Bonnie Honig

This is lovely. I’m so sorry for your loss. May her name and memory be a blessing

“Giuffre said she was plunged into mourning following Epstein’s death.

‘Not because the world lost a monster. I wasn’t mourning the death of this man,’ Giuffre said.

‘I was mourning the death of my ability to hold this man accountable.’” 💔

Thrilling to watch Samuel Garcia speak to Tx Leg. committee on gerrymandering: you said there are no maps yet but how does “he” know he is getting 5 seats. There are maps! they are on his desk! And you are just doing what he wants. But that’s wrong… “it’s supposed to be bottom up not top down”

thanks for sharing that, and let's be in touch if we see a way forward...

"Murder Christmas" is my favorite. (A Red Wedding of a holiday)

ha! maybe we should co-author... (is there any work on the MAL XMAS decor? well, I am sure there is...)

This is a great thread about the history/uses of the White House and materiality of mafia capitalism.

THANK you Lisa! I think there is more here to unspool; still considering.

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

Likely the other also real reason (in addition to just making himself at home) for the planned renovation? gotta pack ‘em in! The new and improved White House dinner/fundraising event site meets the insatiable demand for access with the bottomless pit of corruption

The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels » Yale Climate Connections More than four decades ago, President Carter said the U.S. could harness “the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”

Instead, they are nearly erased from (Americans' admittedly amnesiac) memory thanks to Ronald Reagan's removal of them 7 years later, reminding us all, I hope, that renovations can also be UNdone /6

Carter installed solar panels at the White House, saying: “A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people” /5

The White House story symbolizes/materializes how some get to TAKE "permanent residency" while others' are now made revocable. Permanent residency, aka Green Card, now means IMpermanence, thx to random round-ups, expulsions, deportations. This mirror of meaning is a mark of US dem in the Upside Down

In the Mar a Lago case, the Florida neighbors sued, but somehow were flouted (can't recall the details) in their efforts to secure compliance with the commitment. What can we do? It's not about the building, but its public thingness: its spirit, exploitations, violence, and poss remaining promise /3

This old story seems a fateful foretelling of the White House. Founded on the very same rule, that no denizen ever become a permanent resident, it is now occupied by a troll who turns the garden into a parking lot and plans to dwarf the original with McMansion expansion /2

Thinking abt planned renovations/displacement of the White House via a gargantuan addition that will make the original into the afterthought, and recalling that, to secure the renovation permits for Mar-a-Lago, TFG had to commit to it never being anyone's full time residence, wh/ he violated ASAP /1

The book cover of Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (2023) showing an image of the singer in purple and orange

I have no time to read this right now but it looks great! And I am bookmarking it, and sharing it with all of you (who may already know it…)

Failure to leave X shows a refusal to adapt to new realities - hardly a virtue for any politician; and yet they allow this limitation of theirs to be on full display day after day, trumpeted to all.

Just ordered this — for MANY reasons. Thanks for your work!

“To fight what’s coming…people will have to depend on one another…Not by being violent and responding with more violence, but by building community and understanding”

Sounds like action in concert to me.

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

From lobbying to direct action: They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

Make shunning popular again

At CECOT, “They arranged us on the floor, seated, w/ our foreheads touching the back of the next person.. A prison official told them, ‘Welcome to hell on earth, where you’ll be condemned to spend the rest of your lives; where I’m going to make sure that you never eat chicken or meat again’”

The motion to dismiss was premised on the fact that the person in question was no longer in the country.

DHS lawyers moved to “erase the detainees from the immigration court system.” Many Venezuelans sent to CECOT had “unresolved immigration cases or pending asylum claims..But after the U.S. government disappeared them and they were unable to show up in court, DHS lawyers filed motions to dismiss.”

Turns out that “Domino theory” was right.. just not in the original context to which it was applied

You can’t do that kind of work from prison, so….

Also I think your therapist is wrong abt “academic” writing :) or: I disagree. For me, it’s a way to work things out, to bring thinking to experience through a kind of triangulation that a text, thinker, or film offers to us. ‘dreamwork scholarship’ is not necessarily avoidance (unless it is LOL)

“Both of them.”

"just as it was a mistake to let climate change be put in an 'environmental' box & be treated as a special interest or scientific issue, we can’t compartmentalize [AI's impacts. It is not] a single-issue “technology” or innovation policy issue. This is a topic for everyone to engage with."

August 1, 2025 Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.

Powell will not lower rates to "pump money into the economy as Trump wants. Trump has no legal power to fire the Fed Reserve chair without cause.. [So he's] trying to manufacture a cause by suggesting a remodeling of [Fed] headquarters has been wasteful"
What? Did they add a giant golden ballroom?