andré crombie
@andrecrombie.bsky.social
— mgmt, organizing, and comms (among other things) for campaigns/orgs
— enthusiast of books, birding, music, and basketball (among other things)
— a better world is possible!
https://mixtapemonday.substack.com/
— enthusiast of books, birding, music, and basketball (among other things)
— a better world is possible!
https://mixtapemonday.substack.com/
now, more than ever, it's time to eat the rich.
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
now, more than ever, it's time to eat the rich.
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ICE snatched a human rights hero.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Our ex-BuzzFeed team has provided a testimonial to the immigration court about the value of Guan's work and his incredible bravery. I hope that this man - who I am in absolute awe of - is granted the asylum he needs and deserves. You can read more here: hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...
Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States
In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of concentration camp facilities used to imprison Uyghurs. Now, he faces the threat of deportation back to China, where he would f...
hrichina.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
ICE snatched a human rights hero.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices.
On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.
when i was 10 my mom took me and my younger brother to see ice age and i asked if i could watch the fellowship of the ring instead. my mom knew i was obsessed with the books and said yes, and it was mind-boggling. she was not pleased with the runtime difference....
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
when i was 10 my mom took me and my younger brother to see ice age and i asked if i could watch the fellowship of the ring instead. my mom knew i was obsessed with the books and said yes, and it was mind-boggling. she was not pleased with the runtime difference....
it isn't difficult to imagine our current neo-aristocrats expiring like charles of navarre.
December 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
it isn't difficult to imagine our current neo-aristocrats expiring like charles of navarre.
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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enjoyed reading this — “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.”
We need more political and legal theorizing of this (see forthcoming law review article from, uh, me), and positive political theorizing conducive to empirical research (see Goddard and Newman's recent work on neo-royalism).
goodauthority.org/news/the-new...
goodauthority.org/news/the-new...
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
enjoyed reading this — “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.”
earnest lib answer: the irony of american history, reinhold niebuhr
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
earnest lib answer: the irony of american history, reinhold niebuhr
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We’re just innocent men
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We’re just innocent men
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
“There are vanishingly few ways to be online that don’t involve you becoming a billboard. The internet once promised the democratization of information, power, and free expression. As advertiser-first algorithms take hold...we are mostly left with a very long shopping list.”
New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“There are vanishingly few ways to be online that don’t involve you becoming a billboard. The internet once promised the democratization of information, power, and free expression. As advertiser-first algorithms take hold...we are mostly left with a very long shopping list.”
”The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment.”
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
”The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment.”
really unfortunate lmao
Fun fact with Jimmy Butler back in the United Center.
The Bulls won 276 games in the six seasons he was on the roster.
They’ve won 275 games in the eight seasons — and counting — since he’s been gone.
The Bulls won 276 games in the six seasons he was on the roster.
They’ve won 275 games in the eight seasons — and counting — since he’s been gone.
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
really unfortunate lmao
there are unique aspects of this new immigration detention regime, but as someone with an incarcerated sibling, many of the tactics are, sadly, familiar. international humanitarian law, supreme court rulings, federal rules and regulations, basic decency — all are optional in our prison system.
Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain of command. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
there are unique aspects of this new immigration detention regime, but as someone with an incarcerated sibling, many of the tactics are, sadly, familiar. international humanitarian law, supreme court rulings, federal rules and regulations, basic decency — all are optional in our prison system.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
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Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
[taps the philip k dick sign]
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
[taps the philip k dick sign]
washington took 18 more shots than milwaukee, beat them on the offensive glass by 8 (mostly thanks to marvin bagley), and won the game despite making 8 fewer 3s (on 2 fewer attempts). embarrassing enough to lose to the wizards, but... wow. bizarre!
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
washington took 18 more shots than milwaukee, beat them on the offensive glass by 8 (mostly thanks to marvin bagley), and won the game despite making 8 fewer 3s (on 2 fewer attempts). embarrassing enough to lose to the wizards, but... wow. bizarre!
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"Can Trump just kill the federal goverment? Do his EO violent the impoundment act?"
You bolt awake in the East Portico. You are not online. It is March 4, 1869. You are Ulysses S Grant, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The stimulus must be significant
You bolt awake in the East Portico. You are not online. It is March 4, 1869. You are Ulysses S Grant, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The stimulus must be significant
January 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Can Trump just kill the federal goverment? Do his EO violent the impoundment act?"
You bolt awake in the East Portico. You are not online. It is March 4, 1869. You are Ulysses S Grant, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The stimulus must be significant
You bolt awake in the East Portico. You are not online. It is March 4, 1869. You are Ulysses S Grant, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The stimulus must be significant
“An efficient financial system is a small financial system. Finance is an intermediate good, like trucking. It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place.”
There is an infinite market for "new" policy solutions that recycle the same crap and leave the current income distribution in place deanbaker22.substack.com/p/jeffries-s...
Jeffries’ Strong Floor and No Ceiling: We Need to Fix the Roof
It's nice to protect the losers in a market economy, it's better to structure the market so they aren't losers
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“An efficient financial system is a small financial system. Finance is an intermediate good, like trucking. It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place.”