Jonathan Shainin
@jonathanshainin
I too dislike it
Great to have the splendid @GuilhotNicolas writing for @ftopinion about digital democratic centralism (aka the 'America party') on.ft.com/44Tva2r
open for a surprise
I have a confession. I consistently mistake the guy on the left here for Jeffery Epstein.
I have a confession. I consistently mistake the guy on the left here for Jeffery Epstein.
when u call customer support and a clanker picks up
Trump is leading the attack on the universities, but Obama appointees are cheering it on and implementing it behind the scenes
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
You helped. You gave Israel military support and diplomatic cover. Your complicity in this horror is unspeakable and indefensible
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
i love you @tnyfrontrow. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
Brilliant piece on the mag cover this week by the FT's @ChristopherJM on the growing influence of Zelenskyy's right-hand man, Andriy Yermak... on.ft.com/45qAPO3
[on the 655th consecutive day of watching israel commit war crimes]: hmm, might have gone a bit too far now
I love a “power behind the throne” profile, and this is a very good one
Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising. Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks govt officials—and dismisses them. The PM and military brass frequently defer to him. My @FTMag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal ft.com/content/4d6114…
we now have three waves of tooze
my brother is getting really into the china hype lately. if he could read he’d become a third wave toozer for sure
I must admit, I enjoyed this a lot
KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…
If you want to say "this is genocide" in the NYT you have to be one of the world's most respected historians of the Holocaust, but if you want to say "nah it's not actually" you can just be some clown with a weekly column
people whose only reaction to seeing images or experiences is to say they have "aura" are attempting to articulate that the experience made them feel something, without being capable of describing any thoughts that they have. They are basically saying "monkey feel thing"
ok, i know what a newsagent's is. what is a crime agents? that's not a thing is it
Lovely to see my "The Second Emancipation" included here. Due out August 26. Pre-order available now. Here's Publisher's Weekly advance review: publishersweekly.com/9781324092452
Here are 15 books coming out this summer that we expect to shape the conversation around international affairs for the rest of the year. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/sum…
Really love this @BW story about the world's largest zipper-maker, YKK, by @viajoshhunt. It's fascinating in too many ways to get into in a tweet. Gift link: bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
You mock, but a Tory baron's daughter making her bow as an Observer cartoonist with a childish drawing of Jeremy Corbyn covered in hammers and sickles + some casual racism, is such a funny distillation of the last 10 years of UK politics I bet you're gutted you didn't think of it
It's the epitome of Starmerism that a review into the UK's rapacious water industry was explicitly told NOT to consider bringing water companies into public ownership (which of course was one of Starmer's ten pledges to secure the Labour leadership)
Really extraordinary when you read the opening paragraphs to the article