In revolutionary times, it helps to know what you want to the world to look like after the revolution. I think it's a different world both from the one the fascists want and from the one we live in now.

We already call Penn Station "The Shithole." What's he talking about?

Below are Edward Cokes’s notes on the Postnati problem before Calvin’s Case. Clear evidence that the traditional view of birthright subjecthood is correct:

Worst. Senate. Democratic. Leader. Ever.

In revolutionary times, it helps to know what you want to the world to look like after the revolution. I think it's a different world both from the one the fascists want and from the one we live in now.

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Thank you @ryanenos.bsky.social !!

That's great! I'd love your editors to explain why the verb "eludes" is used here. If I said, "My 6 minute mile eludes me" you'd assume I've been trying to run faster, right? In what sense have housing solutions "eluded" Trump?

Brian: You're all individuals! The Crowd: We're all individuals!

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

In honor of Groundhog Day, the Times is reporting (again) about Trump's attacks on Harvard. Let's revisit the past 10 months of this endless loop, shall we?

Apparently, our genius negotiator-in-chief announced last night that the latest Times story was false and he's demanding $1 billion. Not beating the "what a fucking idiot" accusations.

Apparently, our genius negotiator-in-chief announced last night that the latest Times story was false and he's demanding $1 billion. Not beating the "what a fucking idiot" accusations.

In honor of Groundhog Day, the Times is reporting (again) about Trump's attacks on Harvard. Let's revisit the past 10 months of this endless loop, shall we?

We can have free inquiry and reject authoritarianism at the same time. We just need to insist on honest dialogue with ourselves.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

I stand with my colleagues at Texas A&M who deserve the right to teach their disciplines without government censorship.

We can have free inquiry and reject authoritarianism at the same time. We just need to insist on honest dialogue with ourselves.

Greatest policy of the last 20 years.

I'm in The Crimson today, talking about how to balance open inquiry and resistance to authoritarianism.

An outstanding comic performer.

I'm in The Crimson today, talking about how to balance open inquiry and resistance to authoritarianism.

Brief thoughts on the bravery of ordinary citizens.

Wow. What a great win (sarcastic).

Brief thoughts on the bravery of ordinary citizens.

Ooh, better: the people on the right are under arrest. But which of them is free?

Look at the fucking awesome Americans facing the camera, and fascism, so bravely (and looking good!). And look at the fascists, afraid to take responsibility.

Everything is terrible. This is funny.

Rand Paul is so close to coming around. Of all the R senators, he's the one who seems to get the authoritarian threat.

Still pissed by this one. This is an impressive amount of ostriching, even for a Republican. He's no Mike "I Don't Really Follow Politics" Johnson, but Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck "I Don't Really Know Much About the Constitution" Grassley is impressively cynical.

See, this is what we mean by "fascism involves acting in bad faith."

JD Vance's strategy for succeeding Trump as head of the MAGA movement is predicated on retaining and exciting the support of violent Nazis all around the US. That's what makes his Holocaust commemoration so unique.

🔥🔥🔥 @adamserwer.bsky.social finding the prophetic note in this reporting. Beautiful. Neighborism. I love it.

There we go. Rand Paul, step on up!

Better late than never. More of this. Hegseth should have been impeached when they started murdering civilians in the Caribbean.

I was invited to give a talk in the community last night on Trump's second-term foreign policy. I thought I'd share my slides and bullet points here too.

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Today, we're winning. NATO, help us keep winning! #worldcupboycott

This weekend I published a two-part essay meditating on the guilt I feel these days as an American citizen, and exploring the parameters of my responsibility. I invite you to read!

Wow. Good for this guy (who I probably disagree with on, like, 99% of issues.) This is what has to happen for the authoritarians to lose. Get used to saying "Good for you. Welcome to the side of justice." and moving forward.

This weekend I published a two-part essay meditating on the guilt I feel these days as an American citizen, and exploring the parameters of my responsibility. I invite you to read!

The federal government is executing citizens on the streets of our cities. How responsible should we feel for that? What kind of guilt is appropriate?

Look at the bravery of the American people.

And, part 2:

We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

I saw someone else post some favorite snowy art, so: I loved seeing this Bruegel the Elder painting, Hunters in the Snow, in Vienna.

With the state continuing to execute citizens on the street, I consider the responsibility and guilt I—and perhaps other American citizens—feel and should feel in this moment.

As ICE continues to murder people in the streets, I consider how should we approach our guilt and responsibility as US citizens.