Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
This is the second powerful essay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social has written in less than a fortnight about Jeffrey Epstein’s influence at the highest levels of the classical music scene in particular and among “elite” cultural circles in general.
The Protégé
Simon Ghraichy, Jeffrey Epstein, and the fog of art
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
This is the second powerful essay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social has written in less than a fortnight about Jeffrey Epstein’s influence at the highest levels of the classical music scene in particular and among “elite” cultural circles in general.
If you live in NYC’s District 3, you have the opportunity to send a fierce advocate for justice to the City Council this year, someone who’s demonstrated that she can’t be easily intimidated by oligarchs or powermongers.
I took down Andrew Cuomo, now I'm running for City Council to take on the cost of living crisis.
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
If you live in NYC’s District 3, you have the opportunity to send a fierce advocate for justice to the City Council this year, someone who’s demonstrated that she can’t be easily intimidated by oligarchs or powermongers.
I’m gonna remember this “if there’s no funding for my department, we are no longer bound by your laws” gambit; I’m sure it will come in handy one day if I ever go into public service.
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I’m gonna remember this “if there’s no funding for my department, we are no longer bound by your laws” gambit; I’m sure it will come in handy one day if I ever go into public service.
Yeah. A five-year-old kid who had just been liberated from a concentration camp only to face a new threat of immediate deportation was not going to be taken by his parents to a stadium full of screaming people and forced to perform a brief moment of levity in the middle of an elaborate stage show.
I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Yeah. A five-year-old kid who had just been liberated from a concentration camp only to face a new threat of immediate deportation was not going to be taken by his parents to a stadium full of screaming people and forced to perform a brief moment of levity in the middle of an elaborate stage show.
Instead of declaring that everything that isn’t directly related to your greatest fear for the future is a “distraction,” why not recognize that we’re running headlong into a polycrisis?
@brynntannehill.bsky.social brings the 50,000-foot view into focus for @damemagazine.bsky.social.
@brynntannehill.bsky.social brings the 50,000-foot view into focus for @damemagazine.bsky.social.
America’s Polycrisis Has Arrived - Dame Magazine
Whenever the daily outrage, crisis, or violation of basic norms emerges from the Trump administration, senior Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakee...
www.damemagazine.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Instead of declaring that everything that isn’t directly related to your greatest fear for the future is a “distraction,” why not recognize that we’re running headlong into a polycrisis?
@brynntannehill.bsky.social brings the 50,000-foot view into focus for @damemagazine.bsky.social.
@brynntannehill.bsky.social brings the 50,000-foot view into focus for @damemagazine.bsky.social.
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I realize that dunking on the NYT is passé; but, motherfuckers, the reason Americans consume a shitton of weed is that it’s cheaper than the physical and mental healthcare we can’t afford.
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I realize that dunking on the NYT is passé; but, motherfuckers, the reason Americans consume a shitton of weed is that it’s cheaper than the physical and mental healthcare we can’t afford.
Posting a banger not in English…
February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Posting a banger not in English…
This pretty much reads to me as “Curtains for Clavicular!”
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This pretty much reads to me as “Curtains for Clavicular!”
I’m the wind, baby.
Does anyone else have an MST3K line they use regularly, even if it makes no sense out of context?
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I’m the wind, baby.
Great, NOW who’s going to bat for all these lashes?
Great, NOW who's going to fight all these foos?
Great, NOW who’s going to pilot all these stone temples?
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Great, NOW who’s going to bat for all these lashes?
Post a banger that isn’t in English
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Post a banger that isn’t in English
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In much the same way that COVID was the epidemiological event of the decade.
HBO Max’s highly anticipated Harry Potter series, coming to the streamer in 2027, will be “the streaming event of the decade,” JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery said in London on Monday. At least that!
‘Harry Potter’ HBO Max Series Will Be the “Streaming Event of the Decade” – At Least, WBD Top Exec Says
HBO Max’s highly anticipated Harry Potter series, coming to the streamer in 2027, will be “the streaming event of the decade,” JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery said in London on Monday. At least that!
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
In much the same way that COVID was the epidemiological event of the decade.
Our two responses to white supremacists should be “we WILL replace you” and, as outlined here, “stay mad.”
Well, okay, three if you count “fix your heart or die.”
Well, okay, three if you count “fix your heart or die.”
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Our two responses to white supremacists should be “we WILL replace you” and, as outlined here, “stay mad.”
Well, okay, three if you count “fix your heart or die.”
Well, okay, three if you count “fix your heart or die.”
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
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I finally watched the half-show everybody was talking about and my hot take is…. Isn’t it deceptive advertising? I was promised a rabbit getting up to all kinds of mischief but instead it was just… a singing guy? I mean he was extremely good but, where was the bunny?
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I finally watched the half-show everybody was talking about and my hot take is…. Isn’t it deceptive advertising? I was promised a rabbit getting up to all kinds of mischief but instead it was just… a singing guy? I mean he was extremely good but, where was the bunny?
This is a pretty fun story.
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 5:17 AM
This is a pretty fun story.
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
How you gonna do a commercial with Matthew Broderick about taking the day off and not set it to “Oh Yeah”?
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
How you gonna do a commercial with Matthew Broderick about taking the day off and not set it to “Oh Yeah”?
I hope this turns out to be a case of Bad Bunny saving some couple the cost of their own wedding.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I hope this turns out to be a case of Bad Bunny saving some couple the cost of their own wedding.
“We’re giving them too many edges.”
Hoo boy.
Hoo boy.
I turned on the big game in advance of Bad Bunny and the first thing I heard was “it’s amazing how deep inside the hole he can get and still be bouncing around outside,” so this is already a big win on the homoerotic innuendo front.
February 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM
“We’re giving them too many edges.”
Hoo boy.
Hoo boy.
I would think if you wanted to reach a large audience with your message condemning the pervasiveness of antisemitism, you might want some sort of guarantee it won’t end with a smash cut to a bunch of toilets singing an ‘80s soft rock classic.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I would think if you wanted to reach a large audience with your message condemning the pervasiveness of antisemitism, you might want some sort of guarantee it won’t end with a smash cut to a bunch of toilets singing an ‘80s soft rock classic.
I turned on the big game in advance of Bad Bunny and the first thing I heard was “it’s amazing how deep inside the hole he can get and still be bouncing around outside,” so this is already a big win on the homoerotic innuendo front.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I turned on the big game in advance of Bad Bunny and the first thing I heard was “it’s amazing how deep inside the hole he can get and still be bouncing around outside,” so this is already a big win on the homoerotic innuendo front.
“Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life.”
In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
“Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life.”
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If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them.
There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.
There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them.
There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.
There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.