Aaron Wistar

Stay tuned for more career-ending Mamdani scandals to be dramatically uncovered by the NYT:

- didn’t signal before switching lanes on driving test
- burped on first date
- put mayo on fries
- snuck into an R-rated movie

Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

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"Pencils. Everybody loves drawing...writing with one. But where do they come from? Which side do you write with?"

Last week I asked to see the gold vault at my local Bank of America branch and they told me the gold bars were “out for cleaning.”

The administration is threatening endowments, research funding, indirects, and student visas

Universities will hang student protestors out to dry in a second if it means saving any of those things

The message was not written for the Harvard community

it was written *for the Trump administration*

This is not simply bending the knee - this is saying the threatened punishments are deserved

"We need to reorient our foreign policy to containing the threat from China!"

*China immediately forms closer trade relationships with our two biggest allies in Asia*

"Ah, well. Nevertheless."

It’s not a “mass grave,” it’s a mass grave.

New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay Podcast Episode · The Dig · 03/24/2025 · 2h 19m

As US interest rates have risen, debt crises have exploded across much of the Global South. The IMF is doing to countries like Kenya and Sri Lanka what DOGE is trying to do to the US.

@danieldenvir.bsky.social
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
@iliasalami.bsky.social

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What's so difficult and even humiliating about this situation, though, is that a survivable outcome depends ultimately on the whims -- the laziness and boredom -- of the most worthless human being ever to live. We have to hope that he's shitty in *this particular way* instead of that.

No just depressingly addicted to social media apps 🫤

Contentious Copper Boom Sparks Existential Mining Crisis in Peru The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and sell them.

Indigenous groups in the Peruvian Andes are mining copper from their ancestral lands—and profiting—flouting the Chinese firm that bought the mineral rights. “They want to take the cow. We’d rather keep the cow and sell the milk.”

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A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

Unlike revolts against classical liberalism after the Great Depression, today’s populist rebellions lack any comparably articulated ideologies or programmes – anything that matches the theoretical or practical consistency of neoliberalism itself.

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This was signed by 741 Harvard Faculty by this afternoon. Dozens more who are non-citizens told us they agreed, but we're afraid to sign. We all need to stand up and fight back.

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

Perry Anderson going full steam ahead with 8,000 words on the conjuncture www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

Unlike revolts against classical liberalism after the Great Depression, today’s populist rebellions lack any comparably articulated ideologies or programmes – anything that matches the theoretical or practical consistency of neoliberalism itself.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Israeli fascists: human rights aren't Jewish, they were imported from the West, Israeli liberals are just assimilating

Western fascists: empathy is holding the West back, it's not part of our true tradition, it's actually an infiltration by cultural Marxism, a.k.a. the Frankfurt School, a.k.a. Jews

at AOC’s inauguration we’re gonna have the army band play about six bars of “the Internationale.” when the right flips out we’ll say what are you talking about, they were just tuning

Becky Burke wearing glasses and an anorak takes a selfie in front of the sea

British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home.

The US needs travel warnings now.

What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.

Abundance offers strong housing reform ideas, but no one seriously believes they will yield abundant housing for America’s poor. A good policy is better than a bad policy, but don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade

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ACAB includes our deepest selves

After reading several reviews it seems like the core argument of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance is:

(1) zoning reform is good
(2) California progressives couldn’t deliver high speed rail
(3) [unintelligible]
(4) Deregulation will save the Democratic Party!

An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly Klein and Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws but that can’t be the whole plan, right?

“I can’t tell after reading Abundance if the authors are seeking something fairly small-bore and correct (we need zoning reform) or nontrivial and deeply regressive (we need deregulation), or if there is room anti-monopoly policy” — Zephyr Teachout

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The Abundance Dream: High on Hope, Low on How The Abundance movement’s appealing vision sidesteps the messy reality of governing, opening it up to easy misappropriation

Lacking specifics, the abundance argument is a little like saying we should have a feast on Thanksgiving. That sounds great, but who’s cooking? And at what cost? And who’s invited?

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The Abundance Dream: High on Hope, Low on How The Abundance movement’s appealing vision sidesteps the messy reality of governing, opening it up to easy misappropriation

The Abundance movement’s appealing vision sidesteps the messy reality of governing, opening it up to easy misappropriation ... latest on Substack. chrishughes749530.substack.com/p/the-abunda...