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writer/journalist in paris. work in the paris review, granta, nplusone, among others. debut novel STATES OF EMERGENCY from unnamed press, sept 2024 chrisknapp.net https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/states-of-emergency
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It’ll be such a great loss if this film never sees the light of day www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It’ll be a great loss if we never get to see this film www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 15 days ago • 256 comments

If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Absolute dogshit from wapo

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of them should have just taken one for the team.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of people calling this Nazi shit, which isn’t wrong, but imo slave catchers are an equally important historical analogy here.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

What color shirts do we think this small army of private citizens will be wearing?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Please read this. It's terrifying and well researched/ reported. theintercept.com/2025/02/06/b...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses. They may have well broken the law. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 28 days ago • 247 comments

The right thing to do is to put out a statement saying that Democrats will consider this to be insurrection against the US government and Constitution, and that those who take seriously their oath have 1 week to arrest and detain Musk or be considered offering him aid and comfort.

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

Someone should make a database that allows you to click on a location and see in detail how Trumps cuts are hurting you directly. What medical center closed? What schools aren’t being funded? What programs are shutting down?

submitted 32 days ago • 42 comments

Jared Kushner was openly talking about confiscating Gaza for luxe resorts a year ago.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Same fuckin clowns that lost us the election

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

There's a pattern here -- seen in Musk's threat to end the IRS Direct File, for instance -- of them targeting the valuable services and information that taxpayers currently get for free and setting up a system where we'll have to pay private companies instead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 32 days ago • 45 comments

@nytimes.com why do all these headlines that make him sound like jimmy stewart?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

They could be doing irreparable damage to the federal civil service in their attempts to thin it out, with few, if any, ways of finding out what they’re doing. It kind of makes Hillary Clinton’s storing of government data on a private email server look rather quaint, doesn’t it?

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

“President Trump proposes textbook case of ethnic cleansing”

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

In a scenario where they just start proclaiming people criminals and locking them up, what’s standing in their way? It seems to me like a pretty much the entire chain of command would have to refuse to comply, not just one or two brave souls

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

When they disband the department of education they intend to segregate the schools. That matters.

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think "seeing the consequences" automatically moves people to take action. We've all experienced consequences that actually serve to demobilize us in our own lives. That's why "FAFO" is not actually a strategy for anything constructive. It usually just means more suffering.

submitted 35 days ago • 28 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 35 days ago • 86 comments

One of the worst takes from online leftists is that people outside the US shouldn’t talk about US politics. I’d love to forget your clown-ass politics, but as it turns out, your war-mongering, genocidal, imperialist president has the power to drag MY country into his wars.

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

Work/life balance is so important in these uncertain times

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 37 days ago • 793 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 37 days ago • 600 comments

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

submitted 37 days ago • 54 comments

This whole thread, about academics being told that their teaching materials are now subject to the scrutiny of everyone in the state, is horrifying. But man, this detail specifically is absolutely deranged from a legal/sovereignty/jurisdictional perspective.

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Complete fabrication "A comprehensive report issued in Sept by USAid, not a penny of the $60.8m in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the US in the past year went to Gaza…the accounting shows, there were no condoms sent to any part of the Middle East" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Things presented in this very British article about childhood development trends as equally distressing: -not being potty trained -not being able to climb stairs -lacking the core strength to sit up independently -using American vocabulary

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Tell those comic clowns to fix their hearts or die

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.

submitted 40 days ago • 108 comments

I don’t think it’s nice to drag potatoes into this but otherwise yes, primary everyone

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

For a half decade the most consistent argument in the op-ed pages of the biggest newspapers was the grave threat to free speech on campus. Now, either crickets or explicit support for students losing everything because they sat on a university lawn and chanted against babies being mass murdered.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.

submitted 43 days ago • 45 comments

Doing Nazi shit ironically is still just doing Nazi shit. This is honestly a silly distinction and only necessary when you start with the conclusion that he can’t hold those beliefs instead of seeing the salute as another expression of his beliefs, along with everything else he has been open about.

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

"This level of corrupt cash-grabbing would’ve been unfathomable for a president as recently as a decade ago. Now, however, it’s just another form of misconduct Republicans are doing their damndest to normalize."

submitted 45 days ago • 61 comments

Gonna need more Luigis

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself. The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.” www.whitehouse.gov/es/

submitted 47 days ago • 85 comments

Oh fuck me

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

this is not the government of "we just think trans rights went a little too far". On day 1, this administration has indicated that their priority is to stamp us out of existence. This will be hard for some third parties to accept as truth but they've been plainly and openly saying it for years.

submitted 47 days ago • 23 comments

The point of the firehose of Executive Orders is to disorient and to demobilize. It's to instill maximum fear. If we know this, then that's already half the battle. This means that we have to respond with focus on those most vulnerable & targets. It means we have to refuse their attempt to scare us.

submitted 47 days ago • 80 comments