Enjoy the hours before Charlie Kirk’s funeral becomes probably the biggest display of MAGA iconography to date. Why not spend five minutes reading the first post in my new newsletter miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...

It's time. I started a newsletter. It's called Art & Politics and the first post is on Jimmy Kimmel and Ezra Klein and how despite asking what Russia was like, most people don't really want to know miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...

It's time. I started a newsletter. It's called Art & Politics and the first post is on Jimmy Kimmel and Ezra Klein and how despite asking what Russia was like, most people don't really want to know miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...

I open TikTok for wholesome intraspecies friendship videos NOT to learn how to prepare for the Rapture they’ve all decided is coming September 23

All the balanced social media habits I’ve spent the past three years consciously building have completely gone out the window in the past week and it feels (mentally, emotionally, and physically) terrible

Here’s a story from June 2000, months after Putin came to power, as he went after a satirical show in a “twilight struggle over the future of free speech.” It did not turn out well! www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

The number of people on my fyp, from the left as well as the right, sharing Candace Owens content is… disturbing

Ezra Klein’s role is to legitimize elite views. See: his shifting opinions on Gaza, which grant centrists permission to discuss genocide, etc. He doesn’t lead, he reflects. His recent work (even pre-Kirk killing) shows liberals truly don’t understand the threat before them.

Arriving at the “crackdown on dissent” era was inevitable but the speed really is extraordinary

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Nightmare after nightmare in this story www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

1. Incredible detail 2. Incredible leak

Been surprising to learn this week how few of my normie friends had heard of Charlie Kirk, let alone Nick Fuentes and Groypers and intra-MAGA rivalries, before this week. If only the goings-on of the most powerful political movement in America were worthy of as much scrutiny as college campuses.

The free speech government honoring the free speech martyr www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

Hell yeah, @juliaioffe.bsky.social, National Book Award finalist www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Truly thrilled about the launch of Christiana Mbakwe Medina’s newsletter Pop Syllabus popsyllabus.substack.com/p/goodbye-th...

Wrote about the state of cultural criticism, and the difficult decisions media outlets have been forced to make around it: nymag.com/intelligence...

@zygaro.bsky.social goes deep on Putin’s quest for immortality zygaro.substack.com/p/immortal-p...

Hundreds of agents stormed a plant and detained 475 people, causing some of them to flee into a sewage pond. It was the “largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations” www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Saw the Riefenstahl doc tonight. Should be mandatory viewing before the De-Trumpification process eventually begins. “I had no idea! What do you mean people were disappeared? My friends were fine, how could I know!”

Prove you’ve watched one minute of CBS News in the past decade challenge

Saw John Proctor is the Villain last night and did not connect with it at all. With so much stuff that reviewers (and people!) love lately, I feel like I’m completely losing my mind.

Just saw a video of a woman performing CPR on a drunk raccoon, it’s not even 7am but that’s enough TikTok for today

Whenever I read something by Bernie Sanders, I imagine it in his voice, which in this case has the added benefit of drowning out this man’s cryptkeeper droning www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“You’re right to feel like you’re being watched.” ChatGPT fed the paranoid delusions of a man who went on to kill his mother and himself earlier this month www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Saw Nirvana. Went to the recording of Hole’s Unplugged show. Had an all-night rager with Pete Doherty after his show in Moscow, and pizza with Hot Chip after their show in St Petersburg. Hung out with Spoon on their tour bus after a show in Modena. Basically: see bands abroad?? And be Gen X.

It's giving.... provincial Siberian city. Or Grozny.

Anytime I see a video from Burning Man, I think: my ancestors did not survive war, persecution, and poverty for me to willingly choose suffering and deprivation. Similar thought re: camping and waiting in line for food. Could absolutely never be me.

The world is terrible but I just got a galley for @juliaioffe.bsky.social’s new book and I have not been this excited in a long long time 🔥

<primal scream>

If this tech/AI bubble bursts while they’re all feigning enlightenment at Burning Man, the narrative continuity would be just….perfect.

A perfect reading journey: Toni at Random by @danaawilliams.bsky.social led me to Corregidora by Gayl Jones led me to this essay by Hilton Als www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have once again been reminded that the Covid booster is no joke. Still 100% worth it (10/10 would do it again etc) but lord.

Crucial research by courageous Israeli journalists www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

“Please don’t do in the news nothing about me” immediately entering the lexicon www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Hard for me to understand what's happening in this photo since I don't see men

Real Sunday catnip for me here www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Anyone involved in any way in And Just Like That should carry within them deep shame til the very end of their lives. Now to cleanse myself by watching the Trump/Putin presser 🙃

“I really don’t care, do you?”

I’m excited to announce that I’m hitting the road with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social next month to celebrate our new book THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT! Come on out and join us! Pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Some prominent supposedly liberal Russians who fled Moscow after the full-scale invasion wake up every day to pontificate on Gaza from a place that feels to the right of even Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Serves as a constant reminder that the fascism runs deep, and can exist alongside opposition to Putin.

A thing I hate is that you can’t look up Jewish GIFs on iMessage (because I presume people are terrible) so whenever I want a Jewish reaction GIF I have to look up Fiddler on the Roof. Constraining.

AI will destroy humanity so we must eugenics our way to smarter babies who will then save us from AI? It’s really time to stop listening to these people www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

Find the European debate over AC completely tiresome. Suffering is not admirable. Cool thyselves www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

I understand the impulse to challenge Trump’s lies about crime in DC but it’s giving what if Frankfurter Zeitung ran a story in 1933 headlined “Fact Check: FALSE. Jews are NOT poisoning the lifeblood of the German nation.” Like, we all know what’s going on here.

Trump praising authoritarian police, then saying he's going to Russia (??) to meet Putin, I have not watched one of these in a while and it's worse than I remembered

Wrote for @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social (wonderful) newsletter about what it means to undertake summer reading in a world on fire glynnismacnicol.substack.com/p/all-i-did-...

The depth of research Molly has done combined with her vivid storytelling skills make this book an absolute must read. Pre-order 🔥

Wrote for @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social (wonderful) newsletter about what it means to undertake summer reading in a world on fire glynnismacnicol.substack.com/p/all-i-did-...