Leonard Pierce
@leonardpierce.bsky.social
Marxist, wife guy, union man, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. CPS, DSA, THC. Crime, baseball, communism.
http://immortal-science.com
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Still waiting for the people who call themselves anti-fascist, but also say that it was not just necessary but a moral imperative to continue supporting a genocide, to explain exactly what it is about fascism they don’t like
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Yesterday Wim Wenders, the director of the Berlinale film festival, when asked about Gaza said "we have to stay out of politics." In 2024 he said "the Berlinale is the most political film festival. It always speaks out." Liberal values are a lie
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
The Illusion Of Liberal Humanitarian Values
All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state.
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February 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday Wim Wenders, the director of the Berlinale film festival, when asked about Gaza said "we have to stay out of politics." In 2024 he said "the Berlinale is the most political film festival. It always speaks out." Liberal values are a lie
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
Once again, a great decision to leave all of this stuff in the hands of private for-profit companies
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Once again, a great decision to leave all of this stuff in the hands of private for-profit companies
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Pictured: this headline's operating definition of "across Chicago"
February 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Pictured: this headline's operating definition of "across Chicago"
I like it when people are said to be “awaiting” something. The rest of us dumb assholes are just sitting around waiting for shit but these classy MFs out here awaiting
February 13, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I like it when people are said to be “awaiting” something. The rest of us dumb assholes are just sitting around waiting for shit but these classy MFs out here awaiting
I think of myself as being way, *way* too online but then I’ll listen to a podcast or see a post that says something like “Did you see Tro-Bunk got flatzapped by the KLEBS guy” and realize that if anything I am extremely not online
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I think of myself as being way, *way* too online but then I’ll listen to a podcast or see a post that says something like “Did you see Tro-Bunk got flatzapped by the KLEBS guy” and realize that if anything I am extremely not online
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I'm sure corporate deals like this have always been the norm but it's still pretty galling to announce you're moving money around so plainly like this
NVIDIA CORP. WILL LEASE A 200-MEGAWATT DATA CENTER IN NEVADA FINANCED PARTLY BY A $3.8 BILLION JUNK-BOND SALE LED BY TRACT CAPITAL, WITH JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. AND MORGAN STANLEY MANAGING THE TRANSACTION.
February 13, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I'm sure corporate deals like this have always been the norm but it's still pretty galling to announce you're moving money around so plainly like this
I had an absolute shitpile of a day, I could use a reminder that I don’t have to hate myself all the time
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I had an absolute shitpile of a day, I could use a reminder that I don’t have to hate myself all the time
So you play RESIDENT EVIL? Interesting, because I have to live under PRESIDENT EV...
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
So you play RESIDENT EVIL? Interesting, because I have to live under PRESIDENT EV...
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
Is it ironic that just as he plays a guy in a popular TV show who, in order to preserve his wealth and fame and provide for his family, gets in bed with an evil corporation that brings great misery to mankind, Walton Goggins has started doing commercials for Walmart?
I don’t even know anymore
I don’t even know anymore
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Is it ironic that just as he plays a guy in a popular TV show who, in order to preserve his wealth and fame and provide for his family, gets in bed with an evil corporation that brings great misery to mankind, Walton Goggins has started doing commercials for Walmart?
I don’t even know anymore
I don’t even know anymore
Hey, speaking of noir, here’s a review on IMMORTAL SCIENCE of one of my favorite weird little books hardly anybody has read: UK film critic David Thomson’s SUSPECTS, a noir film pastiche that isn’t totally successful but manages to be unlike anything else I can think of.
Working and Paying and Living and Dying - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
When you talk about noir, you also have to talk about all its offshoots and mutations: neo-noir, crypto- and quasi-noir, genre noir, action noir. There are noir novels, noir television...
immortalscience.pika.page
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Hey, speaking of noir, here’s a review on IMMORTAL SCIENCE of one of my favorite weird little books hardly anybody has read: UK film critic David Thomson’s SUSPECTS, a noir film pastiche that isn’t totally successful but manages to be unlike anything else I can think of.
Good afternoon! It is February 12th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Good afternoon! It is February 12th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Remaking CULLODEN so that it's about the scrappy survival of a colorful ethnic group and their earthy folkways and not about the violent destruction of their culture and their near annihilation through ethnic cleansing
February 12, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Remaking CULLODEN so that it's about the scrappy survival of a colorful ethnic group and their earthy folkways and not about the violent destruction of their culture and their near annihilation through ethnic cleansing
"You can't even do the bare minimum" is such a wild insult for liberals to use on leftists because they're openly admitting their approach -- vote for whoever your party leadership decides is the preferred candidate -- is the bare minimum of political activity
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
"You can't even do the bare minimum" is such a wild insult for liberals to use on leftists because they're openly admitting their approach -- vote for whoever your party leadership decides is the preferred candidate -- is the bare minimum of political activity
Gordon Lightfoot is probably the last person in history to make millions of dollars off of a song about a shipwreck
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Gordon Lightfoot is probably the last person in history to make millions of dollars off of a song about a shipwreck
Marimar Martinez has the kind of courage that is so desperately needed in this country.
A Chicago woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol plans to sue the feds as agent’s text messages released. blockclubchi.co/4aq7iX7
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Marimar Martinez has the kind of courage that is so desperately needed in this country.
I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about believing the PR hype shoved on everyone by the class the left despises and that has constantly lied about everything for decades
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about believing the PR hype shoved on everyone by the class the left despises and that has constantly lied about everything for decades
Communism: so self-evidently a failure that the biggest, richest capitalist empire has to use political force to get one of the poorest places in the western hemisphere to stop getting desperately needed medical care from its doctors
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Communism: so self-evidently a failure that the biggest, richest capitalist empire has to use political force to get one of the poorest places in the western hemisphere to stop getting desperately needed medical care from its doctors
Incidentally, the winningest male biathlete of all time (and, in fact, the winningest Winter Olympian of all time), Norway’s Ole Einar Bjørndalen, is married to the winningest female biathlete of all time, Belarus’ Darya Domracheva. I bet they either talk about the biathlon all the time or never
February 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Incidentally, the winningest male biathlete of all time (and, in fact, the winningest Winter Olympian of all time), Norway’s Ole Einar Bjørndalen, is married to the winningest female biathlete of all time, Belarus’ Darya Domracheva. I bet they either talk about the biathlon all the time or never
I usually find the Winter Olympics intensely boring, consisting as they do as a sort of back-door way of making sure more white people win medals
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I usually find the Winter Olympics intensely boring, consisting as they do as a sort of back-door way of making sure more white people win medals
Good morning! It is February 11th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Elders Day. Honor the wisdom of those who came before you!
We celebrate the North American beaver, castor canadensis.
D'Angelo was born on this day in 1974; Whitney Houston died today in 2012.
Today we commemorate Elders Day. Honor the wisdom of those who came before you!
We celebrate the North American beaver, castor canadensis.
D'Angelo was born on this day in 1974; Whitney Houston died today in 2012.
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Good morning! It is February 11th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Elders Day. Honor the wisdom of those who came before you!
We celebrate the North American beaver, castor canadensis.
D'Angelo was born on this day in 1974; Whitney Houston died today in 2012.
Today we commemorate Elders Day. Honor the wisdom of those who came before you!
We celebrate the North American beaver, castor canadensis.
D'Angelo was born on this day in 1974; Whitney Houston died today in 2012.
Good morning! It is February 10th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. The well-being of one is the well-being of all!
We celebrate maize, zea mays.
Stella Adler was born on this day in 1901; Alex Haley died today in 1992.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. The well-being of one is the well-being of all!
We celebrate maize, zea mays.
Stella Adler was born on this day in 1901; Alex Haley died today in 1992.
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Good morning! It is February 10th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. The well-being of one is the well-being of all!
We celebrate maize, zea mays.
Stella Adler was born on this day in 1901; Alex Haley died today in 1992.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. The well-being of one is the well-being of all!
We celebrate maize, zea mays.
Stella Adler was born on this day in 1901; Alex Haley died today in 1992.
If you are playing a game and your opponent is constantly and openly refusing to play by the rules, continuing to play by the rules yourself as you get horribly beaten does not make you principled. It makes you a chump and a loser
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If you are playing a game and your opponent is constantly and openly refusing to play by the rules, continuing to play by the rules yourself as you get horribly beaten does not make you principled. It makes you a chump and a loser
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so, folks - I realize I haven’t actually discussed the publication of this book right here … I’m going to be honest, it snuck up on me. I’m … really busy! I plead busy.
I’ll talk about it a bit since, you know, that’s what promotion is all about!
I’ll talk about it a bit since, you know, that’s what promotion is all about!
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The long-awaited debut book from @teganoneil5000.bsky.social, Tomorrow Is Always the Best Day of My Life, is a striking collection of essays by one of the most insightful — and incisive — culture critics working today.
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The long-awaited debut book from @teganoneil5000.bsky.social, Tomorrow Is Always the Best Day of My Life, is a striking collection of essays by one of the most insightful — and incisive — culture critics working today.
@josie.zone @andrewhickey.500songs.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 AM
so, folks - I realize I haven’t actually discussed the publication of this book right here … I’m going to be honest, it snuck up on me. I’m … really busy! I plead busy.
I’ll talk about it a bit since, you know, that’s what promotion is all about!
I’ll talk about it a bit since, you know, that’s what promotion is all about!