It is a long running bipartisan position that ‘terror’ suspects can be killed without evidence or process and that ‘drugs’ are a major problem that require a military solution. Both wrong, but this is how we got here.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Being sane can feel like a disadvantage, but I think it will ultimately help

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

The new Calder gardens sounds like it’s so great and also I did not realize he was a nepobaby!

Turning everything into content was the kind of world historical error that has made a spectacle like this possible

Go birds fuck ice free Palestine 🦅

Been thinking about this and the racial liberalism of the mid 20th century

There having been a film called revenge of the nerds was foreshadowing

Cava is so dc metropolitan area coded lol

It’s not a baby swing, it’s a shoe remover

Always a relief when the 45 minutes of toddler screaming about some irrational shit portion of the morning passes

I think there's just a fundamental divide between people who can see LLMs for what they are – a fundamentally toxic technology that can only ever generate negative outcomes; a machine for lying at scale – and people whose brains shut off because the computer is talking back to them.

Opened the back door to let in the cool morning air and 3yo asks: are these birdies out here? Are they singing

This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.

PUT A POWER BUTTON ON THE TV

Quite the Friday fascism dump we’re getting

The nativist state will eventually make no space for even privileged and valued immigrants

we watched WALL STREET this week and now I want to watch more movies set in 1980s New York. Do you have any recommendations?

One thing I really appreciate about Libby McRae’s book is her choice to name that these women were segregationists, and to identify segregation as a project that needed constant gardeners

Out of print for years, the first album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks gets a long overdue reissue this week. My review of Buckingham Nicks is available in my latest newsletter. sterlewine.substack.com/p/buckingham...

My guess is that most people think the civil rights act was good, even people who are pretty racist.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Macrohard

I have been confused by so many of these unappealing consumer goods like the worlds ugliest most violating glasses that don’t work, but this is because they fail as consumer products but succeed, presumably, as tools of authoritarianism

Taps the sign, listen to @pastpunditry.bsky.social it’s not hypocrisy, it’s an intentional political project www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

Italian restaurant called Parma Jawn.

I think people had reasons to expect the administration to go after the media and liberal civil society. But to watch them do it with Charlie Kirk as a vehicle? Abetted by media liberals retconning him as a paragon of healthy civil discourse because he died? What can you say, really?

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Still!

We also have 12 new book reviews: Sarah Coleman reviews Carly Goodman's @carlygoodman.bsky.social Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

“The U.S. government’s deportation of our clients to Ghana, knowing that they would then be sent on to countries where they face torture, persecution, or death, is a violation of American law and international law…” Read the full statement here: www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/press-releas...

Someone I kind of know sent me an email about how much they liked my book. It’s so so nice to get messages like this, so if you like books, tell authors!

Congrats to everyone navigating this time without going completely insane

The path to hell paver has logged on

Best thing you’ve read about severance?

Damn iCarly

There were a bunch of gun violence threats at several public schools in my kid's school district today and tonight they sent a long email including this paragraph and can I say I FUCKING LOVE MY COMMUNITY

Don't miss Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan's analysis of Trump's war on "vagrancy" in her recent article in Time magazine. #Rutgers time.com/7315567/vagr...

If you are Theory and you’ve only seen clips of Severance, putting Britt Lower in your ad makes perfect sense

I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...

Most cars that aren’t Volvos from the 70s and 80s look stupid but I am still so shocked by how stupid that truck looks, like world historical foolishness

Check out this fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the editors of the new essay collection THE GOLDEN GIRLS:

Been waiting on this book from the mighty @barrywalters.bsky.social for literally years here, and it’s up for presale, release date next May. Do yourself the biggest favor.