The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”

This from the Ta-Nehisi Coates applies well beyond the US. "I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbour’s humanity. I just can’t." We dodged a bullet with the Iona candidate because our friends and neighbour's humanity would have been up for debate.

A sentient boomer chain email is president www.kgw.com/article/news...

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment. (I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

In school, we read old Irish literature that I could never picture in our dairy pastures. When I saw the mossy, temperate rainforests in the Pacific Northwest, I could finally imagine where Diarmuid and Gráinne hid and lived and slept.

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading. Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd. Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

I just got back from a visit to Irvine and I've lived both south and north of OC and in the midwest and in NYC for 35 years and in the southwest and Irvine is the WEIRDEST FUCKING PLACE EVER.

I always thought he was from Santa Cruz, but learning he grew up in Irvine makes waaaaayy more sense.

I think Bluesky has been clear from the beginning about what they were building and why. A whole lot of people didn’t take them seriously, or maybe thought they could be hollered into changing course, but I don’t think they have.

"Bad shape" www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

Interesting! I like that the guide specifically says they're not coming for your em-dashes, ha ha! The one that made me nod was "A.i."'s overuse of "promotional" language. Nailed it. It's so tedious!

lol what Ezra Klein completely ignores here is how for many, because of race, gender, and/or class, the price of engaging in "unfriendly conversations is significant harm or DEATH. 🤷🏿‍♀️

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

that tnc ezra klein interview is low key as devastating as a chotiner thing. klein ends up saying he doesn't want to think about history, he doesn't know what his own role is, he recommended abandoning abortion rights without actually thinking about it. 1

Ezra Klein is one of the heads of massively astroturfed centrist movement. If you can understand that Charlie Kirk was bought and paid for you can figure this out too

Apologies now for even talking about Klein, I have done good to mostly avoid it but the TNC interview is just such a beautifully plain discussion where a man pulls a reverse Chotiner on himself by way of having a black American interlocutor who has a basic grasp of American history and politics.

Such a frustrating category error. “Doing politics” is not about persuasion. It’s about MOVING THE LEVERS OF POWER. Sometimes you persuade the opposition, sometimes you make deals and sometimes you just recruit those who already agree with you into more action. We don’t do enough of the last bit.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

If you attend, work for, once went to, or plan to send your kids to a University of California school, write to the presidents and board of regents and demand UC stand up to Trump's attempts to bribe and cower the greatest public unvierstiy system in the world: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Aside from all else, this makes zero sense when you're talking about losing a popularity contest! Her not being liked enough IS the point. A diehard communist would also never get the nom, so would Pat say this the far left being "excluded from public life" or does it simply reflect the electorate?

Every time I come back to Northern California from Ireland, I want to hug our California forests and meadows after the stripped green deserts of Ireland. Sheep and goats and Coillte timber plantations. Barely a flower or native tree. What a barren mess.

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

Appreciate someone putting out the mythological version of the story my next book is about but does Scott Simon think he’s doing here exactly www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The more I read Kaleb’s work, the harder it is to believe that a talent like this ever had to work for a hack like Ezra Klein before living in freelance precarity, instead of being treasured on some midcentury editor’s giant expense account.

The more specific, recent version of this for me is explaining to Irish friends and family that when you know a small child who gets shot, their community starts fundraising for them because there is zero government support to cover the top causes of child death and injury (guns and cars).

Kaleb Horton wrote this perfect obituary of Shane MacGowan www.gq.com/story/shane-...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

what anil said. also, two things are true: 1. america has a horrific, brutal facist and authoritarian tradition which has prepared for this moment; 2. that is not the only american tradition, and pretending it is helps the fascists.

Cannot be emphasized enough that de Gaulle spent the war years fomenting an insurgency against people like Vance

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

OK man that's just parody now.

Every cis man should have to wear a period simulator at least once for so many reasons, but definitely because it’s so fucking hilarious how low their pain tolerance is

The State of Illinois is closely monitoring the federal deployments in the Village of Broadview. Public safety is always my top priority, and the Illinois State Police remains in close communication with the Broadview Police Department to monitor and maintain public safety.

🧵 I have a few thoughts as a single mom of two YA kids who are the sun and moon in my sky and who now live across state lines. These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment. My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/

Putin not Musk is probably the richest man on earth but that only makes the point stronger — control of media by oligarchs leads to folly, fascism, and war

I like big curb bulbs and I cannot lie You other brothers can’t deny When a street walk in with itty bitty lane widths And a big crosswalk in your face You get a 23-48% reduction in crashes according to the FHWA highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.d...

Middle-aged guy beside us lining up for the free bike ferry between Jack London Square and Alameda can’t contain himself. “This is SO COOL

this is just fucking insane. i feel like i'm hallucinating reading this. we just finished getting hot cocoa and blackberry thyme coffeecake and now we're taking the babies to an ancient forest to watch the old people doing tai chi. this could not be a calmer happier city

I needed this today. Rest, Kaleb. The talent you had…

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

Ezra Klein needs to start wearing Formula One jackets that list all his sponsors. He needs to end every podcast with a disclaimer that he’s down to end any and every freedom as long as nobody regulates his Abundance Oligarchs. Side effects may vary.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

In a New Yorker interview published today, Ezra Klein said that Gen Z "overwhelmingly" support Trump and yet a poll taken earlier this week shows that this support has cratered. Ezra is many things, but he's not stupid. So why parrot this point? To beat on the left. www.newsweek.com/trump-gen-z-...

READING YUDKOWSKY/SOARES, A THREAD this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward >>

Professor Robert Gerwarth, director of the UCD Centre for War Studies, said similar comments about German rearmament were being made by the German left and parts of the pro-Russia far-right in eastern Germany. #spéirghorm #spéirgorm