I'm just a small-town political scientist, frightened & confused by the ongoing casual media normalization of the lawless authoritarianism, but it seems that the wild illegality & unconstitutionality of this should be mentioned somewhere in the hed, dek, lede, or main text of this very long article.

In many ways, this is the actual point of "The End of History and the Last Man," one of many academic texts cursed by a popularity that came from wild misunderstandings and misreadings. But it is this basic idea, cited by the Thorne here, that has been profoundly vindicated.

ok it is time for a thread of MERMAID PARADE photos

No one should apologize for writing using complex vocabulary or atypical structure or sentences or experimental approaches, especially in this day and age. There is also an argument to be made that sometimes traditional approaches unwittingly support the status quo. (Note I said sometimes.)

On summer solstice, remember every day in our current timeline is the longest day.

I guess miracles do happen, because Publishers Weekly actually quoted me as saying “The publishing industry is really biased against queer work that doesn’t follow traditional rules about narrative” and "genre is the enemy of creativity," yes, get ready for queer writing out of bounds💫🌺💞🐇🎉⚡🎉⚡🎉

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Eduction, indoctrination, something something.

The Ellisons need Saudi cash to expand their media empire. We need to #BlockTheMerger to #StopTHeCorruptTakeover tiny.cc/fightbigmedia

however much you hate billionaires is not enough

we been sayin'

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People were burned out of their homes with children inside. City busses were set on fire. This is what the face of DHS is supporting?

I-70 is actually the tallest building in the world if you think about it

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

Albanians are protesting a $5B luxury resort by Kushner’s Affinity Partners on Sazan Island and Vjosa-Narta wetlands. Sixth day of rallies under “Albania Is Not for Sale.”

Intentionally falsifying a federal record to declare living people as dead is a federal crime – Trump and DOGE tried to do that to 2.7 million people.

Yes, it is almost like that because that is exactly what it is like because that is what they are doing, yes.

i know it's not the point but i feel like there's a hair breakdown becoming an analog for the breakdown of his presidency

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

It isn’t even satire. This is plain as day.

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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

I’m honoured beyond words. An in-person colloquium on my first book Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. About the organizers and the event and a link to registration. www.yorku.ca/events/monst...

exciting news! truly living the dream—Wired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/b...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

SHE WAS PATRON SAINT OF DIFFICULT MARRIAGES & this chump stole her relic! Talk abt righteous wrong-headedness. Possibly the ultimate act of mansplaining. He took her head bc he doesn't agree w her bein displayed in the church. DUDE, AS A SAINT SHE GETS TO BE A RELIC www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...

Neither innocent nor naive, [E. B.] White nonetheless brandished a charming, otherworldly idealism that once led [Harold] Ross to observe that he was “as impractical as Jesus Christ.” —Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise

As a Mets season ticket holder and a lawyer with an office in Queens, I’ve been to Flushing hundreds of times over the past two decades-and always felt welcome The contempt this administration shows for Democratic strongholds-especially areas which primarily contain people of color-is reprehensible

💚🌱This Saturday!!! 🌱💚

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

This reads eerily like a Trump tweet

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"the reason I’ve done the things I’ve done is simply because I found them beautiful. It’s beautiful to see a poem of madness, love, and death traced on the sky." - Raul Zurita

I mailed a copy of this book to the parents of one of my dearest friends, a pair of true New Orleans exemplars who I saw so much of in Lemann’s novel, and my friend’s mom wrote me back to say actually Lemann is her cousin. Life is a rich pageant. 🥰 (She’d never read the book and will now.)

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The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

"How do I hold these two truths together? That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen." — Mahmoud Khalil nymag.com/intelligence...

The word for this is "coup."