Jonathan M. Katz
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Jonathan M. Katz
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· Nov 10
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Embarrassment implies a capacity for shame
January 19, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Embarrassment implies a capacity for shame
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Barry Blitt, The New Yorker
January 19, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Barry Blitt, The New Yorker
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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traveling back in time and ignoring his cries of "it hardly seems necessary" and digging a revolver into jemmy madison's temple until he writes federalist #86, "what if the president is the biggest most corrupt shit-for-brains in history and also going insane"
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 AM
traveling back in time and ignoring his cries of "it hardly seems necessary" and digging a revolver into jemmy madison's temple until he writes federalist #86, "what if the president is the biggest most corrupt shit-for-brains in history and also going insane"
The Times should visit a diner in Ramapo to find out what Real New Yorkers(tm) think of them
The Star Tribune should send someone to Staten Island to do a big feature on their views of Manhattan
January 19, 2026 at 5:40 AM
The Times should visit a diner in Ramapo to find out what Real New Yorkers(tm) think of them
“Eighty year old racist president goes crazy and threatens war with Denmark over Greenland” sounds like a discarded concept for a Robert Altman screenplay
January 19, 2026 at 5:30 AM
“Eighty year old racist president goes crazy and threatens war with Denmark over Greenland” sounds like a discarded concept for a Robert Altman screenplay
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I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.
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The person who is actually executing all this stuff, Marco Rubio, was confirmed by every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 AM
The person who is actually executing all this stuff, Marco Rubio, was confirmed by every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate.
This MAGA diner safari has been on the NYT homepage for three days
January 19, 2026 at 5:19 AM
This MAGA diner safari has been on the NYT homepage for three days
The true American Canto
had not occurred to me that the source of candace owens's conspiracy theories are men flirting with her and her taking everything literally
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 AM
The true American Canto
A lot of y’all are podcasting about gangster imperialism without referencing a certain text just saying
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM
A lot of y’all are podcasting about gangster imperialism without referencing a certain text just saying
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Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started monetizing the presidency at his hotel blocks from the White House.
January 18, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started monetizing the presidency at his hotel blocks from the White House.
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The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The absolute accuracy of this.
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even liberals pretended at the time that MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW convention signs was not a smack-in-the-face Germany 1933 portent, just another aspect of "polarized" partisan rhetoric
Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.
January 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
even liberals pretended at the time that MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW convention signs was not a smack-in-the-face Germany 1933 portent, just another aspect of "polarized" partisan rhetoric
Ah an independent from Vermont though surely this … B. Sanders … must have been on the “political right”
The final Senate vote establishing DHS had 90 yeas and 9 nays; the nays were 8 Dems (inc. Ted Kennedy and both Hawaii senators) and 1 independent from VT who caucused with them.
YOU CAN JUST LOOK THIS SHIT UP.
YOU CAN JUST LOOK THIS SHIT UP.
January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Ah an independent from Vermont though surely this … B. Sanders … must have been on the “political right”
My essay on trauma and prestige in journalism. Plus thoughts on the potential for martial law and canceled elections in Minnesota.
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Fate and 'The Stringer'
A meditation on trauma and prestige in journalism. Plus: Martial law in Minnesota?
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January 17, 2026 at 2:16 PM
My essay on trauma and prestige in journalism. Plus thoughts on the potential for martial law and canceled elections in Minnesota.
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En su afán de expulsar a los haitianos de su territorio, la República Dominicana y sus estrategas en materia migratoria se convirtieron en el precedente más perverso de la administración Trump y el régimen de terror de ICE.
Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.
January 17, 2026 at 12:59 PM
En su afán de expulsar a los haitianos de su territorio, la República Dominicana y sus estrategas en materia migratoria se convirtieron en el precedente más perverso de la administración Trump y el régimen de terror de ICE.
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I love this piece
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I love this piece
The Obama prize was so embarrassing for exactly that reason. Even he was clearly embarrassed by it. He spent his entire Nobel lecture defending the wars he was currently overseeing, with placeholders for the ones he might start!
They think they can guide current events by elevating shitheels like Kissinger, not realizing all it really does is make them look like saps.
January 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The Obama prize was so embarrassing for exactly that reason. Even he was clearly embarrassed by it. He spent his entire Nobel lecture defending the wars he was currently overseeing, with placeholders for the ones he might start!
Absolutely, but also what Trump really does is reveal how corrupt and base the institutions he tries to force his way into are. The NPP has always been a scummy award, elevated by its association with a few genuine secular saints, but ...
It's wild how even the stuff that Trump covets turns to shit. The Nobel Peace Prize was the most well-known humanitarian achievement the world had, and in one year, he has ruined its reputation. Its aura is gone, pulled over his event horizon beyond which no regard can escape.
January 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Absolutely, but also what Trump really does is reveal how corrupt and base the institutions he tries to force his way into are. The NPP has always been a scummy award, elevated by its association with a few genuine secular saints, but ...
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They're pulling over St. Paul Public School kids in district-owned vehicles. I have a little more detail about this incident that I can't share, but I promise you, it's horrifying. www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...
St. Paul Schools van full of teachers, students pulled over by ICE agents
St. Paul Public Schools says one of its contracted transport vans was pulled over by ICE agents with both students and staff on board.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
They're pulling over St. Paul Public School kids in district-owned vehicles. I have a little more detail about this incident that I can't share, but I promise you, it's horrifying. www.fox9.com/news/st-paul...
You can say you weren't warned, but then you weren't reading my newsletter.
Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.
January 16, 2026 at 7:03 PM
You can say you weren't warned, but then you weren't reading my newsletter.
Even Kissinger didn’t use his Nobel to bribe people sheesh
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Even Kissinger didn’t use his Nobel to bribe people sheesh