"They have regrets...but not one of them, even now, comes across ashamed for believing that they could change the world, or bowed by the consensus of a country even more at peace with its own sins." lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

“And the advent of PBMs exists because of the inefficiency of the private health insurance on its own terms. So even as we move toward Medicare for All, we can clip off this wasteful, borderline fraudulent system that just skims money off the top of every transaction.” jacobin.com/2026/06/pbms...

En route vers le retour à la maison.

The genocide in Gaza—which, more than any other disaster, reveals the contradictions at the core of the crisis—is the end of this world, but only in the sense that something else must and will come to replace it. Whether that something will be better or worse is up to us defector.com/franco-berar...

hope y'all are buying organic bread and cereals 🤨 x.com/samdknowlton...

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

"The Bundists dreamed of deliverance without exodus; the liberation of the Jews in concert with the liberation of their neighbors." Bravo, Molly Crabapple. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

“A superb blend of personal and social history, alive with radical spirit... Brilliant evocation of the anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, a beacon of hope for a renewed left.” Read my STARRED review in Kirkus www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Zhou Yansheng (b.1942), Spring is here

The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power. FUCK TRUMP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

The Islamic Republic has long menaced its own people. But it has never posed an existential threat to Israel, let alone the US jewishcurrents.org/iran-is-not-...

"I will always tell the American people the truth... we put Americans at risk" x.com/SecKennedy/s...

In 2018, as a plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr. Kennedy helped win a landmark $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, in a case contending the company knew the weedkiller caused cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

i love this!

this is how we do it: "It's now got so bad that the British Medical Association (BMA) – a union representing more than 200,000 UK doctors – has told its members that they should not use the Palantir products that the NHS has forced onto their practices." pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p...

Body cams are a trick to get you to stop talking about bigger changes to reduce the power of government bureaucracies and corporate grifts that spy on you and repress social movements for a better world. Send this video and article linked in the thread to a liberal you know: bsky.app/profile/equa...

"Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies and illusions." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

Samedi matin.

“This is just the beginning of solidarity. We are going to fight together until there is nothing left in this world to win.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're not lost, I'm just taking the scenic route. 📷 #MountainMonday

"This is not a reason to oppose it, since it would be an improvement on the present state of things. But “affordability” achieved by these means is a superficial solution to a much deeper problem." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!

this was a great episode!

my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds

"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

it never ends 🤨

25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic. usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

Let’s go!

"With the neoliberal consensus fracturing, we may be able to think beyond its constraints, to envision new ways of organizing our economic life. ...we can ask ourselves new questions: How can we organize an economy that lets all Americans flourish?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

“a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

First plate back after the pilgrimage. Asters in Alchemy. 8x10 Tintype #chemicalphotography

from today's walk

A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group.

What happens when you get to the end of things? Physicist John Wheeler devoted his life to this question, in the end leaving behind not an answer, but an idea more profound than the thought that sparked it. www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler...

let's do this

Matt FTW! Let’s go! www.patreon.com/posts/137050...

this was a great episode!

good job everybody! www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-d...

"Everyone seems to think they can dictate the future of Palestine without Palestinians. But we will be the ones to determine the manner in which we seek liberation and what we do with that freedom." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"The massacre of 7 October did, however, lay bare the illusion that Israel could continue to subjugate the Palestinians without provoking a response – the illusion that lay at the heart of the never-ending ‘peace process’." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

after you read sam knowlton's thread on the work of soil microbiologist Robert Kremer, listen to this www.kcrw.com/culture/show...

"The very genetic modifications meant to improve crops were disrupting ancient plant-microbe partnerships essential for sustainable agriculture." x.com/samdknowlton...

"If Mamdani’s victory feels like something new, it is. But it is also a return. A return to a politics that sees dignity as non-negotiable, solidarity as a strategy, and leadership as a tool for the many."

A beautifully written and fascinating essay!

UPDATE — At least *37* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. +5 since yesterday. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

...allowing corporations to both own the infrastructure and run the services that depend on it sets up an untenable conflict of interest at the heart of our society. www.thenation.com/article/soci...