Sometimes your job lets you travel to new countries with your good friends and spend the whole time talking to really interesting people. Sometimes the pivot to video is worth it.

have tried to interfere in this process but i gotta say i am rooting so hard for tony scott

In honor of tonight being the year’s biggest night in movies, I would like to present…the Landrys: an uncalled for, non-exhaustive, and completely subjective rundown of the year’s cinematic triumphs (the nominees and winners of which could change completely depending on the time of day)!

Get in loser, we're changing liberalism.

I haven’t mentioned here yet, but I’m lucky enough to be working with the folks at @liberalism.org these days, and am super excited. It’s great to be back with old friends like @aaronrosspowell.com, and just as cool to be helping out new ones like @uncanonical.net on this new series. Subscribe!

This is sure to be good! Canon is my kind of liberal, and these are some great podcast guests!

We’ve launched @liberalism.org! It’s a online journal of liberal ideas, exploring the ways liberalism points to a better future and how we can get there, from me and my @theihs.org colleagues @jkuznicki.bsky.social and @uncanonical.net, and feature essays from top scholars, podcasts, and more.

"An open society does not leave us adrift. Rather, it creates a positive feedback loop that actively rewards the very traits—tolerance, curiosity, mutual respect, delight in others’ success—that lead to ethical, happy, and flourishing lives. Our liberalism is open." - @aaronrosspowell.com

I know there are parts of Bluesky that hate the term, but I think liberalism is grand, and not just worth defending, but worth viewing at the best way to a better future for everyone. That’s why my team and I at @theihs.org have launched @liberalism.org. And here’s what I mean by “liberalism”:

We're live! @liberalism.org is a new journal of ideas from @theihs.org. Today we kick off with an essay from @emilychamleewright.bsky.social, who writes: "The opportunity to build a liberal future is real, but that future will not build itself."

Liberalism is both under threat and at a turning point. It must be argued for, refined, and renewed. Today, we begin the work.

It’s so good to be building something that I can believe in.

Watch this space.

Human flourishing begins with freedom. Liberalism.org - 3/12/26

I am thrilled to announce my big new project, Liberalism.org. Coming 3/12. It’s is a journal of liberal ideas, edited by @jkuznicki.bsky.social, with new podcasts from me and @uncanonical.net. It’s a project of @theihs.org, and has a superstar lineup of contributors. Sign up to get notified here:

The late great Steve Horwitz, less than a month into the first Trump presidency, already fully understanding the shape of things:

A good Douglass essay to dust off is Our Composite Nation, in which he defends open borders and the vision of a diverse, pluralist America.

If there’s one thing we know how to do it’s BREAK ICE

I'm just gonna leave this here. RIP to one of the greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

My ReImagining Liberty podcast is on a short hiatus because I am working on a very cool and very big New Thing, which I can't wait to get out into the world.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

This person analyzes american politics for a living writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...

A brave act of art worth the hype

"Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable." this is what i want as the party line it's time, the base want it, & i genuinely think the public are ready for it

"On this 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence ... this looks like a Boston Massacre ... Let this be the beginning of the end for ICE and for this president." #AbolishICE 🔥🔥🔥

“ICE is only going after the worst of the worst, only violent criminals.” “Okay, ICE is going after all immigrants.” “ICE is going after anyone who obstructs them.” YOU ARE HERE ↓ “Yes, we want ICE to brutalize anyone who disagrees with us — and you should be afraid.”

I sympathize with Bongino, if u made me deputy director at the fbi where I couldn’t vlog with my homies as much, I would hate that and want to quit immediately

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

Two stories side by side in WashPost

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

this clown keeps throwing me for a loop

If you want a great film that actually engages with what it means to produce entertainment and spectacle in Western Sahara, may I recommend Sirāt; a film you might see a surge of coverage on soon since it just appeared on five Oscar category shortlists.

of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list

Our publication, @theunpopulist.net, published the definitive piece on the journalistic shortcomings of Weiss' Free Press project.

Do yourself a favor and feel bad then ok with Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby”. You won’t be disappointed.

here's why the third term thing completely full of shit www.theunpopulist.net/p/nice-try-p...

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I really take for granted just how much of my humor was shaped by the years of reading the big books of Calvin & Hobbes with my Dad and brother. Gave me permission to be a lil stinker, wildy imaginative, AND still a dumb kid all at the same time.

“Distributed by Angel Studios” Netlfix dropping this is one example I support of them “killing” a film. How did so many people sign onto this?! Seth Rogen—you just did The Studio and yet you also are leading THIS?

I mean, I love Miners too

It would be easy to see the listing for Predators online and think it another quick and dirty true crime doc churned out by Netflix upon quick glance. The film's mix of archival footage and crisp 4K interviews even walks the same line as that ilk. But Tiger King, this is not.

“‘Nobody ever loved me that much.’ And who’s ever been loved enough? Who’s ever been loved half enough? Would you get me a shot?”

which i think is what trips many "it's not fascism!!" commentators up. they are trying, but they have not succeeded. i think it is bad enough that they are trying. that alone is worth fighting.