Despite the wishcasting of certain Democratic Party ideologues, this has always been the core objection to Stancil. It’s all about him. The borders of his conceptual world cease where his capacity of perception does. This is why he spends so much time convincing the poor that they’re hallucinating.

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

for no reason, thinking back to Occupy and the behind-the-scenes work undertaken by some folks to ensure media didn’t always keep calling the same available white guy…

I'm going to say again that I understand that people need a job to live but sometimes you really have to quit.

Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

The Sojourners for Truth in Justice took up Rosa Lee and her son's case as a key plank of their organizing. issuu.com/projectnia/d... - a key example of defending Black women's bodily autonomy at a time when people did not publicly address such things in general.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

I am hearing folks who have never been involved in putting together a protest or protecting one talking about how silly and frivolous "opsec" concerns are, and I want to say directly: you have no idea what you are talking about. People have been killed for getting made famous by the press.

I would really, really urge you: if this is not your work, if you have not been in this stuff for years, stifle your urge to speak over the folks actually running these groups, actually putting these protests together, actually responsible for keeping people safe. You are speaking out of turn.

beginning to feel that we are just starting the rebuilding of a sense of “society” that fractured in the pandemic—a society that will by necessity feel and look and act differently since it is kind of being assembled ad hoc from the broken pieces, but which is starting to come together nonetheless

They Live was a documentary.

A critical techno-skepticism is now table stakes for anti-fascist resistance.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

the competition is fierce but i think elon musk may be the most pathetic human ever to have lived on this planet

Yeah, it's a reflexive familiar form of social violence that makes us feel like we have rhetoically delivered a blow. Easier to beat on the fat, the old, the disabled, than fascism, The latter takes more thought, deliberation, and is less instinctive and engrained.

"In an enabler culture, revelation of the offense is the offense." That's it. That's the whole American system in a nutshell. Brilliant as always

“It ends with a society that doesn't permit abuse, and doesn't extend abuse as a perk of power.” That‘s not saying it’s going to be easy. But we at least have to know where we’re headed. Read the whole thing.

Elon being asked to leave the eyes wide shut party because he’s weirding everyone out

Folks, I hate to break it to you, but if you think incontinence signals incompetence? That's ableism. It just is. No ifs. No buts. And the social shame and other forms used to discipline this is one the first expressions of the shit (hah) Foucault was on about.

One of the most depressing things about trying to sound the alarm on the "Gender Critical" movement back when it was gaining traction, was that one of the main transphobic activists of the 2010s was a woman who had groomed a minor under her care, and everyone just stuffed their fingers in their ears

Every single person who wrote "Me Too" off as "cancel culture" or whatever can go fuck themselves. The entire system is designed to protect evil men from consequence and I'm tired of folks trying to convince me otherwise.

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

By "MeToo went too far" what they meant was "MeToo got too close". They're not prepared for the backlash they're going to get.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

This is why I have been so adamant about drawing links between the Panama papers, the paradise papers people like Stephen Pinker and The liberal intellectual think tank circuit and the transnational fascist movement because they are all the same movements. We are just seeing differing faces of it

It’s going to be really tough for people to understand that much of the Neoliberal “intellectual” think tank circuit has always just been a cover for the most disgusting fascists and sexual deviants in history to take and hold power.

“If they showed [the Melania documentary] on a plane, people would still walk out." - Variety

This latest batch of Epstein revelations is altering how I understand the shape of the world. All of it is so much more connected than I thought. But, also, I had good instincts about who smelled.

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

the point is go do what you WANT. Love who you WANT. Make art. Protect your neighbors. You didn't fail. Grow in the cracks of the pavement.

“Of course, this voice isn’t an ‘inner’ voice at all – it is the internalised expression of actual social forces, some of which have a vested interest in denying any connection between depression and politics.” - Mark Fisher theoccupiedtimes.org?p=12841

I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

"At least Leni Riefenstahl could frame a shot." brutal.

“Papa, why wasn’t there a Mario Mangione?” 🎯 northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/31/r...

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

Truth-seeking is what journalists see themselves as always doing. Find the truth. What could be simpler, right? Refuge-seeking includes common practices like false balance, "both sides do it," steering the story "down the middle," and the depiction of "dueling realities" in a divided nation. 12/

Jay's third key distinction: truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking behavior in journalism. Truth-seeking needs no definition. It is finding out what actually happened— and telling us. Refuge-seeking involves telling the story in a way that protects against anticipated attacks... 10/

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press) I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences. Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account. 7/

And here we go with some key distinctions I use to do my work. An audience is not a public. "Audience" suggests people attending to a common object, typically a performance or spectacle. A public is people with different interests who live in the same space and share common problems. 5/

It’s been 8 days and we still don’t know the names of the men who murdered Alex Pretti. DHS must be abolished. No ICE. No palantir surveillance police state. There’s no “fixing” a sociopathic agency designed to trample on our freedoms.

in *2018*

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Sure not every Epstein associate knew at first but THE MAN WAS CONVICTED IN 2008. If someone was friends with him or took his money after that, I have NO sympathy when they get called monsters.

I always was.