essay about the national crisis of confidence we're witnessing right now? people on the left AND the right insisting that a legal document is fabricated, but for the exact opposite reasons?

"The most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." THIS. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

to put it very mildly: yikes.

Ignorant question but why does the charging document include reproduced text exchanges instead of images of the actual exchanges?

shameful.

I have found this week devastating in a way that feels on par only with the days after the 2016 and 2024 elections, and with January 6. The whitewashing and myth-making happening in real time, at scale. Virtually every media institution being complicit. What a profoundly broken place we live in.

wait WHAT

I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.

sending a big hug to all the extremism researchers and journalists out there having to explain 1927483907 times today what groyper means.

Let's see: Oklahoma City, the Atlanta Olympic park bombing, everything with the neo nazis of the Order in the PNW, the time that police BOMBED A HOUSE in Philadelphia, and so on. This from Conor is up there with Wolf's tweet about the calm of 1970s Belfast.

thank goodness mainstream media have proven such an introspective bunch.

oh well, onward and upward

um.