Jack Mirkinson

The Worst Campaign Book Season of All Time Is Here A feast for the middling political mind is just ahead, with upcoming releases from Kamala Harris, John Fetterman, and more.

. @kathkrueger.bsky.social wrote about the upcoming campaign books that will make your book club hate you and make you hate yourself www.discourseblog.com/p/the-worst-...

for a better piece about zohran and the cops, read this from @alexvitale.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

cover of kamala harris's new book "107 days"

cover of "unfettered" by john fetterman

gonna be a huge fall for books nobody ever wanted to read

the very kindest thing you can say about it is that it's terrible journalism

For Trump, Mass Starvation in Gaza Tests His Foreign Policy Approach President Trump will have to decide whether America intends to take a leading role in confronting one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century.

he is literally helping to cause the catastrophe!! the united states is a key reason there is a famine! what in the fuck are you talking about! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

It Is Literally Too Late For This Bullshit You get zero points for suddenly noticing something bad is happening in Gaza.

Actually, we don't need to waste time on the precious feelings of powerful people who are only saying "gee, something's not right in Gaza" two years into a genocide. It is literally too late for this bullshit. (Me in @discourseblog.com) www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...

“We’re moody all the time,” Sundus says. “One minute angry, the next crying, the next trying to act normal for the kids. Some days, I feel like I want to die. Some days I just hold my children and hope the next bomb misses us.” She says she sometimes wishes she could hide her children inside her eyes and keep them there, safe, where nothing could ever touch them. There is nothing poetic about that image when it comes from a place like Gaza. It’s the logic of war. “You start wishing your children were part of your body again, back inside the womb, or behind your ribs, or in your eyes, just so you can shield them from a world that wants to break them,” Sundus says.

what can you even say to this www.thenation.com/article/worl...

These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. “There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.

"I’m barely eating. There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?”

Today in @thenation.com: Mothers in Gaza are trying to keep their kids from starving to death. But they're starving too.

Please, please listen to them.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

this opens with a graf solely about what a ceasefire would mean for israel. palestinians who are suffering from genocide and starvation get no mention. a pretty good summation of how the nyt views this situation.

Love for Palestine Is All Around Us The visual landscape everywhere has changed, reflecting a world that demands a free Palestine.

Love for Palestine is on walls, sidewalks, bridges, street corners, and a million other places all over the world. You just have to keep an eye out. www.discourseblog.com/p/love-for-p...

Zohran Mamdani Must Confront the NYPD. Here's What He Can Do. No single issue will be more challenging for a Mayor Mamdani than policing. But there are concrete steps he can take to reform the NYPD and curb its culture of impunity.

If he becomes mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have to tackle New York City's biggest beast: the NYPD. @alexvitale.bsky.social has some suggestions for how to do just that.

he's probably sad bc hulk's organs are too fried for him to harvest

so how's peter thiel's health these days, no reason just curious

would have been great to read gawker on hulk hogan's death

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if you see a parent saying "you know maybe my kid should go to columbia" in 2025 you have an obligation to yell at them

please do not send your children to this school

this is why the rahm emanuel-gavin newsom "just give everyone a little transphobia as a treat" theory is such amoral bullshit: because they are feeding into an explicitly eliminationist movement

"battling an unspecified illness" 😐

the liberals have gotta stop saying shit like "respectfully, i dissent," this is not a situation that calls for the slightest amount of respect!

ok come on now

idk what the big deal is with the epstein thing. who hasn't written "we've all got secrets wink wink" to their notorious pedophile friend

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.

important context: @jscros.bsky.social is crashing at my house. i asked what he had to work on today and he said "i need to write a blog for discourse"
"what about?" i asked
"dunno yet" he said

that was like 2 hours ago. This is what the blog mines teach you

www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.

"If you haven’t ever had an editor trying to juggle 20 different pieces of content in a day shoot down one of your pitches for being too boring, it is my opinion that you are lacking some fundamental guardrails in your intellectual development as a writer." www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...

should have said AT LEAST one year! at minimum etc

it is my firm belief that every aspiring journalist should be a blogger for one year. you're set for life if you can blog.

not sure what is so hard to understand about "politicians who repeatedly attack me or people i care about don't deserve my support" www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...

between the laughable columbia story and now this laughable arizona story, the nyt is truly not beating the allegations that its news side is actively trying to take zohran down

In conclusion, Gavin Newsom is a garbage person and he should keep his mouth shut. There will doubtless be people who will say “stop shutting down debate! The woke mob!” about me recommending that Gavin Newsom shut up. But you know what? When people make a habit of hanging out with shitheels for the express purpose of throwing vulnerable communities under the bus, I think it’s important to demand that they go away. So go away, Gavin Newsom. Enough of this crap.

when you start constantly hanging out with fascists for the express purpose of throwing vulnerable kids under the bus, i think the rest of us should feel free to tell you to shut your mouth. enough of this crap. www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...

Gavin Newsom Is a Garbage Person He will not stop talking to fascists about how maybe trans kids don't deserve equal rights. Please go away!

Wrote about how Gavin Newsom is a garbage person and he should stfu about trans kids and also go away more generally. Simple as that. www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...