Alexander Chee

Worked Security For GHF in Gaza? Beware of War Crime Charges, Democrats Say. Democrats said veterans working for U.S. security contractors on Trump’s GHF Gaza aid effort may face legal risks.

Grateful for the four senators who did this. theintercept.com/2025/07/31/g...

(guy watching The Leftovers for the first time) umm none of this is food

I needed that laugh, thanks.

There’s a bonded pair of coyotes that live in Central Park and cause they like to hang out at the Delacorte Theater when it’s not in use they’re called Romeo and Juliet

Trying to write about 2007-2008 and it’s been interesting.

So many networks lost after 14 years.

Oh I think about it a lot. I miss it too.

The gift has burdens!

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

A whole witch

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent vote on Republican-led congressional map overhaul pushed by President Trump.

“I managed to pass the course… but I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I had written an essay by myself, which was my favorite activity. This was the catalyst for me to stop using the app.”

URGENT: support twins Seela and Sidra ( 4 y/o) to survive!! We are Seela and Sidra, we are just children, twin sisters surviving in Gaza. We write this with the help of our buddy, Sister Claudia. Because we ourselves have trouble finding the words to understan...

Passing the electronic hat for Walid and his family again. As a reminder, most people in Gaza have been unable to work for an income due to repeated forced relocations and bombings: chuffed.org/project/1253...

😂

Winie the Poh?

Kenyon: Dartmouth scraps ‘Jihad’ storyline for active shooter drill A few days before staging an “active shooter drill” with Hanover police on a Friday afternoon in mid-July, Dartmouth sent out a campuswide email to assure people that they had nothing to fear.

This kind of Islamophobia has no place in the security theater of an active shooter drill, even if you accept the premise that it is about making the school more safe. I’m grateful to the colleagues who took action and I look forward to more answers. www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-Ac...

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

This is the way.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Happy birthday!

Well that’s why endowments are now being taxed. But it’s not about the money really because all of this is about the racism, which they’ve shown repeatedly matters more than profits.

The elite colleges concession to the Trump administration, which is broadly unpopular, is also morally reprehensible and will cost them more than they pay in bribes to the White House. There’s no up side.

Black Panther Party’s Illinois history recognized with heritage trail The Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois marks 13 locations in Chicago where it the political group made history.

I like this type of public history project. We need more. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/02/b... [gift link]

The point of these deals is to incrementally destroy these schools and to further their agenda of ethnic cleansing.

No, Harvard is not considering paying $500 million in regime blackmail attempt, its president says
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As A Brown University Alumnus, Let Me Say: Fuck This — Assigned A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the ‘gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.

A reminiscence on trans college life in the closet and a big fuck you to Brown University for trading the rights of their trans students to the Trump Administration in this special Sunday piece by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

It seems like a pattern

I’m so glad. You are welcome. 💖

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg