If you want to understand how the attacks on Ivies illustrates a close coordination between trumpland, trumpists inside notionally liberal institutions, and purported free thinkers working as state press, listen to @jeetheer.bsky.social interview @davidklion.bsky.social overcast.fm/+AA5oOCynyqs

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Trump got Kimmel suspended but let's be had crucial accomplices: the people David Letterman calls "corporate weasels" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Talked to @jeetheer.bsky.social about the chaos youtu.be/28CTYDH1QCw?...

National healing -- with Trump as president? C'mon man. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

On the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the new era of political violence www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Fall Books features Matt Duss on the crisis of Democratic foreign policy, Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann, Laila Lalami on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on Susan Choi, Elias Rodriques on James Baldwin, and @jeetheer.bsky.social on William Buckley: www.thenation.com/issue/octobe...

From Venezuela to Chicago, Trump is reviving the imperialist tradition of "splendid little wars" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"There can be no real defeat of the far right until liberals learn what the right already understands all too well: Politics is telling the difference between a friend and a foe." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I had a lovely time talking to @TaylorLorenz about her block buster reporting on Dem influencers paid by dark money, a practise that is both ethically dubious and politically ineffectual. www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

Jeet Heer is so good on everything, but especially on the elite liberal obsession with conservatism and the rise of You Know Who

1. We all know William F. Buckley -- the pundit, the Firing Line host, the spy novelist, the founder of National Review, the guy who threatened on national TV to punch Gore Vidal in the goddamn face. But did you also know that in spare time Buckley was a matchmaker?

Wealthy Democratic donors are sabotaging their own party www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Looks like Trump and Netanyahu are gearing up for another war on Iran, this time with the support of the Europeans. I talk to Trita Parsi about this danger. www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

If you're a cartoonist, this is probably a good time to do a panel showing Jeffrey Epstein welcoming Trump into Hell. I mean, just in case. Always good to have something ready to run.

Over the last week, American diplomats have gotten into trouble in Denmark, France and Lebanon. Trump and his cronies are getting into stupid fights all over the world. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Jack Kirby, born 108 years ago. A photo of him on furlough during WWII, with his wife Rosalind Goldstein.

While John Bolton should be defended from Trump's abuse of power, we should remember that the current authoritarianism is a product of the imperial presidency Bolton has supported all his life. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Critics have long described Andrew Cuomo as the Democratic Party's Trump. Now he's giving credence to this by running as the de facto Trumpist option. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump is neither a peacemaker or a puppet, neither a hawk or a dove, he's a deluded egotist in way over his head. That's why he's more likely to spread chaos than to make a deal www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Jack Kirby story from 1959 ("I Fought the Colossus," Strange Tales # 72) predicts AI would be developed by 2020 and that one major fear would be that it would start giving the wrong answers to questions and "wreck civilization." Gotta love the 1950s giant mainframes.

The idea of a new Cold War with China is very popular in Washington with both major parties -- it's also extremely stupid. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I had a lot of fun talking to @alexsammon.bsky.social about his terrific article on the bizarre new scam economy: www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

A lot of world leaders think they can sway Trump by flattery. The example of Narendra Modi suggests this is a stupid strategy. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Trump betrays Modi, whose abject toadyism failed to save India from tariffs, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social. The only way to beat a bully is to create a counter power that can push back.

Regime change is back on the menu with the USA and its sordid allies pushing for a restoration of monarchy in iran. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The tide is turning on Gaza. Some of it is from opportunistic pols and pundits engaged in reputation damage control, but more important is the strong turn in public opinion. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Thanks in part to Trump's fossil fuel fanaticism, China will own the energy future. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Mamdani and the politics of hope. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Superman should not be woke. He should be radical, as in the early stories where he fought wife-beaters, arms dealers, slum lords and exploitive bosses. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The original Superman wasn't woke -- he was radical. He attacked arms dealers, slum lords, abusive husbands and exploitive mine owners. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Imagine putting on a production of Hamlet without the prince. Also without the Ghost, Horatio, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude, and the any other major player in the story. The DNC autopsy on 2024 will avoid mentioning the decisions of Biden, Harris or their inner circe www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The DNC is doing an autopsy of 2024 election that will ignore anything done by Biden, Harris, or their major advisors: the usual game of deflection at the expense of truth. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This @jeetheer.bsky.social hits what makes me so queasy about the Epstein circus. By turning it into an attempt to "expose" political enemies, we foret about the actual victims of Jeffrey Epstein's cruelty. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One consequence of Trump's circus is to again marginalize Jeffrey Epstein's victims. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Very strange letter to send to a monstrous sex criminal.

this is what you do when you are totally innocent.

Excellent analysis of the state of play in the Epstein cover-up by @jeetheer.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump's antisemitism and the militarists who shield it. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Honestly who could've predicted that electing somoene who had been thick as thieves with Jeffrey Epstein for many years would lead to more stonewalling of the Epstein case? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Donald Trump is amazed that "people are still talking about" Jeffrey Epstein. Alas for him, the case is not going away. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Speaking out again against this admin's attempts to silence #washingtonpost journalists & cartoonists on #jeetheer & #nationmag podcast www.thenation.com/podcast/soci... I ask Bezos to consider what legacy he wishes to leave

1950s poly discourse. Jack Kirby, "Beautiful Friendship," Young Romance (Dec. 1953).

Pete Hegseth is unleashing chaos at the Pentagon. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Some things never change.

The damage done by fake patriots. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

H.P. Lovecraft's special gift was his unparalleled ability to evoke the unspeakable horror and existential dread that comes from encountering New England antiquarian scholars.

Peter Thiel doesn't want to just go Galt, he wants to abandon humanity as fast as possible, whether it means going to Mars, downloading his brain on a computer, or creating an AI successor species. Nor is he alone. Why billionaires have given up on humanity. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

In 1974, Jack Kirby Kirby did a story where the super-rich are so powerful they are able to rent entire cities and turn them into their playground & push aside all lawful authority. ("In the Era of the Super-Rich," OMAC #4, 1974).