Jack Mirkinson
@jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
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Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
Reposted by Jack Mirkinson
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
somewhere in westchester andrew cuomo lets out a bloodcurdling scream
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
somewhere in westchester andrew cuomo lets out a bloodcurdling scream
how is this real life
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
how is this real life
stupidest country
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
stupidest country
bring back shutting the fuck up
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
bring back shutting the fuck up
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I spoke to Peter Oborne about Trump's role in the crisis at the BBC, the Prescott dossier's revisionist history on Gaza, and the complicity of UK media in 2+ years of genocide for
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How the UK Media Became Complicit in the Gaza Genocide
An interview with British journalist Peter Oborne.
www.thenation.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I spoke to Peter Oborne about Trump's role in the crisis at the BBC, the Prescott dossier's revisionist history on Gaza, and the complicity of UK media in 2+ years of genocide for
@thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
@thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Reposted by Jack Mirkinson
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
harvard saying it needs to “investigate” suggests that this is some newly uncovered connection, not, y’know, something that has been known for many many many many years and is now immortalized in endless fawning emails
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
harvard saying it needs to “investigate” suggests that this is some newly uncovered connection, not, y’know, something that has been known for many many many many years and is now immortalized in endless fawning emails
everything about this is incredibly wrong
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
everything about this is incredibly wrong
Reposted by Jack Mirkinson
"Then I learned that my ICE hold disqualified me from accessing the same college classes I tutored others for,” said Nguyen, who has been given a pseudonym because he fears deportation.
DISBAND AND PROSECUTE ICE.
DISBAND AND PROSECUTE ICE.
Today in @thenation.com: a powerful investigation from incarcerated journalist Aaron Edward Olson into the way that Washington State discriminates against immigrants in prison. Proud to have worked on this one with @typeinvestigations.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Washington State Discriminates Against Incarcerated Immigrants
People with immigration detainers want to build a better life, but state policies make it difficult or impossible.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Then I learned that my ICE hold disqualified me from accessing the same college classes I tutored others for,” said Nguyen, who has been given a pseudonym because he fears deportation.
DISBAND AND PROSECUTE ICE.
DISBAND AND PROSECUTE ICE.
Today in @thenation.com: a powerful investigation from incarcerated journalist Aaron Edward Olson into the way that Washington State discriminates against immigrants in prison. Proud to have worked on this one with @typeinvestigations.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Washington State Discriminates Against Incarcerated Immigrants
People with immigration detainers want to build a better life, but state policies make it difficult or impossible.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today in @thenation.com: a powerful investigation from incarcerated journalist Aaron Edward Olson into the way that Washington State discriminates against immigrants in prison. Proud to have worked on this one with @typeinvestigations.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
the real heroes............
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
the real heroes............
that's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
that's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration
their book would have been fucking insane
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
their book would have been fucking insane
feels like "one of my best friends was the world's most famous pedophile" should keep you from teaching but i am not harvard
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
feels like "one of my best friends was the world's most famous pedophile" should keep you from teaching but i am not harvard
ok i need 400 chapters of this
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
ok i need 400 chapters of this
they will be forcing people's eyes open clockwork orange style and making them read this entire book as a form of mind destruction
they're calling it "some of the worst writing of the century"
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
they will be forcing people's eyes open clockwork orange style and making them read this entire book as a form of mind destruction
vanity fair hired this person and ta-nehisi coates in the same year
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
vanity fair hired this person and ta-nehisi coates in the same year
we all know exactly what it looks like when a news organization like the nyt digs its teeth into a particular issue or story. it takes active, sustained, deliberate engagement. and we know what the flip side to that looks like too. these are CHOICES, not acts of god
I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
we all know exactly what it looks like when a news organization like the nyt digs its teeth into a particular issue or story. it takes active, sustained, deliberate engagement. and we know what the flip side to that looks like too. these are CHOICES, not acts of god
Reposted by Jack Mirkinson
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
pretty sure sex trafficking and rape are bad even if the girl is 15 megyn
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
pretty sure sex trafficking and rape are bad even if the girl is 15 megyn
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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...