My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

I’m sorry, the man who played Elf Figgy Puddin in the TV movie “Elf Sparkle and the Special Red Dress” can’t get work? That Rob Schneider? Star of “The Hot Chick” (2002)?

If universities require urgent reform to regain public trust, then so too do the medical system, organized religion, banks, and the Supreme Court—all of which fare worse than universities in Gallup polls measuring public confidence. @alexbronzini.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“I’ve waited 30 years,” says the woman who complained to the FBI about Epstein in 1996. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

“Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum” @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Organizing rests on the insight that the psyche can flow from action, that what’s needed to become the sort of subject who stands up to the boss, the police or the state, is simply to act as if you already were that sort of subject www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Truly, genuinely floored by this.

It really was like that!

I will take every reason i can to post this

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

Did Disney simply not see the Dall-E images of Nintendo characters doing another 9/11? Why are they signing up for this?

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

A+ work here from Penn's student paper.

Larry Summers might be canceled, but Harvard is still towing the Larry Summers line when it comes to pushing out people who express the bare minimum of decent, human concern for Palestinian life. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Asad Haider was a towering presence who not only broadened my thinking but also got me more deeply involved in organizing. He will be missed. viewpointmag.com/2017/02/12/t...

Great review from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social — now we just need to wait a few months for a 1,344 page review from Robert Brenner, serialized in NLR special editions jacobin.com/2025/12/beck...

Big Jim McClain (1952), in which John Wayne stars as a HUAC investigator hunting down communists among labor unions in postwar Hawaii.

"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."

The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”

Leave it to David Fucking Brooks to bothsides the Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.

In an email to Summers in December 2018, Epstein volunteered that Trump was “borderline insane,” compared to Dershowitz, who was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.” thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

Great news everybody

Great news everybody

So glad to see the rest of the world catching up with Naomi Klein and @claudia-sahm.bsky.social

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity. @fredturner.bsky.social thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

With declining birth rates slowly depopulating rich northern countries and climate change making poorer southern countries increasingly uninhabitable, the 21st century will likely see the biggest global movement of peoples in history. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Abundance is the solution du jour: more homes, more energy, more cures, more construction. But here’s the thing: the US, of all places, doesn’t need more. —Brett Christophers in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.

This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.

Amazing.

Meet LARB Publishing Workshop Alumni @aaronwistar.bsky.social , Associate Editor Beacon Press! Applications for the 2026 Publishing Workshop open Jan 1. #publishing #publishingworkshop

With every Bezos-fueled editorial the tagline reads a little less like a warning and little more like a metal album title. “Reign in Blood” “Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying” “Vulgar Display of Power” “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

Big congrats to Jon White @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social and @beaconpress.bsky.social!

Stop by our booth at #2025SHA!

Andrew Cuomo won precincts with over two-thirds car ownership by a large margin, Zohran Mamdani won parts of the city where fewer people own a car

New book from @ucpress.bsky.social: An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights by Scot Danforth www.ucpress.edu/books/an-ind...

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!

Smh

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Half of US states are now in recession, but the $27-trillion cybercrime industry is growing 15% per year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie. thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...

Sam Altman says, “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever.” He may be right despite himself—not that AI is reaching “general intelligence” but that children are not attaining it. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...