I feel the same way about petainists

Fuck the New York Knicks, Go Spurs

Pelley really just seems like a fundamentally decent guy www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Is Graham Platner a Nazi? No, but he's not not a Nazi, either. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ouch : le FT taille un sacré costume à Macron ! Chômage, dette, désindustrialisation plus forte que dans les autres pays européens, promesses aux patrons étrangers laissés à eux mêmes ensuite, erreurs stratégiques, etc. Quel bilan ! www.ft.com/content/5e5b...

Aujourd’hui j’ai appris des choses sur: La combustion humaine dite « spontanée » : histoire d’un phénomène déroutant, vieux de près de trois siècles www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio...

La hausse des arrêts maladie est avant tout un problème de santé bien réel, en grande partie causé par la détérioration des conditions de travail (et la chasse aux arrêts courts qui augmente les arrêts longs). Il faut inverser la tendance sur les conditions de travail www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

rule #1 of macroeconomics: Paul Krugman is always right rule #2 of macroeconomics: if Paul Krugman appears to be wrong, see rule #1

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the nominee for director of national intelligence

Mood

Les similitudes entre quasiment tous les régimes d’extrême-droite sont frappantes: incompétence, opportunisme, corruption, atermoiements identitaires, luttes intestines, et, finalement soumission au plus fort. Voilà ce qui nous attend en 2027.

Photo incroyable de policiers français fascistes

Just back from a fascinating and inspiring week in Ukraine. Shift in momentum in the war is clearly felt and believed in Kyiv. Big question is whether Ukraine can push its deep strike campaign to another level. On the downside, there is no magic solution to the energy situation next winter.

Je n’ai jamais été autant stressé par l’attente d’une adaptation au cinéma que par celle de la biographie de De Gaulle par Julian Jackson, réalisée par Antonin Baudry. Ça sera soit absolument nul, soit absolument génial, et qu’on le veuille ou non pèsera dans le climat politique.

Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

I did not think it was possible to lose more respect for the Washington Post Opinion team at this point, but here we are

Le Rassemblement National.

Are we in the « c’est LE hantavirus mais LA maladie du hantavirus 2026 » stage yet?

Probably stating the obvious, but when I cast my first-ever vote as a UK citizen today, I'll be voting Green. As an ex-Soviet denizen, son and grandson to dissidents, I'm very unsentimental about party politics; I don't think casting your vote for a party means...

Republicans in Congress want to ... Make D.C. Square Again? What's behind the push for a re-retrocession of Northern Virginia, from @maustermuhle.bsky.social:

A person asked me to write why so little was achieved in the past 15 years despite an enormous interest in inequality and many more empirical studies than before. 1 Income distribution remains entirely peripheral to mainstream econ.

Done ✅

"He was not an anarchist or a “Third Worldist,” but a Bluesky denizen, an extremely angry liberal, the kind of Democrat who would fume about Bernie bros spoiling an election. What does this tell us? The normies are furious." www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-shooti...

Good long read on Europe’s reactions to German rearmament. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Germany re-arms: what does it mean for Europe?

Required settings

Militarisation de la vie civile, épisode 1000.

Great news that they caught the guy and are charging him

Doubling down on stupidity I see.

This is a great interview and @alexbores.nyc is very smart.

Powerful stuff archive.ph/jTf3w

This is a great interview. And a biopic that should never have been made www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Can we just ban this stupid betting on anything and everything? It just leads to BS like this giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets

Bad art makes you feel sad Sad art makes you feel good

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

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“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Sounds about right

A strong man makes a weak people, a strong people don’t need a strong man.

Sur la souveraineté des paiements en Europe : "French online bank Qonto, BNP Paribas-owned fintech Nickel, and BoursoBank, Société Générale’s rapidly growing online bank, are among those that use just Visa and Mastercard". www.ft.com/content/dfc4...

This is great

"Malcolm", ce n'est pas que des gags et des vacheries en famille. C'est avant tout un regard sans concession sur le déclassement social et la précarité des classes moyennes aux États-Unis. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Ppx

What is extraordinary in Sanchez's speech is that he does not attack Trump, Putin whoever (actually, he never mentions them by name) the way liberals do by invoking a world of the 1990s that never really existed. In fact, he says nothing about the "end of history" world.

easy-and-wrong-but-not-terribly-harmful beats easy-and-wrong-and-very-harmful every time, and being a good policy economist with 15+years of experience is about knowing the difference.

Penser comme vous l’écrivez plus haut que des personnes âgées (!) ou des cadres du privé (!!) soit l’électorat le plus viscéralement anti mélenchon, quelles qu’en soient les raisons, pourraient voter pour lui dans un duel face à Bardella soutenu par les médias, c’est au-delà de l’inconcevable

C'est quand même quelque chose de cumuler à ce point les excuses et les justificatifons en mousse autour d'un film d'une indulgence folle pour un collabo de première grandeur.

Ah, yes, the famous gangs of criminals roaming the halls of Vatican’s palaces need to be stopped.

André est trop poli. Ce film est un film qui reprend toute la propagande d’extrême droite sous couvert d’une prétendue neutralité historique et morale sur la collaboration. Les choix ne sont clairement pas innocents et ne sont pas justifiés scenaristiquement. En plus il est trop long.