War in #Iran means relentless thunderous explosions, plumes of smoke across the skyline, and the destruction of military sites alongside airports, oil depots, water facilities, homes, and businesses. In my latest piece, I translate and share two firsthand accounts from inside Tehran.

I'm just blown away at how much the average American has taken for granted. Just floored at how nonchalant they were about voting for the "vibes" and "concepts of a plan" guy. Society hangs in the balance and people are just barely aware of what they stand to lose at this very moment.

If you let corruption fester then it creates a very bad incentive structure in which anyone who isn't corrupt is a sucker and once everyone is corrupt, everyone is guilty, and enforcement of anti-corruption laws simply becomes a mechanism for punishing anyone who falls from favor

The fascist regimes that were born from the abyss of WWI relied on millions of men who fought and killed in the trenches. The current attempted remake is staffed by doughy failsons who are mad that their doordashed burrito has become lukewarm.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island

Russian fascism is engaged in an existential civilisational battle against liberal democracy, with the Ukrainian working class acting as the first line of defence for Europe. Material support for the Ukrainian armed forces is class solidarity. Arming Kyiv is anti-fascist praxis.

If I logged on to Al Gore's Internet and started denigrating normie libs and wine moms for wanting to protest or lecturing people (incorrectly) about protest OPSEC while Ruby Bridges is still alive and well and sharing her experiences, I would simply die from shame. Fix your fucking hearts.

Sometimes I’m like maybe I should tell my wife more about what’s happening here on Bluesky and then sometimes I’m like no jesus no I absolutely cannot do that

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

Dutch late night TV has its take

This question should be asked a lot more often, but it's apparent neither the US nor Israel is interested in the answer.

Apparently, because it’s 2020 again, I need to start a thread on police violence targeting journalists in the US. So, here we go: 1. Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi shot by police officer with less lethal munition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFJ...

Thou shalt continue to ask Trump officials basic questions like, “WHAT IS HABEOUS CORPUS?” so that they can reveal that they don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.

"AI makes me so much more efficient" - the least productive person you know

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

nobody who thinks the soviet union should be a model for any future society has anything of value to say on any subject

The Shifting Front of Militant Islamist Violence in the Sahel Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well on West African neighbors. africacenter.org/spotlight/mi...

Really, any employer who can credibly promise to provide a job to someone (and put up security equal to some number of months in pay) should be able to bring anyone without a criminal record over the border to work.

It is time for Trump to put up or shut up in Court. A FEDERAL JUDGE said “no evidence before the court connects Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or any criminal organization.” No one is vouching for one man. We are standing up for EVERYONE’s right to due process under the Constitution.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Trump is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. We don’t need to dress it up, we don’t need to link it to big explainers why that’s bad. Everyone knows that breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution is bad.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

This is really important: When stuff works well it tends to become invisible. Radicalism in politics should be thought of as the confidence that you and your movement can replicate all of the invisible stuff that you break.

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

"if [it] cannot produce a wealthy, stable society than to Hell with it" is the correct attitude for all such things I think.

Full comic here: smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3

Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X. Everybody dies.

The 19-24 yr olds carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Yes, they are violating the law. They are also responsible for enforcing the law, which they won't do. Therefore, law enforcement and preservation of the Republic will require either external enforcement from non-Trump-aligned government elements or acceptance of autocracy. Those are the choices.

Basically the US government is being run by a bunch of Barry's. Just substitute DEI or whatever nonsense du jour for Barrys anti-semitism. It's the same vindictive, small minded incompetence of mediocre men (and some women) blaming everything that happens on the Thing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEe2...

you are living through the collapse of the system of government that has governed the united states for the entirety of its existence. that collapse appears to be happening literally tonight. react accordingly

I really do not care for how it seems like we’re rapidly illegally dismantling the basic functions of the federal government. I dislike this current series of events.

Ralph Nader is genuinely an underhated villain, not just for 2000 but that he was the progenitor for weak-wristed litigation liberalism

By popular demand, here is the paper that accompanied the presentation I gave that had NORTHCOM officials laughing at me. (Some stats and links have been updated)

The physical world still exists and eventually ideas formed in the mass hallucination chamber of social media will collide with it, even for the people in the grips of the hallucinations. And when that happens a lot of people will die.

I don't really have anything interesting to say outside of my field of expertise, but I would like to confess my undying hatred of Charles Murray and the sophistry he unleashed upon this earth. Fuck that guy.