Mark Dery

Less than 3 months ago, Vox Media was celebrating Eater for having nabbed 6 nominations at the James Beard Media Awards!

Ashok Selvam received the 2025 Local Voice Award for his work at Eater Chicago. He was laid off today.

Vox Media has Eater throwing a whole ass 20th birthday party next month while laying off the people who make it worth celebrating in the first place. Sincerely, how do you sleep at night doing this?

By "humans," he means: *white* humans, preferably male. Nonwhite? Nonhuman, following the eugenicist logic of Himmler's love child and Dr. Evil's smirky Mini-Me.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

Bomb threat forces Texas Democrats to evacuate Chicago hotel amid redistricting protest The lawmakers said the group remains focused on its work and expressed thanks for the swift response by authorities.

Jan 6 crowd mobilizing news4sanantonio.com/news/local/t...

Jewish Enough to Know Better A guest post from a Jewish American writer and public health expert

"history taught Jews...to say 'never again' and to mean it.

So from someone who’s half-Jewish but fully human: we have no moral ground in silence. We have an obligation to protect our fellow humans in Gaza, not in spite of our history, but because of it."
www.qasimrashid.com/p/jewish-eno...

Morning Briefing: White Supremacists Planning Events in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is planning to hold events in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, and FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to 'halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism.'

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is planning to hold events in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, and FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to 'halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism.'

Now that Andrew Cuomo is deigning to talk to voters, New Yorkers can actually tell him how we *really* feel.

Here's our guide on how to approach Cuomo and create a memorable experience that will make him regret running in the general election.

Talking to my partner about the male loneliness crisis and how it never seems to be about making friends or building connections it's just complaining about how women fuck too much and also don't fuck them but only them and need to be their mothers.

Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil.

These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."

didn’t expect today’s saddest story to be from National Geographic.

Mi nuevo libro estará disponible en septiembre.

Un díptico policial compuesto por una novela breve que plantea una secuela enteramente libre de “Vértigo” de Alfred Hitchcock y una serie de trece relatos interconectados por la misma figura detectivesca.

“We have reached the point where, as _Stalker_ says, the present has essentially merged with the future, in the sense that it contains all the preconditions for immanent disaster; we recognize this and yet we can do nothing to stop it happening.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, _Sculpting in Time_ #Tarkovsky

Out of the many horrible and ominous signs for US democracy over the last six months, this is one of the most alarming.

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."

A five-year-old child.

Dear Senator Schumer, I'm writing to ask you to pressure the Trump administration to resume funding food distribution in Gaza through the United Nations, rather than through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). As I'm sure you're aware, the GHF has failed, and starvation in Gaza is now deep and widespread. Every day, I read new horrors in the New York Times: doctors and nurses fainting from hunger on the job, children whose stomach linings have gone too far in the process of digesting themselves for there to be any hope of recovery. The GHF's food distribution centers have become death traps for the hungry, as Israeli soldiers have repeatedly shot desperate Palestinians. I know that Hamas is still holding Israeli hostages, but the devastation that Israel has wrought on Gaza seems to me to have become wildly disproportionate. I know that this is Israel's war not America's, but the United States has enormous leverage over Israel, through its military support. And I know that the Democratic Party has little sway over the Trump administration's foreign policy. But American senators still have some power. I don't understand, for example, why you didn't sign Sen. Van Hollen's letter of July 27 urging the U.S. to shift its funding for food distribution in Gaza away from GHF and back to the United Nations' efforts. I ask you to do whatever you can to alleviate, if not halt, what looks to me like an ongoing crime against humanity. all best, Caleb Crain

Wrote to Schumer and Gillibrand.

"Class war and the percolating rage of ‘workers of the world’ are emerging as the lightning-rod social issues of the coming century. Growing income inequality...has created fertile soil for the apocalyptic politics of the disaffected.” - PYROTECHNIC INSANITARIUM (1999) #markdery #trump #maga

When the batshit fascist kakistocracy has pushed the demolition plunger on democracy so many times there's barely anything left but smoking rubble and you're JUST GETTING THE MEMO that maybe, just maybe, it's time to stop trying to slap the brownshirts silly with your mauve glove.

Description of HR4695, and a depiction of its sponsor, Ted Lieu.

HR4695
To regulate law enforcement use of facial recognition technology, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in House

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4695

#HR4695 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress #newbill

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Head Boasts Success as Palestinians Starve “What we’re doing has actually been unbelievably effective,” said the chair of the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run aid group GHF.

“What we’re doing has actually been unbelievably effective,” said the chair of the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run aid group.

The Trump Administration and Trump voters are happily using American Jews as cannon fodder in their war on free inquiry and academic independence, some of which is being conducted by White supremacists and literal neo-nazis taking time out from painting swastikas on synagogues.

Will it include a section on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, settler lynch mobs in the West Bank, the apartheid regime in the occupied territories, and the weaponization of bogus charges of "anti-Semitism" by the Trump administration to dismantle democracy in the name of "keeping Jews safe"?

"The entire plot of The Zone of Interest is how Auschwitz guards and their families could have normal lives ignoring the Holocaust while Jews were being murdered in the background.
These Israelis are using binoculars to get a better look at the genocide." (Elia Ayoub)

Telle est la démesure humaine.

PEN America Testimony in Support of Massachusetts Freedom to Read Act - PEN America PEN America submitted the following written testimony in support of Senate bill 2328, which would protect the right to read for all Massachusetts residents.

"We are writing to express our firm support for the efforts to enshrine the right to read into Massachusetts law via SB 2328."

Read PEN America's testimony in support of Massachusetts Freedom to Read Act: pen.org/pen-america-...

NY legislature Did the Right Thing by passing the FREEDOM TO READ ACT, which safeguards students' freedom of thought. But Kathy Hochul STILL hasn't signed it. Tell her to sign it NOW. www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove... New York isn't Kansas. Keep your #BOOKBANNING hands off our kids' minds, MAGAs.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Suffer the little children. QAnon MAGAs, true to their sexually deranged roots, are all in on ICE gestapo, concentration camps, the ethnic cleansing of the white-volk heimland. Deep-state cover-up of Dear Leader's sexual predations, though? That's a bridge too far.

#Trump #Pedofiles

Not THE ONION. Why succumb to the "toxic empathy" of left-wing wokesters when you can stand firm in the gratuitous cruelty endorsed by Republican Jesus?

#NYT #RossDouthat #NotTheOinion

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.