very much considering pitching (threatening?) my editor to let me go to Mariner's opening day to write about the FRIED FOOD SOUVENIR FERRY VESSEL (i do not write about food)

Israeli settlers in the West Bank harass, terrorise, destroy, burn, injure and kill Palestinians, their properties and livestock every day, while the IDF is aiding and abetting them. Every. Day. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

These "analysis" articles are where the NYT really lets their reactionary centrist freak flag fly.

a war of choice that masks ongoing genocide Medical stocks 'critically low' in Gaza, WHO says flip.it/nfStta

this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate

As an English major, this reads true. Sad, because I think that if Elon, DJT, ad nauseam, had taken and understood just one lit class, the world would be in a much better place.

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Lansing, Michigan, is one of two cities where Malcolm X crosses MLK. (The other is Washington, D.C.) Malcolm spent his formative years in the area and still has family there.

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

I am quoted in this AI slop story from some outlet called The American Bazaar. Not only did I not say this vague/meaningless quote. I have never seen the ad in question nor have I ever received any communication from this so-called “reporter.”

Wild to for a jewish organization to be like "well if mamdani wasn't such a fucking rootless cosompolitan" bsky.app/profile/joel...

JFC, the way that certain people (e.g., Kristi Noem) sully this inherently decent and kind man's name. How do they sleep at night.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

The feds slapped all kinds of labels on Chicago's Juan Espinoza Martinez when they arrested him last fall. They called him "depraved" and a "thug." But Thursday, a jury called him "not guilty." From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

If Democrats aren’t whipping votes against ICE funding, and letting conservative members vote to pass it, it means the Democratic Party supports ICE funding. If your opposition to fascism is performative, then you don’t actually oppose fascism.

Friday afternoon, ABC News ran an interview with one of Mischief Toy Store's owners about the store's practice of giving away free whistles. Hours later, ICE agents showed up at their door. Here's my story (gift link):

ChongLy Scott "Saly" Thao's family has started a GoFundMe for him:

On top of the incoming geomagnetism (which spawns the northern and southern lights), today's solar storm is packing a huge radiative punch—the most powerful in 23 years. A very big deal for high-latitude aviation, satellite tracking, etc.

no shit, sherlock www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

I refuse to have my face scanned at the airport. I have a feeling that at some point - if it isn't already - that refusal will be enough for me to be suspect to the DHS.

If anyone has old sport’s trophies 🏆 or medals 🥇 may I suggest sending them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in DC.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Well, time for a MAGA boycott then

Kelly Morrison on a Twin Cities ICE facility she & other members of Congress tried to visit: "We were told to leave. We met with 2 of the commanding officers & they told us the reason we were not able to stay & meet with detainees is because the funding for ICE came from the 'Big Beautiful Bill.'"

"The western ability to cooperate with and be impartial towards strangers is unique." I'm sure this will be news to all the peoples of the rest of the world the westerners have tried to enslave, exploit, exterminate, etc., and ad nauseam.

Make it viral.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

Worth noting the quoted source is one guy who is a consultant (not a capital allocator) and nobody is named from the broader list so it could be him, a random Chevron weenie, and 18 psychos from Palantir.

It's like the 9th stupidest thing in this one paragraph, but I'd direct the angry egg-shaped man to this speech from 2005 in which Obama literally namechecks like 50 White sox including (delightfully) Scott Podsednik. obamaspeeches.com/035-Chicago-...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

De Gaulle's policy of "going it alone," hazarded a thought: "No doubt the sort of balance that has been established between the atomic power of the two camps is, for the moment, a factor in world peace. But who can say what will happen tomorrow? www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

After the fire hose of this admin's cruelty we hear about each day in this country, this is like rain in the desert.

Für Elise Stefanick’s campaign proved to be more pathétique than eroica. But if you asked her why she dropped out, she’d probably plead the fifth. by Maureen Dowd

as the hosts hint that they would like to be invited to watch the movie at the white house, one asks "is there a movie theater in the white house?" no, dumbass, there is not. It was in the east wing.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Our very own Gestapo

We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial at the end of this admin.

A city over 5,775 years old was wiped out live on air by a 77-year-old colonizer!

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment." Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree. thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...