The Ghost of Albert Camus

Excellent piece by @ctrlaltpersuade.bsky.social that captures how many of us feel right now, particularly those of us in #teaching... "The Center Was Not Holding" open.substack.com/pub/controla... #AcademicChatter #Trump #RESIST!

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

This detailed study finds that young Americans hold more antisemitic views than older Americans, and that young right-wing Americans are substantially more antisemitic than young left-wing Americans. www.theargumentmag.com/p/antisemiti...

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

The Secretary of Defense is a coward “Mr. Hegseth refused to meet with General George about the matter” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

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Are you kidding me Will Smith? Let's go blue.

Gonna use this one a lot

Maureen Dowd - of all people - names the utter stupidity of Hollywood's creative community inviting tech bros like Sam Altman right through the front door just so they can drink their milkshakes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

I have never been led astray by my instinct that there are probably no good political streamers

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Sigh. Explicitly Islamist constitution and laying sole claim to Jerusalem. round and round we go. www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Not talking about practice here, but definitely talking about revolt.

Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote

Nate Silver did the "don't worry, be happy" move by claiming concerns about our democracy are overstated. I put his theory to the test in a way that he would understand - putting it to the betting markets. open.substack.com/pub/controla...

We still talk about politics like persuasion drives outcomes but Increasingly, power looks like it runs on proximity, loyalty, and transactional protection instead. That shift changes everything about strategy, media, and governance. open.substack.com/pub/controla...

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." - Julius Caesar on Cassius, the J.D. Vance of his era. ‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare (1599)

we are witnessing historic backpedaling here

The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.

Revolt. Lucidity.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

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I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

Fight and help win a world war. Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years. Blow it all up. What am I missing?

In the last 4 days: -- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ -- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis -- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist -- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building Revolt. Lucidity. More please. apnews.com/article/kenn...

www.wsj.com/business/med... Revolt.

Just came across Moonage Daydream by Bowie live in '72. My gawd it looks bigger than Beatlemania or K-Pop. youtu.be/6pXoQ6iYO1w?...

U.S. admits liability in Army helicopter collision with American Airlines jet that killed 67 people I know this feels like this occured century that this occurred in -- but wasn't this blamed on DEI air traffic control hires? www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/u...

Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren

This is the absurdity of life.

Revolt www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Revolt

Fragments of Revolt Indiana Republican With Disabled Daughter Revolts on Redistricting After Trump’s Slur: ‘Words Have Consequences’ www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...