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@jonahssiegel.bsky.social
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Professor at Rutgers. Student of literature, museums, collections. Always a late adopter.
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.

“According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”
Trump's Gaza plan sees digital land tokens, mass relocation | The Jerusalem Post
The administration's plan would see Gaza transformed into a tourism resort and a high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.
www.jpost.com
I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.
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I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"
Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled no concrete agreement after more than three hours of talks in Alaska on Friday, taking no questions from the press after breaking off the summit early.
Live updates: Trump, Putin end news conference without taking questions
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term, including his meeting Friday in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
Guerrero!
2/ One man told his parents that ICE officials questioned him because of his last name, Guerrero – a common surname in Latin America and one shared by the leader of the Tren de Aragua gang. His mother was adamant they were not related. “Absolutely not,” she said.
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SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told
The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.
www.washingtonpost.com
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This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"
NYT updated the story, bang-up job all around
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A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
Our future.

"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."
Orban’s Hungary is now officially the poorest nation in the EU
Hungary now ranks last among European Union member states in a vital measure of household welfare—Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita—according to June 18, 2025 data from Eurostat. At just ...
kyivinsider.com
"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle."

Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!
"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit."

Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!
Relationality, Agency, and Injury: The Darkness of The Radical Aesthetic
Abstract. This essay traces Isobel Armstrong's achievement in The Radical Aesthetic (2000) to her commitment to reflecting on difficult states of being — necessarily imperfect, inevitably incomplete —...
read.dukeupress.edu
Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell.

"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."
31 | 2025 Museum Storytelling: Collecting Stories, Inventing Narra...
Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world
journals.openedition.org
His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others.

For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!
Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war - postponing son’s wedding
Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict
www.theguardian.com
Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.
someone must be enjoying this, otherwise it's a lot of my tax dollars going to waste
OK. Thanks. I knew they detained him there, but not that that is where he was being kept. I have a few things to do at home, then I'll head over. This is New York City, we don't really like racist authoritarians all that much. I also have kind of appreciated the democracy we've had till recently.