Matt Farish

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

Laleh Khalili · Guns, Money and Opium There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...

‘Soldiers at Fort Bragg and another special forces base, Fort Campbell, are more likely to die of drug overdoses than the average US citizen. Dependency on narcotics isn’t the only after-effect of war.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

From Guantanamo to Minneapolis The use of unlawful imprisonment during the ‘war on terror’ set the stage for the US government’s detentions and deportations today

Jana Lipman, "From Guantánamo to Minneapolis": newlinesmag.com/argument/fro...

“Giuseppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, said…“Bringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself — this is not my opinion — with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do not think that that is a good idea.””

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.

It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Incredibly important story that everyone should read.

These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats.

They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Juventus deliver tale of humiliation and redemption inside three days | Nicky Bandini On Saturday, Jonathan David’s lazy penalty cost Juventus a win. By Tuesday, he was the best player on the pitch

Fluffed penalties! Canadians Parmesan cheese on clam pasta! My latest Serie A column for the Guardian truly has it all*

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Turning on the news to Stephen Miller shrieking “I WANT GREENLAND BECAUSE ITS MINE. ITS MY TURN TO HAVE IT” like one of those spoiled rich kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory feels so deeply embarrassing

The Liberal response is mush, but when you frame it as (strictly) "values" vs. "interests", John, you're obviously rigging the game. Given that their MAGA heroes are clearly placing "interests" directly alongside (awful *and* fungible) "values", we should look more closely at Conservative puffery.

Tulsi Gabbard @TulsiGabbard X.com My heart is filled with gratitude, aloha and peace / #2026 [various beach yoga and sunrise photos]

I believe this is the latest social media post from the US Director of National Intelligence, who hasn’t otherwise been heard from today.

"If you want to go back to the old wobbly maxim--an injury to one is injury to all--you got to mean it," @kimkelly.bsky.social
tells @jordantcamp.bsky.social in the new episode of Conjuncture. They discuss labor, solidarity, and her book, Fight Like Hell: trinitysocialjustice.com/kim-kelly-on...

They are denying kids childcare and complicating parents’ lives over a racist moral panic drummed up by a fascist disinformation merchant.

The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says “If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says

“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.

theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...

Trump saying that Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered because Reiner made other people angry with Trump Derangement Syndrome

Classy as always.

About the Institute - Antipode Online Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ):“Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mis...

Join us in Toronto for the 10th @antipodeonline.bsky.social Institute, in June! antipodeonline.org/institute-fo...

Another day, another defense publication funded by the arms industry

This guy (Makary) holds an endowed Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, widely considered one of the best in the world.

okay i need to find a way to watch this

I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025—along with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year.

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The FIFA Peace Prize is most correctly viewed as some of the world's most corrupt people recognizing what the world's most corrupt men values most: fake recognition based on lies

dhsgov Deliver justice to criminal illegal aliens. Become a deportation judge. Save your country.

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

The Cowichan decision is a long time coming | The Narwhal Governments of Canada and B.C. laid the groundwork for the Cowichan decision by ignoring the issue of Indigenous Title for more than a century

Great piece by my colleague Mike Ekers on the Cowichan decision and Indigenous Title in BC: thenarwhal.ca/opinion-eker...

Opinion | The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now

Maybe related, maybe not — I talked with Emily Keegin about rural aesthetics and politics

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing