Jody Rosen

We don't have to live like this

this is a GOOD speech

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

In Announcing Full Fascism, Questions Linger Whether This Could Have Been An Email

I know this is the old battle but the attempts to normalize this shit is exactly why it was good to yell at everyone involved with Tom Cotton's oped in 2020

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

YouTube video by Skillibeng Skillibeng - New Gears "Remix" (Official Music Video) ft. Vybz Kartel, Françoise Hardy

Every now & then a song corresponds so precisely to your personal tastes 'n' predilections that it feels like you dreamt it into existence. E.g. when the credits read "Skillibeng ft. Vybz Kartel & Françoise Hardy."

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, p. 11

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

As for why Witt cracks jokes in her "lefty essay": since (like Ezra) DT's mission in life is to be a Centrist oracle who clean$ up on the lecture circuit & has text threads w/Jon Tester, it doesn't occur him that some ppl write for other reasons, i.e. to think aloud &, yeah, to give readers pleasure

Pls don't ask how I found myself perusing TCW's retweets of the world's 2nd most tedious Abundance chump...but since I did...

Marveling at the gall of DT & (by proxy) TCW, two absolute dullards, offering writing advice to Emily Witt, whose LRB piece is so shrewd, sharp-witted, funny, trenchant etc.

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election.

“We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

Best Marginalia 2025: "MICRO"

Once again we're reminded that mainstream journalism's ignorance, incuriosity, & casual vilification of the activist left is professional malpractice. The press is simply ill-equipped to understand what it means when the president sends in troops to "fight Antifa."

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Don't stop looking at what is happening. These sadists are living out their fantasies. And our tax dollars are paying for it.

A screenshot of the headline of an article by Carl Wilson, reading, "Criticism's Biggest Strawman: What was 'poptimism,' and why are people still saying terrible things about it?" It's illustrated by a picture of a straw-stuffed scarecrow in a field, wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt.

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com
slate.com/culture/2025...

Both sides!

Much more on this coming tomorrow - stay tuned!

Love Buck & Aikman as a booth duo, despite/bc of the hair & all it represents. I've read about how tight they are off-air, how they helped each other thru divorces etc. I want a My Dinner with Andre-esque dramedy about a lingering B&A post-broadcast steak dinner or B&A snowed-in at a Green Bay hotel

Alfred Jarry wrote about this 120 years ago. Not kidding

Sick scooter bruh

Stephen Miller define communism challenge

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Patricia Lockwood, how do you organize your library? And would you say your system is sound, from an engineering perspective?

Our littérateurs really love to rhapsodize about their Tottering, Teetering 'n' Toppling Towers of Books

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

lol new clown car just rolled up