Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

they don’t want you to know this but hope is free. you can have as much hope as you like. i have so much hope

New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth” I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.

The problem here isn’t just Aspen Center policy (though I think the secrecy thing and not even knowing who is on the admissions committee is weird and needs to change) (note this is NOT the Aspen Institute which is a block away). The problem is that the academy is centered on these kinds of norms.

important reminder that, while we appreciate her sticking a knife in Trump at this present moment, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a committed antisemite and is not and will never be your friend

we really don't have to hand it to the antisemitic transphobe

"When I was the person fueling and egging on threats on gun violence survivors, Congress, and grieving Sandy Hook parents, that was totally fine! But now that the tactics I popularized are being weaponized against me, that's bad!"

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…

you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star

Big agree. I think more than anything else, Democrats (members of the Democratic party) need to stop taking advice from "Democrats" (people who play "a Democrat" in the pundit circuit) which includes not feeling compelled to *respond* to those pundits (I know it's hard!)

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

I mean, that's very much "bar set lower than hell" territory, but the thing that journalists and other kinds of truth tellers can do is *interrupt the narrative* that not just ogres but enablers weave about themselves. They are putting a non-complicity narrative out there & we don't have to buy it!

"But what can *I* do about it?" At the very least, you could be honest w yourself abt what you're doing if you see injustice or abuse & do nothing about it. At the very least, you can be honest w yourself--that you fail to act because you 1 believe in this gross system 2 want its spoils for yourself

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Listen I understand some people might not know this but the big lesson of the World War Two thing was that "determining the value and traits of people based on genetics is bad, actually"

This release from @acadiacenter.bsky.social also suggests it plans to remove the cost of climate damages from cost effectiveness tests, reduce state clean energy requirements, restoring rebates to fossil gas appliances...(again, haven't seen the text). acadiacenter.org/proposed-leg...

MA and New England climate folks - Has anyone seen the text of this House bill? Cutting the 2030 climate goal, reducing Mass Save efficiency spending, sounds bad. 🔌💡 commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

At a basic level, our society did not evolve to account for an entire layer of elite society just lying, continuously and without consequence, and making lying into a core skill set. It really is that dire — civilizations collapse because of alienated, delusional elites.

59) Jew coding a fantasy race is not necessarily a bad thing. Pratchett’s dwarfs are so damn Jewish they put the written word in “gevaisas” and have both a Dwarf!Kahane and a Dwarf!egalitarian movement, and it’s amazing. Peak literature

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

We finally found the Christians being persecuted in the US!

Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Even assuming that the data centre operators actually do want to do this, the equation gets even worse when you consider the fact that *THEY GET PAID* to turn their demand down. This is my thread from last year on skeezy crypto miners sucking MILLIONS during disasters:

The most corrupt administration in American history.

The most perfect encapsulation of the administration's incompetence, they failed to get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

It's a sad day when a conservative Republican--I've met Adam, he really is--can see a dangerous fascist like MTG more clearly than some who consider themselves left or liberal.

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

“Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.”

7. We are watching in real time an illustration of why it's very dangerous to have an out of touch, suggestible manchild in the White House who can be manipulated into doing people's bidding by soundbites on Fox News. /Ends

Listen to Mamdani last night. "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about." Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.