Jacob Rosenberg
@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
articles editor at Mother Jones (@motherjones.com), CIR union UAW 2103 (@cir-union.bsky.social)
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
heres our report on this — both on the number 1 case of death among ICE agents (covid 19) and the legal cases against protesters that are falling apart
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
heres our report on this — both on the number 1 case of death among ICE agents (covid 19) and the legal cases against protesters that are falling apart
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Heroic work by the free press to make their article on Mamdani about pitching a profile of him well into 2025 once everyone already knew him.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Heroic work by the free press to make their article on Mamdani about pitching a profile of him well into 2025 once everyone already knew him.
Let’s see if this Denvir advice happens. I think it will. And I think the center/right backlash will lead to something we maybe have never seen: a political campaign-like atmosphere about local government as it works
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Let’s see if this Denvir advice happens. I think it will. And I think the center/right backlash will lead to something we maybe have never seen: a political campaign-like atmosphere about local government as it works
Nagging pet peeve for me: NYC has more "diverse" political takes than any purple place in the entire country. This just a way to say "I need 5 to 15 percent of white homwoners' vote that I assume are basically Republicans." Which is fine, but the phrasing here is just absurd
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Nagging pet peeve for me: NYC has more "diverse" political takes than any purple place in the entire country. This just a way to say "I need 5 to 15 percent of white homwoners' vote that I assume are basically Republicans." Which is fine, but the phrasing here is just absurd
(I don't agree—and this rhymes with that New Yorker essay—that reality is too self-lampooning for Pynchon or this film to make sense. But yeah, good points otherwise)
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(I don't agree—and this rhymes with that New Yorker essay—that reality is too self-lampooning for Pynchon or this film to make sense. But yeah, good points otherwise)
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
saw flames and was afraid to admit it, I’m sure
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
saw flames and was afraid to admit it, I’m sure
The slow rolling out of thoughts, leading to this paragraph, is so disgustingly good in this piece on AI flak/doomer ed zitron
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The slow rolling out of thoughts, leading to this paragraph, is so disgustingly good in this piece on AI flak/doomer ed zitron
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
complete wikipedia dominance
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
complete wikipedia dominance
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ran across this in book on Bush presidency. Here's who we hired to "nation build" in Iraq.
With DOGE, and a million other things, it feels like the war is coming home right now—as the right thinks of the 2nd Trump term as a war to tear down the old US and make a new one
With DOGE, and a million other things, it feels like the war is coming home right now—as the right thinks of the 2nd Trump term as a war to tear down the old US and make a new one
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ran across this in book on Bush presidency. Here's who we hired to "nation build" in Iraq.
With DOGE, and a million other things, it feels like the war is coming home right now—as the right thinks of the 2nd Trump term as a war to tear down the old US and make a new one
With DOGE, and a million other things, it feels like the war is coming home right now—as the right thinks of the 2nd Trump term as a war to tear down the old US and make a new one
i think some shame would be a nice break from stuff like this!
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
i think some shame would be a nice break from stuff like this!
as always, stunning stuff from helen andrews:
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
as always, stunning stuff from helen andrews:
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Please note for the history books this point:
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Please note for the history books this point:
The writing, of course, is embarrassing. But whatever editor at GQ allowed this... I am amazed how bad this is
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The writing, of course, is embarrassing. But whatever editor at GQ allowed this... I am amazed how bad this is