Cassandrastein

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

The signal being sent here is that if you say enough lefty slogans, these folks will defend you to the death even if you've got bodies buried three deep in your basement

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

📌 Netanyahu's Delusional Iran Campaign Damaged Israel as Deeply as October 7 By Ofer Shelah 🧵 www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

argentina is like if staten island italians had a country where they spoke spanish

Jews reading this like, “the which culture now?”

Millennials if Sufjan had completed the 50 States Project

Can confirm

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

Tough but fair

Orde Wingate mode activated

New: Back in 2018, I published a summary of studies and surveys about the prevalence of racism in the criminal justice system for the Wash. Post. The idea was for it to be a regularly updated resource. The Post hasn't updated it since I left. So I've updated and reproduced it at The Watch.

People keep trying to make this Dem schism about policy, because they think they can win it with catchy slogans. But it’s actually not about policy. It’s about whether or not you look at the GOP under MAGA with disgust or with envy.

graham just say jews this is taking forever

It’s a low bar and we should clear it.

These help remind me to floss

Leaving this here….

When the Reddit post blaming women for getting drunk to shift the blame away from rapists, it was 100% baked in that there would be a credible rape allegation against him. If you don’t have the pattern recognition skills to have seen that, you should not be getting paid for your political acumen.

oysterdämmerung

does anyone know how to log off

I should read more art essays in the morning. As upsetting as this essay was, it feels like a genuinely useful framing. I'd make a joke about the subject matter, but now I'd feel irresponsible for doing that. news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...

The first sentence of Walsh’s tweet is literally 14 words

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

Reminder that none of your problems are because of immigrants.

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Time and time again I feel someone is an antisemite and people say no, they're just critical of Israel, and I squint and say no, really, something is off, and they say I support genocide or something. Over and over.

The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

Paul Robicheau at #Wilco's #SolidSoundFestival: a @billybragg.bsky.social reunion, festival deep cuts, and a weekend of discovery turn #massmoca into a communal music feast. artsfuse.org/331012/music...

The key difference is that they wanted Biden to lose and they want Trump to win and rule over us.

Oh, the other pictures I have seen didn’t showcase the Albert Speer vibes

The entire GOP platform under Trump II consists of exactly fourteen words.

Thinking about this today for reasons.

Gestapo is a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei = Secret State Police

Karl Marx in his essay “On the Jewish Question” using classic antisemitic stereotypes and concluding: : "The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism" Not to mention the slurs in his private writings…

"Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how shit works"

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