Horny nihilist media critics/radical centrist pundits: "whatever else you think of her, Olivia Nuzzi is a brilliant prose stylist" Olivia Nuzzi:

Hidden inside this excellent piece: "Foreign occupations often bring about affirmative action for weirdos and idiots—the kind of people who would never gain real influence but for their treasonous alignment with an occupying power." That's exactly it. We are in the midst of a FOREIGN OCCUPATION.

This is really excellent. Don't do the dance.

Taking down Trump when the time comes will require us to shed certain illusions about power. Chief among these is the notion that dictators can *force* people to do things or not do things. They can’t. Don’t believe me? Ask the Nazis. 1/n

“Without the people’s assent, the dictator is nothing. He has no power that the people do not willingly cede to him.” An important essay by @neilabrams.bsky.social . (Also, I now know the origin of the term “quisling”.)

If the GOP candidate - whoever that is - refuses to step down after an election loss in 2028, the only way to remove him will be through a nonviolent resistance movement. In my latest, I break down a real-life example to show how an effective movement can force a ruler to leave office.

Uhh, “trusting the experts” is rather famously *not* a feature of religion and totalitarianism… …which might give RFK Jr. pause if he had any self-awareness.

Read this whole thread. A cop threatens Amanda, who then proceeds to unmask his socials, revealing him to be a sex fiend with a kink for cuck. Who the hell uses social media for porn anyway?

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

👇🎯 University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:

It’s that time again

This is so, so stupid. Yeah, they did follow up on it. Turns out that kids with preexisitng conditions are more vulnerable to starvation, and that this kid, in particular, actually was suffering from starvation. (link in next skeet)

I emailed Olivia yesterday and editor Peter Savodnik today to point out a couple of glaring errors in this piece about famine classification. No response from either of them.

Recent weeks have seen an upsurge in atrocity denial absolving Israel for its famine in Gaza. In my latest, I show that Israel is, in fact, deliberately starving Gaza’s Palestinians. I do it using Israel’s own data and the statements of its leaders, officials, and soldiers. 🧵

“Ignoring polls and being coarse pushed swing to Republicans, giving them a trifecta. But if Dems too ignore polls and be coarse it will push swing voters away.” Pretty sharp.

“Believe polls as if they’re divine revelation except when they violate my personal priors.”

Read this whole thread about trad wives shiving each other on Twitter.

If that will be the outcome it's just because the western democracies want it that way. So far nobody has made any real effort to resist Russia. They all plan for having Russia around, they all fear that Russia would lose because they lack the imagination to deal with that.

Tomorrow's Reuters: "The Tigers jizzed all over the White Sox this afternoon."

Get a load of the ADL's "antisemitism training" material that Northwestern University, at the Trump administration's behest, is forcing students to learn. Nice, huh? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt. Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

In my latest, I examine Bret Stephens’s silly attempt to deny Israel’s genocide. More revealing than the incompetence and bad faith on display is his motive for writing it in the first place—a motive he does not divulge lest he trash his own credibility in the process. 🧵

Attack on judiciary is entirely possible because SCOTUS has signaled they will give this administration what they want.

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This is how Russian drone attack feels like. When Russian drones double tap - means attacking again the same spot - when the rescuers are trying to save people⚠️ loud explosions and Shahed drones sounds

Today I learned that Charles Murray, the author of race pseudoscience treatise Mein Kampf (1925) – sorry, my bad, The Bell Curve (1994) – once burned a cross with his buddies. A bit on the nose, if you ask me. 1/2 web.archive.org/web/20190714...

lol the “Foundation” for Freedom Online is a blog, almost entirely written by one guy, that pushes the “censorship complex” hoax. Has anyone seen a registration for an entity? A 990? You, too, can be the “executive director” of your blog. Embarrassing for NYT.

listen you can't just go around raw dogging life without the help of half-cooked energy-intensive algorithmic parrots built and managed by the amoral extraction class

I remember when it was the biggest scandal ever that Biden as a private citizen asked Twitter to enforce its moderation policies

MAGA is a coalition of men against women, uniting men across boundaries of class, race & religion. For some reason, the *abundant* data supporting this keeps being presented, only to disappear beneath the waves of claims that MAGA is primarily driven by other forces, including class war & racism.

The Times partnered with a transphobic Substacker who used a Nazi-adjacent Substacker to launder materials stolen by a regime-aligned neo-Nazi in an effort to sabotage a surging mayoral candidate of color whose politics they didn’t like. These are the kind of connections I’ve been banging on about!

Good Lord, what I wouldn't give... Black Sabbath performing "War Pigs" at L'Olympia in Paris, December 20, 1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...

say hello to the new college of florida in manhattan

Watch this to the end.

“Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield. It is now a place of desolation and death,” says the NYT after going on an official guided tour of Kursk. Lots of civilians killed, we’re told, and who knows who did it, but Russia sure thinks it was Ukr, and who are we to doubt it?

And that Bezos is apparently considering people from Reason and Bari Weiss (Continetti) to run WaPo Opinion. There’s something about Bari Weiss’s brand of midwit reaction that appeals to powerful people. This doesn’t sound like Bezos is just being cynical, it sounds like he’s just being stupid.

Perfectly timed. Shade seasoned to perfection.

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"

This NYT report is an incredible scandal. The scandal is that the NYT published it and how it came together. A media reporter had better be on this — and get details.

can’t wait for jonathan greenblatt to hand wave this away

It’s fucked up the @nytimes.com is okay with using anonymous race science accounts to smear Zohran with hacked bullshit, but isn’t okay with Jamelle Bouie criticizing them for it. That’s, like, four different levels of racist simultaneously.

Here’s Spencer Ackerman with by far the best take I’ve read on the racist moral panic targeting Zohran Mamdami. zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-...

This is the lesson that liberals and progressives and Democrats absolutely refuse to learn: CHANGING THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF A GROUP OF VOTERS WILL NOT PREDICTABLY CHANGE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT YOU. Refusing to accept this has walked us into disaster over and over.

So many media people lost their minds over 'censorship' when the Biden admin. asked social media companies to not platform Covid disinfo. Where are they now when the current president says he plans to force reporters to disclose their sources? Crickets.

Jimmy Dore does not pay a lot for his thumbnail-maker.

Abraham Lincoln, who was not president at the time of the Dred Scott ruling, obviously did not do this. He didn’t even *advocate* ignoring the outcome the way the Trump administration is doing. He advocated treating it as only binding on the particular parties.

Harvard has to fight rather than appease. For its own sake—giving in to fascist threats doesn't make them go away, it makes them demand more—and for higher ed in the US more broadly. If Harvard folds, others will follow their lead, and the exec branch will have more resources free to go after them.