Perhaps social theory can explain what moral theory cannot justify.

jazz prodigy music influencers being 7/4'd to me daily on THE APPS

"Pro-worker AI" sounds like a marketing concept young Pete Buttigieg would have typed into a ppt. slide at McKinsey.

I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

To paraphrase what an ICE field director said at a Texas hiring event earlier this year: what makes ICE different from other law enforcement officers is that we catch criminals "before" a crime is committed.

Better name for a woodworking zine: Compulsory Mahogany or Ethical Non-Mahogany?

Maybe Mamdani promised not to publicly push on the Epstein stuff in return for win-win affordability messaging and federal funds. Or Maybe Mamdani is simply the most charming man on the planet.

Chilling. “A joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD)...characterized the court watchers as 'anarchist violent extremist actors'."

The kernel of truth at the heart of every conspiracy theory is an actual conspiracy.

Ah yes, the family; famously an institution free of violence and exploitation.

sometimes i think Adore is billy corgan's true masterpiece. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.

An extremely clarifying conversation about the personal brands, professional grievances, and strange bedfellows fueling the anti-zionist right.

The conscience of an aristopopulist.

This made me irreversibly dumber.

mayor-elect mamdani immediately put former ftc chair and SUPERSTAR lina khan on his transition team :)

The willingness to use every weapon to block an agreement to reduce emissions, is another point for the theory that part of the economic base of Trumpism is a group of capital-owners who’ve decided that a rational response to climate change would involve an unacceptable loss of prerogatives.

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.

I support proposals 2-4 on the NYC ballot, which would make it moderately easier adjust zoning for higher-density housing development. I have to say, seeing how controversial this is among people I know is giving me some new sympathy for the angry YIMBYs online.

i've seen enough. curtis sliwa is nyc's next mayor.

"On ‘1000 Deaths’ he mumbles a hard-to-hear line and then says: ‘Y’all know what I’m saying?’ Yes. Maybe? But enunciation only does part of the work of communicating. Transmitting feeling is a different job."

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

"...unlike his Austrian predecessor, who had a tragic understanding of economic history...Aghion has no theory of capitalism. Despite the sophistication of his models, his empirical data has led him to an intellectual impasse."

Circa 2022. Still not surpassed.

this is how literally half the kids at my (texas) high school talked. it's always been this way - and this is the status quo they are fighting to preserve. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Content marketing" is the editorial mood of fascism par excellence.

these quotes are from the 1880s!

China: we will fund a world-historic energy transition. United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.

Some incredible details in this profile of the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been playing "a game of chicken with the regime" since 2010. www.vulture.com/article/jafa...

Business owners have always been the driving force behind pro-immigration policy. But they have also been more than willing to bargain away the rights of noncitizens to secure their labor. We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.

Trust the process.

"In other words, people do not join organizations, support them, or adopt their political positions, symbology, and general dispositions en masse because they agree with them. They do so because these organizations exhibit competency and strength of spirit."

Trump admin is refusing backpay to furloughed federal workers while insulating DHS from the worst effects of the shutdown.

"...it’s insidious for Anderson to use a movement of men and white leftists that was heavily criticized in its time by other Black revolutionaries and make a Black woman the face of it for the plot alone—a plot in which she doesn’t even get to actively participate!"

Crucial point here: federal discretion plays a massive role in defining the terms and limits of immigration policy; and the use of discretion is one way to get at what is novel in Trump's enforcement regime. radleybalko.substack.com/p/yes-the-tr... via @radleybalko.bsky.social

In many ways the Border Patrol can be thought of as the vestiges of an era of policing that had been stamped out in many major police departments nationwide - the era predating efforts to create a more “professional” police force.

Eagleton and Cunningham were playing in the pocket on this one. From the "Slant Manifesto" (1966).

"In retrospect, we pretend to understand why history took a particular course...The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

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91% of homeland security personnel are exempt from the "shutdown," including most of ICE, Border Patrol, TSA and other agencies: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border...

Incredible vibes at this local public library in Paris.

"With no operational free cash flow to cover preferred dividends, Strategy must keep issuing new common shares to raise funds. It is the corporate equivalent of diluting common Peter to pay preferred Paul."

Just caught One Battle After Another at a theater in Paris. Crowd was quiet save for a ripple of laughter when Leo flips on La Bataille d'Alger in his living room.

Hardcore centrist getting a back tattoo that says 𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖚𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓

Thinking of this classic for no particular reason. Note the author.

Insightful piece on the relationship between elite/media framing and desire. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Male friendship? In this economy?