@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about public grocery stores, Mamdani's most polarizing policy proposal. They are worth trying, but are not a guaranteed food security fix. It is the rest of the affordability agenda that can do more for food insecure New Yorkers. newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Mark your calendars: The book launch for Feed the People! will be February 17, 2026 at Powerhouse in Brooklyn. Hope to see you there! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I have thoughts about municipal public grocers. They may do some good if they can compete with major grocers on price, but to take a real bite out of food insecurity, poor people will need more money. newrepublic.com/article/2046... via @newrepublic.com

*Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make It Even Better* comes out in February. @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I will do a launch event at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Books on 2.17.26, 7-9 PM. Get your ticket today! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

I will gladly any and every copy of my book I see!

Great article. Always learning from these guys.

"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."

Adult content, for people who love meat, dairy and wool, to shatter "nostalgic celebrations of old-time farming". An important article below, including this:

Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture. By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Just in time for your Thanksgiving feast, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I killjoy the gay ram story over at @newrepublic.com. Sorry, but *all* animal farming is predicated on exploiting the sex of farm animals. Oh, and those rams (probably) ain't gay. Enjoy! newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future. @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

We have a cover! Feel free to pre-order the book from any of the sellers linked on the Hachette site. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jan-d...

Hey @theatlantic.com thanks for at least hyperlinking mine and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social piece that says the exact same thing from 3 years ago. Oh, wait, you didn't.

There is no scientific evidence for any meaningful climate benefits of "grass-fed" beef, as many people, including myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, have long been saying. This news study in PNAS further strengthens this point. newrepublic.com/article/1637...

I'm just a humble food policy scholar, but I submit to you the idea that a robust regulatory state is far better for population health than fries cooked in beef tallow.

Proud to have signed this with a whole lot of other historians! "Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web" Pageshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1qHqQix_XkmiXVb6dclAPQNMSElDuIMsqV3gUN_Byxxo/edit?tab=t.0

Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages, signed by LGBTQ+ historians and authors, including Jonathan Ned Katz, John D'Emilio, Jack Halberstam, Marc Stein and Hugh Ryan.

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument. This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall. shorturl.at/ljOYW

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments. If your pride or legitimacy rests on a denial of the realities of history, it's time to find new sources of pride and legitimacy.

I signed because indeed, removing references to trans people at Stonewall "is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall.

Such an honor to lend my name to this letter alongside so many folks I admire and respect. Many thanks to @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, Margot Canaday, Kevin Mumford, Emily Hobson, and Marc Stein for writing such a powerful letter. 🗃

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument. This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall. shorturl.at/ljOYW

52kg getup x2

Feed the People! manuscript revised and sent back to press. Should now exist in physical form at some point in the next 10-12 months with Basic Books. @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I wrote a book and it's a tour de force, must read, game-changer.

Just completed Dune: Prophecy, and observing that, contra claims of "woke" media, popular narratives are now often conservative in their messages, it's notable that HBO is single-handedly trying to restore the deeply reactionary ancient trope of the poisonous bastard.

oh hell yes

I got my eye on you

"If the Rich Fool had a wealth of resources but little knowledge and less wisdom, the Race Scientist had an abundance of credentials and...a ruthless obsession with biology as the basis for human inequalities...both believed it was their inborn destiny to be great men."

You can go back a century and read letters between a rich fool like WED Stokes and an educated (but sinister) race scientist like Charles Davenport and Davenport says similar about danger of selecting for single trait that misshapes total organism. bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-rich-f...

wait how do you tell how many people have blocked you lol??

*The AI Detector* Professor: I read your essay. Student: And? P: Bad! It was written by a robot! S: How do you know? P: Someone told me. S: Who? [P mutters unintelligibly] S: ??? P: A robot told me. [Student shakes head and walks away, prof melts into goo and catches fire, emitting a stench]

Twitter was such a cute lil way to workshop fun jokes with new friends until it accidentally melted into a thanatopolitical Muskian deathcult that drove everyone using it insane

Growing up in Indianapolis, local papers always had an inferiority complex about the city's image so I'm imagining headlines rn like “One of the Insurance Industry's Hottest CEOs was Just Assassinated in NYC. Here are 10 of Indy's CEOs who Haven’t Even Been Targeted!”

I’m sorry but Eric Adams : the shooter’s name :: george rr Martin : the winds of winter

It will probably surprise people who only know me for my writings about animal agriculture, but I find most consequentialist philosophy intellectually trivial. I’m not a Kantian either (sorry!) but at least I respect the game.

The content of this Douthat column aside, this is trash writing. “The Musk America needs…” construction makes it sound like an entity called “The Musk America” needs something. Make it “America needs Musk to be…” Was this shit even edited?

Judi Dench says her pet parrot calls her a “slut.”

I would just like to say that this website has a severe deficiency of shitposters

Using trivial language slip-ups to reinforce social hierarchy? What an absurd idea! Yet that's the *best* critique of "wokeness" coming from Ahmari's camp, that it's essentially moralized manners used to shield incumbents! Alas Ahmari is too stupid to see he's ridiculing his own best argument.

I dunno, Scottie, fantasizing about grabbing titles with a sweaty, fit young Musk may be a bit sus Accidentally creating homoerotic art by trying to shamelessly flatter irl gross powerful dudes is part of the Western tradition! Why do you think all the statues of Roman emperors made them look buff?

Again: The problem is Biden is not going far enough! Self pardon. Pardon Trump. Pardon Don Jr. Pardon Menendez. Pardon Gaetz. Pardon Musk. Pardon Drake. Blanket pardons for all Americans for all crimes for the past 30 years. No questions asked. Get weird and keep it rolling!

Maybe Biden is trying to troll the country into eliminating the pardon power? If so, I think he should go hog-wild and pardon himself and Trump. Get loose! Get weird! It would put Trump in hilariously awkward position of trying to both criticize and defend Biden's obvious abuse of pardon power.

The old world (Twitter) is dying, and the new world (Bluesky) struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters (my posts have terrible engagement on both platforms).

egads

money lol