The Vanity Fair article in July 2008 reporting, among other things, that Bill Clinton continued to associate with Epstein’s despite the latter’s known criminal record. archive.vanityfair.com/article/2008...

Western Washington is currently experiencing record flooding from a series of strong atmospheric rivers. 12 rivers are at major flood stage. 100,000 people await evacuation orders. Will some places see less severe climate impacts than others? Yes. Does anywhere promise safe haven? Absolutely not.

Rep. Jacob Rosecrants is in touch with State Rep. Jared Deck (Norman) and Rep. Tom Cole (Repub). The office of U.S. Sen. James Lankford (Repub) has been made aware. They can't find Dr. Abedini's location. Important for several reasons including filing habeas corpus docs. URL: x.com/jacobrosecra...

The click-bait scourge is more and more rampant among NYT headline editors — a cheapening of a great legacy.

Having contrarian views as part of the marketplace of ideas is good and healthy for society. Brandishing contrarianism as your brand or shtick as a writer is childish, or dangerous. Looking at you two NYT conservative columnists.

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Maryland court orders temporary suspension of (illegal) annual asylum fees, enacted in July 2025 legislation. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/ale...

يلحُّ علَيّ منذ أسابيع العنوان الآسر -- التراجيدي -- لرواية يوسف السباعي التي عرفنا كمسلسل إذاعي وفيلم ثم كمسلسل تليفزيوني: نحن لا نزرع الشوك. صحيح أن الرواية تصطبغ بطابع ميلودرامي، ولكنها تلقي أيضا أسئلة سرمدية تذكرني بتلك التي طرحها سٍفر أيوب في الإنجيل.

In this article Cheney comes across as a tragic, paranoid figure. He did the decidedly non-Conservative thing (think Edmund Burke) of believing in and enacting a history-correcting vision, one in which the enlargement of presidential authority necessary, good and urgent. by @maxboot.bsky.social

💚 to books and book authors. 💚

مزاح سيفهمه المصريون هنا: هل يعرف ممداني سعر ذكر البط؟

The 2024 presidential election and NYC mayoral election yesterday are perhaps the first contests in U.S. history when stances on Palestine have electoral consequences. K Harris didn’t get that. Mamdani proves it.

Meanwhile, Tsurkov speaks. She recounts tales of captivity and horror, but also of resilience and the irrepressible will to life. May you heal fast in your حرية. Much love to you, Elizabeth! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Must say that ever since Roger Cohen moved from his position as foreign affairs columnist to head NYT's Paris bureau, his voice of thoughtful commentary (and lyrical prose) on int'l affairs has been very much missed. #MakeCohenColumnistAgain!

Call it Pax Femina! theconversationglobal.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tktish...

Senseless violence, then this father rushes in, with selfless courage! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dubai’s malls really flatten hierarchies. In them, lay schmucks like me and you can run into celebrity gangsters. 🤌 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

i have nothing but respect for Mr Landler’s work, but the framing of the piece here seems off. If it’s accountability, it’s almost too late to count. The move seems motivated more by damage control to the institution of monarchy, as several Guardian columnists have noted.

On Congress’s self-inflicted ”cease and dissolve.” Remarkable!

#Sudan: RSF drone strikes kill seven . . . "At least five people have died due to drone strikes in the northern Sudanese city of Al-Dabbah on October 14th" @martinrjay.bsky.social READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_...

The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social

Inspiring words from my dear friend Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social youtu.be/mDC7O2TO7s4

The moral arc is long but it bends, sometimes, toward whiteness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Let me paraphrase a sentiment A O Scott, the former NYT movie critic, once expressed about inspector Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. Bret Stephens is always wrong, and when he is right, he is right f or the wrong reasons. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Fascinating article from 1941, by the great Dorothy Thompson. harpers.org/archive/1941...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbpG... "اتجمعوا العشاق في سجن القلعة. اتجمعوا العشاق في باب الخلق. ... مين اللي يقدر ساعة يحبس مصر."

Turned out, improbably, there is more room for further escalation: Netanyahu suggests regime change in Iran is the purpose of ongoing hostilities. This might alienate even those Iranians in the regime-critics camp.

Reminder for our upcoming workshop "War and the Anthropocene" with @dirkmoses.bsky.social Friday, May 30th, @ Central European University 9.00-17.00: Room D-002 Pre-Register here: events.ceu.edu/2025-05-30/o...

What untreated trauma and unexamined ego have in common? They both are hindrances to the flow of life. They are life-denying forces.

Fears for health of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and mother as hunger strikes take toll

It’s all clear now. The entire Trump phenomenon was implanted by Canada’s Liberals to overcome, in 2025, the glum fate awaiting incumbents. Wily!

You might not like it, or want to change or reduce it, but US engagement is a fact of the international system as we know it, and cutting it off at the knees this suddenly will hurt a lot of people, and it will not be the blob or the professors or the “elites” who will feel it first or worst.

USG is enormous, and for damn sure the FP of the last half century has been disastrously militaristic in all the ways everyone already knows. But, it’s also doing a lot of good in areas way out of the limelight, on a relative shoe string. These programs are what’s most at risk now.