He’s going for the Heated Rivalry demographic and I respect that

Everyone knows China’s #1 foreign policy objective is eliminating Canadian hockey

PSA

“At a time when four out of 10 American Jews believe the state of Israel is guilty of genocide — about the same as the percentage of American Jews who identify as Zionists — the era when American Jews could be assumed to march under a single ideological flag of “Zionism” is over.”

instead of asking who is in the Estein files, it is high time to presume everyone with at least a modicum of importance is until proven otherwise.

Why have I never seen a video of a cop beating the shit out of a nazi?

Of course Minns is defending police brutality. The only “impossible” aspect of that situation was for the cops to keep their hands to themselves. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

People should pay attention to this story. Trump actually tries his "you're fired" shtick, directly!! But it's mere words!! Because the guy has a (good) union (which is smartly making a symbol of this story) Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action

Over 850 days since international journalists allowed into Gaza. Over 250 Palestinian journalists killed in that same time. No United Nations fact-finding or International Criminal Court investigators given access. Judges, prosecutors, UN experts and Palestinian NGOs are instead sanctioned.

dying

A good read from Amnesty Australia about your rights if protesting - President Herzog (AKA Signer of Bombs that Blow Up Children and Assistant in a Genocide). Yes the Minns government announced draconian rules but its not unlawful to protest tomorrow www.amnesty.org.au/national-day...

in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

I don't even feel vindicated anymore. it's just despair all the way down.

This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.

Megyn Kelly’s response to Billie Eilish’s anti-ICE speech at the Grammys was to tell her to shut up and “sing for me, bitch.” MAGA can only see artists and art and something to be subjugated and controlled. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

The details are hazy, but the basic idea is to fuel the looming AI productivity boom with low rates because any short term inflation will be subsumed by the massive influx of low cost AI-powered goods and services. This is tech utopian magical-thinking. substack.com/home/post/p-...

He's right, it's not a zero-sum world. Abolishing billionaires would also make Yglesias sad, so it is very much a win-win scenario.

holy shit

ahaha I just thought I could ride out a very bad mood by watching the final episode of The Night Manager and ahaha that was a TERRIBLE idea

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

my god, forget 19th-century colonialism, this is 17th-century colonialism. it's hard to shock me these days but "using genocide and the resulting famine to secure a royal colonial monopoly on trucking" is really something www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

OMG this gives "actor-network theory" a whole new dimension

Steve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action. He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Venn Diagram of "Harvard Center for the Restoration of the American Tradition" and "Epstein email contacts" is a single, overlapping circle.

My 10yo just asked me out of nowhere if ICE was going to pick me up. I explained I was a US citizen so this is highly unlikely and that if they did, we would sue the pants off of them. Notably she did not ask her white father. This is where we’re at.

Yet Gaza and Venezuela also demonstrate the intrinsic instability of such a coercive order. The Trump doctrine seeks control in a world that resists domination. By substituting coercion for consent, it multiplies the very crises it ostensibly aims to end. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The International Journal of Law in Context is looking for a co-editor-in-chief. Terrific opportunity for socio-legal scholars out there: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I hereby apologise to Ralph Miliband. It turns out that he was right all along, even more right than he thought.

If only we had a word for this type of mockery and this word wasn’t reserved only for people who oppose genocide in the Middle East

two years today since Hind Rajab was killed by the IOF. she was 5.

this feels like a hypothetical question designed make Marxist theorists of the state go insane.

Winona Ryder had to disappear for over a decade over shoplifting and these men are getting fancy appointment, in case you were wondering if ‘cancel culture’ has gone too far.

Has there ever been a time when rich people had such a bad time?

As a literary figure, the Fool does not abide by shared social norms (such as providing legal justifications for military interventions) and is, therefore, freer to speak the truth (‘we want to control access to Venezuela’s resources’), if only accidentally. cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/what-t...

The Binary Executive Theory: "The Constitutional Theory You Love, Now With Twice the Executive!"

Yet another data point supporting the view that there is change afoot in the global financial system. I know it's trite, but this is all "how to dismantle a reserve currency." The dollar as the go-to haven in times of crisis, well, that appears (again) to be shaky. 1/

My hottest take re this is that decades of pro-Israel discourse primed both political classes and parts of the public for this nonsense. oh no we are a tiny nuclear power backed by the largest imperial state and we are so afraid of kids with rocks.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

I have many thoughts about this and the main one is that the right is at war with universalism. any idea that we can learn anything about the human condition/society/politics from the, that we can sympathise with the suffering of others is an assault against their worldview and political program

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Non-justification forecloses contestation. A legal argument can be challenged, rebutted, or rejected. This asymmetry is particularly destabilising in the realm of the use of force, where legal constraints depend heavily on public claims and counter-claims. verfassungsblog.de/venezuela-us...

the Afghan Fund has been a personal obsession of mine for years cause It truly pushed the envelope on what the US thinks it can do with other countries’ money, and this makes me feel weirdly vindicated

Trump is hilarious and that’s genuinely a problem

the sole purpose of this is to support a massively overvalued, unprofitable industry

I interviewed Nikhil Pal Singh about his recent essay in @equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Never misses

I have at least one very dear male friend with whom our interactions consist of sending each other links to left-wing podcast episodes. no commentary, no pleasantries, just an endless stream of links, and I think that this is beautiful.