Jack Crosbie

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In Minnesota, Everywhere Is a Front Line What a federal invasion looks like from the inside.

"There is joy in connecting with strangers who love their community the way you do. There is solidarity in a city where every head is on the same swivel. There is hope in people running toward danger, if it means keeping neighbors safe. "

Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives How many sins can one career survive?

this has all been very fun and juicy but at a certain point it makes the entire industry look bad. on journalism and olivia nuzzi: www.discourseblog.com/p/olivia-nuz...

'A Lot of Us Have Made Wills': Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down Anti-fascists are recalibrating how they protest in response to Donald Trump's crackdown on dissent following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

READ @jscros.bsky.social: ‘A Lot of Us Have Made Wills’: Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell. Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

For Slate, I spent two days in New York's bizarre, dystopian immigration courts, getting a first hand look at the processes of Donald Trump's brutal new immigration system, and trying to focus on the human experience of being caught in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Me before putting on a plate carrier for the first time: wow i hope i get to wear the cool bulletproof vest!!!
me after 10 minutes wearing plates in the summer: if i ever have to do this again i will just shoot myself and get it over with

wow i'd forgotten about this too but it holds up, i think, thanks for remembering

probably a good thing, folks are very upset with the headline. but really appreciate your insight!

Hasan Piker: A Progressive Mind in a MAGA Body (Gift Article) Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls. His brand of masculinity has won him many fans online — and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.

Back in January, I did leg day with Hasan Piker for the NYT, hoping to figure out what it means to be a left-wing man in a red-pilled world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...

What Is ‘Dark Woke’: How Some Democrats Push Back Against Trump Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.

For the Times, I wrote about the consultant class's quest to make Democratic politics cool again -- and whether or not it's too little too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/s...

one of the biggest life changes that i've made in 2025 is that i have one of those little tech deck finger boards on my desk and after a lot of practice i can actually ollie over my cellphone about half the time

Activists told me directly that these tactics were already in play during campus protests last year. Now it's clear they're going federal -- and they're going to pop up wherever the Trump administration sees dissent. newrepublic.com/article/1908...

The charges often aren't meant to stick -- just sit in the system, going through the endless wheels of bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the defendants are out on bail, but their ability to organize is crippled. Others are deterred from participation by the possibility of catching a felony charge

The playbook was simple: Hit a protest, snatch up everyone you can. Book them all into jail on felony domestic terrorism charges, even if they were simply walking in the street with a sign. When they get bailed out, slap them with conditions that mean their entire social life is destroyed

One thing that I saw often in Atlanta was the use of specific and extremely harsh bail conditions for defendants who were released from custody. Activists were barred, sometimes, from any communication or association with other members of a movement -- oftentimes people who were even their roommates

What we saw in Atlanta and can expect to see going forward: heavy use of the "domestic terrorism" charge, which varies widely state by state and federally. For non-citizens, we're seeing this coupled with visa or green card revocations. For citizens it's a bit different: (cont)

There are already clear parallels to what the Trump administration is doing to protesters like Mahmoud Khalil and what they did to activists in the stop cop city movement: indefinite pretrial detentions, overlapping sets of charges that aren't meant to stick, confused jurisdiction issues.

The Coming War on Dissent As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.

Last month, for @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the Trump administration's coming war on the First Amendment -- a prediction based on the experiences of protesters in Georgia's Stop Cop City movement, which is looking more and more like a dire sign of things to come: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

Columbia University Sold its Soul for $400 Million The integrity of one of the country's most famous institutions has a clear price tag.

blogged about my alma mater and the price of an education www.discourseblog.com/p/columbia-u...

Conor McGregor at the White House is kind of an odd choice, as he's been heavily out of favor both w/ the UFC and w/ UFC fans for years now. Dumbest possible denominator probably still thinks he's cool but general consensus about him is that he's a washed-up clown who likes coke more than fighting

What a paragraph by @jscros.bsky.social .
“Empire of Blood” in @rollingstone.com

At Columbia University, Protesters Risk Everything as Free Speech is Shut Down After Trump’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, fear and defiance mix at Columbia University in New York

For @rollingstone.com, some scenes from the protest movement inside Columbia's campus this week, as the university administration sides wholeheartedly with both the Trump administration and Zionist groups on campus. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (3/8/25) Podcaster, writer and veteran Nate Bethea joins the lads to discuss Ang Lee's weird, uncanny film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq to America for a propaganda tour.

Schlock and Awe returns with a new ep as @jscros.bsky.social and I are joined by @inthesedeserts.bsky.social to discuss Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee's weird and uncanny 2016 film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq for a propaganda tour schlockandawe.substack.com/p/billy-lynn...

Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America Podcast Episode · Offline with Jon Favreau · 03/06/2025 · 1h 38m

Had a lot of fun trying to convince my buddy Max Fisher
that getting hit in the face recreationally was good and also solve the masculinity crisis in America on Offline with
@jonfavs.bsky.social. I'm in the second half but the first half is good too :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 353: The Oligarch Post ft. Jack Crosbie Jeff Bezos instructed the Washington Post's opinion section to only write about "personal liberties and free markets."

Washington Post rushed to cancel subscriptions after Jeff Bezos' directive for the opinion section to focus on "personal liberties and free markets."

@jscros.bsky.social joins me to discuss what this means for the WaPo newsroom:

www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-353-the...

The Oligarchs Aren't Being Particularly Subtle Anymore Jeff Bezos's move to reshape the Washington Post's opinion pages makes his intentions clear.

one thing that's refreshing about the second trump regime is that everything going on is pretty simple once you realize the general direction that things are going www.discourseblog.com/p/the-oligar...

The Tyranny of LinkedIn Must Be Stopped I cannot get this website to leave me alone.

had a weird and crazy day today and decided to get in my feelings about the fact that google keeps making me sign up for linkedin against my will www.discourseblog.com/p/the-tyrann...

i think i will step up my rhetoric against Big Calculator this week

this isn't true

not even clean new ones!!!! crimes! jail!!