A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

I have a whole photo album full of spaceships on my phone for whenever I need to look at spaceships

Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop. The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump. But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why. www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

I've always been fascinated by Milton's dual career as an epic poet and a polemicist. I try to combine both of these registers in my writing and in the formats I use to deliver it thedreadfulpoint.com

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Cervantes invented a guy to get mad at but showed us instead that dudes rock

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

Cervantes invented a guy to get mad at but showed us instead that dudes rock

Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

honestly this spectacle today makes me feel better. there's something very obviously physically wrong with trump, and these guys are all just clowns desperate for an audience to unicycle in front of. unserious

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

strongly urge you to read The Dreadful Point, and also to get the physical broadsheet sent to you - it is an absolute delight to hold in your hands, the text is so tiny and mysterious. i'm hoping to paper my lair's walls with them, one day.

I've always been fascinated by Milton's dual career as an epic poet and a polemicist. I try to combine both of these registers in my writing and in the formats I use to deliver it thedreadfulpoint.com

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.” Get their ass, Werner.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

We’re seeing a profound collapse of ethics across professions that once prided themselves on their independence and crucially underpinned the idea of liberal democracy in practice. Across the law, journalism, military, academia, and finance we’ve seen an eager collaboration in their leadership.

they look out at a fairly bland american cultural landscape and, not seeing themselves and their ridiculous politics completely centered and roundly venerated, feel attacked! come on man. so much of this is all in their heads

David Cross folks.

Respect where it's due, Jude Doyle is absolutely cooking here, righteously shredding everything from poptimism to Christgau to celebrity access journalism. A hoot and holler of a read. jude-doyle.ghost.io/po/

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

For no particular reason, here's the Best UK Politics Meme Ever

I don't think anybody else is doing what I'm doing and I feel very strongly that it needs to be done

I have a hard time talking about my writing but I'm going to try to do it more anyway

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Morning Bluesky. Spain has blocked US planes and ships carrying weapons to Israel from stopping at bases in Cádiz and Seville.

I have a whole photo album full of spaceships on my phone for whenever I need to look at spaceships

We're living in a nation ruled by a confederacy of losers. My latest for @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

LOL "I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place... www.kgw.com/article/news...

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"But that’s why we must commit to a fuller vision of democracy: to reclaim power in the workplace and daily life, and set an economic agenda that will actually make...lives better. The most effective counterforce to resist authoritarianism is our class solidarity." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Down to 8 copies of Hellarkey No. 4. The PDF will be remain available but no more copies will be printed when these are gone.

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

"It is the only case we know of in which the Nazis met with open native resistance, and the result seems to have been that those exposed to it changed their minds... They had met resistance based on principle, and their "toughness" had melted like butter in the sun... " - Hannah Arendt on Denmark

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

One of the things this new report from @marisakabas.bsky.social suggests is that a lot of these ICE jabronis running amok in the streets haven't even levelled up to amateur status. The main antagonist's firearms skills are uhh pretty clownshow, to put it mildly. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Just in from the ICE facility in Portland

need something fun to read, might i suggest my story "the skull" from last month's issue of swords & sorcery magazine? swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-skull/

[Kaleb Horton on Charles Portis.] slate.com/culture/2020...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

(to the executives at netflix) It's a Menippean satire

They are lying about our cities. They are lying about our immigrant neighbors. They are lying about our trans siblings.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I'd like to recreate the feeling of stumbling onto the Claremont era X-Men somewhere in the middle