Zayne Carrick

The Republic is dead

Goals for the second half of the year:

1. get through the second half of the year

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A.

via @swholocron.bsky.social

Last Year's Move to Toronto And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)

It took me a while, but I can now see a purpose in speaking to the discussion of my departure from Yale for the University of Toronto. Here I address four public framings of last year’s move that arose in recent weeks, which tell us something of our present moment
snyder.substack.com/p/last-years...

There are 181. No more. No less.

I’m so glad that we as a nation are finally standing up to the big, bad *checks notes* PBS children’s shows…

wait hang on

Aktion Tiergartenstraße 4

#StarWars #Andor

This is where we are headed.

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After

By distracting us with fake terrorism, this administration is inviting the real thing.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Now that Wind Waker is being ported to Switch 2, I was definitely gonna get the console, and all the Switch 1 Zelda and Metroid games. I just want the classics on a mobile device (legally). So having all but Twilight Princess ported sells me (and apparently a TLOZ TP port is coming)

Impeach Trump.

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Oceania was at war with Eurasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.