AND bad bunny superbowl

The Singularity+Epstein Files+Winter Olympics all happening at the same time is really the wildest possible timeline.

THE TIME OF MONSTERS: On Moltbook, mescaline, and agent carcinization Just because something isn't real does not mean that it is meaningless.

The internet is suddenly seeing crustaceans everywhere.

On Sartre, mescaline, AI agents, and what happens when we can't tell what's real anymore.

New on Littoral: "The Age of Monsters"

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dear Ezra Klein,

adjunct teaching at multiple places is crazy rn bc the
research universities are like “here’s how our $200M capitulation to fascism is #resistance” and the small colleges are like “email your dean the names of 5 people who could be fired by Monday to save cash (you may include your dean)”

Labubu is meme made flesh. It was foretold.

ugh I just do not have time to write the think piece on why “political theater” isn’t the putdown they think it is

“he wrote: “I thought it was quite normal to take a break from writing at two in the morning, saunter down to the piers, and have sex with 20 men in a truck”

no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

chat what would postcolonialism say about King Charles giving a Canadian land acknowledgement the same week Brigitte Macron slaps her husband on a Hanoi tarmac?

so crazy how the 1960s were 300 years ago

Has any US administration so nakedly manipulated stock prices (individual and index) so consistently?

Do opposition pols in places where resistance has a spine (Serbia, Poland, etc) send sassy little impotent fundraising emails, too?

I think we need to bring back the sea shanty craze but this time for union songs. I want 500 TikTok covers of Process Man

At this point he’s pushed governments leftward in Germany, Canada, and Australia, so why not the Vatican, too?

“The eggs are broken, and the habit of breaking them grows, but the omelet remains invisible.”

—Isaiah Berlin

As an English major, I wonder if there’s anything to be made of the explosion of democratic movements around the launch of the printing press, followed by the explosion of authoritarian movements around the launch of algorithmic feeds. But only polls, not poems, are politics, of course.

May Day got this agitated fasho egg all in his feelings

I want to be super clear. The United States has a responsibility to go get every single person they have deported to foreign concentration camps and bring them back. That is the just and humane thing to do. Any politician not willing to say that is not worthy of service.

Opinion | Mike Pence: What the 47th President Can Learn From the 45th Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.

It’s always so weird to see Mike Pence say anything other than “he tried to have me killed.”

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

Nvm

The Trump admin's record of direct interventions in elections:

—JD Vance & Elon tried to boost the far-right in Germany. Other parties doubled down on a strong barrier to it.
—Elon broke all records in Wisconsin. GOP lost big.
—Trump's arrival & repeat boost of Tories... caused a Tory collapse.

How’s that focus on free trade instead of woke working out for WaPo?

we need to elect this man as our mayor

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens.

What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.

It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.