this has all been very fun and juicy but at a certain point it makes the entire industry look bad. on journalism and olivia nuzzi: www.discourseblog.com/p/olivia-nuz...
Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives
How many sins can one career survive?
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READ @jscros.bsky.social: ‘A Lot of Us Have Made Wills’: Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com
'A Lot of Us Have Made Wills': Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down
Anti-fascists are recalibrating how they protest in response to Donald Trump's crackdown on dissent following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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For Slate, I spent two days in New York's bizarre, dystopian immigration courts, getting a first hand look at the processes of Donald Trump's brutal new immigration system, and trying to focus on the human experience of being caught in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.
Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.
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Back in January, I did leg day with Hasan Piker for the NYT, hoping to figure out what it means to be a left-wing man in a red-pilled world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
Hasan Piker: A Progressive Mind in a MAGA Body (Gift Article)
Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls. His brand of masculinity has won him many fans online — and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.
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For the Times, I wrote about the consultant class's quest to make Democratic politics cool again -- and whether or not it's too little too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/s...
What Is ‘Dark Woke’: How Some Democrats Push Back Against Trump
Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.
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one of the biggest life changes that i've made in 2025 is that i have one of those little tech deck finger boards on my desk and after a lot of practice i can actually ollie over my cellphone about half the time
Last month, for @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the Trump administration's coming war on the First Amendment -- a prediction based on the experiences of protesters in Georgia's Stop Cop City movement, which is looking more and more like a dire sign of things to come: newrepublic.com/article/1908...
The Coming War on Dissent
As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.
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blogged about my alma mater and the price of an education www.discourseblog.com/p/columbia-u...
Columbia University Sold its Soul for $400 Million
The integrity of one of the country's most famous institutions has a clear price tag.
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Conor McGregor at the White House is kind of an odd choice, as he's been heavily out of favor both w/ the UFC and w/ UFC fans for years now. Dumbest possible denominator probably still thinks he's cool but general consensus about him is that he's a washed-up clown who likes coke more than fighting
For @rollingstone.com, some scenes from the protest movement inside Columbia's campus this week, as the university administration sides wholeheartedly with both the Trump administration and Zionist groups on campus. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
At Columbia University, Protesters Risk Everything as Free Speech is Shut Down
After Trump’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, fear and defiance mix at Columbia University in New York
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Schlock and Awe returns with a new ep as @jscros.bsky.social and I are joined by @inthesedeserts.bsky.social to discuss Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee's weird and uncanny 2016 film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq for a propaganda tour schlockandawe.substack.com/p/billy-lynn...
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (3/8/25)
Podcaster, writer and veteran Nate Bethea joins the lads to discuss Ang Lee's weird, uncanny film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq to America for a propaganda tour.
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Had a lot of fun trying to convince my buddy Max Fisher that getting hit in the face recreationally was good and also solve the masculinity crisis in America on Offline with @jonfavs.bsky.social. I'm in the second half but the first half is good too :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America
Podcast Episode · Offline with Jon Favreau · 03/06/2025 · 1h 38m
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Washington Post rushed to cancel subscriptions after Jeff Bezos' directive for the opinion section to focus on "personal liberties and free markets." @jscros.bsky.social joins me to discuss what this means for the WaPo newsroom: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-353-the...
Ep 353: The Oligarch Post ft. Jack Crosbie
Jeff Bezos instructed the Washington Post's opinion section to only write about "personal liberties and free markets."
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one thing that's refreshing about the second trump regime is that everything going on is pretty simple once you realize the general direction that things are going www.discourseblog.com/p/the-oligar...
The Oligarchs Aren't Being Particularly Subtle Anymore
Jeff Bezos's move to reshape the Washington Post's opinion pages makes his intentions clear.
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had a weird and crazy day today and decided to get in my feelings about the fact that google keeps making me sign up for linkedin against my will www.discourseblog.com/p/the-tyrann...
The Tyranny of LinkedIn Must Be Stopped
I cannot get this website to leave me alone.
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people are very mad about this blog and after long reflection on how my words have caused harm i come to you hat in hand to say i am not sorry at all stay mad hoka-heads www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...
I Can't Believe These Demons Wear Hokas to Work
At least the financiers of old had the respect to wear Italian leather.
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For the March issue of @newrepublic.com, I wrote about Atlanta's Stop Cop City movement, which is a test-case for repression in the second Trump administration. No-knock raids, brutal charges, and lengthy detentions: coming soon to a city near you. newrepublic.com/article/1908...
The Coming War on Dissent
As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.
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OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends. I hope you check it out
Owned
A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media ...
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we are reading the news and looking at it very closely -- many people have asked me "jack what does this all mean" and i say it's very simple. it's very simple and in fact it's very good, perhaps even better than it was before www.discourseblog.com/p/the-chaos-...
The Chaos Is the Point
You are not supposed to understand what is going on right now.
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had a nice (relatively speaking) time with @kathkrueger.bsky.social @jackmirkinson.bsky.social @therafischwartz.bsky.social talking over the first days of the trump administration for @discourseblog.com. we're all in hell! www.discourseblog.com/p/seven-days...
Seven Days of Hell
A Discourse Blog roundtable on Trump's first week.
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Back in August, I asked Rolling Stone to let me write about one of my hobbies & the new American pastime: Mixed Martial Arts. In November, the story changed — & only got more relevant. If you want to know the new, bloody America, you gotta know the UFC. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Empire of Blood: How Dana White's UFC Conquered America
Inside Dana White's mixed martial arts empire, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and how it conquered America
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Great @discourseblog.com piece from @jscros.bsky.social about how the LA fires are a catastrophic result of countless, systemic failures and crimes from the forces at the top of our society. This is what it looks like when everything starts collapsing. www.discourseblog.com/p/youre-not-...
You're Not Going to Find Someone to Blame
The fires in LA are a bill come due after decades of misdeeds.
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i hope they paid this man $5 a word for this piece www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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every time i go home for holidays i assume that it will be a relaxing week in where i used the solitude of the mountains to catch up on writing, which is funny, because every single time i am reminded that there is no worse work environment than one containing either of the people who raised you
coming back to this site and realizing one of my last posts was this story, which is disturbingly prescient now seeing as tons of these guys are gleefully anticipating roles in the next administration
Jack Crosbie@jscros.bsky.social · 3y agoKnights in armor, sink vomit, racist jokes, six-figure spend events, a guy who tried to lick my cheek, men with toy guns, Mormon missionaries. I don’t even know man read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
some reflections on politics and where we're at www.discourseblog.com/p/its-about-...
It's About Power
The further we slide to the right, the simpler politics becomes.
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Knights in armor, sink vomit, racist jokes, six-figure spend events, a guy who tried to lick my cheek, men with toy guns, Mormon missionaries. I don’t even know man read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump’s Hometown Shock Troops Are Raring For a Fight
Gavin Wax, Vish Burra, Nathan Berger flipped an old GOP club on its head — and the brand of politics they’re espousing is dark, even by MAGA standards
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