Jonathan M. Katz
@katz.theracket.news
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Jonathan M. Katz
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· Nov 10
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Excuse me? haitiantimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Texas men charged in plot to attack Haitian island and enslave women, children as sex slaves | Breaking News
Texas men face federal charges for planning to invade Haiti's La Gonâve island and enslave women and children.
haitiantimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Excuse me? haitiantimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Tbf they’re all pretty gross
Why do so many reporters so obviously want to fuck the grossest Kennedy?
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Tbf they’re all pretty gross
What was I supposed to do? *Not* ask the monkey's paw to boost sales?
I am really not appreciating how much Gangsters of Capitalism is increasing in relevance the more I read it. I’m starting to wonder if @katz.theracket.news cast some kind of curse
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
What was I supposed to do? *Not* ask the monkey's paw to boost sales?
OTOH the woods are nice
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
OTOH the woods are nice
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Here is @katz.theracket.news, sanely explaining why the Epstein case matters a lot (pace David #$*&@#)(*$ Brooks)
The chaos and noise all around makes it real hard to focus on the obvious, which is why everyone needs real journalists like @katz.theracket.news
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
The chaos and noise all around makes it real hard to focus on the obvious, which is why everyone needs real journalists like @katz.theracket.news
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Here is @katz.theracket.news, sanely explaining why the Epstein case matters a lot (pace David #$*&@#)(*$ Brooks)
The chaos and noise all around makes it real hard to focus on the obvious, which is why everyone needs real journalists like @katz.theracket.news
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
The chaos and noise all around makes it real hard to focus on the obvious, which is why everyone needs real journalists like @katz.theracket.news
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
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This was a very good read. Worth your time.
Some thoughts on the case everyone is talking about and a response to David Brooks.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein case matters
Dismissing public interest in the Epstein case as heedless conspiracy-mongering ignores the power of the story.
theracket.news
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This was a very good read. Worth your time.
War criminal says what
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
War criminal says what
[brain worm intensifies]
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
[brain worm intensifies]
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There’s a great children’s book about this too, called Brave Girl. My girls now love running around the house shouting “general strike” in Yiddish [kvells]
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There’s a great children’s book about this too, called Brave Girl. My girls now love running around the house shouting “general strike” in Yiddish [kvells]
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...
Reposted by Jonathan M. Katz
Some thoughts on the case everyone is talking about and a response to David Brooks.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein case matters
Dismissing public interest in the Epstein case as heedless conspiracy-mongering ignores the power of the story.
theracket.news
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some thoughts on the case everyone is talking about and a response to David Brooks.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Reposted by Jonathan M. Katz
"This is, in fact, one of the big reasons why Epstein and his well-known links to Trump and his administrations have been so politically salient: They expose the hypocrisy of a right-wing populist movement..." - @katz.theracket.news theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein case matters
Dismissing public interest in the Epstein case as heedless conspiracy-mongering ignores the power of the story.
theracket.news
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"This is, in fact, one of the big reasons why Epstein and his well-known links to Trump and his administrations have been so politically salient: They expose the hypocrisy of a right-wing populist movement..." - @katz.theracket.news theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
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when he posts you on grid UwU
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
when he posts you on grid UwU
Some thoughts on the case everyone is talking about and a response to David Brooks.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein case matters
Dismissing public interest in the Epstein case as heedless conspiracy-mongering ignores the power of the story.
theracket.news
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some thoughts on the case everyone is talking about and a response to David Brooks.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...
Since this Epstein guy is in the news again, re-upping my deep dive into the material reality of his island, the much-ignored role that Virgin Islanders play in the story, and how it all fits into the much bigger saga of American and European empires.
theracket.news/p/epstein-an...
theracket.news/p/epstein-an...
Epstein and Empire
There's an angle to the Trump-Epstein affair that most people are missing: In the Virgin Islands, silence and impunity have long been the price of paradise.
theracket.news
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Since this Epstein guy is in the news again, re-upping my deep dive into the material reality of his island, the much-ignored role that Virgin Islanders play in the story, and how it all fits into the much bigger saga of American and European empires.
theracket.news/p/epstein-an...
theracket.news/p/epstein-an...
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I’m not sure why people think he gets a pass for pulling out of Afghanistan. Like he was awarded a “Fund One Genocide” certificate after that
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’m not sure why people think he gets a pass for pulling out of Afghanistan. Like he was awarded a “Fund One Genocide” certificate after that
This
LBJ expanded civil rights domestically more than any modern president. He also killed (and set in nothing the deaths of) millions of civilians abroad via warfare over that same time period.
The idea that liberal inclusion domestically is connected to peace abroad is wishful thinking
The idea that liberal inclusion domestically is connected to peace abroad is wishful thinking
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This
A cool way to keep yourself from having genocide in your nickname is to not have funded and armed a genocide
Leftoids who call Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” are very stupid people who deserve to be ignored for all eternity.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A cool way to keep yourself from having genocide in your nickname is to not have funded and armed a genocide
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
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New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Melissa Tran, a 44-year-old immigrant who built a family and a small business in Western Maryland, has been deported to Vietnam, a country she left as a child.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
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Yakkin' with @katz.theracket.news about the weird club of rich and prominent people who can't write
(and one person who unexpectedly can)
flaminghydra.com/issue-447/
(and one person who unexpectedly can)
flaminghydra.com/issue-447/
Settling accounts
Jonathan M. Katz and Maria Bustillos connect the geopolitico-cultural dots
flaminghydra.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yakkin' with @katz.theracket.news about the weird club of rich and prominent people who can't write
(and one person who unexpectedly can)
flaminghydra.com/issue-447/
(and one person who unexpectedly can)
flaminghydra.com/issue-447/
FYI the conversation may be continuing here
a) I’d love to see you rebut it
b) The problem in the picture are the plane and the bombs
c) Inclusion and tolerance are extremely important values, which is why it’s crucial to understand the endless ways in which liberal administrations have failed to live them overseas
b) The problem in the picture are the plane and the bombs
c) Inclusion and tolerance are extremely important values, which is why it’s crucial to understand the endless ways in which liberal administrations have failed to live them overseas
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
FYI the conversation may be continuing here
Everyone doesn’t mean the same thing when they post a meme like this, but there is a steelmanable version: that Democratic and Republican presidents have historically acted equally brutally and lawlessly to people overseas, and that the main differences are in domestic rhetoric and policy.
she’s right
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Everyone doesn’t mean the same thing when they post a meme like this, but there is a steelmanable version: that Democratic and Republican presidents have historically acted equally brutally and lawlessly to people overseas, and that the main differences are in domestic rhetoric and policy.
So am I reading correctly that they’re just eliminating the idea of hate symbols as a category of analysis entirely? Or are some things still on that list?
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So am I reading correctly that they’re just eliminating the idea of hate symbols as a category of analysis entirely? Or are some things still on that list?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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