hey everyone, come read the article that's got fox news promoting how fun and correct anti-ice protesting can be www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Congrats @vanderhoofy.bsky.social! You made it to Fox News!

he's coming out of the library with a big book that says 'politics' on the cover

The cost-of-living crisis put an end to the era of easy money and exposed the profound weakness of an economy built on exploitation and extraction. Without the salve of cheap debt, old sores have begun to fester. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

ok hot take, it's actually better when song, record, and album of the year go to different people. makes it seem like the voters were actually listening

On Friday, Don Lemon was arrested. On Sunday, he was at the Grammys. On Tuesday, he's recording a live podcast episode with D.L. Hughley. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

exactly what i've been saying!!! www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

i'll be blogging the grammys all night, and i just started with some grammysology about album of the year! www.vanityfair.com/live/grammy-...

goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"

these essays/approaches to mental illness really make me angry! i understand that this woman is probably really hurting, but the idea that laws against involuntary commitment are the only thing standing between her son and wellness is such a pernicious lie www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

my obsessive love of robert wyatt peaked during the pandemic when he was pretty much all i could listen to/read and write about and this really sums it up

5/5 And that's why the Conservative and Libertarian reaction to protests and disruption of the patriarchal ritual is so disproportionate. It's not about information. It's not about dialogue. It's not about freedom of speech or democracy. It's about hierarchy being challenged in public!!

4/ Students who disrupt this sad patriarchal ritual aren't preventing the exchange of ideas—there are no ideas being exchanged that aren't already available in a dozen other formats. They're disrupting the status ritual.

i love ta-hehisi so much, glad to call him a co-worker www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auo3...

The problem is that blue states are fully committed to “return on investment” analysis and are fully committed to undergrad business degrees and whatever the latest tech trend is. There is no theory of holistic education supported by democratic leadership.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

VF's @vanderhoofy.bsky.social revisits the controversial Grammys night when Eminem scared the nation, Beyoncé made her onstage debut, and Steely Dan were the conquerors of all they surveyed

I wrote about the night when I learned that the Recording Academy would always disappoint me, the notorious Two Against Nature night www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

If this isn’t competitive authoritarianism I don’t know what is

Never thought that the guy who asked whether Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 got lost in a black hole would be arrested for being an 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 or whatever, but here we are.

Been thinking about this a lot today....kinda sucks that there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it

I knew people who took this class, and would you be surprised to learn that 1) they were among the least humble people i have ever known and 2) they didn't seem to get any better at humility through spending 12 weeks with david brooks

6 years ago, i argued that there was no grammys best new artist curse. but i learned and i grew, and now i actually think there might be? www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

The online-ification of politics is producing enormous tension here. Elected officials have become accustomed to tweeting or holding a press conference and having words accepted as reality, and in this instance people are noticing that the actual reality on the ground does not match it at all.

“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

all union organizers are very familiar with this on every level

I don't think Erika's affect in this is outside the range of your typical mourning person who REALLY believes that God has nominated them for a huge mission, but it's definitely weird to hear her tell people to, like, stop beefing because husband is dead lol

that's right, it's time to get woke again

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Part of the reasons dems are struggling to gain purchase is that they use phrases that have a technical meaning but conservatives can't read

There was a big blow-up in Independent Charismatic Land last week, and Max and I are just watching all the videos/apologies/reaction videos like it's Bravo. I live for this

Folks are passing out whistles and zines. The DIY/analog aspect of American activism in this moment is as important as the videos of ICE abuses

why i like the idea of rehabilitating "woke" is that it's a reminder that good work can only be done if we actually do it—we have 2020 and it wasn't followed by the wholesale reimagining of society, and now we have to do that for real

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

man, it's SO depressing that "ICE out of churches, schools," the status quo for decades before the GOP blew up the post-1986 immigration consensus is something we have to beg for now

Ok when you have to get a lot of them, this actually is kinda what it starts to feel like. You're telling me that I get to feel confident I don't have cancer, get a chemical nap, and all I have to do is just sit at home liquifying my insides for a day? It's a good tradeoff!

honestly "Christianity is an excuse to be a perma-bitch" is something I will be teaching my Sunday School students (shorn of foul language, of course) because it about sums it all up. Yes, be annoying to others and violate gender norms if it means you're doing the right thing.

I would add that assuming progressive insincerity on culture and inclusion has also been a key aspect of the anti-woke center and left.

Congratulations to Colonel Lockjaw on the retirement

Excited for Bovino and his new office.

Greg Bovino Ordered To Leave Minnesota; Will Return to Elaborate Burrow Beneath Fort Totten Solid Waste Disposal Transfer Station

There's a whole alternative history of America to be told that centers shitty, emotionally stunted fathers and the insecure little authoritarian boys they cranked out.

I Consider Mids Loud--and I VOTE

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

my takeaway is that going out to protests and organizing with your community like minneapolis has shown us and getting offline, where people are paid to parrot government propaganda, is the best action you can do and reminds you the average person isn’t insane or evil

I've been thinking a lot about how fights over "wokeness" are also fights about the sustainability of secular humanism/the liberal subject. Those things are really important, but we also have to find ways to talk about moral disagreement beyond "this is/isn't allowed in a free society"

It's moving to a Hot Contemporary Country format.

i'm working on a story about this but it is insane how much everything about "woke" is put into a new light if you look back on the issues that people "cared about" with the idea that social media is bad for us and not a public square for debate/reason. any bad effects were even worse for the right!