☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
@schwarz
☀️ The most important thing to understand about politics is Head Monkey Good, Not Bad. Stop saying Head Monkey Bad. ☀️
I am 100% not kidding about this
It's unlikely that I'll die via internecine violence, but if I do, I want everyone to come to my funeral dressed in chicken costumes to illustrate the core absurdity of human politics
My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi… by @lisquart
This morning, I awoke as one might awaken in a grave, not rested, but returned from the underworld, gasping for something that no longer exists. Water. Twelve days without a drop in our pipes. Twelve days of swollen tongues, of children crying not from pain but from a thirst so…
It's important to randomly act bored and indifferent towards your cats so they understand how that feels.
I am terrified of Zohran Mamdani's radical plan to make NY buses free. This could have the same catastrophic effect as when Rudy Giuliani made the Staten Island Ferry free in 1997.
I wrote about venture capitalist Shaun Maguire, his accusations that Zohran Mamdani is a "secret Islamist," and his emergence as a leading right wing voice in the tech industry. businessinsider.com/shaun-maguire-…
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Below are some brief highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full eye-opening 'debate': youtube.com/watch?v=2S-WJN…
Bitter sorrow is supposed to make you appreciate the good parts of life, but I feel like I was already appreciating the good parts
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. theguardian.com/education/2025…
This column by Krugman on Brazil's digital currency is incredibly important paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-i… We could eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in a financial system here by adopting a digital currency.
I don't think Indonesia, Ethiopia & Libya are going to help the US & Israel carry out the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. But you know who would have? Saddam Hussein. He offered to take lots of Palestinians while trying to be America's friend again in the 1990s. axios.com/2025/07/18/isr…
We would have lot more details about Epstein's political network if the JP Morgan - US Virgin Islands lawsuit continued. That litigation revealed how Epstein bribed exemptions from the sex offender list, paid off elites for tax exemptions & law enforcement leniency, Epstein's…
There's a new episode of NeuralViz if you'd like to join me Inside the Macroverse youtube.com/watch?v=juDDHv…