Jesse Mac
@jessemackinnon.com
A bolt of lightning, on a night unlooked for, smote the ancient oak and split it in twain. Long had it stood, a seemingly permanent witness to ages. The sudden fire revealed truth within: hidden rot, a hollow heart, and slow decay beneath its bark.
Pinned
"The Name of the Wind," or, what if a typical theater kid actually had the skills to match his ego
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
"The Name of the Wind," or, what if a typical theater kid actually had the skills to match his ego
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ME: can you confirm my priors?
REPORTER: you can just read the story like everyone else
ME, confused, points to my already-drafted quote post: please. my priors
REPORTER: you can just read the story like everyone else
ME, confused, points to my already-drafted quote post: please. my priors
January 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
ME: can you confirm my priors?
REPORTER: you can just read the story like everyone else
ME, confused, points to my already-drafted quote post: please. my priors
REPORTER: you can just read the story like everyone else
ME, confused, points to my already-drafted quote post: please. my priors
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Watching them all fall in line to brazenly lie to protect their new secret police/terror squads from accountability for shooting a scared mom in the face 3 times, is a reminder (in case we still needed one) that it’s no where near enough to just replace Trump. It’s the entire immoral & corrupt GOP.
Mike Johnson on Renee Good: "This woman was taunting ICE officers. She was impeding law enforcement. She was violating a number of laws. They were very patient ... what I saw was she hit the accelerator and hit the ICE officer and he reacted in a split second."
January 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Watching them all fall in line to brazenly lie to protect their new secret police/terror squads from accountability for shooting a scared mom in the face 3 times, is a reminder (in case we still needed one) that it’s no where near enough to just replace Trump. It’s the entire immoral & corrupt GOP.
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working for coming of the day that “republican” stings the air in the same way “nazi” does
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
working for coming of the day that “republican” stings the air in the same way “nazi” does
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The New Yorker has a profile of Marjorie Taylor Greene with the headline The Notorious MTG and I'm going to need a permanent moratorium on nicknaming racist white women after Biggie
January 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The New Yorker has a profile of Marjorie Taylor Greene with the headline The Notorious MTG and I'm going to need a permanent moratorium on nicknaming racist white women after Biggie
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this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.
Honestly have lost count in the chaos but this is the third (?) gas incident today
Federal authorities have tear-gassed a crowd outside the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling. Follow updates here. bit.ly/3Lakres
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.
James Corden just ruins everything he’s in, huh
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
James Corden just ruins everything he’s in, huh
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costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country
January 12, 2026 at 10:58 PM
costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country
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I feel like at least half of the headlines you read these days are just some rejected Madlibs that someone dug out of the recycling bin
Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis. And AI generated images are complicating the effort to find them.
Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis. And AI generated images are complicating the effort to find them.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I feel like at least half of the headlines you read these days are just some rejected Madlibs that someone dug out of the recycling bin
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Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
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they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it
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A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
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"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country.
'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...
This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...
This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law.
The fatal shooting of Renée Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a Minneapolis street here, has brought new attention to ICE monitoring.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country.
'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...
This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...
This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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it’s become clear at this point that all of the messaging from the Trump administration is targeted at room temp IQ losers who are incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
it’s become clear at this point that all of the messaging from the Trump administration is targeted at room temp IQ losers who are incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
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Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
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The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
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my dad says he doesn’t get why these ICE chuds can’t stay upright while doing almost nothing while he runs 10+ miles with his friends on the same icy roads lol
Minnesotans are built different and idk why you’d try to invade in the winter time unless you’re just unfathomably stupid
Minnesotans are built different and idk why you’d try to invade in the winter time unless you’re just unfathomably stupid
January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
my dad says he doesn’t get why these ICE chuds can’t stay upright while doing almost nothing while he runs 10+ miles with his friends on the same icy roads lol
Minnesotans are built different and idk why you’d try to invade in the winter time unless you’re just unfathomably stupid
Minnesotans are built different and idk why you’d try to invade in the winter time unless you’re just unfathomably stupid
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Maybe the most fascinating belief among the billionaire class, especially the Silicon Valley set, has been their confidence that if they blow up the specific conditions and institutions that put them on top, they will certainly come out even higher on top
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Maybe the most fascinating belief among the billionaire class, especially the Silicon Valley set, has been their confidence that if they blow up the specific conditions and institutions that put them on top, they will certainly come out even higher on top
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If you haven't seen One Battle After Another it portrays pro-Black movements as unorganized and full of snitches. It shows Black women as sex crazed for white men, snitches and bad mothers. And the only Black man lasted 20 minutes, had a white girl and got riddled with bullets
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
If you haven't seen One Battle After Another it portrays pro-Black movements as unorganized and full of snitches. It shows Black women as sex crazed for white men, snitches and bad mothers. And the only Black man lasted 20 minutes, had a white girl and got riddled with bullets
I wonder if his death is extremely imminent, and he’s trying to see as much of his payback and goals through as possible before it cuts to black?
January 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I wonder if his death is extremely imminent, and he’s trying to see as much of his payback and goals through as possible before it cuts to black?