Michael Spencer

I’m excited for the late show reboot starring Charlie Kirk

I finally read Vincent Bevins’ “If We Burn,” which I highly recommend. Crazy to have come of age during the 2010s and reflect on a decade of mass protest.

I hate reading about the supreme court

You mean, with years of warning about the capacity of U.S. bunker busters, the Iranians were able to avoid having their nuclear sites destroyed by those same weapons?

Absolutely.

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The gulf states’ water supply is *incredibly* vulnerable. The Iranians do not need advanced weapons systems to create the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

No amount of Democrats insisting this is an unusual break from correct procedure, makes sense when you remember the last time that process happened was 1942.

Yes. If you want a constitutional order that hasn’t existed for nearly a century, then you must rewrite the constitution. But that would require a real political party with a vision for transformative change

So that they can all line up to vote for it and compete to see who can be the biggest war hawk.

“That’s When the Nightmare Started” The 106-page report, “‘That’s When the Nightmare Started:’ UK and US Forced Displacement of the Chagossians and Ongoing Colonial Crimes,” documents the treatment of the Chagossians, an Indigenous peop...

While the media masturbates to aggressive war, maybe read about the base in the Indian Ocean where we launch operations like this: www.hrw.org/report/2023/...

Remember, we overthrew Mossadegh. Whatever Iran is now cannot be separated from that.

A world of sovereign, nuclear-armed nation-states cannot persist in perpetuity. It will either annihilate us all or be dismantled. The only question is what happens first.

At some point, the chickens will come home to roost.

If you work for a living, the only principled position is opposition to all nationalist opportunism. There is not a single nationalist struggle worth your blood or the blood of your children.

happening now: ice is back at chicago immigration court after protests kept them away for two days.

so far this morning, i’ve seen agents kidnap six people. in at least two instances, the state dropped the case.

The American political system has never reconciled a real material division among elites without mass violence. The founders and framers designed it to create a stalemate between the wealthy and their various factions. That’s why we get stasis punctuated with bloodletting. Rinse and repeat.

How could the grandchildren of the boys who fought the Nazis turn out to be such blatant fascists? Well.. ask the Greeks about how anti-fascist the Allies were. Ask the Russians. Ask the Ford family.

The experience of the Second World War allowed people in the West to believe there’s something inherently anti-fascist about liberal nationalism. Of course, this brand of politics is the essential substrate of fascism. But the coincidence of mid century geopolitics allows obfuscation.

At about 37 minutes they launch into this dialogue about what to do with the nation states of the world. It sounds unhinged, but it’s pretty firmly bedded in the actual political theory of Silicon Valley.

Book Review: The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan In his new book, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan explores a new society rooted in the values of decentralized finance, crypto, and web3.

Watching Mountainhead tonight and thinking about this book review I wrote:

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I usually try to avoid posting about sports. But I’ve been watching Arsenal since I was a kid. I feel a bit ill at the prospect of today’s match if I’m honest.

The Lager Beer Riot of 1855 One hundred seventy years ago, an uprising over beer changed policing as we know it in Chicago.

on april 21, 1855, an uprising over beer ended in chicago’s first police riot.

for this week’s @chicagoreader.com cover story, i wrote about the legacy of nativist mayor levi boone and how his anti-alcohol crusade ultimately changed policing in chicago as we know it.

Great day to own nothing and have nothing.

Remember, at any given moment the steady drum beat of our terror campaign in Yemen is one of the worst things happening in the world. And it has been happening for a decade and a half.

It’s not clear the president knows what Signal is.

U.S., Jordan Forge Closer Ties in Covert War on Terrorism The suicide bombers who struck three Western hotels in Amman, Jordan, this week also were targeting the increasingly important U.S. partnership with that country.

Fascism is when imperial methods like these are used on the population living inside the borders of the metropol. From 2005: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

Home -> garage -> parking lot -> destination -> parking lot -> garage -> home… repeat until you fundamentally fear your fellow human

It takes a true coward to be categorically fearful of a place that millions of people— women and children, mothers and fathers— live and breathe every day.

SBF pardon would be crazy. I could see it, though.

BREAKING: tech industry reinvents city bus