Asher Elbein

Israeli nationalists have long been able to depend on a mainstream presumption of virtue for any actions that Israel takes. It has seemed, perhaps, like an inexhaustible line of credit. Well, party's over, guys! Israel blew it!

I encourage you to read her full comments, not because they exculpatory — they absolutely are not — but because they're dangerously close to self awareness about the trap that hasbarists find themselves in.

Applications are still open for this one :)

When it comes to the presumption of virtue for Israeli actions? party's over, guys! It's done! They blew it!

The problem she -- and many others -- have been running into is that the facts on the ground re: Gaza nakedly are what they are, they're very difficult (if not impossible!) to tap-dance around, and just trying to do a pro-forma acknowledgment of them just draws more attention to it

I would love to hear her articulate it!

It was really fun!

Oh my god she admit it

EPISODE 14: PLANET X (FT. ASHER ELBEIN) — HERE COMES TOMORROW: THE PODCAST Magneto is back? Xorn isn't real??? You better believe it, kids! It's a scary new world in New York City, but luckily, Josie and Becca are joined by a real Magneto expert: writer Asher Elbein!

FOLKS! We are proud to present our SEASON 1 FINALE, and it's a DOOZY!!!!!

We're talking "Planet X" with famed Magneto expert @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!!!

And we will be back in the new year to wrap up the Morrison run... and go into EXOTIC, UNCHARTED TERRITORY!!!

Listen!!!!

Gov. Abbott released 1,400 pages of emails about Elon Musk. Most are blacked out. Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.

NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?

We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

Perfect pairing

THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD

THANK YOU @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!

You can read Asher's amazing Magneto essay here:

I had an absolute blast diving into Morrison's utterly buck-wild PLANET X with @josie.zone and @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social to talk about Magneto's most controversial X-men story — and why it's necessary to the character that someone Went There

(Morrison or Al Ewing, probably, but they're both hard to get ahold of)

Really, who else could it possibly have been

I should have known that @ryannorth.ca would end ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM with a punchline (and quite a funny one)

resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"

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I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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This literally cannot be put to bed

The problem that they've created for themselves, however, if that regardless of what's in the actual files they release, the True Epstein Files, like the eschaton, are always just around the corner

Well in fairness it's more of a sideline

Thank you so much to @josie.zone and @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social for having me on -- I had such a good time!

I had an absolute blast diving into Morrison's utterly buck-wild PLANET X with @josie.zone and @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social to talk about Magneto's most controversial X-men story — and why it's necessary to the character that someone Went There

A bit surprised you'd never seen this! It's one of my favorites of theirs

In fairness it's hard to look around America when you live in a French château

For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president

The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office

House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Predator", the former governor of California.

Jesse Ventura in "Predator", former governor of Minnesota.

Two-time Academy award winner Adrien Brody in "Predators."

Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in "Predators."

It is so funny that the "Predator" cast contains two governors, and the "Predators" cast contains two two-time Oscar winners.

It really is such a wonderfully strange franchise.