When Google search launched, people didn’t need to be berated into it. There was no “you better figure out some way to use this.” People just tried it, quickly saw it directed them to information they sought and helped them navigate the internet, and kept going back to use it more. Just sayin’.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story. www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...

criticizing Israel is not antisemitism but basically any right-wing criticism of Israel is likely to be antisemitic or antisemitism-adjacent for the same reasons that right-wing criticisms of Muslim-run autocracies are uniformly Islamophobic and usually anti-Arab trash

Trump has helped loose this kind of thing and it is on us to make people once more ashamed to say shit like this by delivering ruthless social consequences to everybody who does so.

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

American Pundit Historical Analogy starter pack: - Moonshot/Sputnik Moment - Marhsall Plan - the Luddites - the New Deal - the Cuban Missile Crisis - the Manhattan Project - Prohibition - Hiroo Onoda

Bretton Woods is one of the six historical events that are allowed to exist in public discourse. The others are: Munich, Weimar hyperinflation, Pearl Harbor, the Blitz and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)

It is absolutely wrong to say that Israel's actions are the reason why there was an antisemitic terror attack against the Jewish community of Australia. And likewise, it is also absolutely wrong for the Israeli government to blame Australia's decision to recognize the state of Palestine.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Anyone who has been in or worked for a union knows that a huge part of the challenge is that unions have to represent both the worker who harasses their colleague and the worker who gets harassed. It’s not always david v Goliath! People can be terrible to each other!

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

Peter Beinart's "Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza" is fantastic. It's helping me synthesize things I've been struggling to make sense of, and made me feel much less alone. I very highly recommend it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775348...

I think a large part of the problem capitalism is having now is really we have all the technology we need for our day to day lives now; we don't need anything new or more technology-y, just stuff that lasts or works properly, but no, here's a incredibly flammable subscription dictaphone instead.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

I think of this post about once a week.

I'd actually put it a little differently, following Arendt. It's not about whether you allow others to judge you, but whether you allow *yourself* to judge your actions. Whether you think, in other words.

I'll take "rich text" for $300, Alex

For years I've been meaning to write something about how the original sin of economics was defining utility in $ values, because it makes people think that everything can and should be financialized and it's all equal in the end.

the whole treatise that regulation is just inherently bad is libertarian toddler gibberish. none of these writers or thinkers are interesting; they're propped up by the extraction class owners of consolidated media because the real conversation we need to have threatens their wealth and status

GOP Rep. María Salazar celebrates the prospect of regime change in Venezuela and how it would be a potential $1 trillion windfall for American oil companies

External to what?

It's that time of year again

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”

I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities. This ends terribly for everyone.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

we have surrounded ourselves by so many machines of so many kinds it's no wonder that we've come to think of ourselves as scientifically rational wealth-optimizing machines, which ultimately makes us reproducible and replaceable, and makes us treat life as a series of functions to be lubricated

should have been a 5-4 decision with Neil Gorsuch dissenting based on indigenous liberties, as Samus is Chozo by adoption and the technology belongs to them. The Galactic Federation is clearly impeding on her sovereignty? stack the courts please

one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma. elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

in one meeting Zohran Mamdani got Donald Trump to sanction in the public discourse: - the republicans and their president are fascists - the legitimacy of New Deal politics - socialism - the US government funds genocide Turns out you can beat a dog at basketball with Islam and Democratic Socialism

Inshallah

Stephen Miller going into the white nationalist reading room only to discover Trump has replaced everything with feminist zines

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

Lawyers learning history