J.T. Price

All movies are Christmas movies if you want it badly enough.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Hegseth and the admiral in charge of Seal Team Six sure do look like they committed a specific war crime here www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gloria Grahame
In a Lonely Place, 1950
#Noirvember #FilmNoir

ICE deports Austin college student, en route to surprise her family for holiday 19-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza dreamed of helping her father start a tailor shop when she graduated from college. This Thanksgiving, ICE deported her as she flew home to surprise her family.

This is the cruelty of MAGA and Trump supporters. It should never be forgotten.

www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

Pope holding a baseball bat on a plane

Pope did not go through airport security in Louisville I’ll tell you that right now

They're not even bothering to disguise their real aims any longer.

All this talk about the the Trump administration potentially going to war in Venezuela to serve some well connected rich people’s business interests, when in actuality that’s a big part of why the Trump administration is trying to get Ukraine to surrender.

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Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

graph from Graphite showing 'AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles' — shows ChatGPT launching just before 2023 and then shooting upwards as human articles shoot down

the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on

Miller tweets: This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands. (In response to) Dave Brown @dave • brown24 • 11h WSJ Editorial: Afghan refugees "shouldn't be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won't make America safer and it might embitter more against the United States".

By Miller’s logic, this bigoted spew should be dismissed as the small-mindedness and terror of outsiders of the ‘broken homeland’ of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian empire, from which his family migrated.

Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.

Tucker Carlson tells Shawn Ryan’s show that Zionism is “an attack on Western civilization.”

Tucker also says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is Western civilization’s “main enemy” and compares him to the Nazis.

MAGA Jews spent so much time conflating left wing criticism of Israel’s actions with antisemitism that they overlooked the significant danger that the MAGA coalition poses for Jews who live in America. What did they expect from a party that de-humanizes other minority groups?

Runaway Short-Termism | Susannah Glickman, Nic Johnson Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in

“Probably the biggest departure from the neoliberal period is that the American state is taking equity in private corporations.” —a conversation with Susannah Glickman and Nic Johnson

“The terrible various” “This was the nature / of her humor.”

“This was the nature / of her humor / the wilderness / she aspired to.” Read a new poem by Diane Seuss. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/beNIEe

Who Isn't on Mayor-Elect Mamdani's Transition Team? What do Tamika Mallory and Kathy Wylde have in common? Plus, more news for your Tuesday.

On Monday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced the more than 400 people that will serve on 17 committees as part of his transition team, and the list is a doozy.

hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-tran...

Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature On philosophers who wrote novels and novelists inspired by philosophy

I wrote about philosophers who wrote novels and novelists inspired by philosophy
countercraft.substack.com/p/literary-p...

A luminous landscape painting depicts a vast mountain valley bathed in golden light. Towering cliffs rise steeply on either side, framing a tranquil river and meadow stretching into the distance. The warm glow of the setting or rising sun filters through a partly clouded sky, creating a dramatic contrast between shadowed rock faces and the radiant horizon

An argument that we are now in the "Chthulucene" ...

... or the period where, after having dug up and burned so much carbon ...

... "Gaia is responding to our having released such titanic forces from their confinement"

item #10 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Great idea

Zohran Mamdani Won on Substance, Not Just Style Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters. On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.

Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters.

On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.

I was told recently that the FBI and DC Metro PD take academy cadets to the Holocaust Museum to punctuate the danger of mindlessly following illegal and immoral orders.

Be curious to know what other agencies do this — and if they’re still doing it.

The "peace president."

*removes hat*

*puts it to chest*

Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S. Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.

Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S. trib.al/lxfsyEA

My brother RFK Jr. is betraying our father’s legacy - The Boston Globe Robert F. Kennedy would have turned 100 this week — and he would have been appalled at the Trump administration’s cruelty.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/o...

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

"Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like & there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...