Tropics of Meta

The historians appear to be optimistic, which is surely a sign of the end of the world

This is so awesome. Glad these people are our most trusted allies x.com/i/trending/202…

viva #BenitoBowl laist.com/news/los-angel…

Bleep, bloop, Boop tropicsofmeta.com/2026/01/19/unt…

the fact that RFK Jr. and HHS are withholding childcare payments is such a great indication of how completely full of shit about whatever they supposedly care about these people are

We're ringing in the New Year with a great new essay from Dr. Kevin Anzzolin about material culture and the iconography of labor in mid-century Mexico! tropicsofmeta.com/2026/01/01/mon…

@BL_Balthaser The NYT is so sclerotic and pathetic

This is a big deal, especially for ratepayers in Georgia who've been getting soaked by @SouthernCompany & @GeorgiaPower for ages. Bravo!!! georgiarecorder.com/2025/11/04/dem…

Honestly, nice to see friend-of-the-blog George back to being a nasty bitch who loves drama x.com/MrSantosNY/sta…

Zohran out here quoting mufucking Eugene Debs in his victory speech. His rizz is an inexhaustible resource nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-…

Dr. Emily Lu on Fanon's radical approach to psychiatry tropicsofmeta.com/2025/11/03/rea…

Happy birthday to the hardest working man in the history business, and a total mensch

This is so fucking sad: the legend D'Angelo passed at such an early age metafilter.com/210695/Grammy-…

Many years ago, I was in college and also a huge fan of The Book of Hours by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Today I wonder if this was an adolescent infatuation — one of those things you get into fantastically but later feel embarrassed about... @tropicsm tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/28/sea…

@theotherjude especially in the cesspool that is NYC/NY State politics

Sliwa is an honorable man in a world of mostly scoundrels and reprobates

This is an important essay about family history and the memory of the Holocaust by professor Jonathan Ablard. Thank you for sharing it with us tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/19/los…

I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out... tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/30/the…

For your Sunday: our weekly #aneurysms reading recs. With a little side of Rilke and Italian pop! @BostonReview @askmetafilter @brainpickings @aeonmag @laist @jacobin @pochogreatermx tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/28/sea…

Why public media like @kexp matter so much to us. We have to fight for this great public treasure that provides so much information and art to us. It's really really important. tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/26/hel…

The Democratic Party is apparently run by insurance claim adjusters, laid-off repo men and Sméagols who went through conversion therapy

"Electoral identity risks" is an incredible way to put this

The epically talented and wise Kamala Harris has a 300-point plan to carpetbomb any kind of legacy she has left. Now she's saying she wanted Mayo Pete as running mate but decided against because he's gay. Can you imagine making worse of a lose-lose out of this? Just stop talking