It’s really weird to take the train almost daily over the huge construction effort underway along the East River to create a dike to keep back the rising seas while remembering the book New York 2140, which is about life in the city long after the dikes failed and the ocean filled the drink. 🍹
Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”
My book on (among other things) how Glenn’s career landed him here is 50% off right now.
Link in next post
Wonder if people or ai are choosing these targets in Beirut 🫤
He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives
Judith Butler Apology Form Reasons for behaviour: ✔️ The media convinced me their work was unreadable. ✔️ I only looked at analytic philosophy ⬜ I was jealous of Gender Studies' joie de vivre ⬜ I don't know shit about critical theory. ⬜ My agenda blinded me. I am sorry for my behaviour and I will hereby respect Judith Butler.
For my sins.
Washington Post Deputy Opinion Editor James Hohmann has a new anti-wealth tax video out today
The wealth tax would apply to ~938 billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, who last year announced new rules for the WaPo opinion section. Smart political spending.
via @jeffstein.bsky.social
It's a special military operation, and anyone saying it's a war is guilty of defaming the honor and dignity of the armed forces... right Vladimir Vladimirovich? bsky.app/profile/dela...
Statement from Jasmine Crockett.
There's definitely something to be said about which stories the big elite media outlets choose to put their energy into on the topic of trans issues.
Please no fireworks this new year
JK Rowling
Donald Trump
Jesse Singal
Bari Weiss
Pamela Paul
JD Vance
NewsCorp
The ADF
AND COUNTLESS MORE are guilty of inciting the panic that led to this. It is also the default perceived position of the newspaper of record which is why I unsubscribed
The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.
Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I knew that” is where the logical fallacy begins
“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.
This Epstein file document records the meeting Epstein arranged between Peter Thiel, a top US-UK-German intelligence contractors and Vitaly Churkin, top Russian diplomat. As we showed in the ZDF documentary Putins Helfer, Thiel was meticulously recruited by Russian intelligence over a period of more
a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex
The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting
Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
And then this photo of an internment camp containing the Dakota on Pike Island happened in Minnesota long before the holocaust - 1862 www.twincities.com/wp-content/u...
I thought you reached lift off here...
"So stop hitting yourselves. Bad acting executives like Bezos and Lewis and Weiss are deploying your own misguided internal critique against you, to do the bidding of journalism’s most powerful enemies."
MAGA has been trying to split Jews since day 1 and it’s part of their project to destroy the political influence of progressivism in this country
Occupy Democrats post: "BREAKING: Kash Patel was just busted LYING TO CONGRESS in order to protect pedophiles! Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have successfully been able to view a slew of unredacted Epstein files, and they discovered that Trump’s disgraced and wildly incompetent FBI Director Kash Patel has been lying to Congess, under oath, in order to protect the other rich and powerful men who played major roles in the Epstein sex-trafficking ring. Thanks to pressure from Massie and Khanna, the DOJ reluctantly unredacted an FBI report naming Jewish billionaire Les Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret and notorious Epstein associate, as one of the co-conspirators in the sex-trafficking ring. “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight,” said Khanna’s partner-in-justice, Rep. Thomas Massie, on Twitter on February 10th. The two spent two hours on February 9th examining unredacted Epstein files and were shocked at what they saw. “Most of the unredacted files were redacted—70 to 80 percent. Massie and I saw that there were six men who were co‑conspirators and were being protected. Those names need to be made public. " "There’s no excuse for releasing survivors’ names while protecting these six men. There are probably more. In just two hours, we saw that these six men were being protected.” Kash Patel’s FBI is actively engaged in a cover-up on behalf of serial pedophiles and must be fired immediately — and held accountable for his own role in protecting pedophiles."
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
Why, given the reality of the role, should ICE officers be armed at all?
If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots. “What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
These segregationists
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
Ok now having listened to the New Yorker podcast, I think you also articulated it similarly well there, and there were no recording issues.
