WE ARE IN HELL

jacobin.com/2025/05/happy-… Jacobin Magazine, which publishes me when I get up the energy to write something, is having a May Day promotion for new subscribers.

@GeorgetownLaw @NorthwesternU @WilliamsCollege N.b. some of your professors are morons.

Georgetown University announced Monday Dr. Morton Schapiro will deliver the Georgetown Law commencement address on May 17 and receive an honorary J.D. degree. Schapiro is an economist and former president of @NorthwesternU and @WilliamsCollege. bit.ly/4cyo3BM

@VanJones68 VJ due an Olympic medal for selling out.

Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel. His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us who disagree owe him — and his audience — a real argument. Here's mine … And my position doesn’t come from ignorance about oppression. For a big chunk of my life, I was a grassroots activist — because of the pain of my own people. During those years, I was lucky enough to learn from elders who had been in the Black Panther Party, in SNCC, in the ANC. These were people who had to choose whether to pick up the gun — and how to use it if they did. They taught me this: even in armed struggle, there are principles. No women. No children. No rapes. No kidnapping. Mandela held that line. Amílcar Cabral held that line. You don't become what you're fighting. Hamas fails that test. They are not fighting for MORE freedom for Palestinians. They're fighting for less. They want theocracy, not democracy. And their means? They don’t use principled armed struggle (hitting military targets). They use terrorism (targeting civilians). The vast majority of Americans — including those who sympathize with the Palestinian cause — reject terror tactics. Reasonable people would agree on three principles: secure homelands for both peoples; no hatred for Jews or Muslims; and protection for all civilians. Hamas’ approach undermines all three. That's the conversation Piker's audience deserves. Not name-calling.

@HeerJeet What we said about the Weathermen.

Trotsky once said that lone wolf terrorists were just "liberals with bombs." He didn't know how right he would turn out to be.

@DavidShafer Best trick of the devil and his followers is to convince everybody he doesn't exist.

I am 60 years old and have lived virtually my entire life in the American South. I have never to my knowledge met a single member of the Ku Klux Klan. It is a ghost kept alive by millions of dollars in funding by the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep us divided.

@RandyEBarnett fool

If Obama had a son, he’d attack the White House Correspondents Dinner like Cole Allen.

@nicksortor twit

🚨 NOW: King Charles has a PRESIDENTIAL-level motorcade rolling through DC right now We now have an ACTUAL king on our soil, but there are NO SIGNS of any "No Kings" protests anywhere in the nation right now. Interesting how that works!

sawicky.substack.com/p/hereness Hereness

I don't need to have an opinion about Hasan.

@RoKhanna The issue is should you and your ilk continue to run the party into the ground.

We are the party of redemption, believing you deserve a second chance if you made a mistake as a young person or deserve to make a life if you came here undocumented but work hard and play by the rules. Yet, when it comes to political disagreements, we have taken a very different attitude. If someone held political viewpoints we disagree with or said sensational or hurtful things, we feel vindication and moral certitude in our condemnation. Perhaps, we could learn from the great philosopher Ted Lasso, "Be curious, not judgmental." I'd like my party to lead in redeeming America to live up to our promise.

@coachbrucepearl Look into Texas, dumbass

President Trump won 46% of the Vote in the State of Virginia. Before this vote there were 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans representing the people in the house. To "restore fairness" the Dems will now carry the state 10-1. This is certainly a victory for democrats but how is it fair

@_maxgranger Swell book

Weirdly I happen to be reading Black Marxism atm. I’m no academic but I think it’s quite good and the claim that it constitutes the theoretical basis for neoliberal capture of identity politics strikes me as absurd and intentionally obtuse.

@ScottJenningsKY Libel

Year of our Lord 2026: Democrat US Senator openly rooting for Iran to defeat the US in battle. Every Dem on the Hill ought to be hounded today by every reporter to answer for this lunatic.

@IBDinvestors Your customer service is lacking. I sub to WSJ+ and couldn't get IBD content.

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@nathanTbernard Reminds me of the Hillary die-hards who would not support Obama ("PUMA, or Party Unity My Ass). That worked out well.

Janet Mills surrogates are announcing they will not vote for Platner if he is the Democratic nominee. Apparently the tent is only big enough for Schumer's hand-picked candidates.

@ckitty33forkag @GovernorVA @ltgovhashmi @JCarrollFoy @DelCiaPrice85 twit

@GovernorVA @ltgovhashmi @JCarrollFoy @DelCiaPrice85 Where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to contraception, comrade?

🚨We have officially guaranteed the right of every woman in Virginia to access contraception and birth control. Thank you @ltgovhashmi, @JCarrollFoy, and @DelCiaPrice85 for long championing this effort — and for all you’ve done to protect reproductive healthcare.

Burt Lancaster in 'The Professionals': "Maybe there's only one revolution, since the beginning. The good guys against the bad guys. The question is: Who are the good guys?"

sawicky.substack.com/p/voting-on-is… Voting on Israel's defense.

@daveweigel It's simpler. Money is fungible. Aid labeled "defensive" can be used for anything. All aid is for killing people.

The rationale, explained to me by a Dem who wants to stop funding Iron Dome: The defense system makes Israel more aggressive, confident that it can launch operations without much damage to its own cities. (Most Dems are still at "no offensive weapons, missile shield okay.")