The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

PHILADELPHIA —The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01...

You used to be able to "inspect element" in this country. You used to be able to download video

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities." An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

QR codes for ICE is hilarious, like they’re a restaurant menu that shoots people in the face.

We're going full Restoration now. Trump attacks Civil Rights Act as unfair white people. www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

ICE and other federal agents claim they mask b/c they're at risk at being doxed and killed. Here's what they're really dying of: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

We’ve fallen so far from Kellogg’s chaste vision

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Now more than ever.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Zohran has been mayor for twelve minutes and it's still cold in NYC. What the fuck. Mr mayor can you please turn on the sun.

Here’s some of the writing I was proudest of this year. I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship and reported on the fraught desire, throughout the diaspora, for traces of the Middle Passage www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Fascinating interview about cultural restitution. Things I learned: The stolen jewels were purchased off the private market by the museum in the 1980s, and Hitler blocked the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin to Egypt in 1933. I need to read her books now.

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:

Parson Brown wept

‘tis the season for giving (back plundered heritage), so I interviewed a champion of restitution, the art historian Bénédicte Savoy. We discussed the Napoleonic origins of the “encyclopedic” museum, Hitler’s love for Nefertiti, and the recent heist at the Louvre… www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Got to tell Samuel Delany’s daughter that her baby teeth were in her father’s “papers” at the Beinecke

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

‘tis the season for giving (back plundered heritage), so I interviewed a champion of restitution, the art historian Bénédicte Savoy. We discussed the Napoleonic origins of the “encyclopedic” museum, Hitler’s love for Nefertiti, and the recent heist at the Louvre… www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Bénédicte Savoy has emerged as one of the art world’s leading thinkers. In a new interview, she talks about Donald Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian, and the prospects for restitution amid the breakdown of the liberal international order. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Iymz65

An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????

A “take” on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last week’s mag www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I've been reading Sven's book, and it is terrific and groundbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...