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.

the secret fatty arbuckle documents will be released soon - bad news: friend of epstein

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

The 2007 Iraq War Surge was named after the revolutionary Victor Serge, as a reward to Marxist renegade Christopher Hitchens for his loyal support of the war. While orthodox leftists were busy indulging in purity tests, pragmatic contrarians were engaging in retail politics & winning real victories.

curious how the popularist guys seldom if ever talk about this. or how AIPAC is the worst of all The Groups

boy do we have an absolute plague of this type of guy today

And they came to that opinion all by themselves (almost no "leaders" or news outlets express this or allow it to be expressed plainly)

Getting people in through the “side door:” indulgence sellers in the late Middle Ages 🤝 college admission counselor behind the Varsity Blues scheme

The problem is that the “rules-based international order“ touted since ~2014 bypasses international legal institutions & lets the US act lawlessly. Trump wants a social Darwinist international system. Lib hawks want unrestrained action for themselves & *no one else*, which is even harder to justify

the US must NOT be a global hegemon (for which “world leadership” is a euphemism). It‘s an impossible goal & led to a 21st century of war/humiliations, which serve as reactionary inputs to domestic politics & are a big reason we’re losing our democracy. The alternative‘s realism—not Fortress America

Sniper reportedly shot detainees at Dallas ICE facility

a large portion world’s governments have spent decades gradually binding their fates to a country that can’t govern itself and is now the personal dictatorship of an insane reality TV host who talks like the bad guys in Jack London’s Iron Heel, only with a sub-Pauly-Shorian vocabulary. Probably fine

This is on vol. 74 of “Now That’s What I Call Bon Mots!” btw

There was good early on (long-term economic investment/beefing up the NLRB). But these policies just aren’t visible or salient to most voters. What hurt was a cost of living crisis, stagnant real wages, & the post-2021 waves of layoffs. That & his signature policy domain (foreign affairs) imploding.

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but I just can’t bring myself to care about new JavaScript runtimes & bundlers with faster hot reloads or tree-shaking algorithms or whatever. The whole ecosystem was an expensive mistake comparable to null pointers & we’re stuck with this steaming pile of poo forever now

imagine how racist and Reddit you’d have to be to call this a “concrete wasteland”

Fundamentally, the story of our time is that large segments of society cannot agree on the basic facts of consensus reality. And then people act based on their misapprehension of reality in increasingly strange, extreme and self defeating ways.

The empire now lacks the means/will to run 2 massive military occupations & a global drone assassination program. From here on out, it’ll be nihilistic murders of fisherman in a flailing attempt to impress an extremely online, insular group of pundits & X posters www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Only major downside of parenting so far is that the baby yanked the collars of all my shirts and now I go around in public looking like Bernard-Henri Lévy

take it easy, Sephiroth

After the latest Windows Update, I keep getting popups from something called linoge.exe prompting me, “Give me what I want and I’ll go away.” The options are “hand over firstborn who will be raised as a demon‘s protégé” or “maybe later.” Annoying

I am a Lesser Cornholio. My TP needs are consequently very modest

Trump’s election not only means Maga control over the Kennedy Center. The White House also forced the Criterion Closet to host a Dennis Miller special; he’s bombing (“liberals love non-GMO foods. But they won’t watch non-Gummo films, preferring 1990s IFC flicks to real, red-blooded action movies”)

did they even try putting a paper bag over the eye of sauron? like come on

Wanna feel old? Fallout Boy - Sugar, We’re Goin Down was released 130 years ago today. The song was actually an amicus brief on behalf of the sugar trust in the Supreme Court case US v. EC Knight Co, w/ lyrics defending the sacred liberty interests of capital against unconstitutional state overreach

i assume this means he got to keep the cash too. smart

soldering your toilet shut until you show more respect

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

The Trump administration says it wants state voter rolls to root out voters who are not authorized to live in the United States. But the Maine Secretary of State questions why the Department needs a mass database of Americans' party affiliations www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

rare Maine mention in a GDR publication

Decided my avatar needed a refresh. Doing a tired, pale, and haggard rebrand as we enter Q4 2025

QUIZNO’S: CIVIL WAR (2025) Dir. Joss Whedon (direct-to-Tubi) Tagline: “They got a pepper bar now? They got a pepper bar now.” ⭐️

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I enjoy Dave Berg’s comics because he lived long enough to watch the Simpsons at its height, but retained an understanding of how people dress, talk, and act that was glacially frozen in 1971

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Says here there's another hot new group of Democrats who -- hold the fort! -- are Republicans.

oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company

I’m watching Lamb Chop’s Play-Along for the first time as an adult. I think I get it now. He’s “Charlie Horse” because he’s a complete pain in the ass

Glad to see prison hasn’t kept him from his hobbies

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Woodward: (crashing through the door, reading frantically off printer paper) Carl, Greta Thunberg just posted a photograph of herself on Instagram sitting next to a stuffed octopus Bernstein: (taking feet off desk, putting down coffee cup) My god

A beautiful giant has left us. He was incredible and I loved him.

Apparently Israel is carpet bombing Gaza City right now in its bid to annihilate the hundreds of thousands of starving people still trapped there, in total media blackout after killing 300 journalists, hours after Rubio met with the Israeli cabinet and gave his blessing. Crime of the century

The Muppet Movie from 1979 holds up. The only thing that’s dated is that the villain offers to monetarily compensate Kermit for his creative work, instead of paying “in exposure” or simply appropriating his likeness