Jack Mirkinson

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Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)

Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com

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please just make it stop

i feel craaaaazy

this summer has been fucking awful so far lol

anyway

A Meteor Burned Up 29 Miles Above Midtown Manhattan, NASA Sayswww.thecity.nyc Some residents of Brooklyn and Staten Island heard a loud boom Tuesday morning sparking alarm, while city officials scrambled to identify the cause.

Wrote about the big lesson from (gestures around) all of this, which is that there is nobody coming to save us from fascism, or whatever is about to hit us. It is up to us to save ourselves, and we can do it. www.discourseblog.com/p/nobody-can...

Nobody Can Save Us But Uswww.discourseblog.com Democrats are not going to stop Trump, or Trumpism, on our behalf. We have to do that ourselves—and we can.

Today on @discourseblog.com we have a really brilliant piece from @caitschneider.bsky.social about the political significance of Joe Biden's increasingly unsettling orange spray-tan, and what it says about the crisis we currently face. A must-read! www.discourseblog.com/p/what-joe-b...

What Joe Biden's Unsettling Orange Face Is Really Telling Uswww.discourseblog.com It's a vivid symbol of everything he's doing wrong right now.

The strangest people in the world to me are the members of Biden's stan army. Here is an excellent guide to these weirdos from @therafischwartz.bsky.social. www.discourseblog.com/p/bidens-sta...

Biden's Stan Army is Full of Weird Little Freakswww.discourseblog.com An incomplete taxonomy of the most annoying fandom online today.

I wrote about one of the most infuriating subplots of the Biden crisis: the insistence that he is a "good man." Please look at the genocide in Gaza and then try to tell me that. www.discourseblog.com/p/please-don...

Please Don't Try to Tell Me Joe Biden Is a Good Manwww.discourseblog.com It is simply not true.

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of course www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/p...

Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court r...

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His son is about 2.5 years old. Unspeakable cruelty.

I'm so proud to have this piece in @thenation.com. It's by journalist Mohammed Mhawish, and it's about what happened when he fled Gaza with his family. I know there's a lot going on in the news, but please, please read this. You need to know what Israel is doing. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“I Heard a Machine Gun Being Loaded”: A Harrowing Escape From Gazawww.thenation.com I knew the journey might be dangerous. I never thought it would be this cruel.

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Oh man are we screwed or what www.discourseblog.com/p/oh-man-are...

Oh Man Are We Screwed Or Whatwww.discourseblog.com Ha ha hoo boy...

Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how Biden's campaign is insulting our intelligence and treating us with contempt by asking us to pretend that we didn't see what we all so clearly saw last week www.discourseblog.com/p/they-think...

They Think We're Stupidwww.discourseblog.com Democrats have to decided to handle Biden's debate fiasco by insulting our intelligence and treating us with contempt.

“I Heard a Machine Gun Being Loaded”: A Harrowing Escape From Gazawww.thenation.com I knew the journey might be dangerous. I never thought it would be this cruel.

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ty!!! this is fun we're having fun

I woke up this morning feeling profound anger: at Biden, at his cynical backers and mindless sycophants, at this rotten mess of a supposed democracy—at all of it. I hope you're angry too www.discourseblog.com/p/you-should...

You Should Be Furious Right Nowwww.discourseblog.com I am angry that I live in a country that has produced this nightmare.

Everything about how AIPAC intervened in the Bowman-Latimer race is grotesque, and no matter your feelings about Bowman, what happened in his primary is antithetical to how a democracy should function www.discourseblog.com/p/maybe-this...

Maybe This Is Not How a Democracy Should Functionwww.discourseblog.com What if you couldn't spend infinity dollars to swing an election? Just a thought!

Jamaal Bowman was called antisemitic for saying Israel's claims to represent all Jews make Jews less safe. But that's not antisemitism—it's just a statement of the very, very obvious. www.discourseblog.com/p/of-course-...

Of Course Israel Makes Jews Less Safewww.discourseblog.com Jamaal Bowman is getting attacked for saying that Israel claims to represent all Jews. But Israel does exactly that, all the time.

Folks help me out here, is it a bad sign if a prominent political figure goes on Israeli television and approvingly quotes Hitler while discussing Gaza? www.discourseblog.com/p/i-guess-th...

I Guess They're Going Full Hitler Nowwww.discourseblog.com Is it bad if you approvingly invoke the Nazis while demanding genocide in Gaza?

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BREAKING MERCH NEWS: DISCOURSE BLOG NOW HAS MERCH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! We've got stickers and magnets of our Pride bird AND our iconic original bird! Click here to get yours: discourseblog.myshopify.com

The White House has been telling a very obvious lie about a Gaza ceasefire for over a week, and some of our leading journalists are allowing the administration to get away with it www.discourseblog.com/p/can-these-...

Can These Journalists Maybe Point Out That the White House Is Lying Through Its Teethwww.discourseblog.com Guess not.

impeccable bilge

"BLM world" is making my brain explode

Crazy idea: maybe instead of doing 700 dumb reorgs and doomed AI pivots, gajillionaire owners like Jeff Bezos can just hand over a blank check to their journalists and get the hell out of the way www.discourseblog.com/p/just-give-...

Just Give the Journalists the Goddamn Moneywww.discourseblog.com Looking at you Jeff Bezos!

Really brilliant from @kathkrueger.bsky.social on the limitations of "All Eyes On Rafah" www.discourseblog.com/p/all-eyes-o...

'All Eyes on Rafah' Is Not Enoughwww.discourseblog.com It's allowing us to avert our eyes from the real, human horror on the ground.

Not to get controversial but, after the horrors in Rafah, I'm starting to suspect that Joe Biden doesn't actually want Israel to stop its war on Gaza www.discourseblog.com/p/im-startin...

I'm Starting to Suspect That Biden Doesn't Actually Want Israel to Stopwww.discourseblog.com I know, I know, but hear me out.

the excuse the post is offering for not running this obviously relevant news story is ridiculous

This is the kind of shit I was talking about when I described the culture of supreme court reporting being one of extraordinary deference to the justices www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Justice for rat chef www.discourseblog.com/p/bird-of-th...

Bird of the Week: Rat Chefwww.discourseblog.com Justice for Remy!!!

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Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?

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NYC mayor Eric Adams, defending NYPD's response to pro-Palestinian protests in Bay Ridge, Brookyn, asks why nobody sends the NYPD thank-you notes for all the good they do www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU8g...

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Reminder that Williams beat the shit out of his girlfriend and blamed it on the corrosive influence of hip-hop culture in his memoir

No. Fucking. Way.

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A reminder of what Eric Adams has cut, or is trying to cut, while we pay for the NYPD to beat protesters up www.discourseblog.com/p/you-get-wh...