Emily Pothast

You're really selling me on this book!

I found this post because I saw a screenshot of your Threads post that made me want to read more, but I'm not on Threads. Do you have this posted anywhere else?

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Picture of the character Malicious from the animated Halloween special Witch's Night Out

Who else remembers Catherine O'Hara's greatest role?

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I have so appreciated your optimism throughout these troubling times.

My final message before I'm on an FBI watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

This is the news story that all the other stories fit inside of. www.zig.art/p/my-final-m...

(Sorry, I forgot the alt text on that one. This is a series of photos of Violet Crawley side by side with photos of Lucille Bluth.)

I can't explain why, but I find it very therapeutic to make these and I will definitely be making more.

I wish! Miss you guys!

Oh my god I am so sorry that happened to you.

I LOVE CAPITALISM (is what I loudly proclaim online in hopes that the authoritarian capitalist regime won't execute me then deepfake me into tacky swimwear)

I do not think that the president's secret immigration police should be allowed to kill people any more than I believe that the regular police should be allowed to kill people, which is not at all.

The "one weird trick" of Republicans since Reagan has been to market aristocratic policies using vulgarian language. It's body-snatched populism.

Actual populism is about material conditions and solidarity. Fake populism is saying "uninformed prejudices are more valid than well-researched views."

Screenshot of an article in Slate from 2014 in which the author, Matthew Yglesias, predicts that by 2026, we will be living in a utopian society thanks to autonomous cars.

Good morning, Utopian Society!

For the third year in a row, we've gathered an ensemble of cosmic improvisers for a night of sounds conducive to dreams and other nocturnal visions. If you happen to be in the Bay, come join us! momence.com/Berkeley-Ale...

So so pleased to see this!

Chloe deserves all the plaudits for this incredible album, such a honour to help put it out

Huge thanks to @emilypothast.bsky.social and @thewiremagazine.bsky.social 🙏🩷

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power...

My piece in Jacobin published today on Peter Thiel's apocalyptic geopolitics w/ Rory Rowan (just 17 years after we agreed to write something together on the End!) jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...

Inside the extended courtship linking Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Israeli officials A hacked trove of emails reveals the revolving door of political leaders, tech billionaires, and intelligence officers.

Important piece of reporting by @sfstandard.com

If you happen to be in the Town o' Beans for #SBLAAR, I'm presenting on the Antichrist today at 9 am sharp.

@davigoli.bsky.social showed me this this morning. It's incredibly tempting!

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

Meme of anime character looking at a butterfly with the caption "Is this theodicy?"

Oldish news at this point, but I'm hono(u)red to have interviewed Natural Information Society for the 500th issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

For libertarian types, "freedom" generally means freedom from regulation.

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

Please take the time to read about how these orders effectively criminalize all dissenting political speech and activity, allowing Trump to take the same actions he has taken against foreign terrorists against any citizen suspected of being opposed to fascism www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy.

A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

This live feed of the Portland ICE facility is lowkey one of the funniest things I have ever seen.