Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Personally, I think if you want to profit from exploiting footage of people humiliating themselves in front of police, you should have to pay to send a production team out to get that footage yourself, just like the makers of COPS.
Police body cameras were supposed to prevent abuses. Now YouTubers are using the footage to embarrass young women for clicks. The most popular uploads are the most salacious and humiliating: for example, “When Suspects Try to FLIRT With Cops” boasts 7.9 million views.
The Body-Cam Hustle
How YouTubers weaponized Freedom of Information laws to embarrass young women for clicks.
nymag.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Personally, I think if you want to profit from exploiting footage of people humiliating themselves in front of police, you should have to pay to send a production team out to get that footage yourself, just like the makers of COPS.
This looks like it could be very cool, y’all.
Please pre-order my meticulously muckraking book on mainstream evangelical masculinity.
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Erecting the Pulpit examines a powerful yet overlooked form of Christian Nationalism-one that fuses faith, masculinity, capitalism, and political power under th…
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February 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
This looks like it could be very cool, y’all.
Lars von Trier, hiding behind the curtain so you only see his shoes, like in the Kingdom revival.
After that, I dunno, Laurie Anderson would probably be a hoot.
After that, I dunno, Laurie Anderson would probably be a hoot.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Lars von Trier, hiding behind the curtain so you only see his shoes, like in the Kingdom revival.
After that, I dunno, Laurie Anderson would probably be a hoot.
After that, I dunno, Laurie Anderson would probably be a hoot.
Dammit, Faine, don’t make me feel old.
Maybe it was a thing in the 80s before I existed lol
February 7, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Dammit, Faine, don’t make me feel old.
One of these days, Mamdani is going to live out the Liquid Swords meme, and I am here for it.
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
One of these days, Mamdani is going to live out the Liquid Swords meme, and I am here for it.
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"we cannot change the Dem party from the inside"
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
"we cannot change the Dem party from the inside"
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
Let me guess: Cuellar!
It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it *illegal for married women to vote*, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"
February 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Let me guess: Cuellar!
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Write it in Live Laugh Love script and hang it in the Louvre.
"Regret without accountability is just damage control"
February 6, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Write it in Live Laugh Love script and hang it in the Louvre.
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Finally, if I were a writing professor and I was loudly espousing the view that poor people couldn't be as good at writing and so needed AI, I would really take a strong look at my biases, because whew.
The ivory tower is coming from inside the house on that one.
The ivory tower is coming from inside the house on that one.
February 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Finally, if I were a writing professor and I was loudly espousing the view that poor people couldn't be as good at writing and so needed AI, I would really take a strong look at my biases, because whew.
The ivory tower is coming from inside the house on that one.
The ivory tower is coming from inside the house on that one.
Notice how, at the beginning of this clip, @mayor.nyc.gov explicitly grounds this policy in faith-based traditions of “care for the stranger,” and speaks of the potential for City Hall to be a force of love.
Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Notice how, at the beginning of this clip, @mayor.nyc.gov explicitly grounds this policy in faith-based traditions of “care for the stranger,” and speaks of the potential for City Hall to be a force of love.
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Trump has revealed the identity of the lower-level White House staffer who posted the racist video.
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Trump has revealed the identity of the lower-level White House staffer who posted the racist video.
$2.99 is less than it would cost to rent Point Blank from a streaming service*, AND you’d get to keep the book after you finished.**
*Probably. I’m not gonna go look it up.
**Especially if you order direct from the publisher, instead of licensing an ebook from a retailer.
*Probably. I’m not gonna go look it up.
**Especially if you order direct from the publisher, instead of licensing an ebook from a retailer.
Because I can tell y’all need some serious distraction:
I’ve dropped the ebook price for the first of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, The Hunter, to $2.99. Buy it direct below, or from any major ebook retailer.
You won’t regret it.
I’ve dropped the ebook price for the first of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, The Hunter, to $2.99. Buy it direct below, or from any major ebook retailer.
You won’t regret it.
The Hunter
Where it all begins: The first book in the action-packed classic crime series that's the basis for the forthcoming film Play Dirty! Richard Stark's Parker novels are the hardest of hard-boiled, classi...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
$2.99 is less than it would cost to rent Point Blank from a streaming service*, AND you’d get to keep the book after you finished.**
*Probably. I’m not gonna go look it up.
**Especially if you order direct from the publisher, instead of licensing an ebook from a retailer.
*Probably. I’m not gonna go look it up.
**Especially if you order direct from the publisher, instead of licensing an ebook from a retailer.
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The front page of the Hachette Book Group's website urges visitors to "join the fight against censorship" by buying banned children's books that feature LGBTQ characters. This fall, Hachette will publish a book by Sam Alito, who just wrote a Supreme Court opinion making it easier to ban these books.
Sam Alito’s Publisher Wants You to Buy the Children’s Books He Just Made It Easier to Ban
The author of Mahmoud v. Taylor is writing a book for a publisher that calls the push to ban books with LGBTQ characters an attack on “one of the most important foundations of a free society.”
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The front page of the Hachette Book Group's website urges visitors to "join the fight against censorship" by buying banned children's books that feature LGBTQ characters. This fall, Hachette will publish a book by Sam Alito, who just wrote a Supreme Court opinion making it easier to ban these books.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
“Whenever you lose, lose graciously. If you can manage it, lose magnificently, like King Arthur. Whenever he met someone who could lay him out cold, the minute he woke up he invited them to move into his house. People still talk about him all the time.”— @dannymlavery.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 AM
“Whenever you lose, lose graciously. If you can manage it, lose magnificently, like King Arthur. Whenever he met someone who could lay him out cold, the minute he woke up he invited them to move into his house. People still talk about him all the time.”— @dannymlavery.bsky.social
“The Bolsheviks did not win the revolution by first creating the Red Guards. They were able to create the Red Guards because they had already won the war of ideas.”
“So don't buy a gun… Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is.”— @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
“So don't buy a gun… Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is.”— @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 AM
“The Bolsheviks did not win the revolution by first creating the Red Guards. They were able to create the Red Guards because they had already won the war of ideas.”
“So don't buy a gun… Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is.”— @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
“So don't buy a gun… Armed insurgency is not a winning strategy for us. Resistance is.”— @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
“I do hope that, at least in the world of book publishing, we can start to have a conversation about what it looks like to protect victims and make work environments safe.”
I wrote about the Epstein Files and the (incredibly unhealthy) need to monitor, to bear witness. lithub.com/finding-the-...
Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files
I did not make good use of my time this past weekend. I could have been doing something fulfilling like doomscrolling or playing an inane game on my phone, but instead I became an armchair detectiv…
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February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
“I do hope that, at least in the world of book publishing, we can start to have a conversation about what it looks like to protect victims and make work environments safe.”
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when a man’s paycheck depends on not understanding something
it's hard to reconcile the international consequences of the Epstein files with how many reactionary centrists seem to want to downplay the files
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
when a man’s paycheck depends on not understanding something
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
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"Manufactured (Age Of) Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Dinesh D'Souza
February 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"Manufactured (Age Of) Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Dinesh D'Souza
You think, as the ad starts, you might be able to guess what Parker is hinting at about where it’s headed.
I guarantee you will not guess.
I guarantee you will not guess.
The end of this ad is truly amazing youtu.be/EIz6B7aGC2E?...
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
You think, as the ad starts, you might be able to guess what Parker is hinting at about where it’s headed.
I guarantee you will not guess.
I guarantee you will not guess.
The two best whiskey distillers in the country secretly pine for each other.
Peated Rivalry.
Peated Rivalry.
The two best soccer players in the country secretly pine for each other.
Cleated Rivalry
Cleated Rivalry
The two best tailors in the country secretly pine for each other.
Pleated Rivalry
Pleated Rivalry
February 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The two best whiskey distillers in the country secretly pine for each other.
Peated Rivalry.
Peated Rivalry.
I had a dream last night where I ran into @scalzi.com at a bookstore the day after a science fiction convention & after he bought what he was looking for we went out to the parking lot looking for his car, but my heels had popped out of my sneakers as we walked & they were about to fall off my feet.
February 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I had a dream last night where I ran into @scalzi.com at a bookstore the day after a science fiction convention & after he bought what he was looking for we went out to the parking lot looking for his car, but my heels had popped out of my sneakers as we walked & they were about to fall off my feet.
Notably, Barry Josephson pivots to “how do we get rid of poor people” immediately after assuring Epstein that he’ll try to get a 16-year-old girl a part in his friend’s movie as a favor to Epstein.
Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein:
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Notably, Barry Josephson pivots to “how do we get rid of poor people” immediately after assuring Epstein that he’ll try to get a 16-year-old girl a part in his friend’s movie as a favor to Epstein.
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And it’s not an accident that these are all the “center right” opinion havers
Centrism is the same shady moral ground that makes child rape socially excusable
Centrism is the same shady moral ground that makes child rape socially excusable
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
And it’s not an accident that these are all the “center right” opinion havers
Centrism is the same shady moral ground that makes child rape socially excusable
Centrism is the same shady moral ground that makes child rape socially excusable