watch here! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

going live on substack w/ @lioneltrolling.bsky.social at 2

volcano in progress

If Jamelle is a Nazi collaborator, call me Johnny Goebbels I guess

MFA

The gyre widens.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-al...

FWIW.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/testing-th...

seems pretty likely that the DoD/Anthropic showdown is being driven by katie miller crashing out over the anthropic constitution using the phrase "classical liberal democracy"

They keep doing the same thing over and over.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-told-you...

Tom Paulin's Hazlitt book; Barbara McClay on Wuthering Heights; James Duesterberg on Nick Land www.unpopularfront.news/p/hazlitts-c...

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

I went on "Unclear and Present Danger" (w @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) to talk about GI Jane, American discomfort with women in combat, and how hot Viggo Mortensen was in those little khaki shorts. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Polybius seems to think Supreme Court Ruling is important

In my latest chat with @maxread.info, I share my hangover curee secrets with Max, who had three martinis the night before.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-wi...

There is still much to learn from Jesse Jackson.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-age-of...

Bluesky gave me an adult content warning for a Titian painting of Venus

Remembering Chip Berlet; Poland's perilous democracy; do progressives need the Church? www.unpopularfront.news/p/chip-berle...

London! March 26th! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-t...

Stancilgrad.

Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-cl...

Trumpism promised a return of macho producerism, but the only growing sector is care work.— t.co/9OGNvFPeFn

Edgar Allan Poe's Science Fiction; Lord Byron and the Luddites; Visconti's ‘Conversation Piece.’— www.unpopularfront.news/p/poes-sci-f...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

this is how the British press talked about Mussolini lol

New Polybius score — not a big change

No it's not

I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...

They have achieved 10 to 1 force superority over ICE

@maxread.info and I talked yesterday about "suicide rightism," Jeffrey Epstein's philosophy of "vulgar enlightenment," and MAGA's chud capitalism www.unpopularfront.news/p/suicide-ri...

live with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social right now ! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…" www.unpopularfront.news/p/magas-peop...

Today's score from Polybius. Not sure about its interpretation of the Supreme Court, but all else seems intuitively correct.

If you wanna help out with Polybius, we're looking for more social scientists and histrorians!!! polybius.world/methodology

Two books about Kojeve; the Nordics vs. the Nazis; films about the Nuremberg trials www.unpopularfront.news/p/alexandre-...

Today's Polybius score

My adventures in vibecoding.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-built-a-...

Spoke to Marshall Pierce @jacobinmag.bsky.social about possible coalitional fractures in MAGA. jacobin.com/2026/01/maga...

when was the last time i posted about the antisemitic left, asshole

POLYBIUS, the authoritarian consolidation index, is live. (daily updates for now) polybius.world

It's an Omega Seamaster Polaris from 1980s, its kind of a cheap quartz watch mostly marketed in Japan but I think they look really cool

it is in fact named after the greek historian....

my machine now has a name : polybius

The German socialists had a motto — The Dead Admonish Us — it's written on the memorial to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. The dead admonish us, too. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-dead-a...

Resharing this for Holocaust Remembrance Day harpers.org/archive/2024...

They're gonna call it Stancilgrad

we're winning

Tuesday marks five years of Unpopular Front.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/to-my-read...

They killed another person in Minneapolis, it looks like.

added a financial markets section