Realizing now I always sort of assumed it was short for this

The most having-a-Master's thing you can possibly do is habitually claim that you don't know how to read

I habitually argue that people who make and influence policy for a living need massively more exposure to normal conditions of life in the United States, but for this man specifically the opposite is true

cat behavior. get the laser pointer

So important to get that ad hominem out of the way first

shamefacedly passing out little gift bags with earplugs to my immediate neighbors when I need to do an alanis morissette singalong in my apartment like I'm taking an infant on a plane

Starting a consulting company where I'm the bog spirit you call when a friend is tempted to start a nonprofit

grabbed from insta a few days ago

Credit to @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social for calling labubu "American collapse era Cheburashka"

I think the earlier Cold War conception of these programs left plenty of room for these outcomes as beneficial parts of the overall political project, tbh

only paid enough on Amtrak to ride in the car full of youth referring to the 90s as the 20th century

I'm speaking in DC Thursday w/Ro Khanna, Hassan El-Tayyab, Hanieh Jodat, and other progressive leaders about what we can do to strengthen the anti-war movement at an incredibly important moment. I would love to see you there!!

RSVP here or message me for info: secure.actblue.com/donate/power...

I've been in LA for less than three days and I keep hearing myself use the word "ideate"

We can't have nice things: a lede for people who base their sense of personal virtue on having read at least 1-3 novels as a teen

“Trump is antiwar” is a lie that he and his allies promoted because it was useful to them in the elections. His Democratic opponents made it easier to sell that lie by running on bankrupt defenses of the status quo, but that didn’t magically make Trump a real opponent of foreign wars.

The logic of neoliberalism is a logic of childlessness, part eleventy

My Beat

Switching, productively, between news about the war and a 35-pg interview transcript I'm editing where a filmmaker discusses the play of light in intense and deeply felt detail

Trump's knowledge of Israel's attacks on Iran means, on some level, they play a role in the US' overall strategy toward Iran.

It's amazing how policymakers continue to see military action as a knowable tool that can be controlled, rather than fundamentally transformative to the political landscape

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, endorses cutting Medicare waste/fraud in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Specifically, he wants to look at Medicare Advantage, where the government pays private insurers to provide benefits.

“Medicare Advantage is a scam," Moreno tells me.

His full comments:

half hours on earth/what are they worth easily converts to an ad for happy hour on the patio

Missile defense doesn't work, but at least it's stupidly expensive, has no appreciable spillover into other research, and in fact the pursuit of it actively makes nuclear war more likely.

This is what Golden Dome's *supporters* are saying it will cost the public!

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Dead Souls: Reloaded

Learned what a ploughshare was from the BBC historical farm series the other day and I gotta tell you. The "swords into ploughshares" proverb makes a lot more sense when you know what a ploughshare is

lacunae beach

for the NYC-adjacent, I'm doing a reading next Thursday: