Donna Minkowitz
@donnaminkowitz.bsky.social
Writer. Author of Ferocious Romance, Growing Up Golem, and DONNAVILLE. Former writer for Village Voice, work in The Nation et al.
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A low for The New Yorker.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A low for The New Yorker.
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Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
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They place their wink and nods to white supremacy and fascism everywhere. We ignore it at our peril.
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
They place their wink and nods to white supremacy and fascism everywhere. We ignore it at our peril.
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please cancel your partnership with this monstrous company immediately.
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please cancel your partnership with this monstrous company immediately.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Immigration Stance
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
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Reporters who fact-check Trump to his face are not “stupid”, they are not “piggies”, and they are not “ugly”. They are doing their jobs, and doing it under pressure most of us will never experience.
We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.
We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reporters who fact-check Trump to his face are not “stupid”, they are not “piggies”, and they are not “ugly”. They are doing their jobs, and doing it under pressure most of us will never experience.
We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.
We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.
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“Press Conference As Humiliation Ritual: An Analysis of Trump and the U.S. Press through The Lens of Performative Sadomasochism”
In this essay I will…
In this essay I will…
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“Press Conference As Humiliation Ritual: An Analysis of Trump and the U.S. Press through The Lens of Performative Sadomasochism”
In this essay I will…
In this essay I will…
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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One guy killed one National Guard member and the media is treating it like it’s 9/11 because they’re scared the President will accuse them of underreacting if they try to apply even the slightest bit of proportionality
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
One guy killed one National Guard member and the media is treating it like it’s 9/11 because they’re scared the President will accuse them of underreacting if they try to apply even the slightest bit of proportionality
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Arktos Press is one of several nodes in the international fascist lit movement--even its name is based on Nazi occultist/esoteric polar myths about a mystical 'Hyperborea'. It is extremely overtly fascist and neo-Nazi (e.g. publishes Benoist, Evola, Dugin, Spengler, Lynn, etc.)
I know things are bad, but I was honestly somehow surprised to see that the books of the racist, fascist Arktos Press are available free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription
"The Blackening of Europe", for example
"The Blackening of Europe", for example
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Arktos Press is one of several nodes in the international fascist lit movement--even its name is based on Nazi occultist/esoteric polar myths about a mystical 'Hyperborea'. It is extremely overtly fascist and neo-Nazi (e.g. publishes Benoist, Evola, Dugin, Spengler, Lynn, etc.)
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
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The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
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WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Trump should be (won’t be, but should be) embarrassed by the Witkoff transcript. W says to Ushakov “the way to deal with Trump is with obsequious flattery” and U replies “yeah, we obviously know that” [paraphrases].
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Trump should be (won’t be, but should be) embarrassed by the Witkoff transcript. W says to Ushakov “the way to deal with Trump is with obsequious flattery” and U replies “yeah, we obviously know that” [paraphrases].
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my “does not love hitler” flyer has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my flyer
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
my “does not love hitler” flyer has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my flyer
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
h/t @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on the other site
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I know there's still a month to go in 2025 but I'm ready to award the trophy for Take of the Year in the Caping for Fascists category.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I know there's still a month to go in 2025 but I'm ready to award the trophy for Take of the Year in the Caping for Fascists category.
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.