It’s never been clearer that the idea that the people running the world are flawed but ultimately altruistic people doing what they know must be done for the good of society even when it looks bad is total horseshit. They’re just evil. Always have been.

Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...

As @clairewillett.bsky.social writes: "I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Homer called it Οργή. It's what Achilles feels. (It's what Achilles DOES.) Also used by St Paul for the wrath of God.

Not sure what else is left to say. All I’ve known for my whole life is most powerful country in the world and its satellite states killing as they please around the world to no consequence. And this ability to kill and oppress worldwide is the supposed testament to their greatness.

There are no words for how evil this is

Yeah, I don’t think Chuck Schumer who was openly mocking Trump for supposedly being too soft on Iran is actually against what’s happening. Their concern is only ever about procedure.

Two weeks ago, I talked to my students about the Iran vs USA game from the 1998 World Cup when Iran won their first ever World Cup match. Feels like that was only possible because of the neutral ground. Don’t know how this World Cup goes on like this. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

weird, carney's new world order looks a lot like the old one

I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence

I don’t know why the reaction to anything Trump does is screaming “it’s not legal!!” as if that means much. And not just from him but even in the Bush era.

Really woke up to this insane man and his administration starting a war. What a fucking terrible time to be alive.

Hilarious country

This is so easy.

“Two officers were treated for minor injuries, including a bruised eye and headache, police said earlier this week.” Absolute losers.

I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that.

I’m going to miss HBO so much

You're missing TikTok, Twitter, two major movie studios, and HBO, among others

This is critical mass for the right-wing media takeover. It ought to be the same for the realization that big tech was a suicide pill for this country

This is a fucking disaster on so many levels.

It’s so over

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

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Sarah Jessica Parker being one of the named offenders in that neighborhood is crazy/ironic

tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“Whereas Trump's first term in office was defined by his inner circle of bulbous and ruddy men maneuvering against each other and getting fired, the second Trump administration has produced an even more nauseating type of government official: the vengeful influencer.” defector.com/internal-sch...

I will have way more to say about this, but let me first shout this from my rooftop again… I am a gun violence prevention advocate. We cannot solve gun violence in the United States when the perpetrator of gun violence is the government of the United States.

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Reading this has made me so angry this morning

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

“Epstein is less the thread that connects the rich and powerful than a lens through which all of those existing connections snap into place: the common denominator for the cursed ideas—white supremacy and patriarchy, a cheapening of human life and human values and human choice…”

Literally the IDF playbook

Statement from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior of the event: "Note from the Ministry of the Interior: On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States..."

I love how nosy the reporters at Wired are www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Cooked him so badly that Harper’s response was “stop being mean to me”

They should let the whole Real Madrid squad jump him

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We live in such a profound dystopia.

A Medal of Honor used to mean something

Me, writing about sports again after all these years

I wrote about Alysa Liu and how refreshing it is to see an athlete who enjoys what they do as an art and self-expression in the landscape of sports where being a great athlete is always presented as a miserable and joyless exercise flaminghydra.com/issue-509/?a...

I definitely think it's true that the average American voter thinks it's a he said/she said, can't be proven, maybe he did bad stuff and maybe he didn't situation. When in reality the mountain of evidence against him is uhhhh overwhelming.

I don’t know if it’s sinking in with the general public that the president of this country was close friends with a notorious pedophile and that the department of justice is working to hide the fact that he himself is in there being accused of things like this… www.jezebel.com/doj-reported...

You can tell that police don’t see themselves as civil servants or part of the greater community because they saw people enjoying a snow day and having fun, and their instinct was to put at end to it. Now after resistance to them, they’re moving to use their insane budget and resources to punish.

Now I just need him to extend this thinking to keeping the city clean in general. There’s already people who clean parts of the city overnight, but you can increase these numbers, keep people employed, and change the nature of this place. I know he sees the vision.

Saw some tiny birds when we walked through the park today

Her story went from being a heroic tale about fighting through injury and age to do the improbable to a warning very quickly www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

The Cemetery of Cinema

“Cash and Levy are more interested in QAnon and Pizzagate as fictional fodder than political phenomena. The ambition of these novels is profundity through referencing politics in passing, never engaging.” The books are also very bad and badly written. open.substack.com/pub/gracebyr...