I can't think of a more powerful statement on the dire state of cultural criticism than seeing a publication let Matt go. He's been one of the best for decades
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I can't think of a more powerful statement on the dire state of cultural criticism than seeing a publication let Matt go. He's been one of the best for decades
My latest for @thestar.com. Increasing surveillance and extending police powers doesn’t solve homelessness or drug use on transit — it merely opens up the broader public to arbitrary punishment, including the potential for jail time and $10,000 fines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
I feel like I’m yelling at a girlfriend who keeps taking her drug dealing boyfriend back. The private sector is just not that into you!
As usual, it's hard to tell how sincere this stuff is, but yearning for the apocalypse, or actively trying to make it happen, is vile heresy. You duty is to love your neighbor, even if the world ends tomorrow.
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.
Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take
bro google search is cooked
These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.
We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
The man stands for nothing. Just flip flopped. Look at what he said to Shapiro on his podcast and his response to Van Lathan.
Still encouraging trend but I pray Dems find someone better.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
“I guess the worst case would be we do this and somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” he said. “Right, that could happen? We don’t want that to happen.”
That is not even close to the worst case scenario.
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
"The median voter is like Schrödinger’s cat — both liberal and conservative until a question forces them to pick an answer."
Exactly why "popularism" will always suffer from an underlying incoherence. What matters is the salience of competing narratives.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...
Canada needs the NDP.
for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year
Shout it out loud
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
Someday, before I die I hope, Americans will come to realize that not choosing the lesser evil means the greater evil wins
Always remember that the American state media attacked President Biden relentlessly more for his age as he was doing good work than they ever have with the orange felon who is setting the world on fire out of spite and revenge. They deliberately and consistently failed humanity.
It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
I'm furious at every single person who put this man back in office.
There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
“Let’s slow down: The important thing about your decision to bomb the girls school is that you made it rationally. You weren’t flailing, manic, or rash. It’s not a catastrophe — it’s an opportunity. You were in a tough place and you made a tough call — not everyone can. Ready to talk next targets?”
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...