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How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

Everyone should notice how a relatively conservative (by the standard of universities, which ofc heavily lean liberal) public university is thus far putting up more of a fight than nearly any of the private universities Trump has targeted.

Public universities are structurally better at this.

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

I spent a night in a field an hour outside Kitchener getting an up-close look at the worm industry. Our tiny corner of the province exports all of North America's bait worms: it's a curious business run by families and powered by immigrant labour, and every fact I learned enchanted me a little more🪱

Congrats Paul!!

Wild that anyone thought “brown guy not from here” would play well in the most multicultural city in the world

Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA For most of my life I have lived in the UK, but for six years I lived in the United States of America. Somewhat erratic and unpleasant polit...

I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...

Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking Long Beach cop while off duty Isiah Hodgson, 29, was charged with resisting arrest, battery and weapons offenses for the drunken incident on July 7.

Update: The Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking a Long Beach cop while off duty was involved in the controversial arrest of a U.S. citizen last month. www.latimes.com/california/s...

WendyFry @WendyFry_ Per a senior @DHSgov official: DHS agencies’ immigration enforcement operations are ongoing in Los Angeles. Since operations began in June, ICE and CBP have arrested 2,792 unauthorized immigrants in the LA area. 11:14 AM · Jul 10, 2025 · 5,752 Views

There are at least 900,000 undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County alone.

After a full month of largescale immigration operations which sent extraordinary fear through whole communities and caused measurably drops in school and work attendance, DHS says it has arrested under 2,800 of them.

I am sitting in front of flower garden holding a copy of my new book, BORN IN FLAMES.

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

What’s also wild is his bio says Inland Empire, which went for Trump in 2024!

Opening the House of Labor | Piper French On Wednesday, June 11, just a few days before Father’s Day, two sisters named Jaslyn and Kimberly found themselves in the parking lot of a car wash in

As ICE conducts violent raids among low-wage immigrant laborers, “the question now is whether the shocking exercise of state power…will cause unions to close ranks…or conceive of their ties to immigrant workers more expansively.” — @psfrench.bsky.social

I take the capital’s-middleman part to be the most important bit (the material basis), but the claim is also that professionals have a different relationship to political struggle than other kinds of workers by virtue of their (relative—and diminishing!) advantages, like a university degree.

Gabe Winant’s reading is the most useful, imo. The theory is specifically an attempt to understand why 60s middle-class radicalism failed www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dea...

What Can Zohran Accomplish? - Dissent Magazine What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

I have a new piece in Dissent, thinking through what delivering Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Simpsons “stop stop he’s already dead” meme but I’m only past the first sentence

Maybe! I’m not the Parsons expert, but I’d love to pitch you something in that neighbourhood.

I teach a class on California, cults and conspiracies and honestly you could spend the whole semester on Parsons, the Forrest Gump of Weird LA

Tom Metzger - Wikipedia

Has someone written on the aerospace engineer -> infamous white nationalist pipeline? Tom Metzger as another example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Met...

My kingdom for a Democrat who runs on “You know how Medicaid stopped covering her nursing home last year and you went bankrupt trying to pay out of pocket? I’m going to punish the people who did that to you.”

Travel advisory Sean Duffy's feigned hand-wringing on behalf of one federal department about the inconvenience of rerouting a few buses is simply revolting as another federal department is literally kidnapping people...

Contrary to Sean Duffy's claims, the only thing making LA transit unsafe is the fact that Metro's riders are being abducted from bus stops in broad daylight

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims

the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for

keep forgetting that a conservative assassinated a member of the opposition party today. what if some day soon there was just one big national story

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social.

Take the time.

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers

the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

Classic photo of activist John Lewis (later Member of Congress) being beaten by a police officer on Bloody Sunday.

What civil rights leaders learned at the time was that while nonviolence could be an effective tactic, the best outcomes for the movement came when nonviolent protesters were met with brutal state repression that was broadcast around the world. See Rep. John Lewis on Bloody Sunday in Selma. 4/

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

There’s a secret level of Candy Crush they only let Marines play