Absolute masterclass in comics from @mattbors.bsky.social & @tristanwright.bsky.social. SENTIAC a breakout character. TOXIC CRUSADERS is something special.

Pretty epic lineup imo

Before there was MilTwitter there was the Warlord Loop. The most deranged place there ever was

Such a No-Real-Person-Involved moment. And as Julia says, boasting that you never experienced or prompted government pressure as the result of your journalism is the opposite of a flex, it’s an admission of uselessness.

It is bad that our industry rewards people who go on TV to brag that they are stupid, unthoughtful and uncaring

It’s a grim world, post-copyeditor

Just like how anyone brown is an “illegal,” anyone objecting to their agenda is about to be “Antifa.”

Shout out to everyone reading hundreds of pages of trial transcripts in order to yield three whole sentences in their book manuscripts.

Paid subscribers get my whole column, but everyone gets some musings about Netanyahu's "autarkic economy/Super-Sparta" comments and their implications for the Middle East in an era of American geopolitical/geoeconomic decline.

With all the discussion over the last several months about the future of support for Israel on the nationalist right, I wrote for @zeteo.com about an often overlooked aspect of the ideological relationship.

ICYMI

The pretext will not be troubled by its disconnection from reality. This moment is no less frightening because of its familiarity from the War on Terror, down to the mass duplicity in pursuit of redefining huge swaths of Americans as “domestic terrorists.”

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Doobie Brothers are the Neurosis of yacht rock and Minute By Minute is their Souls At Zero

In one hour! B A L T I M O R E

Might not be the greatest time to have a political talk in an outdoor setting, but if you’re at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon, come on by the 32nd Street Stage!

THURSDAY LINE UP 1:35 pm: @levparikian.bsky.social on how MAGA is weaponizing Kirk's murder for war 2:00 pm: @daniellemoodie.bsky.social on the corporate whitewashing of Kirk's hate 3:30 pm: @attackerman.bsky.social on how the War on Terror created Trumpism thelefthook.substack.com

The judgment of history is not an inevitable emergence from academic rigor or plain documentation. It’s the result of political contestation as well. And the same imperatives behind present-day Israeli genocide denial will exist as long as Zionism does.

Hey Baltimore. Want to talk about the lineage of all this cascading, compounding, militarized social repression? And maybe also talk about representing it in popular fiction? Come out on Saturday to the 32nd St Stage of the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon!

Super weird how this story about billionaires & developers panicking to stop Zohran Mamdani forgets to mention that one of them, Laurie Tisch, is related to the NYPD Commissioner.

A whole lot of you think that just because he said he’s not dropping out and is going to stay in to get 10 percent of the vote and be humiliated, that’s what’ll happen. But me? An entrepreneur with supreme grindset? I look at that press conference and know the price of Eric dropping out went up.

Don't miss @attackerman.bsky.social talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social!

Eric Adams becoming ambassador to the Saudis and immediately going to work obstructing this lawsuit

Looks like I’ll be talking about this piece on @allinwithchris.bsky.social tonight if you want to hear what a rant from me sounds like

I wrote in my book that "Trump had learned the foremost lesson of 9/11: the terrorists were whomever you said they were." Now "terrorism" is what he's using to apparently provoke a war with Venezuela.

Before this piece, I was unaware that Guantanamo detainees claimed to have thrown piss on then-Navy JAG DeSantis. Looks like Meatball Ron got sauced

Alligator Alcatraz may or may not close by October. There appears to be serious unrest and repression happening there or recently occurring. Guantánamo Bay survivor Mansoor Adayfi has a message for those locked inside: “Fight. They only understand force.”

Happy Labor Day! This from Sven Beckert’s forthcoming CAPITALISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY details capitalists’ deliberate sabotage of knowledge production amongst the late 19th century coalescing industrial working class in order to cement their control and exploitation.

*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army

Not to be dramatic, but a provision in an executive order Trump issued Monday has the potential to transform the National Guard into a force for domestic repression. Measures like these are not “distractions”; and politicians who call them that will never protect your freedom or your safety.

Movement is a perfect LP because side 1 is a New Order record and side 2 is a Joy Division record

Follow Chris, a great guy, an exquisite creator, and the Iron Man writer who showed me the ropes for my run.

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Growing up here you learn how to sleep on the subway on your way to school and your body clock sets to the stop so you wake up. If you’re afraid of it I will never stop laughing at you

Zohran’s entire candidacy is about talking about affordable housing and related affordability issues. The enemies of the working class will call anything “woke,” for a term that gained its political valence as a euphemism for anything anti-racist need not have any set meaning

ICYMI, @samthielman.com wrote the best, most thorough & most honest eulogy of James Dobson you’ll read:

“James Dobson, 89, died this week after a long battle with children,” writes @samthielman.com

To the Times, attempted bribery from favored reactionary politicians is just “a bold departure from political norms.”

If you're not a suscriber of FOREVER WARS by @attackerman.bsky.social , correct that today. www.forever-wars.com

“[W]hen you disregard ‘crime in the strict legal sense’ as the criterion for enforcement, grand new vistas of violence against "disordered" social populations open,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social

As Pompey might have said 2000 years ago, cease quoting statistics to men with service weapons.

Lmao of all the people for this weirdo to plagiarize, she plagiarizes Doug Feith

Approaching the satire/reality collapse

Prices of guns & ammo gonna be real low.

Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!

On the murder of our colleagues, @attackerman.bsky.social writes, "At only 28 years old, suffering through his own starvation, al-Sharif reported for the world what his people are experiencing during a genocide. He operated in the best traditions of what we in this business are supposed to do."

Some notes on that piece, and on the Israeli murder and slander of the Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif, here:

“Because so few in power confronted the War on Terror as it preyed on Muslims, the mechanisms it created now prey on all immigrants. In practice, that has led to the detentions and renditions of restaurant cooks, delivery drivers, day laborers, and other members of New York’s working class.”

“It’s been standard practice for the city’s political leaders to embrace or acquiesce to law enforcement repression, first in the name of fighting terrorism and now in the name of fighting “illegal” immigration. Mamdani grew up in the New York they shaped.”

For @thenation.com, I wrote in a tabloid style about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social being on the cusp of defeating the post-9/11 deformity of the city he grew up in – and how if he wins, NYC may become the next domestic battleground of the War on Terror. Join us as we... Escape From Fear City