Another addition to the “Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?” files www.bostonreview.net/articles/who...

here we are indeed. (additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)

I feel like people on Bluesky who have convinced themselves that the institutional Left in the United States is pro Trump and falling over backwards to credit Trump should have to reckon with the fact that the only Palestinian in Congress, and a DSA member, says (rightly) that the ceasefire is fake.

Abigail Tucker’s influence on the Douthat project remains very underappreciated

Wonderful essay

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

When I was a sophomore sitting in Mahmood Mamdani's class, Zohran was applying to college (something everyone was *super normal* about during this campaign) and practicing his flow. Now he's mayor of NY and I'm just some guy. Humbling really

It’s important not to generalize from a single election. For example, just because Mamdani won doesn’t mean every man can pull off wearing multiple rings.

It's both true that he and his people have unleashed something real and that's it's neither immutable nor invincible

Election nights are great tv/online nights because you learn shit like "J.D. Vance's half-brother ran for mayor of Cincinnati and got absolutely annihilated"

I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award

My actually unpopular opinion is that the current system of daylight savings works fine, and it would be far worse to have it be pitch black at 7:30-8am for many months. The real solution is to put New England north of Connecticut (otherwise known as New England) in the Atlantic Time Zone.

My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos

2025 me: the starting pitcher in the world series tonight also played yesterday 2007 me: that’s crazy, last night must’ve gone deep into extras 2025: yeah man, 18 innings 2007: damn did he just get one out or pitch a whole inning? 2025: oh no he’s also the dh, he went 4-4 w/ 5 bb and 2 hr 2007: wut

Two weeks ago Andrew Marantz accompanied me to the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rally in Wash Heights. He wrote a piece about @thedigradio.bsky.social and about how I see this huge opening for the left, need for coalition w libs, and the urgency of getting serious about building/wielding power. Link👇

Absolutely amazing that the first big initiative being justified by the "abundance agenda" is Trump's vanity ballroom. That's some eighteenth brumaire shit right there

"The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging"

You know there is time to get someone without a Nazi tattoo and who isn’t 77. The sad part is the amount of political capital defending him instead of finding another alternative.

left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism? right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I put CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY together to help connect what undergrads do in assignments with what we do as scholars then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers slate.com/life/2025/10...

chop from the top www.chronicle.com/article/your...

“Most people, even in the heat of battle, have a sense of their limits. Also, many would consider speculating about murdering a co-worker in hand-to-hand combat to be, let’s say, over the line.” @joshgondelman.bsky.social returns to BASKETBALL FEELINGS with his now annual pep talk for joe mazzulla!

Didn't have chance due to limited word count to talk it but I think an instructive way to think of these movements, however piecemeal they may be, is to take Mouin Rabbani's view that this is the first time ever that groundswell public anger has compelled change *for* Palestine.

"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters" hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

One year ago, the consensus center-left position was that using deepfakes in political ads was part and parcel of the misinformation driving the fascistic turn in American politics. Now, Cuomo and Newsom, two center-left standard-bearers, use deepfakes all the time.

If you're looking for some positive harbormaster content after the events of the past few days, I recommend throwing on THE WICKER MAN (1973), which I am doing tonight

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The President’s Two Bodies are now engaged in a lawsuit against one another

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gang it is so easy to not get or defend Nazi tattoos

Algorithmic social media convinced journalists they didn't need to talk to people to figure out things they don't understand

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

Wonderful to see a book as intellectually rich and challenging as this one get a pub-date review in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Proofs -- coming February! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/united-st...

And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

The imperial-fecal boomerang www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Mispronouncing someone's name once you've been informed of the correct pronunciation is very disrespectful, and the fact that it's socially acceptable is a sign of the moral rot of our society

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Welcome to Dorktown Mayor, Shohei Ohtani

On Graham Platner: 1) A lot of these revelations are very bad. He needs to demonstrate how his views have changed, esp. vis-à-vis race, which his initial responses have barely addressed.

Masha Gessen's piece on Francesca Albanese -- the first in a series on "new and emerging attempts to deliver on the promise of international justice" -- is tremendous. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Mamdani is persuading center-left doubters by making clear his goal is to deliver services to New Yorkers under stress, not to build some left-wing utopia. Welcome to the old American tradition of Sewer Socialism. My @nytimes.com column: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

The pending sale of a historic federal building by Trump could mean the wrecking ball for the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art.” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/14/n...

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