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writer/journalist in paris. work in the paris review, granta, nplusone, among others. debut novel STATES OF EMERGENCY from unnamed press, sept 2024 chrisknapp.net https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/states-of-emergency

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Hating the liquid glass thing has become my entire personality

09.12.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

09.12.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2808    πŸ” 712    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 43

I was right about her 10 years ago.

29.10.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9259    πŸ” 1258    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 13

Sincerely, if these fuckers didn’t have such contempt for the humanities they would know this stuff

27.10.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha no if it’s Netflix it will look like a Tide commercial!

26.10.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Police Make Arrests in Louvre Robbery, Authorities Say

Already annoyed about the lighting in the Netflix miniseries this will become

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

26.10.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woof

23.10.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

Sure why not

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

22.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

21.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3484    πŸ” 906    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 33

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

20.10.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1313    πŸ” 330    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

20.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2867    πŸ” 674    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 47

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

20.10.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3321    πŸ” 670    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 36

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

21.06.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11093    πŸ” 2885    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 8

I don't know what it's going to take to stop this kind of thing from happening, but I am 100% sure that the answer isn't "Andrew Cuomo."

17.06.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1280    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5

They sure are arresting a lot of Democratic politicians these days. I wonder if it's got anything to do with fascism?

17.06.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2014    πŸ” 376    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 11
Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable 
Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would β€˜kill’ the industry.

Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would β€˜kill’ the industry.

Why is it that artists’ demands are β€˜unworkable’, when these are the same conditions that have been around since the development of copyright, but the new data churning technology is NOT considered β€˜unworkable’ even though it can’t be created without breaches of copyright on an unprecedented scale?

24.05.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Give me a fucking break. I’m a 52 year old gay man. I was a teenager in the late 1980s when the entire world described us as immoral, disgusting, disease carriers. People were arrested for β€œgross indecency” for kissing in public. Homophobic attacks were routine and somehow I’m not a fucking Nazi.

03.05.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1663    πŸ” 310    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 21

Literally anyone could put on a mask and abduct someone. It could be any kind of kidnapper!

There is no guarantee of public safety for anyone in the U.S. now.

26.04.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow.

25.04.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Miriam Jordan
By Miriam Jordan
Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent.
April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET
In late January, Ricardo Prada VΓ‘squez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.
The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.
That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.
But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

Miriam Jordan By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent. April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET In late January, Ricardo Prada VΓ‘squez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful. The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela. That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world. But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

22.04.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7588    πŸ” 3828    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 277
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They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they're stuck in Panama Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S.

While we rightfully focus on the March deportations to El Salvador, don’t forget the African and Asian migrants quietly removed to Panama in February. Both groups deserve #dueprocess protections under U.S. and international law. @MSNBC_reports #Immigration
apnews.com/article/pana...

22.04.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 399    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. β€œThe officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, β€˜No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, β€˜Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers β€” answers he’s still waiting for.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. β€œThe officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, β€˜No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, β€˜Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers β€” answers he’s still waiting for.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

14.04.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 25619    πŸ” 13287    πŸ’¬ 664    πŸ“Œ 1205

trying not to exceed 2 intra-popular front mutual recrimination posts a week, but devoting 1 to say:

seems clear that posters endlessly skeptical of "white supremacists/nationalists" and the like as descriptors of Trump/GOP are either dipshits who don't know what is going on or racists who do

12.04.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 780    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7

My vote in 2028 goes to whoever promises to accidentally deport everyone of these motherfuckers to El Salvador including John Roberts

08.04.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So this, WE NEED to see EACH OTHER, all the time, in posts, in the street, on a bumper sticker, in every article and every vicious barb at a dinner party, eyebrows that hit the ceiling, every minute of every day.

08.04.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aid cuts threaten progress toward ending deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, WHO warns | CNN More women could die in pregnancy and childbirth due to β€œunprecedented” aid cuts that threaten to undo two decades of progress in maternal healthcare, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a s...

More women could die in pregnancy and childbirth due to "unprecedented" aid cuts that threaten to undo two decades of progress in maternal healthcare, the WHO warned.

07.04.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 191    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

07.04.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 43986    πŸ” 7911    πŸ’¬ 597    πŸ“Œ 262

Let's face it, LinkedIn is going to be cringe central and continue to languish until it allows porn.

06.04.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Respectfully, Mr. King, you need to dream bigger πŸ₯·

03.04.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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