Jack Mirkinson

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Today in @thenation.com: a jaw-dropping investigation from Emmet Frazier (@woolsox.bsky.social) on the toll that corporate interference and political pressure took on Scientific American. The stuff that Emmet uncovered from inside the magazine is NUTS. A must-read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"i've never studied the body of a man before" is one of the biggest lies he has ever told

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

Zohran Mamdani has mostly been able to put difficult questions about policing on the back burner. But those days appear to be over, writes @tmavuram.bsky.social.

¡la! ¡bola! ¡negra!

UPDATE: Ever since @thenation.com published this piece two months ago, people have been asking for a way to help support Maryam and her family—who remain in ICE detention. Maryam and her team have now launched a website for you to do just that: freeprofsfamily.com Please head there!

darializa a real one

We are BACK with an action-packed chatfest for you. Issues discussed include: —We saw Rosie O'Donnell IN REAL LIFE on the street —Sam Altman you dumb asshole —David Ellison you dumb asshole —Editor of Vanity Fair you dumb asshole and MORE. Tune in! discourseblog.com/p/what-is-th...

Read @mohamhawish.bsky.social on 10/7. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

oh whew i was worried there for a second, but if david ellison says he won't tamper with CNN, the thing he just paid billions of dollars to control, then that's all i need to hear!

Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside the Prairieland Detention Center, forced into a men's prison despite being a trans woman. This week, she talked to Grace Byron from behind bars:

"The reason we need to look at the Biden admin's atrocious policymaking on Gaza is exemplified by this week at the UN.. The biggest event yesterday was [his advisor] Brett McGurk [on Syria]—which shows you architects of this policy are coming back to shape our era" www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Today in @thenation.com: I had a great chat with @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social about his essential new book on Joe Biden's support for the Gaza genocide. It is as damning a portrait of a president and his administration as you will ever read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Republicans won in 2024 arguing Democrats were too obsessed with trans people to focus on the economy. As billionaires like Elon Musk flood the airwaves with anti-trans ads amid Trump's own floundering economy, Democrats have a chance to flip the tables. My latest for @thenation.com

It’s part 3 of our ongoing series, “What the Fuck Is Wrong With You Ed Sheeran.” Today we’ve got the icon @kathkrueger.bsky.social in the chair and we get into Sheeran’s self-pitying tears and his refusal to say the truth about Palestine. Tune in! www.discourseblog.com/p/the-world-...

actually had not heard of a lot of these books and they sound really good, thanks for the list bret!

This weekend, Ed Sheeran sat down on stage and cried—not about anything happening in Palestine, but about what was happening to him. He could not have been clearer about where he stands, what he cares about—and what he doesn’t. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-shame-...

if this is all it took to get the deal over the line than the AGs allowed themselves to be massively fleeced by Paramount

A message to Pink/Ed Sheeran/etc: If people saying “Free Palestine” and being against genocide makes you feel bad, take your complaints up with Israel, not the rest of us!!!! We talked about this on this week's Discourse Pod—you can find the full convo here: www.discourseblog.com/p/je-suis-ma...

We spent literally one hour talking about the Macklemore saga, we live in the wildest times!!!!!

Huda Skaik, a brilliant writer from Gaza (you can read her latest extraordinary piece in The Nation here: www.thenation.com/article/worl...) has a chance to study journalism in the UK—if she can raise the money. Please donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/2016...

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

making me go this hard for macklemore in 2026................another crime of zionism

trump is the ultimate expression of the world this country made after 9/11

"i had to harm the parent of my children in order to save them" good luck telling your kids that one my guy

Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.

as rising seas drown their nests along the US east coast, saltmarsh sparrows have declined by ≥90% this century. now, trump's interior department is gutting the endangered species act, and extinction looms for this long-overlooked songbird today in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

THE WRONG 80 YEAR OLDS ARE DYING. THE UNIVERSE IS OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE. WHAT THE FUCK.

icon does not even begin to describe

imagine being the person who gave the world both 'jolene' AND the covid vaccine

"dolly parton dead at 80/george w bush alive at 80" is as good a summation of the lack of justice in the world as you are likely to get

dolly parton what the fucking fuck!!!!!

Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti...

fucking CHRIST man

An all-new Discourse Pod is here featuring @jscros.bsky.social and @pblest.bsky.social! We talk about: —The MI and WI primaries —AOC breaking up with her fiance (!!!) —Woke 1 —The need for shame around AI and MORE. Tune in! www.discourseblog.com/p/drafting-t...

this is exactly the kind of thing @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social warned about in her recent essay on NSPM-7 for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...