The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma bought a warehouse that ICE was considering for a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

I think the most important question in political science right now is how should liberal democracies treat illiberal movements and to what degree is tolerance for illiberalism suicidal for such societies.

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What if the ayatollah had a button he could press that would make all bald eagles gay

The Church’s directly administered territories being reduced to a couple blocks in Rome was the best thing that ever happened to it.

It can be genuinely difficult for smart, responsible people to confront the vacuity of evil. In their attempts to oppose it, they try to “steel man” its rationale, but these efforts amount to no more than ex post facto *rationalizations*. And now you’ve done some of the enemy’s work for them!

no innocents in jenin, no innocents in gaza, no innocents anywhere in iran, no innocents in southern lebanon. none too in yemen. none in syria. vanishingly few innocents in qatar. a worrying shortage of innocents in greek, maltese, and tunisian territorial waters

Eno, 'Blank Frank' [Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973] + Schlemmer

American Century of Humiliation speedrun

"Bigotry among young conservatives has Republicans on edge"

Louise by George Hommel, 1927.

What is intellectual freedom? John Milton asked this in his Areopagitica, and Leo Strauss asked it in "Persecution and the Art of Writing," and in my new essay, "A Footnote to Milton in Strauss, or, Publicity as Precariousness" I ask it too - scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/milton-...

one thing that I keep coming back to: the government that succeeds Trump's will effectively have no choice but to abolish CBP/ICE (and rebuild replacement agencies from scratch) because it will lack the diffuse support it need to function as a law enforcement agency

Every institution of American life is being forced to choose between resistance and irrelevance. Most of them are structurally unsuited to resistance, even if run by people who realize the problem on some level, and hard choices are hard. Lots of elites telling themselves convenient lies.

we are quickly nearing a point where all that Trump does before we are rid of him will leave a presumably Democratic successor with no choice but to rip it up and start again, to borrow the title of Simon Reynolds's post-punk book

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This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

I genuinely genuinely don't know what the point of this kind of thing is. Trump is, quite obviously, not making or acting upon some sophisticated geopolitical view. Obviously. Nobody could possibly believe it, it seems humiliating to even pretend to believe it. What does pretending as much gain?

How… HOW does he keep looking like he’s in a David lynch movie

super love it when i get to see where my work ends up :) thank you @chrispps.bsky.social! 💗

alternate premonition // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard, march 2026 #collage #queerart #abstract

absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?

But what is significant here is that there are 1000s of cases just like this waiting in the wings. That means even if you multiply $3M across 1000 plaintiffs, up to $3B in damages.

The CBS business strategy never made sense. From me and @chrispps.bsky.social back in January:

You ate a whole chicken…? Chicken boy?

This is not quite congruent with the popular theory that Trump's minions just feed the addled old man AI slop day-in, day-out, but in practical terms it's not much different. (1/2)

Marx alleges that liberalism is a transitional stage away from what @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com calls the Old System, the modern vulgar Marxist sees liberalism as the demon behind all suffering (because they have never known the Old System, except through the lens of post-colonial nostalgia.)

Right-wing content is painfully bad and you know the billionaires funding it are only pretending to consume it. They know it's garbage.

"The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of 'stuff blowing up.'"

the 'elite centrist' viewpoint is as esoteric and narrow in appeal as the stereotyped critical social justice viewpoint it defines itself in opposition to; it fails in the marketplace and has to be subsidized by billionaires who imagine it to have either utility or intellectual significance

the world cup is going to be a clusterfuck because of Trump

He should have spent the rest of his life in prison and the reason he isn't is bc John Roberts personally intervened to prevent that

im being told Iran just launched over 100 pronouns at the USS Abraham Lincoln. Total loss. It's the USS Gaybraman Linc-hon now.

JUST IN: Florida Democrats flip a state Senate seat. SD14 is a Tampa-area district that voted Trump by 7%. Dem Brian Nathan won it narrowly tonight, & GOP conceded, tho it's just within recount margin. This is Florida Dems' 2nd flip of the night, alongside HD87 (that's the Mar-a-Lago district).

evergreen.

Meritocracy is back baby

Again you look at *any* strongman authoritarian in recent memory; in Latin America, Europe, or Asia, they are not polling sub 40 overall and sub-30 on the economy less than two years into their term. There is no parallel for this.

I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

lol

we now have an even worse ayatollah, an even worse authoritarian religious-nationalist regime, loads of dead bodies, and more expensive gas to top it all off

I fail to see how this is different from Putin saying the Donbas must become part of Russia.

Breaking WaPo: A top deputy to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged in a closed-door hearing this month that the Justice Department did not have evidence of wrongdoing in its criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve over the cost of its building renovations, according to court proceedings.

the types of podcasts: a guide

"Democrats are out of touch here is a bunch of substacks that maybe 10,000 people read explaining what is really popular" is so fucking funny

'Socialist Sweethearts' is my new Belle & Sebastian cover band

Re: Teen Jacobin. I hadn't paid attention to the actual cover text about "Socialist Sweethearts"

Fiends - Ramblin' Rose [California, USA , Punk / Garage Rock] (1984) https://redd.it/kt6dy8 https://youtu.be/G3P8Nm-Gkfw

he definitely has the Fox News needle permanently hanging out of his mainline