Chase Madar
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
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"AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America out of any group. It spends hundreds of millions to sustain the power structures of a fascist in Israel and goes into predominately communities of color with massive disinformation campaigns.°
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
Radicalized by AIPAC: Mamdani's Jewish strategist on big money and weaponized antisemitism
26-year-old Morris Katz Is Gearing Up to Guide Democratic Progressives Toward Victory in the Midterms and Beyond
www.haaretz.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America out of any group. It spends hundreds of millions to sustain the power structures of a fascist in Israel and goes into predominately communities of color with massive disinformation campaigns.°
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
Good; don’t
It’s sad that it’s come to this but democracy must be defended
It’s sad that it’s come to this but democracy must be defended
Colorado's DOC says it won't pursue the transfer of Tina Peters, the Trump-supporting county clerked convicted for breaching voter equipment, as the federal government requested recently. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Colorado doesn’t plan to transfer imprisoned former county clerk to federal custody
Tina Peters’ situation has become a cause celebre in the election conspiracy movement.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Good; don’t
It’s sad that it’s come to this but democracy must be defended
It’s sad that it’s come to this but democracy must be defended
Thai-cran relish (essentially Miang Kham with cranberries) was a hit again at the trigenerational Friendsgiving 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Thai-cran relish (essentially Miang Kham with cranberries) was a hit again at the trigenerational Friendsgiving 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭
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National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
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Thelonious Monk, "Blue Monk" live, 1958.
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk
YouTube video by GumboVariations
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November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Thelonious Monk, "Blue Monk" live, 1958.
Imagine what kind of evil, apocalyptic nonsense these ICE agents have to tell themselves again and again so they can believe they’re the good guys in all this
ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Imagine what kind of evil, apocalyptic nonsense these ICE agents have to tell themselves again and again so they can believe they’re the good guys in all this
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, 2025
two men are talking in front of a window with the words " you know what it is theo " on the bottom
Alt: two men are talking in front of a window with a floating pig the words " you know what it is theo, I just don't think about " on the bottom. From Children of Men
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, 2025
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Graveyard by Ernest Lawson https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/3583/
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Graveyard by Ernest Lawson https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/3583/
Telling my wife that her bourbon-pecan pie “should be on the cover of Pie Times magazine” is my favorite #ThanksgivingTradition – whats yours?
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Telling my wife that her bourbon-pecan pie “should be on the cover of Pie Times magazine” is my favorite #ThanksgivingTradition – whats yours?
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Bruce Lee was born 85 years ago today.
a bruce lee enter the dragon poster shows a man in a blue uniform
ALT: a bruce lee enter the dragon poster shows a man in a blue uniform
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bruce Lee was born 85 years ago today.
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Oh cool yeah just let the banks do whatever they want while the tech companies are all speedrunning 2008
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oh cool yeah just let the banks do whatever they want while the tech companies are all speedrunning 2008
Give this hero of the republic a medal and a federal pension www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Give this hero of the republic a medal and a federal pension www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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“The film is a lot about memory. Giving back to the country a memory that cannot be lost.”
for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i spoke with Wagner Moura about his incredible performance in the equally incredible The Secret Agent
for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i spoke with Wagner Moura about his incredible performance in the equally incredible The Secret Agent
‘The Secret Agent’ is More Than Just a Great Political Thriller
‘Narcos’ star Wagner Moura talks about his role in director Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s-set Brazilian drama and how life under the Bolsonaro regime shaped their collaboration.
www.gq.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“The film is a lot about memory. Giving back to the country a memory that cannot be lost.”
for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i spoke with Wagner Moura about his incredible performance in the equally incredible The Secret Agent
for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i spoke with Wagner Moura about his incredible performance in the equally incredible The Secret Agent
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Maybe folks have forgotten, but we have already had a former addict in the cabinet. He did great! (His drug of choice happens to have been the most deadly: alcohol.)
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
Perspective | Having someone with alcoholism in the Cabinet reminds us that recovery is never over
As labor secretary, Marty Walsh will show what’s possible if you take it one day at a time.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Maybe folks have forgotten, but we have already had a former addict in the cabinet. He did great! (His drug of choice happens to have been the most deadly: alcohol.)
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
Damning stuff but I’m still optimistic that Mamdani will be able to get a lot done with and through Menin, and that there may be some agenda-passing advantages to her being Speaker, with her considerable politicking skills and municipal govt experience
Menin got over $100K spent on her by Uber, $1,600 donation from Tony Argento, $1,000 from Randy Mastro, no response to questions about it:
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Damning stuff but I’m still optimistic that Mamdani will be able to get a lot done with and through Menin, and that there may be some agenda-passing advantages to her being Speaker, with her considerable politicking skills and municipal govt experience
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I was trying to take a photo of the rusty railing, but the rainbow was a little distracting.
#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #sea #mountain #rainbow
#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #sea #mountain #rainbow
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was trying to take a photo of the rusty railing, but the rainbow was a little distracting.
#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #sea #mountain #rainbow
#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #sea #mountain #rainbow
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"Michiganders are good people. They care less about how you pray than what you pray for. They care less what your name is, and more about whether or not you cared to figure out their name. Barack Hussein Obama won Michigan twice," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Michiganders are good people. They care less about how you pray than what you pray for. They care less what your name is, and more about whether or not you cared to figure out their name. Barack Hussein Obama won Michigan twice," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Tenía duende, Jim Hall open.spotify.com/track/35NED3...
My Funny Valentine - Live
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November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tenía duende, Jim Hall open.spotify.com/track/35NED3...
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
Gwendoline Riley is one of my big personal discoveries this past year, her two most recent reviewed empathetically (they make complex demands on one’s empathy) here by James Wood. Looking forward to Riley’s new one out next year www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Daughters Outgrow Their Parents in Two Unsparing Novels
The fiction of Gwendoline Riley ruthlessly depicts the fragile tedium of broken people who are desperate to be normal.
www.newyorker.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gwendoline Riley is one of my big personal discoveries this past year, her two most recent reviewed empathetically (they make complex demands on one’s empathy) here by James Wood. Looking forward to Riley’s new one out next year www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."