Back in January, I did leg day with Hasan Piker for the NYT, hoping to figure out what it means to be a left-wing man in a red-pilled world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...

For the Times, I wrote about the consultant class's quest to make Democratic politics cool again -- and whether or not it's too little too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/s...

one of the biggest life changes that i've made in 2025 is that i have one of those little tech deck finger boards on my desk and after a lot of practice i can actually ollie over my cellphone about half the time

Last month, for @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the Trump administration's coming war on the First Amendment -- a prediction based on the experiences of protesters in Georgia's Stop Cop City movement, which is looking more and more like a dire sign of things to come: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

blogged about my alma mater and the price of an education www.discourseblog.com/p/columbia-u...

Conor McGregor at the White House is kind of an odd choice, as he's been heavily out of favor both w/ the UFC and w/ UFC fans for years now. Dumbest possible denominator probably still thinks he's cool but general consensus about him is that he's a washed-up clown who likes coke more than fighting

What a paragraph by @jscros.bsky.social . “Empire of Blood” in @rollingstone.com

For @rollingstone.com, some scenes from the protest movement inside Columbia's campus this week, as the university administration sides wholeheartedly with both the Trump administration and Zionist groups on campus. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Schlock and Awe returns with a new ep as @jscros.bsky.social and I are joined by @inthesedeserts.bsky.social to discuss Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee's weird and uncanny 2016 film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq for a propaganda tour schlockandawe.substack.com/p/billy-lynn...

Had a lot of fun trying to convince my buddy Max Fisher that getting hit in the face recreationally was good and also solve the masculinity crisis in America on Offline with @jonfavs.bsky.social. I'm in the second half but the first half is good too :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Washington Post rushed to cancel subscriptions after Jeff Bezos' directive for the opinion section to focus on "personal liberties and free markets." @jscros.bsky.social joins me to discuss what this means for the WaPo newsroom: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-353-the...

one thing that's refreshing about the second trump regime is that everything going on is pretty simple once you realize the general direction that things are going www.discourseblog.com/p/the-oligar...

had a weird and crazy day today and decided to get in my feelings about the fact that google keeps making me sign up for linkedin against my will www.discourseblog.com/p/the-tyrann...

this isn't true

people are very mad about this blog and after long reflection on how my words have caused harm i come to you hat in hand to say i am not sorry at all stay mad hoka-heads www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...

A timely dispatch from chief fashion correspondent @jscros.bsky.social www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...

For the March issue of @newrepublic.com, I wrote about Atlanta's Stop Cop City movement, which is a test-case for repression in the second Trump administration. No-knock raids, brutal charges, and lengthy detentions: coming soon to a city near you. newrepublic.com/article/1908...

OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends. I hope you check it out

we are reading the news and looking at it very closely -- many people have asked me "jack what does this all mean" and i say it's very simple. it's very simple and in fact it's very good, perhaps even better than it was before www.discourseblog.com/p/the-chaos-...

had a nice (relatively speaking) time with @kathkrueger.bsky.social @jackmirkinson.bsky.social @therafischwartz.bsky.social talking over the first days of the trump administration for @discourseblog.com. we're all in hell! www.discourseblog.com/p/seven-days...

Back in August, I asked Rolling Stone to let me write about one of my hobbies & the new American pastime: Mixed Martial Arts. In November, the story changed — & only got more relevant. If you want to know the new, bloody America, you gotta know the UFC. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Great @discourseblog.com piece from @jscros.bsky.social about how the LA fires are a catastrophic result of countless, systemic failures and crimes from the forces at the top of our society. This is what it looks like when everything starts collapsing. www.discourseblog.com/p/youre-not-...

i hope they paid this man $5 a word for this piece www.esquire.com/news-politic...

every time i go home for holidays i assume that it will be a relaxing week in where i used the solitude of the mountains to catch up on writing, which is funny, because every single time i am reminded that there is no worse work environment than one containing either of the people who raised you

coming back to this site and realizing one of my last posts was this story, which is disturbingly prescient now seeing as tons of these guys are gleefully anticipating roles in the next administration

some reflections on politics and where we're at www.discourseblog.com/p/its-about-...

Knights in armor, sink vomit, racist jokes, six-figure spend events, a guy who tried to lick my cheek, men with toy guns, Mormon missionaries. I don’t even know man read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

at this point it honestly couldn't hurt for every magazine to start doing a swimsuit edition. new yorker cover that's just sally rooney in body paint. karl ove knausgaard in a big chunky cardigan open in the front with a speedo underneath. why not www.discourseblog.com/p/soon-will-...

it's frustrating how slowly the tides of public opinion can change, but i'm hopeful that we're seeing that shift now as the atrocities in gaza get harder to ignore. it's a shame it took this long www.discourseblog.com/p/the-us-pub...

ICYMI @discourseblog.com has a new podcast, OPPO RESEARCH. We're taking on politician per episode and uh... really going into it. For season one, @jackmirkinson.bsky.social and I went deep on CA Governor GAVIN NEWSOM, one of the biggest freaks in the game www.discourseblog.com/p/oppo-resea...

Wrote about the rules, and what we can do when people break them. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-rules-...

It's cute that they keep acting like Trump might not be the https://www.discourseblog.com/p/its-cute-how-they-keep-acting-like

when i moved to new york like 8-9 years ago in my early 20s i stopped wearing flip flops. made the switch to, i dunno, birkenstocks? just wearing sneakers? felt that it wasn't cool to wear flip flops in the city. well. recently i bought another pair and let me tell you those 8 years were wasted

I agree with @jscros.bsky.social that Bluesky is "a flop" and that "we’re in a transitory period between the universally public, hyper-online world of minute-by-minute text feeds and something else." https://www.discourseblog.com/p/bluesky-is-a-flop-and-so-is-everything?nthPub=961

wrote a blog about this website (sorry) https://www.discourseblog.com/p/bluesky-is-a-flop-and-so-is-everything

the united states is not yet a place where bosses fear for their lives after making callous or brutal labor decisions; in some ways, i hope we never get there. it is something that the bosses should think about more though!

honestly i’m going to default to whatever platform gives me the best engagement when i post a link to my little stories and blogs because that is really the only thing i enjoy from these apps anymore

would personally like to thank bill de blasio for giving us an incredibly easy blog topic right out of a holiday weekend, thank you for your service mr. mayor https://www.discourseblog.com/p/nycs-biggest-freak-is-back-on-the

couple weeks ago my dad’s dress shoes broke at a wedding so i gave him my stan smiths, which i think he really pulled off in a kendall roy kinda way

eat at da greek place, gotta feed da greek place’s dumpster cat

just offered my wife a bluesky code and she instantly said no which really felt like an own somehow

feeling this from @jscros.bsky.social yesterday https://www.discourseblog.com/p/john-roberts-affirmative-action-carveout

sorry im still new here is the jake tapper account that posts like 100x a day actually jake tapper

for some actually worthwhile thoughts about all the smoke please read @jscros.bsky.social on @discourseblog.bsky.social today https://www.discourseblog.com/p/were-all-california-now

blue sky? never heard of her https://www.discourseblog.com/p/were-all-california-now

i have a new conspiracy theory that fancy boutique fitness classes keep their gym temps higher than needed on purpose so you sweat more and feel like you got more of a workout

one hell of a night that’s for sure

Three years ago today in Brooklyn

I wrote about Ron DeSantis' time as an officer at Gitmo, the accusations by detainees that he oversaw torture of prisoners, and his blanket denials of ever being involved. The problem? DeSantis once admitted to it. https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/ron-desantis-once-oversaw-torture?sd=pf

“I feel like we have a good chance of winning because this is so clearly unjust." - @eoinhiggins.bsky.social reporting on the plot of Michael Clayton come to life in MA https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/monsanto-lawsuit-lee-massachusetts-pcbs/