@jonahssiegel.bsky.social
Professor at Rutgers. Student of literature, museums, collections. Always a late adopter.
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Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
What a success!
Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!
Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!
Javier Milei's free-market shock therapy to transform Argentina's economy gets huge endorsement as sudden growth rebound seen | Fortune
Moody's upgraded Argentina one notch to Caa3 from Ca and boosted its outlook to positive from stable.
fortune.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
What a success!
Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!
Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.
“According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”
It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.
“According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”
Trump's Gaza plan sees digital land tokens, mass relocation | The Jerusalem Post
The administration's plan would see Gaza transformed into a tourism resort and a high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.
www.jpost.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.
“According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”
It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.
“According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”
I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
August 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
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I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"
August 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right
Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled no concrete agreement after more than three hours of talks in Alaska on Friday, taking no questions from the press after breaking off the summit early.
Live updates: Trump, Putin end news conference without taking questions
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term, including his meeting Friday in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
wapo.st
August 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.
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Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
Guerrero!
2/ One man told his parents that ICE officials questioned him because of his last name, Guerrero – a common surname in Latin America and one shared by the leader of the Tren de Aragua gang. His mother was adamant they were not related. “Absolutely not,” she said.
July 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Guerrero!
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SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told
The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Well, at least we are not eating our seed corn.
We are feeding it to the birds.
We are feeding it to the birds.
How Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Are Derailing Young Scholars’ Careers
Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.
www.chronicle.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Well, at least we are not eating our seed corn.
We are feeding it to the birds.
We are feeding it to the birds.
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This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"
July 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"
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A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
Our future.
"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."
"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."
Orban’s Hungary is now officially the poorest nation in the EU
Hungary now ranks last among European Union member states in a vital measure of household welfare—Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita—according to June 18, 2025 data from Eurostat. At just ...
kyivinsider.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Our future.
"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."
"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."
"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle."
Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!
Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle."
Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!
Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!
"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit."
Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!
Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!
Relationality, Agency, and Injury: The Darkness of The Radical Aesthetic
Abstract. This essay traces Isobel Armstrong's achievement in The Radical Aesthetic (2000) to her commitment to reflecting on difficult states of being — necessarily imperfect, inevitably incomplete —...
read.dukeupress.edu
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit."
Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!
Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!
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We're in so much trouble
At this week’s CDC vaccine advisory meeting, a presentation claimed that an animal study linked the preservative thimerosal to long-term brain effects, but no such study appears to exist.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...
Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative | CNN
A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine pre...
www.cnn.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We're in so much trouble
Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell.
"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."
"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."
31 | 2025 Museum Storytelling: Collecting Stories, Inventing Narra...
Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world
journals.openedition.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell.
"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."
"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."
His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others.
For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!
For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!
Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war - postponing son’s wedding
Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others.
For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!
For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!
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If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company.
#nycmayoralrace
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#nycmayoralrace
gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...
Palantir's CEO Throws Money Behind Andrew Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Race
The creepy company's chief creep is backing a mayoral candidate who has been called a creep.
gizmodo.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company.
#nycmayoralrace
gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...
#nycmayoralrace
gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...
Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.
June 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.
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Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, has been assaulted and kidnapped. No exaggeration: ICE is the American Gestapo.
MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
MAGestapo
Brad Lander joins the ranks of Baraka, McIver, Dugan, Padilla—and Ernst Thälmann. ICE joins the ranks of criminal organizations like the Gestapo.
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, has been assaulted and kidnapped. No exaggeration: ICE is the American Gestapo.
MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
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it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
Does anyone know where Brad Landers is being held? Shouldn't we be outside of wherever that is, showing support?
June 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Does anyone know where Brad Landers is being held? Shouldn't we be outside of wherever that is, showing support?