Nate Schenkkan

I think a recurring problem is the world Marx inhabited is almost unfathomably strange to us, and vice versa

marx wanted capitalism to go into overdrive. he wanted massive corporations. he wanted unfathomably large/efficient economies of scale that would create endless abundance. he wanted this machine of hyper-concentrated economic power to come into being - and *then* be seized and run by the proletariat

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

Fondly remembering "Don't do stupid stuff"

Those pull-ups were objectively terrible

never forget

Iran vows ‘eye for an eye’ warfare if US, Israel hit infrastructure US-Israeli strikes on Tehran continue as Iranian counterattacks target Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Iranian judiciary claims to be working to identify Iranians in the diaspora collaborating or sympathizing with the U.S. and Israel’s war on the country, after earlier pledging to seize their assets.

The fact that Trump is right now bombing Iran with no end in sight shows the cynics often get what they are after.

Against my better judgment, engaging in the Schadlow discourse: she's not stupid and I'm pretty sure she understands Trump very well. What she is trying to make sure is her worldview and those of her allies stays in power. Even if that means saying things that make her look stupid.

This is going to be politically toxic to the US-ROK alliance under a progressive administration in Seoul: South Korea took the brunt of PRC sanctions for this deployment back in 2016-2017, only to have assets relocated for a war of choice in the Middle East that threatens its energy security.

The dystopia is here, it's just unevenly distributed

Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.

"According to data reviewed by Human Rights Watch, at least 1,243 people in Haiti were killed by drone strikes in 141 operations between March 1, 2025, and January 21, 2026, including 17 children."

www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

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The NYT clearly preferred Cuomo, the Post's bread and butter is that the city is a dying infested hellhole, and yet here we are

As a person who lives in New York, I cannot stress enough how weird the anti-Mamdani stuff sounds from the New York press, but also how irrelevant it is

Elena Sokova, the executive director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, called the administration’s assessments of the Tehran Research Reactor “confusing and misleading” and riddled with “technical errors.” “It mixes up different elements of the nuclear program and their potential proliferation capabilities,” Sokova said. “Research reactors are not capable of doing enrichment of uranium, whether for civil or military purposes.”

We're at war because witkoff doesn't know the difference between a reactor and a centrifuge

Turkey’s presidential candidate İmamoğlu faces thousands of years in prison: The list of charges A landmark trial began yesterday targeting Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu and other officials from the opposition-controlled Istanbul municipality.

Turkey’s presidential candidate İmamoğlu faces thousands of years in prison: The list of charges

Russian Hackers 'Targeting Messaging Apps,' Dutch Spies Say - The Moscow Times Russian hackers have targeted messaging apps used by Dutch officials, intelligence services in the Netherlands said on Monday, part of what they described as a "large-scale global cyber campaign."

Russian Signal/WhatsApp hacking campaign in the news.

1) Hackers are mimicking support to gain credentials; don't trust unprompted support messages

2) Installing Signal/WhatsApp on your desktop increases the risk; don't use them outside your phone if you can

www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/09/r...

Absolutely wild to see it in spreadsheet form

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

Polls consistently register deep dissatisfaction with economic conditions, and the public's appetite for political change has not disappeared – it has simply found no adequate vessel. AKP dominance, for now, looks solid. Whether it will prove equally durable is another matter.

the main opposition party is legally besieged, politically isolated, and structurally unable to force a confrontation on its own terms. Yet the verdict on Turkish society is less clear.

Today, Ekrem Imamoglu stands trial on the most Kafkaesque allegation of establishing a " criminal organisation for illicit gain." The most threatening political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allegedly sought, through this purported network, +

In some cases this is done via organized crime proxies, basically recruiting youth via Telegram accounts and paying them small amounts of money to do stuff that in itself is not significant but in the aggregate is destabilizing.

Iran has been doing "outsourced" vandalism/sabotage/transnational repression stuff in this part of Europe for a couple years now

Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

Thinking of the Trump-supporting restrainers at this difficult time.

Gonna stop here because this is so unreasonable. These are just a few of the obstacles you face *before you even cross the border* — when a whole new set of obstacles arises.

It is all so stupid.

Someone named Khemenai just to confuse everyone

Explaining homosexuality to small kids is remarkably easy. Hard questions to answer are things like "what are these metal stones in the ground with words on them?" as you walk over Stolpersteine.