Doubting Thomas
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· Nov 21
Nothing is settled; everything can still be altered. What was done but turned out wrong, can be done again. The Golden Age, which blind superstition had placed behind [or ahead of] us, is in us.
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
The future Assemblymember for AD36 (Zohran’s current seat), Diana Moreno at her campaign launch
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November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The future Assemblymember for AD36 (Zohran’s current seat), Diana Moreno at her campaign launch
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@dianaforqueens.com
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
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I love that in all these pictures Zohran essentially becomes a Zohran Mamdani cardboard cutout, and Trump looks like he's best friends with it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I love that in all these pictures Zohran essentially becomes a Zohran Mamdani cardboard cutout, and Trump looks like he's best friends with it.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
“It’s a myth that the writer is a solitary thing. Writers are like house cats – fiercely independent but reliant on a system they don’t understand. I am no libertarian. I do not write my books all by myself. It takes a family.” —
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@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“It’s a myth that the writer is a solitary thing. Writers are like house cats – fiercely independent but reliant on a system they don’t understand. I am no libertarian. I do not write my books all by myself. It takes a family.” —
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
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“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
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Transportation veterans say that incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to completely reorganize the parking placard giveaway, and enforce against the scofflaws who abuse it. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...
AGENDA 2026: Mamdani Must Reduce, Digitize Parking Placards - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor-elect Mamdani must face down the placard class to regain control of New York City streets.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Transportation veterans say that incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to completely reorganize the parking placard giveaway, and enforce against the scofflaws who abuse it. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...
Truly wouldn’t have guessed some of these Cale picks in a million years which is perfectly in character for the man
We've got #JohnCale’s Baker’s Dozen, an archival interview with #Björk on the intersection of her work with environmentalism, and with #MyBloodyValentine on the road, there’s an essay on the power of their rhythmic invention
#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Truly wouldn’t have guessed some of these Cale picks in a million years which is perfectly in character for the man
To my friends who are *still* on X, why are you on X?
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
To my friends who are *still* on X, why are you on X?
People are going to wildly misinterpret this, and already are, and the reporting itself is misleading.
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
New: In an extraordinary appearance at a @socialists.nyc meet tonight, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani urged the leftist group to not endorse Chi Osse's run against Hakeem Jeffries, saying the move would make it "more difficult" to enact his agenda in NYC, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/m...
Mamdani pleads directly with NYC-DSA to not back Chi Osse’s run against Hakeem Jeffries
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appeared at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting Wednesday night to urge the group to not endorse his onetime campaign surrogate Chi Osse’s 2026 challenge aga…
www.nydailynews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
People are going to wildly misinterpret this, and already are, and the reporting itself is misleading.
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
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Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
I did nuzzi that coming!!
I may be optimistic but I think there’s a decent chance this will be one of the great flops. She probably got an obscene advance tho
The thing that bites is, I actually work at interesting and coherent prose, and also I didn’t commit journalistic malpractice, but my books sell a small fraction of the number that hers likely will.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I did nuzzi that coming!!
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I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time
Breaking News: Larry Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and would step back from public commitments, but continue teaching.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time
Dominion
Addie Citchens
I loved this until it was overtaken by plot and then it lost me so to speak. I love some of the writing, especially earlier in the book.
Addie Citchens
I loved this until it was overtaken by plot and then it lost me so to speak. I love some of the writing, especially earlier in the book.
Sleep Phase
Mohamed Kheir
National Book Award longlist. Compact, punchy, Post-Arab Spring lit with a nod toward Kafka, and another toward someone like Cesar Aira in Kheir’s conjuring of a dreamworld. Fantastic book.
Mohamed Kheir
National Book Award longlist. Compact, punchy, Post-Arab Spring lit with a nod toward Kafka, and another toward someone like Cesar Aira in Kheir’s conjuring of a dreamworld. Fantastic book.
TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker
It's only appropriate that I started this on a day I was wearing a Fall t-shirt and a friend left a vm using Mark E Smith voice. It begins with a MES quote and references to the Fall are peppered throughout. A fun, manic read...like a Fall song on the page.
Nicola Barker
It's only appropriate that I started this on a day I was wearing a Fall t-shirt and a friend left a vm using Mark E Smith voice. It begins with a MES quote and references to the Fall are peppered throughout. A fun, manic read...like a Fall song on the page.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Dominion
Addie Citchens
I loved this until it was overtaken by plot and then it lost me so to speak. I love some of the writing, especially earlier in the book.
Addie Citchens
I loved this until it was overtaken by plot and then it lost me so to speak. I love some of the writing, especially earlier in the book.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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'Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments...'
Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today!
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Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
'Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments...'
Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today!
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Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today!
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Defunding the police by winning
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Defunding the police by winning
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Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
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unfortunately peter thiel is still smart. i keep getting maximum smart and maximum crazy from the guy. i don't like the maximum smart and maximum crazy guy being a player
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
unfortunately peter thiel is still smart. i keep getting maximum smart and maximum crazy from the guy. i don't like the maximum smart and maximum crazy guy being a player
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“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Mamdani is going to impose Bendtner Law. Everyone will have to sign a document saying Nicklas Bendtner is the greatest striker of all time.
mamdani is going to impose mississippi masala law. everyone will have to watch his mother's movies and realize how much we've undervalued her at the expense of white female filmmakers who fit more easily into our understanding of "feminist cinema" or whatever.
Mamdani is going to impose Santana law. Everyone will have to duet with Rob Thomas.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Mamdani is going to impose Bendtner Law. Everyone will have to sign a document saying Nicklas Bendtner is the greatest striker of all time.
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yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir