now we’re getting that post 9/11 feel. it was like this for years

Jessica Fraudamos you are Israeli (a giant complainer) and JGR will make you do the hokey pokey

Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" feels like essential reading right about now.

nearly everything else about trump II is wildly dynamic, it's why TACO was a thing. but the movement of men and materiel to our south has been constant, it hasn't let up even a little, just a slow burn. they really mean it

where is bilaji srinivasan? where are all those network state freaks? they should all be shot

Why have an intelligence service when you can just monitor polymarket

Art by Naoyuki Kato for the front cover of Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman (1978, Japan Edition)

better than any parody

all these backwaters (the UK, israel, etc) not minding their business smh

a million people live in dallas and none of them ever go to a good show, this is ridiculous

Further coverage of research by @sfortune.bsky.social. Her lab used drones & camera tags to show cooperative hunting of #salmon by Pacific white-sided #dolphins and fish eating #Orca. In a first, orcas and dolphins seen possibly hunting together share.google/J6VhFG9pTlyY...

cuomo's idiot chat bot is still running

🫡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0vz...

So there is a long history of ethnic-blaming for fraud & crime in the U.S. A good example are the Irish gangs & machines of 19th century New York. Notably, the major beneficiaries were first Fernando Wood and then Boss Tweed, neither of whom was Irish

this includes that crap about BDS but outside of that and the establishment of an office of antisemitism none of the coverage has any particulars

we can and will protect tenants while building housing www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-cit...

we are going to need more shooters act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses.

2026, you have a unique opportunity to start on a very strong, positive note.

everyone’s favorite columnist loves this btw

This is the new year pius. Repost for good luck.

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

there’s a direct line between city journal and @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social named nicole gelinas.

2026 is the year you all try a BEAM language. if you write a networked system, i promise it will make your life easier

say it at the office holiday party. say it on linkedin. say it in all those places etiquette cordons off. and when people get upset, get angry. yell at them. throw your drink in their face.

2026 is the year I will become well-read

i want revenge. i want to strangle rural america

he will go down as the single dumbest person to ever hold the office. we've seen more corrupt bastards, but never someone quite this stupid and incurious

Have I ever mentioned that, for Benedictine monks, taking siestas is important for the contemplative life?

nearly all the "transplants" in my neighborhood are african or latin american immigrants, and you know what? most of them aren't genuflecting at your favorite cultural touchstones either. the rich man from ohio that calls the cops on parties is a multi-layered lie: none of these people throw parties

Lumber 2025: 2 tariff scares 45% duty implementation Sawmill curtailments and closures Mortgage rates near 3 year lows!! Resulting in…zero price change y/y. We are right back at same prices from Dec 31, 2024. Thanks for playing.

in 2019, the first time he was published in the post, this man said: "In the coming days, we are likely to hear much more about Netanyahu and Trump marching their respective countries towards illiberalism and stupidity. Maybe." and so it came to pass.

we'll be hanging at yankee tavern if you don't have somewhere to be tomorrow. no cover

same as every year: someone emotionally attached to bumblefuck nowhere took issue with me calling it that

you know you don’t have to read the times

Working on book revisions and I have made this point like, 11,000 times but once more I feel the need to suggest that Carthage does not get a fair shake for how impressive its military machine was. If Rome hadn't come first, the Carthaginians would have dunked the Hellenistic world into the sea.

not sure why maybe was an option. no maybes

This Greenland business has been bothering me. I have a very different vision of what the Pax Americana is and should be than the White House. Read. open.substack.com/pub/shurkin/...

totally agreed, George

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bruno latour: in my paper "Why Critique Has Run Out of Steam," i invented the paranoid hermeneutic as a cautionary tale engineers trying to do STS: at long last we have invented the paranoid hermeneutic from the famous STS paper "Don't Invent the Paranoid Hermeneutic."

following. that's it.