NYT quote of the day: “It doesn’t really make a difference to me if it is 250. Happy birthday, America, I guess.” —ARLENE LEWIS of Newark, telling how the prices of necessities were more on her mind than celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday on Saturday.

Yippee

fresh audio product: • Aaron Benanav on what a future socialist society might look like • Amy Laura Hall, author of Erecting the Pulpit, on muscular Christianity www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Graham Platner's poor showing among noncollege whites makes me wonder if the whole "we need white working class guys and not PMC swells to win the white working class guys" is basically a PMC fantasy.

IDF Expands Gaza Occupation, Displacing More Palestinians to Less Territory - Gaza News www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06...

The security buffers never stop! www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06...

Oh, wow, like the competition that defines the capitalist system turns capitalists into right fucking assholes? Who would have thought?

Sergey Brin offloaded his stake in a New York real estate fund for 6 cents on the dollar after its bets on rent-stabilized apartments soured. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Centrist/liberal Dems' response to DSA's sweep in NYC reminds me of this passage from Victor Navasky's Naming Names, his book on McCarthyism:

Is there a good cultural/political history of Long Island?

Elevating the discourse. NY Rep gov candidate Bruce Blakeman on Brad Lander: “He’s anti-American, he is antisemitic, even though he’s Jewish. This guy would be a camp guard in a concentration camp if he could. He’s a disaster. He’s terribl

I’m not a Pete fan—I prefer his father the Gramsci scholar—but this is grotesque.

fresh audio product: • two views from BtN regulars on the US–Iran negotiations: Anatol Lieven and Mouin Rabbani www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

The wackjobs have taken over! nypost.com/2026/06/24/u...

Who’s the winner and who’s the loser in this duo?

Uh, ok.

Fetterman is distressed. “The dancing days of the dirtbag left.” nypost.com/2026/06/24/u...

RIP Alan Greenspan, by me. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Democracy bay-bee.

As a dirty commie I’ve never liked any of these people but it’s likely that Trump’s minions will only make them worse.

"Expecting me to read books and look up words is discriminatory" is for sure a viewpoint that crops up online, and it's very important to make fun of it every time

Things are even more dire than I imagined

We simply must do popularism by embracing socialism

The author of this worked for Bloomberg, and before that, for AIPAC for 9 years. nypost.com/2026/06/18/o...

Trump is the most loathsome mobster in American politics who should die in a sewer, also every Democrat condemning his ONE GOOD DECISION — ending his horrific, criminal war of choice — should be run out of public life forever.

fresh audio product: • Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, on how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder • Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public, on how the social and political shape our sexual lives (and vice versa) www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

The Post’s “probably gay” obsession is weird.

DSA made them do it.

Trump celebrates Pride.

At NR, Noah Rothman seems confident that the recently uncovered (alleged) UFC drone attack plot is part of "a new wave of politically motivated leftist violence" whose motives are as "plain as day." Is that so? /1

These people are mad

Today in dystopia, an ongoing series.

Pure dystopia. Bloomberg:

fresh audio product: • J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of Against Money, explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems • Moira Weigel explains why the right hates Theory www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

What an ignoramus

Can’t connect to Facebook so I checked Downdetector and it’s down too. Civilizational collapse!

Traffic to far-right websites has crashed over the past year as Donald Trump has grown increasingly unpopular, a new report revealed. TheRighting, a news outlet focusing on conservative media, found that the 20 most popular right-wing news websites—(cont.) 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-ne...

huh what?

This guy is evil

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

Absolute madness

Pure dystopia

Oh please. Enough with the childish cooties anxiety

Same UMass Lowell poll: Platner, 48%, Collins, 43% for incumbent Women, Platner +19; men, Collins +9 www.uml.edu/Research/pub...

UMass Lowell poll of Maine: 72% of respondents oppose the construction of an artificial intelligence data center in their community. But I read on the internet that this is an unpopular position. www.uml.edu/Research/pub...

You never had it so good, chumps.

Bored with the Iran war, like Trump says he is? Tariffs are back! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The building that houses the agency responsible for containing the spread of invasive pests in the United States has a bed bug infestation

Ed Luce on the Dems: "The party has an ingrained habit of postponing serious thought until after the next election, which, like tomorrow, never comes." www.ft.com/content/d6b1...