Michael Deibert
@michaeldeibert.bsky.social
Author and journalist. Writing at https://michaeldeibert.substack.com. Enemy to autocrats. Friend to all cats. Piti piti, zwazo fe nich-li
If you wanted a good example of wealthy, privileged men rushing to defend one another‘s absolutely indefensible behavior, you could do worse then this piece of pro-Chomsky blowjobbery by Chavez/Maduro groupie Greg Grandin defending Chomsky‘s friendship with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you wanted a good example of wealthy, privileged men rushing to defend one another‘s absolutely indefensible behavior, you could do worse then this piece of pro-Chomsky blowjobbery by Chavez/Maduro groupie Greg Grandin defending Chomsky‘s friendship with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Noam Chomsky taking time off from his main occupation of atrocity denial to yuck it up w/Steve Bannon over a shared friendship w/the world’s most notorious pedophile. This was released w/the new batch of Epstein photos by House Oversight Dems. To the suckers who were fooled by this guy for so long…
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Noam Chomsky taking time off from his main occupation of atrocity denial to yuck it up w/Steve Bannon over a shared friendship w/the world’s most notorious pedophile. This was released w/the new batch of Epstein photos by House Oversight Dems. To the suckers who were fooled by this guy for so long…
This pretty much sums up the creature, his life and his presidency.
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This pretty much sums up the creature, his life and his presidency.
How am I supposed to work with such eyes gazing upon me?
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
How am I supposed to work with such eyes gazing upon me?
Every day something comes up to justify my decision to support Conor Lamb in the 2022 Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary over this nasty, embittered husk of a human.
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Every day something comes up to justify my decision to support Conor Lamb in the 2022 Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary over this nasty, embittered husk of a human.
It is that season once again to watch the greatest Christmas movie and greatest Philly movie of all time.
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It is that season once again to watch the greatest Christmas movie and greatest Philly movie of all time.
44 years ago today, the criminal Mumia Abu-Jamal indisputably murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner on the corner of Locust & 13th Streets in Center Center.
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
44 years ago today, the criminal Mumia Abu-Jamal indisputably murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner on the corner of Locust & 13th Streets in Center Center.
Today is the anniversary of France's 1905 Loi du 9 décembre (Law on the Separation of Church and State) which guarantees freedom to believe or not to believe & mandates no officially sanctioned religion. It is is seen as the backbone of the French principle of laïcité.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today is the anniversary of France's 1905 Loi du 9 décembre (Law on the Separation of Church and State) which guarantees freedom to believe or not to believe & mandates no officially sanctioned religion. It is is seen as the backbone of the French principle of laïcité.
On this day in 2001, the great Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali left this mortal realm. His book The Country Without A Post Office is wonderful.
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
On this day in 2001, the great Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali left this mortal realm. His book The Country Without A Post Office is wonderful.
I used to be wild, but now…
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I used to be wild, but now…
Hard to believe CBS News once counted among its staff such courageous luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite and Ed Bradley but now it's just a platform for the completely undistinguished Bari Weiss and her White Grievance Inc™
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Hard to believe CBS News once counted among its staff such courageous luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite and Ed Bradley but now it's just a platform for the completely undistinguished Bari Weiss and her White Grievance Inc™
The U.S. Supreme Court has become an enemy of democracy.
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court has become an enemy of democracy.
Remembering Sonia Pierre today on the 14th anniversary of her departure to join the ancestors. A great Dominican, advocate for Dominicans of Haitian descent, Haitian migrants & women & girls. Rest in power.
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Remembering Sonia Pierre today on the 14th anniversary of her departure to join the ancestors. A great Dominican, advocate for Dominicans of Haitian descent, Haitian migrants & women & girls. Rest in power.
Who’s “sleepy” now?
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Who’s “sleepy” now?
John Brown, American abolitionist, was executed on this day in 1859, after his failed railed on Harper’s Ferry, two years before the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. Herman Melville called him "the meteor of the war." Painting: The Last Moments of John Brown by Thomas Hovenden.
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
John Brown, American abolitionist, was executed on this day in 1859, after his failed railed on Harper’s Ferry, two years before the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. Herman Melville called him "the meteor of the war." Painting: The Last Moments of John Brown by Thomas Hovenden.
Son of Pennsylvania and one of the greatest bass players who ever lived, Jaco Pastorius was born #OnThisDay in Norristown in 1951.
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Son of Pennsylvania and one of the greatest bass players who ever lived, Jaco Pastorius was born #OnThisDay in Norristown in 1951.
"I presided over tens of thousands of narco-related murders and disappearances, the expansion of the military into political & economic life & immense environmental destruction for my Tren Maya and others vanity projects. Now buy my book."
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"I presided over tens of thousands of narco-related murders and disappearances, the expansion of the military into political & economic life & immense environmental destruction for my Tren Maya and others vanity projects. Now buy my book."
Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve, illustration by the poet William Blake to an 1808 edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve, illustration by the poet William Blake to an 1808 edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
"Exposed" was what Trump was shortly after Epstein invited him over for brunch.
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Exposed" was what Trump was shortly after Epstein invited him over for brunch.
As far as I have been forced to even know who he is, my one opinion about Tyler Austin Harper is that he is fucking fool.
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
As far as I have been forced to even know who he is, my one opinion about Tyler Austin Harper is that he is fucking fool.
This anecdote, which I included in my 2017 book on Haiti, kind of sums the guy up for me.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This anecdote, which I included in my 2017 book on Haiti, kind of sums the guy up for me.
When you don’t care for the stranger, you get the bat to the head just like we used to do back in Chicago.
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When you don’t care for the stranger, you get the bat to the head just like we used to do back in Chicago.