Sam Wolfson

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think about this every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuA...

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’ After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

mr goering some people say your behaviour is unbecoming but we’ve only seen you in clips

Silly inflatable costumes are taking over anti-Trump protests. What are they actually saying? Whimsical frogs and unicorns have become mascots of the resistance – but it’s easy for tactical frivolity to devolve into entertainment

@joolia.bsky.social very good on the silly billies (derogatory)
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I really have to pay attention in meetings to know if we're talking about shawn fain, sinn fein or shon faye

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Thank god for the wonderful @jonathanliew.bsky.social and this reasoned riposte to some of the cretinous, fact-free, violence baiting, far-right embracing discourse that has emerged on this issue in the last few days including in Parliament www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

took a screengrab to show people just in case i ever make it into one of the better timelines

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong? Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’

After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement.

Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’ After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement

listened to Candace Owens for a week and it wasn't fun
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Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’ His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him

"Who I am has been skewed so much..." incredible interview with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

yeah this is a piece of cultural criticism about those pieces you angry weirdo

did you read this piece? what are you angry about?

Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades

This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it

just filling in some forms with United Healthcare

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

my spam botfarm texts know me better than some of my closest friends

The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale Experts say this year has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history – and it might signal the end of a singular seasonal smash

So so weird. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history...of the top 10 most listened to songs so far this year in the US, only one was released in 2025: Ordinary by Alex Warren. All the others are tracks from 2024 and 2023"

Aerial view of the White House with multiple red map pointer icons above it.

Cuomo Enlists Bill Clinton as Part of Late-Stage Bid to Fend Off Mamdani

Here we go again, night of the long huggers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.

Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".

‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated | New Jersey | The Guardian The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry

I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy.
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What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH

I wrote this

"He spent much of his career being mislabelled as ideologically rightwing or misogynistic when in fact he’s more of a simpleton who agrees with almost everyone who comes on his show...He has been a staunch believer “in just asking questions” but not so much in listening to or processing the answers"

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

An article that makes you sick to your stomach.

Thank you Jonny!

‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister? Americans are struggling to reconcile Trump’s campness and cruelty – but comedy has always been a tool for authoritarians

An insightful, somewhat devastating, and definitely worthwhile piece by Sam Wolfson.

It provokes reflection on the difficulty in rendering the current Trump regime a collection of clowns (which they are) while simultaneously mourning the damage they cause.

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‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister? Americans are struggling to reconcile Trump’s campness and cruelty – but comedy has always been a tool for authoritarians

I wrote about the really horrid uncomfortable feeling of people laughing at something you think is cruel www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...