Sarah Jones

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here’s my take on yesterday’s news. Vance doesn’t bring much to the table; the pick is ultimately an ideological signal nymag.com/intelligence...

The Billionaire and the Bootlickernymag.com J.D. Vance is an ideological choice to be vice-president.

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gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

I need to sleep for a hundred years

Thinking fondly of all the liberals who gave Hillbilly Elegy glowing reviews and otherwise legitimized someone who was always very clearly a reactionary shapeshifter

my second piece on NatCon is up today. At the conference, Republican senators mixed with openly racist speakers. It doesn’t bode well for the future of multiracial democracy nymag.com/intelligence...

The Authoritarian Plotnymag.com At the National Conservatism Conference, Republican senators mix with racists ranting about “post-white America.”

can’t wait to hear JD Vance speak tonight. what a time for me, specifically

having a real bad time at NatCon 4

Love to live with a veteran and two animals on Fireworks Night

what a time to be heading to the National Conservatism conference next week

wrote about becoming coconut tree-pilled nymag.com/intelligence...

A Socialist’s Case for Kamala Harrisnymag.com She’s not a lefty, but I think she’s our best option.

I have never been a Harris fan but it’s pretty clear that she is the better option at this point

I wrote about one of our greatest political shapeshifters: J.D. Vance. A sewer creature in 2016, a sewer creature now nymag.com/intelligence...

Hillbilly Shapeshifternymag.com Re-reading J.D. Vance’s memoir.

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New in my newsletter: Anatomy of a Christian Nationalist Strategy: Ten Commandments in Louisiana the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/ten-commandm...

Anatomy of a Christian Nationalist Strategy: Ten Commandments in Louisianathe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io The Ten Commandments mandate is a means of gaining acceptance for the core belief that America should be governed according to "biblical law."

Why do Christian nationalists care about the Ten Commandments? Its foundational to the notion that America is a Christian nation, based on Christian laws — where liberals and non-Christians don’t truly belong nymag.com/intelligence...

Christian Nationalism Marches On in Louisiananymag.com A new state law requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments.

happy summer folks

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i suppose an "In Defense of War Crimes" turn was inevitable but that doesn't make it go down any easier www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/o...

Opinion | Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?www.nytimes.com Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.

I don’t have children. But as an ex-child who did get hit I had some thoughts about these freaks nymag.com/intelligence...

There’s Nothing New About Pronatalismnymag.com Behind the cutting-edge gloss is a brutal ideology.

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A thing that tends to not get mentioned in these pieces—and I thought this one was better than mostly, especially the way the reporter documented the child abuse—is that Malcolm Collins’s granddad was a segregationist congressman from Texas. His great-grandad founded Fidelity Union Life Insurance

is this about these nut jobs: apple.news/AJ5G55-ndSWO...

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’apple.news Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they reall...

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I wrote about Alito’s Appeal to Heaven flag www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The flag seen at Justice Alito’s beach house has a chilling backstorywww.msnbc.com Americans cannot be kept in the dark about how this radical antidemocratic symbol came to fly outside his house.

Spoke with scholar Matthew D. Taylor about the Appeal to Heaven flag and its meaning to Christian nationalists: nymag.com/intelligence...

The Christian Nationalism Behind the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flagnymag.com Justice Samuel Alito appears fond of insurrectionist symbols, and he isn’t alone.

“how’s the writing going?”

As Israel assaults Gaza, a progressive Brooklyn school says it isn’t taking a side. But some parents tell me that’s not true: nymag.com/intelligence...

The Progressive Brooklyn School Being Divided Over Israelnymag.com At Brooklyn Friends, some parents say administrators are shutting out their criticisms of Israel.

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#FreeMalky #FreeAgunot On the way women are organizing for their rights, even within fundamentalist communities: www.thecut.com/article/why-...

‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’www.thecut.com Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.

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The Columbia Daily Spectator staff wrote and photographed an entire cover package for New York Magazine, I am so ridiculously proud of them!!! www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05...