Reading R. Förtsch's essay on Hellenistic urbanism in the 1998 Einaudi collection "I Greci"— it's really excellent (like so much in those volumes). Wish I'd read it earlier !! PS Abolish ICE. Remove Trump.

Reading R. Förtsch's essay on Hellenistic urbanism in the 1998 Einaudi collection "I Greci"— it's really excellent (like so much in those volumes). Wish I'd read it earlier !! PS Abolish ICE. Remove Trump.

The source letter:

“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant

I like to quickly check quotes that sound too perfect. But sometimes, someone just says the absolutely right thing.

Shame on Trump for threatening to steal the 2026 midterm elections.

We want ICE OUT and, once they’re out, we want justice for the harm they did to us - the massive damage to our economy, the crisis in our schools, recompense for the families of our dead, and most of all, WE WANT OUR STOLEN NEIGHBORS BACK

I’m feeling exasperated by the currently ongoing effort by radicals and activists - the vast majority who do not live anywhere close to here and care little about the place - to hijack our crisis and turn it into some kind of opportunity for themselves. Stop doing this.

The GOP loves to tout the positive externalities of low taxes ("we're empowering job creators!"). But they never mention the negative externalities ("we're empowering creeps!").

...a sociologist who ran screaming out of Econ 101 as an undergrad at Stanford, bc the basic premises of the course were so batshit ("economic actors are rational, autonomous, fully-informed decision makers") that I was just bewildered that adults could keep a straight face making those claims.

As I suspected, Gabbard was at the FBI raid in her capacity to look into foreign election interference- something Giuliani told Trump he needs to prove in order to have the military seize voting machines. From Hugo Lowell:

AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

@EricMGarcia: What do you make of Kristi Noem calling Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist? AOC: Kristi Noem’s actions in Minnesota and her leadership on ICE in general are grounds for impeachment.

Her job is to fabricate 2020 foreign election interference to justify trump seizing voting machines in upcoming elections, and justify the nationalization of elections so he can control them.

He must go now.

Nazis are back

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

Incinerators?

After 2026, impeach and remove Vance and Trump and then the Democratic speaker would become president

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

this is what struck me when i visited Greece a few summers ago. the level of cultural exchange in the ancient world was extraordinary!

in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.

True, of course - the Med being the Med - but I want to say how much 'gutter racist' is a fitting term. It is appropriately low, vile, base. The gutter racist, however rich he may be, is lower and dirtier than the poorest upright working fellow who cares for his neighbors regardless of color.

Now that’s one for the Guinness book of records….

Must read, in our low age

The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse.

There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.

What people miss here is that Epstein, for all his grandiose yammer, was in the end pissed off he was held accountable and was trying to find ways to avoid that, and he didn't give a shit what he broke in the process. He wasn't a Bond villain, he was a narcissistic coward.

Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

For my math nerds and reciept lovers Taxpayer info: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin... BBB info: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... The number works out to ~$283 so I rounded up

There are roughly 150 million people in the U.S. who file tax returns every year The Big Bullshit Bill allocates roughly $170 billion over 4 years for "border security and interior enforcement" So each U.S. taxpayer is forking over $300 a year for CBP and ICE

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YES! YES!

I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out

Odds are decent it only makes things worse for him.

His work on early modern and renaissance war memoirs is quite good. But now I hesitate to cite that work because he has name recognition for all the wrong reasons.

He's like a cautionary tale for all historians to stay in their lane.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom. An absolute enemy of humanity.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

This is the standard. Anything less than this makes you a pedophile.

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

one sec, texting my good friend Pertinax

incredible, even when it's for his paramilitary fascist goon squad, trump still doesn't pay his bills

The DOJ opened a federal civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti's killing by Border Patrol agents. Deputy AG Todd Blanche said the FBI is leading the review with DOJ civil-rights lawyers involved, without explaining why the FBI was taking over the case from Homeland Security Investigations.

“Congress has been completely indolent in this period,” says Steve Vladeck. How a supine legislature lets ICE run wild, on “Checks and Balance”