Dr Fayhee

Half a Scaramucci!

One of the lessons I learned as a union negotiator is that any argument (practical, legal, theoretical, moral, etc.) is ultimately irrelevant because it’s actually all about power. Liberals, almost by definition, will never understand that

Me when someone pronounces it “Türkiye”

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

Pelley interview is crazy on multiple levels. He claims he and 60-mins staff were in favor of, excited by, Ellison taking over. Either he’s lying or people in mainstream media are more delusional and out of touch than I thought

Having to adjust my teaching to the realization that some high school students have not only never heard of the Great Depression but have no idea that the term “depression” has an economic connotation

I can report, based on my ghoul of a colleague, that zionists are losing their minds over Kristof’s NYT op-ed

Maybe stating the obvious but I don’t hear politicians or any prominent media voices explaining how dramatically all this shit is going to shape society for a long time to come. Just unceasing immiseration of everyone who isn’t rich for the foreseeable future

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

As Trumps fantasy about a Venezuela repeat in Iran collapses, the only compensatory recourse is for the US to totally decimate the country.

This is simply the face of power, which is to say, of capital, today. “We can’t provide any social benefits, only fight wars”

19 years old Royer Perez-Jimenez is one of the youngest people to die in an ICE camp. His arrest was unnecessarily violent and forceful. He’s shoved to the ground while officers kneel on his back as he struggles to communicate. A few weeks later, he was dead. Abolish ICE

I’m not sure “corruption” is even a helpful paradigm anymore. What we’re seeing is a new relationship between of financial capitalism and imperialism.

I still regularly think about how in November 2011 the federal government (fbi, dhs, doj,…) coordinated with financial institutions and local authorities to crush the Occupy movement across the country, even if no one else does

I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

This man is as evil as they come

They are gifting ICE agents cigars, which when lit, explode in the agents face

Please don’t tell me these guys aren’t the same as the old Republican Party.

If you can’t condemn the US imperialist attack on Venezuela without also criticizing Maduro you’re part of the problem

We must pass Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s War Powers Resolution that asserts Congress' authorities, and Trump must be impeached. 2/2

Cesaire’s “boomerang theory” of colonialism is in some ways more applicable today than it was in the 1950s

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

It really seems like so many of the most educated people have somehow never heard of fascism

Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references) therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...

“What happens if you build more housing, and institutional investors are buying up 20% of the new stock?” Ocampo said. “It’s like a never-ending cycle.”

It’s pretty obvious that the entire point of the Democratic Party, in the eyes of those who run it at least, is to prevent the left from ever attaining power

Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

I’ve read enough 20th century history to know that things are bleaker now than in the 1930s because at least then there was a countervailing vision to catastrophe for people to believe in

“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technological resources while maintaining property relations…The destruction caused by war furnishes proof that society was not mature enough to make technology its organ.” (Walter Benjamin, 1935)

Getting cognitive whiplash by switching back and forth from the news and planning my lecture on the Roman Empire

How is this headline even real?This is the worst shit I’ve ever seen in my life and it’s not even close. The only end I can see is Israel being militarily crushed by some kind of future world alliance (obviously US not part of that)

Whether or not the US gets directly involved in war with Iran will depend partly on how deeply the fuckup of the Iraq and Afghan wars are still felt

Just curious why Cuomo intentionally covering up nursing home deaths from covid after forcing them to accept infected people isn’t a more prominent issue in the mayoral election

Gotta hand it to the NYT for this one

Nothing makes me feel more bourgeois than when I’m shocked by descriptions of poverty in a New Yorker article

Because we let Bush et al get away with doing this secretly, Trump et al are able to do this openly

Feel like this order of guesses says something about me

We’re fucked

This story is pretty high up there in terms of capturing the essence of contemporary capitalism

The last 3 NYT Daily episodes have been extended interviews with 1) President of Princeton; 2) Christopher Rufo; 3) a small business owner hurt by Trump’s tariffs. Peak petit bourgeois level of consciousness