it really burns me that everyone knows the name of guys like Ezra Klein and are constantly talking about them (even if it's in the negative sense) vs. someone like Kaleb Horton. sometimes it feels as if broad name recognition in this era is inversely related to how good your work is.

"We start fighting, every single day."

Holy shit. Kaleb Horton was a standup guy, a monumental talent, and just so sincere about his love for his family, his hometown, and his craft. Gutting, cutting, huge loss for all of us.

Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

I was saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton. (See thread below.) One of the best American writers of his generation. Most recently at Rolling Stone, but at every outlet where his byline appeared, he had that very rare gift for literary eloquence that read like ordinary speech.

I met Kaleb Horton in an In-N-Out in 2018 and was immediately infatuated—singularly thoughtful, talented, and kind; a guy who worked his ass off to do things with words I never thought possible. He is among the best writers of our generation; a model America hasn’t made since. Rest in peace.

Kaleb Horton was the kind of writer whose talent made you ashamed to call yourself one too. To interact with him, however occasionally or distantly, was to know the sweetest, most fundamentally decent guy. All my love to his friends and loved ones. kalebhorton.ghost.io/big-fish-not...

Shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Kaleb Horton, a mutual of mine both here and there, a fine, observant writer and photographer, and it feels very unfair that he’s gone. My condolences to all who loved him.

a lot of good writers out there, but Kaleb Horton was truly gifted. what a terrible loss

Assata Shakur died free

Release the files.

Well don't I feel stupid

Elon Musk does seem uniquely stupid enough to publicly demand the release of files containing the revelation that he went to the island for wealthy pedophiles with the world's biggest pedophile

the single most pathetic leader on Earth

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

If you've never watched Springsteen's show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London right after it came out, you simply must. It's a man leaving it all out there to prove it to a new crowd with one of the best bands ever assembled.

Come for the commentary on current affairs, stay for me being mean about George Orwell.

Obviously, this article was filed before it happened, so my thanks to Keir Starmer for proving my point with his latest characteristically stupid intervention.

It is not enough to condemn deprivation without also defending those it has forced into acts of desperation. Read @SeanCMBell on the rise of shoplifting.

Monday in the Guardian: Progressive fightback starts here lads, more soon! Friday in the Telegraph: OK I want to start by apologising for the left and the ruinous consequences of their stupid ideas

To someday have enough money to start a unionized media outlet that provides full-time employment all my favorite out-of-work culture journalists and critics

As with so many things, Douglas Adams recognized the inherent problem:

The idea that the government is accountable to the public, particularly on the topic of “handing vast amounts of data about the population to their horrific Silicon Valley friends” - the thing they keep saying they want to do / is bordering on comical. There is barely a line separating the two.

We didn’t need voter ID in the first place: it was a solution to a problem that didn’t exist and the Tories brought it in as a dog whistle policy, to get good headlines.

In my first piece for Tribune, I write in defence of the noble art of shoplifting.

Homework is just a way to teach kids that they should always be willing to work more than their assigned hours. Prove me wrong.

watched a documentary about the making of megalopolis last night and I really think we should encourage more rich people to spend more time pursuing extremely iconoclastic artistic visions and less time fucking up every workable aspect of society

'Blade Runner' - 1997

I believe that Sloppy Joe Pringles played shortstop for the St. Louis Browns in the 1920s

NEW: Edinburgh has become the first city in Scotland to boycott Israel

Oh yeah that would’ve solved everything for sure

Can we please stop with these "you won't BELIEVE the latest South Park" headlines. I assure you, I will! It's been 28 years - I am thoroughly if unwillingly familiar with their general shtick

APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Canadian job post: This job is in NB My brain: This job is working for Nightbreed

It is perfectly "journalistic" to say, “here is a structure, here is why it is, and here's how that affects this person's life, and here are things that would change it.” The forces which define us need to be illustrated, but not necessarily spoken for. The status quo speaks for itself at all times.

my actual opinion: It is our job to address truthfully the circumstances of the people we talk to; it is also our job to understand the forces that shape their lives. Synthesizing these two functions into a clear argument is perfectly journalistic. This is neither necessarily polemicism nor advocacy

Giving a lecture on journalistic objectivity later today.

proof

If the Antichrist needs a press officer or something, hit me up.

Deeply fucking sick how she plainly cannot comprehend any purpose to a protest other than pointlessly and ineffectually expressing displeasure-communication as an end in itself- and thus cannot understand why protesters are protesting her and not her rival who's worse some of this is cop brain imo

Siamo Tutti Antifascisti

If you don't think I'm going to abuse a talking point like "eating pasta is anti-fascist" in the most insufferable way possible, you have either too much or not enough faith in me

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

Oh no I stayed up late enough to start seeing posts about Keir Starmer

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy: