Very excited that we're somehow getting another day of discourse out of The Florsheim Affair, one of the most delightful stories of this awful last year and change. Keep on clompin' boys! defector.com/report-presi...
@jordanharper
Edgar-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE will drop April 2026. The film version of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN is out now.
Very excited that we're somehow getting another day of discourse out of The Florsheim Affair, one of the most delightful stories of this awful last year and change. Keep on clompin' boys! defector.com/report-presi...
here, have yourself a nice song
youtu.be/6bLOjmY--TA?...
this is really neat
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
Is there a nonprofit dedicated to generating mass texts to poison LLMs or something?
Guy Ordering Nonalcoholic Beer Has Either Seen A Ton Of Shit Or No Shit At All
Guy Ordering Nonalcoholic Beer Has Either Seen A Ton Of Shit Or No Shit At All https://theonion.com/guy-ordering-nonalcoholic-beer-has-either-seen-a-ton-of-shit-or-no-shit-at-all/
Although also βMe In Honeyβ
This is Correct
Leaked documents show the US Border Patrol being remade in the image of Gregory Bovino. Example: last November "guidance was issued across the Border Patrol to clarify how to smash suspectsβ car windows and extract them from vehicles while minimizing legal liability."
prospect.org/2026/03/11/b...
I appreciate my sex. Itβs the sex I transitioned to, and Iβm proud of that.
What I donβt appreciate is The State.
I find myself wondering, what good does The State even do anymore? Seems like years have passed since it did anything other than take things away from me and bomb people in my name.
hey jordan how's the writing going today oh pretty good why do you ask
My man looking like Lieutenant Mauser after Mahoney and the gang pulls a shit-based prank on him
Gone in 90 Sedonds
I never connected the dots that the twilight zone episode with the little omnipotent kid and all the scared adults tiptoeing around him might be an analogy for how other countries have to deal with America
Learned the phrase "The Human in the Loop," decided that it would make a fantastic title for a dystopian story and learned that a show of that title already exists all in the space of about 90 sedonds
virtue signaling is good. practicing virtue is better, but both signaling AND practicing virtue is best.
You cannot go far enough, it turns out.
Drone strikes in Haiti.
Drone strikes. In Haiti.
By private contractors.
Theyβre killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention.
The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, itβs true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it
rebecca solnit today rebecca solnit tomorrow rebecca solnit forever
Shout it from the rooftops
This one was not very good.
DVD menu for the movie North Country
#49, Nikki Caro, NORTH COUNTRY
This tweet is 9 years old and it's never been wrong once.
Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.
you were pokemon going to panopticon dystopia, whether you realized it or not
SCHIFF
Youβre invited! Iβm talking to @jordanharper.bsky.social on April 29 at 5:00pm PST via @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. Join us and submit questions:
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This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
They are not going to be fooled into forgetting about those interests by the right combination of words! There is no magical messaging or phrasing, no "framing," that is going to distract them from their material interests! They are not open to persuasion on this matter!