Odysseus of Ithacambridge, MA

Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!

“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.

“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

THEY WILL NOT BREAK US THEY CAN NOT BREAK US THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN

I don’t know, seems woke!

At the Harper’s office, each intern is given a cardinal direction, reflected in their email address (i.e., [email protected]) and then a desk that is—for reasons nobody could explain—oriented opposite their direction. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/666...

WHICH KIND OF CHÂTEAU RENOVATION is me? Rock star? Relic thief? Australian? In the châteauverse, the logic of a 2010s Buzzfeed quiz is projected onto medieval parcels. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/gro...

The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

CBS News is doing Fridays the right way. by Ezra Klein

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

Buckeyes don’t need RFK to tell them to eat real food

A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago

Scott Adams for comparison

"Through INTERSEX, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization...we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward..." Read the full review from SCIENCE. buff.ly/TZ5mFNO

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Vigil for Renee Good here in front of Wisconsin’s capitol building right now:

"Not great self-feeder, but the LICKS. "I’m pro-bald." "Good feeder, but not convinced on the look" - comments from the Gerber baby casting call @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/cast...

American planning is so tethered to zoning in large part because it is the last option available. Sure, it might be better for cities to build mass social housing, but with the resources they have, an upzoning will do. — Samuel Stein in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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