There is very real convergence between the US and China right now, and it has nothing to do with Mahmdani or "socialism". It has everything to do with nationalism and a US president who openly admires the authoritarian strength he believes China represents. wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gjipjl...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

this is breaking my brain as a teacher but also as a comics artist

Man this is shocking. No I've never heard of dennis hastert or strom thurmond, why do you ask?

This particular passage from Paradise Lost is one of those things that has stuck with me and affects how I see the world constantly. It really feels like it rewired my brain, to use the cliché.

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This isn’t just about the eight Senate Democrats who surrendered. 👇

seen a lot of people shitting on indivisible for awhile, but they’ve cultivated a massive list of engaged and enraged dem voters, millions of people you know are willing to be out in the streets, and are now sending that bloc this message. it’s good folks.

Travel chaos extended into its fourth day on Monday as more hundreds more flights were canceled across the U.S. Airlines were bracing for further chaos this week, despite the first prospects of a possible end to the shutdown over the weekend. nyti.ms/47Xl6au

this is pretty much only a 1990s thing, it is mostly gone by the late 2000s. the greed/business side is still there, not the liberalization fantasy.

i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*

ok well i gotta give him this one

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

it's sort of interesting to me that the current debate on the New Right over on the other site is essentially how to co-opt the more radical wing of the movement without the bad optics i don't think this is good, tbh

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Incidentally this level of frenzied lobbying of your senators is what the republican base does every day, year round

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

How do people watch 2 hrs of this (i did) and find it compelling? www.vox.com/on-the-right...

Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge

maybe this is just a personal thing, but any time i'm forced to read postliberal, natcon, or integralist content, i can genuinely feel myself getting more of a left-liberal socdem by the second, primarily just out of irritation about how so many bad ideas can be rationalized

The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare. Dropping the mask, indeed.

His... awareness of Zohran? what?

the median age of a first-time home buyer in the United States is 40.

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

this is interesting and I think it's a better use of Khan than doing normal transition-team things

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

europa universalis is the closest you can get in a single game to playing minecraft or skyrim with 900 incompatible mods

boy i'm not looking forward to this becoming mainstream (this was in the times (UK) a few days ago)

dear god

somehow Charles I returned

For a long time after I moved to San Francisco, when people from New York would ask me what it was like, I’d tell them, “Everyone goes to Burning Man and works for a phrenology app.”

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that

A piece by me on Lucius Shepard's stories of brutal, hallucinatory war in Latin America. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/l...

Richest nation in human history

A million minutes is the outer length of a single human lifetime (~114 years). A billion minutes, by contrast, is... the entire history of homo sapiens sapiens outside of Africa. And a trillion minutes, well, that's almost the entire life history of mammals. fortune.com/2025/11/06/e...

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

I have said privately that while I don’t necessarily begrudge anybody who chooses to leave the US, but A. That is tremendously privileged and b. I do think we have to be very skeptical about giving them roles in the country once we defeat fascism simply because they didnt stand and fight

I think this is the issue with people conflating the DNC with like, the NYC Dem machine and Jay Jacobs who genuinely do have it out for Mamdani

the divide between Martin and Jeffries/Schumer, Mamdani's fellow NY Dems, has been extremely noticeable. it's also a problem indicative of their fitness for leadership!

It’s cool how there is an entire group of people who get influence over DOD and security clearances despite drug use, unethical behavior, and shady financials because something something innovation and something something lethality

Portions of the DeSantis crew are trying to pivot to this (I think because they see the direction some of the wind is blowing) and like, no, you willingly hired guys you were aware knew what a sonnenrad was and would put it in a campaign ad for the lulz Sure you fired him after he did it, but cmon