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The Corporate Media Is Head Over Heels for the Iran War Donald Trump’s attack may be surreal, unjustified, and illegal. But that’s not stopping the press from turning the propaganda dial way up.

The media turns up the war megaphones: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Decisive Moment, by Chris Lehmann Why Congress must impeach Trump

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. military has attacked Iran—both times without President Trump seeking congressional approval. Read the argument @chrislehmann.bsky.social made for Trump’s impeachment after the 2025 strikes on nuclear facilities.

Plans for the US to bomb itself are imminent.

The State of the Union Was a Rally for an Ailing Strongman An increasingly unpopular Trump lurched from plodding teleprompter readings to gothic MAGA fantasies in his long-winded speech.

Trump's SOTU strongman slop: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why big tech billionaires are trying to make dystopian science fiction into reality The Nation’s Jeet Heer on how Thiel, Musk, and Bezos are animated by Heinlein, Rand, and Campbell

Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for an hour tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which @jeetheer.bsky.social and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are literally basing their politics on sci-fi novels.

Charlie and the Ambassadorship Factory Charlie Kushner, the newly confirmed US ambassador to France, is a vindictive, felonious, and score-settling real estate mogul, not unlike a certain US president.

I wrote about it a while back here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump's Attack on the Supreme Court Was Unhinged Even for Him The president went on a wild rant alleging that the justices who struck down his tariffs were part of a vast global conspiracy to destroy him.

Trump's paranoid SCOTUS tantrum: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

lol

Tfw the Republican Party's leadership caste is shamed by [checks notes] the King of England

A.I. progress is giving me writer’s block It’s hard to write good articles when you have no idea if everything is about to change.

Starting to rethink my across-the-board opposition to this technology www.slowboring.com/p/ai-progres...

CBS Surrenders to Trump CBS tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment.

CBS's newest Colbert fiasco: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, And He Is to Blame. The Trump administration’s efforts to distract from the bad economy just divert attention from one dumpster fire to another.

The managing-decline phase of MAGA: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis It was never about straightforward enforcement of immigration law.

The vigilante meme of Minneapolis: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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.

My latest set of podcast lamentations, expertly curated by @matthew.flux.community, below:

haha holy shit

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.

Jeff Bezos, journalistic supervillain: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/society/washington-post-layoffs-analysis-jeff-bezos/?nc=1

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

A DAY FOR GAZA

The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza.

“Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”

The Eyes of Spiro Are Upon You | Chris Lehmann Any time officialdom begins laying into remote and manipulative elites, see if the burghers start to nod their assent.

Just leaving this here: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-e...

Melania at the Multiplex Packaging a $75 million bribe from Jeff Bezos as a vapid, content-challenged biopic.

Some brave journalists go to war zones and get shot at. I went to the Melania movie, and would probably opt for being shot at over having to sit through it again www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Normal health tips in a serenely functioning democracy

Lindsey Graham again doing heroic work in reminding us all that the US Senate should be abolished. bsky.app/profile/sahi...

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

You're too kind, sir! Hope you're well despite [gestures broadly]

Y, I'm in eastern MoCo, and Brooks would be completely disoriented here--Costco instead of Whole Foods, food trucks turning into higher-end restaurants, and nary a professorial busy body in site, all while serving as a stronghold for Jamie Raskin and Chris Van Hollen

Waiting patiently for all the signatories of the Harper's Letter to rally to Don Lemon's defense