How to Survive a Hamilton Winter Issue Two: Winter Blossoming to Spring

Issue Two of "How to Survive A Hamilton Winter" is here. Check out our students' meditations on labyrinths, saunas, and the process of entering spring. I also wrote about tomatoes and war.

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How To Survive A Hamilton Winter Issue One : It Feels Good To Make Something

A little bit of new writing from me and the students at Colgate in the Literary Journalism class with Professor CJ Hauser. We are thinking about "How to Survive A Hamilton Winter."

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Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

This angle. My god.

Thank you! You’re very kind.

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025

Potshots by @jtwattles.bsky.social in @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Thank you, Steph!

Today I have a piece up in the new issue Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social Thanks to all who have supported me in the last year as I’ve tried to recommit to writing.

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this

This is true! The most common thing I hear from regular liberal people is frustration at how they can see shit is fucked up but nobody is speaking for them (which is why they love AOC & Mamdani, ppl who ARE in their social media feeds actually fighting for things)

but from pop culture? crickets!

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

an excerpt from the linked essay, which reads: "In June 2016, a California woman filed a lawsuit alleging that, in 1994, when she was 13 years old, Donald Trump raped her at a party at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan. Trump and Epstein are longtime associates. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” The woman remained nameless, but announced she was coming forward for a press conference on November 2, the day before the election. She then cancelled her appearance and withdrew her lawsuit, citing threats to her life. Trump (and Epstein) have denied her story. Some twenty women have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct. Several women who participated in a Miss Teen USA pageant Trump owned have also told stories of his walking in to inspect them as they changed in their dressing rooms backstage. “Don’t worry, ladies,” one recalled him saying during an episode in 1997, three years after the alleged child rape at Epstein’s, “I’ve seen it all before.” The girls present in this episode included one as young as fifteen. The dissonance is stupefying. There is no need for tinfoil-hat messageboard speculation or Lovecraftian True-Detective-style secret conspiracies. The exploitation and abuse of minors is right there, as cruel and ghoulish as you could imagine, out in the open. They are everywhere, overwhelming. Any given allegation will be debated endlessly and then forgotten, such that, while all of them may seem entirely plausible, no single one ever seems to rise to the level of being the one that will push opinion (or prosecution) over the edge. No one story seems like it can ever make a difference, precisely because there are so many of them."

returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

This is what's called a limited hangout; they're releasing some grand jury evidence that is a tiny fraction of what they've got.

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews. “I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

My god these guys are such spectacular morons

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Last night, I endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers.

Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

I told you we’d be back

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This is high art

On Ghosts and Hauntings That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings

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Telling mayoral race scene yesterday: Lander criticizes Cuomo, then reporters ask about Mamdani and he dodges. It’s the DREAM strategy in action. Or maybe DRAM, at this point.