366 people have joined DSA since the polls closed last night. There's a ticker: results.socialists.nyc/ticker/ h/t @petersterne.com

🚨How Epstein’s Israeli Network Shaped Congo’s Deadly Mineral Trade Leaked docs reveal how military contractors linked to Israeli intelligence secretly trained a special ops strike force in mineral-... New from @mazmhussain.bsky.social & @ryangrim.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-ba...

NYC-DSA was panicked a week ago and I am really proud how we responded by summoning up 4000 more canvassing shifts than were already on the books. An organism mobilizing itself successfully to fight off a threat. And by that process growing much more powerful.

Zohran quoted Gramsci saying "time of monsters;" original says "morbid phenomena;" tracks to misquote go to 2003. I'm sure I heard it earlier. Without any scholarly warrant, I associate with Roberto Calasso's _The Marriage of Cadmus & Harmony), where monsters symbolize the transition to civilization

“Not on Our Dime” bill is getting support upstate beyond DSA. JVP voter guide says 9 State Senate candidates & 26 Assembly candidates have signaled support @cityandstateny.bsky.social article by @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...

Here's a ray of hope: there are "super-reefs" in the Marshall Islands that seem be able to live in a warmer ocean. A Wood's Hole oceanographer thinks it may be possible to interbreed them with other reefs youtu.be/SKs_DR_RvGw?...

Sharp piece from @emmurpheis.bsky.social , director of the @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social citylimits.org/opinion-the-...

this is not the kind of moral leadership you expect from a former criminal defense attorney for the tobacco industry

It’s not true that we boomers can’t do anything on our phones, but it is true that when I manage something complicated I expect a medal and a brass band

Great piece by Aziz Huq on how the Declaration of Independence was an appeal to international law; how IL is prized most by such weak states; and how, when strong states give up the hypocrisy & don't even try, they suffer for it www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tru...

Strongest argument for Democrats packing the Supreme Court is that we have never, in the whole history of the republic, had a Court that votes on almost all major decisions on a straight party line the way the Roberts Court does now. /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/weve-never...

This is hilarious

I’m definitely on team “He who cannot forget the past is far more likely to repeat it than he who cannot remember the past.” And the historical evidence for the above position is quite strong IMO.

I think he gives the general schema - tailoring it to specific situations like "come out as gay, Ray" or "fake your own death, Seth" is left as an exercise for the reader

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

1. Criminal conspiracy is being abused by fascists 2. Criminal conspiracy is terrible and should be abolished, in no small part because it is always abused by fascists

The gold car that drove into a clown mine

When you summon the strength to let the bad post go by without responding

Excellent 2-minute point by Karim Makdisi on @clancyreports.bsky.social The whole interview is good but this really needs to break through the droning repetition noise machine youtu.be/yP9W6i9ezSo?...

Ok, this is the funniest, from the upper Upper West side h/t @danamira.bsky.social

Great piece by @ryangrim.bsky.social and the Guardian's Tom Perkins www.dropsitenews.com/p/university...

"Caligula only made his horse consul once"

"Personal morality is no substitute for solidarity. Solidarity is the recognition of our interdependence. It allows us to work together to fight a system that is exploiting us all - rather than trying to dissociate ourselves from the evils that system causes." open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Paul Pillar on Tom Cotton's bill for functionally merging US and Israeli intelligence: "The notion of legislating an intelligence liaison relationship in this way, with any foreign country, is bizarre." responsiblestatecraft.org/us-intellige...

I don't actually think Lee Raymond--the world's most important climate denier--is burning in hell But thanks to him, an awful lot of people are going to burn open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

The far right seized on the murder of Henry Nowak to bring riot and disorder to the streets of Southampton. The violence exposed not only the shameless cynicism of its leaders, but also the neglect and anger on which they thrive.

He can't be deported yet, and the case against him is still insane. Succinct summary of the details. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

What a great column by Anton Jäger in the @nytimes.com containing an embarrassing amount of important details I did not know www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

What the spirit of Bandung really was, how it persisted alongside petering out & a vision of its revival by @vijayprashad.bsky.social thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

A 5-minute video on how Vance is entirely Thiel's creation & if Vance becomes president, it will be Dubya & Cheney redux with Thiel as Cheney. The scary thing is you know all these points. But he pulls them tight enough to make you want to loosen your collar.

‘The US has declared it will investigate Mexican consulates for organising protests against Trump, ICE and the genocide in Gaza. The goal, it seems, is to fabricate evidence of links between Morena and “terrorism”.’ Forrest Hylton on US intervention in Mexico. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

As part of our Pride Month series, we interviewed painter and filmmaker Jamie Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019. She leads us through her distinct personal and artistic evolutions, insistent on finding “the essences of things,” and “stripping away what’s superfluous.”

In other news, the Pentagon, farm aid, and every other part of the budget will go bankrupt in a year unless Congress acts Ignore scare headlines like this Social Security has long-term funding built in, which needs to be adjusted (as it will be), every few years www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...

Michael Kinnucan makes a great point about what's wrong with local meetings to discuss siting things like a homeless shelter: the reasonable choice is not available to pick

I was explaining Deep Springs to someone & wondered what their isolation policy was now. It seems pretty much the same as 50 years ago when I was there. But it stands out now even more. Archive link in comments

This is just a great show on international law, even if you think the laws of war are a sham, in fact, especially then. The nerdy dissection, the defense why it matters in spite of it all, both the best www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...

Jordan Davis, born in 1970, is described jokingly as a "fifth generation New York School" poet. These are the last lines from his 2006 poem "Not Nothing No Never" from an article in the NYRB my niece sent to me:

AI, Argentina, Antichrist. Peter Thiel’s decision to plant roots in Argentina makes a lot more sense now that President Javier Milei has unveiled plans to ban AI regulation and allow "non-human" corporations. The "Network State" rears its ugly head. www.thenerdreich.com/ai-argentina...

If UK news outlets could stop with the “those ker-razy Koreans/k-pop/boo” narrative for just FIVE MINUTES, they might notice that in the past couple of years the Korean people have thwarted a military coup and a fairly left-ish govt made huge electoral gains yesterday.

NEW: New York City does not mirror American politics — it foreshadows it. On June 23rd, four primaries preview the coalitions and fault lines—from AIPAC to AI—that will shape the Democratic Party in 2028: open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

The East New York rezoning has already produced, in the space of a decade, almost all the 6,500 units that proponents of the rezoning predicted would be produced within 15 years. Almost two-thirds are below-market affordable units. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/a...

This was a parade of The Theoretical Idea Of Israel and had nothing to do with the country that exists!!

academics trying to save the humanities

Jewish Currents' bi-weekly News Desk edited by @joshnathankazis.bsky.social contains all the News of the Jews That's Fit To Print. I didn't think this would become one of my sources but now I look forward to its sharp, careful news nuggets jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...

We live in a centrally planned economy but the planners are a handful of venal ghouls who hate the planet and those who live on it.