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Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com) Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
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taking out cuomo and ritchie at once….most important ny vote in a generation lol

i simply don’t think there is enough discussion about andrew cuomo’s gargoyle-like face or nails-on-a-chalkboard voice

israel has been conducting a genocide in gaza and attacking multiple countries in the middle east over the last couple years, but please do go on about how iran is a rogue threat to global stability

Lots of journalists are asking things like "is Trump allowed to do this? Isn't he breaking the rules?" But as we saw with Alex Padilla today, there is only one rule that matters right now: what rules the people with the guns are following. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-only-r...

or instead of whining to the manager you could... www.discourseblog.com/p/do-somethi...

a vivid reminder of why cops are quite literally incompatible with democracy

personally i would have waited, idk, a week? before trying to fundraise off of something like LA, but i am not gavin newsom

next two weeks are going to be INSANE. nyc ruling class must be losing its fucking mind rn, they are going to go nuclear between now and election day

also approximately 98% of the people denouncing the "bad" protests aren't even going to the "good" ones. they are just narcs!

Few things more pathetic and evil than being a MAGA poster helping the feds terrorize immigrants for fun www.discourseblog.com/p/magas-digi...

HOT MAYOR CAMPAIGN WORKING www.discourseblog.com/p/new-york-c...

Anti-fascist protests have erupted, so it's time for pundits to trot out every last stupid trope we've come to know and hate. Yep, we're doing this nonsense again. www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...

IMPORTANT: our call for New York City to elect a hot mayor is SPREADING. It's even on little flyers! Glad to be playing a role in the democratic process. And read the @sdschuyler.bsky.social blog that started it all.... www.discourseblog.com/p/new-york-c...

"abolish ice" should be a standard position for anyone on the left, including politicians. you can't claim to be anti-fascist or pro-immigrant without demanding that the government's chief tool of anti-immigrant fascism be dismantled.

Hello. Is your pet a member of the LGBTQ+ community? If so, please get in touch: jack @ discourseblog dot com. It's for a blog....

Please get in touch if your pet identifies with any part of the queer community. We want to celebrate as many as possible this month! You can write me at jack @ discourseblog dot com, or leave me a comment here! GAY PETS GAY PETS GAY PETS WOOOOOO

There is only one way this should end: Let them finish each other off Bloodsport style!! www.discourseblog.com/p/let-trump-...

“…similar to how Netanyahu propped up Hamas as a counterweight to the PA, he is now helping establish a new armed force as a counterweight to Hamas…”

elon is going to rage-father so many weird children after this

never thought that paragons of intelligence and stability like elon musk and donald trump would wind up at odds

Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months

there was the small matter of biden helping carry out a genocide

please do not make me have to listen to andrew cuomo’s voice for four to eight more years

PLEASE get in touch… ❤️

Hello. Is your pet a member of the LGBTQ+ community? If so, please get in touch: jack @ discourseblog dot com. It's for a blog....

A perfect @jscros.bsky.social blog that I in no way endorse www.discourseblog.com/p/breakfast-...

the nyt releasing a podcast about trans people during pride month is like strom thurmond releasing a podcast about civil rights during black history month

It's pretty simple: do you stand with Greta Thunberg, a cool person who wants kids not to starve, or with the demonic being encased in a sack of putrefying flesh also known as Lindsey Graham, who wants kids to starve and die? You have to choose. www.discourseblog.com/p/youre-eith...

The icon @mohamhawish.bsky.social is on THIS AMERICAN FREAKING LIFE this week, hosting a segment about starvation in Gaza that is brilliant and humane and filled with love. Listen listen listen: www.thisamericanlife.org/861/group-ch...

"I’m ending my Duolingo streak and saying good riddance to the shitty little app that wasn’t teaching me Spanish anyway. I’ve already started my search for a human being to help me do that." — @caitschneider.bsky.social. Go to hell Duolingo! www.discourseblog.com/p/duolingo-c...

Once upon a time in New York, a rising Democrat star broke with his party to oppose a reactionary Dem nominee for mayor who used “law-and-order” dog whistles to divide voters. The dissident Democrat was Charlie Rangel. He backed liberal Republican John Lindsay, and they upended New York politics.

Bernie Sanders refuses to say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. In other words, he refuses to tell the truth. This is unacceptable, and it has to end. Me for @discourseblog.com: www.discourseblog.com/p/call-it-a-...

Who would have thought that Gavin Newsom saying "actually I too think trans people are bad" would only wind up emboldening transphobes, including Donald Trump? Who could have seen this coming??? www.discourseblog.com/p/thanks-a-l...

The American Maginot Line, Part 3, by Alex Aviña

A woman in Gaza has four kids with autism. They can't get their medicine. They have seizures all the time. They're starving and they don't understand why. She shared all of this with Shahad Ali, who wrote about it for @thenation.com. Listen to her. Please. www.thenation.com/article/worl...