You don’t see many Adolphs these days

Reading on different devices can be interesting.

I get so much out of editing the manuscript in a slightly different font or while I am high because there is just something about seeing something you’ve read 1 million times in a slightly different way that can be so revealing at the end of a long project

We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

This was cool

Here are some books from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, including my own book LEGACY, to add to your #Juneteenth Reading list!

Side note: Stop throwing communities under the bus for a white man. You aren't only fucking us over.

Yet again ProPublica doing the kind of tough investigative and critical journalism that @nytimes.com has walked away from in favor of access journalism, normalizing, sane washing

Thugs

For as much as we've talked about it, I feel like we still haven't talked enough about how Trump II has renditioned the leader of one sovereign state and assassinated another, all absent a state of formal hostilities and outside the existing institutions for adjudicating international disputes.

Trump made a South African a trillionaire while making Americans poorer.

My high school physics teacher is currently editing my manuscript for physics mistakes and I realize I’m anxious about a grade from him all over again

Remembering how much hate there was after 9/11 I am really happy NYC has a Muslim mayor now and that he’s such a cheerful guy

A war crime and also strategic nonsense. Millions of Iranians are short of water — and the entire region depends on desalinization facilities that Iran could destroy. If we strike water facilities and they respond in kind elsewhere millions of lives are at risk. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

It sounded better in the original German (circa 1932): "In Berlin they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is German. They want Germany back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

Trump just signed a reconciliation bill to fund ICE & CBP for the rest of his term. But the latest appropriations bill from House Republicans STILL has annual baseline funding for ICE & CBP! They're pretending the Big Beautiful Bill & the reconciliation bill didn't happen. @ryanlcooper.com reports.

I decided to tackle the cavalcade of liberal and leftist bros who came out of the woodwork with a Freudian yell to defend Graham Platner in the strangest ways imaginable. Yes, their bleating about HR Ladies and smoothgroins is all about gender; I explore what it all means and what comes next.

I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)

I don’t think people who were born in New York are real New Yorkers. That’s like being born at the carnival or something. It’s wild that happened and you should be able to go on the rides for free, but that’s not what this place is for.

Some June 6 reading. A great book by @thesarahrose.bsky.social

One stat that should be a headline one for Dems is that deportations and arrests are job-killers. We talked about a study on today’s Slate Money that found that for every arrest, 6 Americans lose jobs and 4 undocumented immigrants do. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

“these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people” Franklin Roosevelt on D-Day 🗃️

It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

A woman commanded 20,000 resistance fighters at Normandy on D-Day Hegseth would deny her a promotion today

Need a good book on a little known story about the women of D-Day? Prh.com/ddaygirls

Under the Violence Against Women Act if a woman walks into any ER in the country and says “I am a victim of DV or IPV” they are supposed to offer screening and support if they are accepting Medicaid or Medicare or teach medical students — which is pretty much every ER Should.

1 in 3 female homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. NIH study: 62% of women who are victims of IPV do not report it because of fear of NOT BEING BELIEVED. ACLU: 88% of respondents reported police "sometimes or often do not believe victims" or blame victims for the violence.

But Mamdani won over an an establishment figure (Cuomo) by embracing that actual Dem base - immigrants, taxi drivers, low-wage workers, the whole panoply of actual New York society. He modeled how to do it. And then pundits recoiled and went back to their fictitious noble white male laborer.

Anyone taking prop bets on the pod bro mea culpa

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

You know what could help swing this one back? @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social or @workingfamilies.org withdrawing their endorsements. That could speed this slow slide into a very bad spot. At least get out clean.

The wild thing I know the Nazi tattoo guy is how obvious he was to everyone but the bros

ICE is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year. Its solution: just stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Did a white person write this

Happy 40th anniversary to Ferris Bueller's Day Off

There's been on a lot on here that has been pretty terrible to watch play out over the last day; several people who have experienced intimate partner violence had a tough time yesterday as we have a public conversation about how much female suffering matters or doesn't matter.

We need to be clear-eyed about the conduct alleged: serial domestic abuse Like even setting aside the instances where he laid hands: he engaged in routine personal conduct that was, in itself, abusive, to the extent that it was intended to alarm or disturb individuals close to him

It’s rare that we get clear cut stories about high profile cases of domestic abuse — worth asking now, ahead of more stories coming out, where the line is for this guy needing to step aside. And of course whatever process the state party can muster before ballots go out.

Never removing a Nazi tattoo is enough evidence

So dismissive of the Nazi tattoo that scares the daylights out of an essential voice in your coalition Terrible

So yes, I do question the judgment of anyone making excuses for the Nazi tattoo There are no excuses

And the gaslighting: there has never been a moment in the last 80 years when a Nazi tattoo signified anything other than the love of Nazis We aren’t the intolerant ones the Nazis were

Too dumb to know it was a Nazi tattoo is disqualifying

There aren’t nuanced takes on the Nazi tattoo

And I am not the first to note that this was the team closest to the first black president They had eight years and still came away pimping the Nazi tattoo guy

It was not a discrete Nazi tattoo but a giant proud prime real estate Jew murder tat

In this particular historical moment, giving grace to the Nazi tattoo guy is so wildly out of touch and even dangerous

Jews are fantastic donors, motivated voters, 80% of the time with the Democratic Party Not significant by way of numbers at 2 pct of the country but extremely significant by way of this coalition It is demoralizing and dangerous to Co-brand with the Nazi tattoo guy

The Democratic tent has to be big enough for marginalized people to feel safe in it first The Nazi tattoo rows in the exact wrong direction