RIP to Bluestockings the radical bookstore, volunteer-supported cafe, activist meeting ground, and community resource center that gave out Narcan kits. NYC will be a poorer place without it gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Not a great moment in American politics when the two poles are “je suis Charlie Kirk” and “je suis Jimmy Kimmel”

The FBI is planning to treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs). @kenklippenstein.bsky.social substack.com/@kenklippens...

Congress aiming to turn on the spigot for unaccountable private contractors at the border. What could go wrong? @katyaschwenk.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/09/defe...

hilariously blistering review of Charlie Wells’s new book on millennials, illustrating the perils of writing history by way of the Yahoo! News homepage. thebaffler.com/latest/mille...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies. Send me your book proposals!

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Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies. Send me your book proposals!

Stay tuned for more career-ending Mamdani scandals to be dramatically uncovered by the NYT: - didn’t signal before switching lanes on driving test - burped on first date - put mayo on fries - snuck into an R-rated movie

Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

"Pencils. Everybody loves drawing...writing with one. But where do they come from? Which side do you write with?"

Last week I asked to see the gold vault at my local Bank of America branch and they told me the gold bars were “out for cleaning.”

The administration is threatening endowments, research funding, indirects, and student visas Universities will hang student protestors out to dry in a second if it means saving any of those things

The message was not written for the Harvard community it was written *for the Trump administration*

This is not simply bending the knee - this is saying the threatened punishments are deserved

"We need to reorient our foreign policy to containing the threat from China!" *China immediately forms closer trade relationships with our two biggest allies in Asia* "Ah, well. Nevertheless."

It’s not a “mass grave,” it’s a mass grave.

As US interest rates have risen, debt crises have exploded across much of the Global South. The IMF is doing to countries like Kenya and Sri Lanka what DOGE is trying to do to the US. @danieldenvir.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Indigenous groups in the Peruvian Andes are mining copper from their ancestral lands—and profiting—flouting the Chinese firm that bought the mineral rights. “They want to take the cow. We’d rather keep the cow and sell the milk.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

Unlike revolts against classical liberalism after the Great Depression, today’s populist rebellions lack any comparably articulated ideologies or programmes – anything that matches the theoretical or practical consistency of neoliberalism itself. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Perry Anderson going full steam ahead with 8,000 words on the conjuncture www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Unlike revolts against classical liberalism after the Great Depression, today’s populist rebellions lack any comparably articulated ideologies or programmes – anything that matches the theoretical or practical consistency of neoliberalism itself. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Israeli fascists: human rights aren't Jewish, they were imported from the West, Israeli liberals are just assimilating Western fascists: empathy is holding the West back, it's not part of our true tradition, it's actually an infiltration by cultural Marxism, a.k.a. the Frankfurt School, a.k.a. Jews

at AOC’s inauguration we’re gonna have the army band play about six bars of “the Internationale.” when the right flips out we’ll say what are you talking about, they were just tuning

British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home. The US needs travel warnings now.

Abundance offers strong housing reform ideas, but no one seriously believes they will yield abundant housing for America’s poor. A good policy is better than a bad policy, but don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade thebaffler.com/latest/whats...

ACAB includes our deepest selves

After reading several reviews it seems like the core argument of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance is: (1) zoning reform is good (2) California progressives couldn’t deliver high speed rail (3) [unintelligible] (4) Deregulation will save the Democratic Party!

“I can’t tell after reading Abundance if the authors are seeking something fairly small-bore and correct (we need zoning reform) or nontrivial and deeply regressive (we need deregulation), or if there is room anti-monopoly policy” — Zephyr Teachout washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/17/a...

Lacking specifics, the abundance argument is a little like saying we should have a feast on Thanksgiving. That sounds great, but who’s cooking? And at what cost? And who’s invited? @c-hughes.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/chrishug...

The Abundance movement’s appealing vision sidesteps the messy reality of governing, opening it up to easy misappropriation ... latest on Substack. chrishughes749530.substack.com/p/the-abunda...

A lucid, blistering review of what is probably the most damaging and intellectually dishonest book of the past year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Biden admin’s theory of change was that intellectuals and insiders could take care of the policy and the politics would take care of itself. The result was a catastrophe out of which almost nothing lasting was achieved. @econmarshall.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-r...

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Great piece from @andrewelrod.bsky.social on how corporate influence in the Democratic Party stopped it from using one of the most potent anti-inflation weapons in its arsenal: taxing profits. jacobin.com/2025/02/demo...

you can’t build your politics around being anti-cringe. like 30 years ago every corny Republican dipshit started saying “DEMONcrats” and now they rule the nation with an iron fist

Very important to distinguish judicial review of legislation from courts reigning in unchecked executive power and enforcing separation of powers to defend legislative authority

elon musk quote tweeting a picture of a swastika: this is interesting dr chomcley, washington post, phd: sir i must implore you to explain what you mean by this. did you know this is actually a symbol used by- i put my phone down i hear a pigeon outside and rain on the roof

52 of 150 gambling sites tested shared data with Meta without consent. FB then bombarded the user with gambling ads, including from firms that weren't caught sharing data. Superb investigation into how UK gambling firms & Meta profit from systematic data misuse: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

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