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@harpers.bsky.social@harpers.bsky.socialJ. B. MacKinnon spoke with Matthew Sherrill about Canadian paranoia, the science behind ostrich culling, and Trump’s collapsing reputation north of the border.
@harpers.bsky.social“Foxes are pretty animals. They enjoy being pretty animals. This creates a poise that is easily mistaken for judicial distance. But does it really matter who makes the decisions? As long as somebody does. Community can be such a mush.” —Anne Carson
@harpers.bsky.social“I am a lion and they are sheep
The drive for revenge burns in me and it’s hot”
From lyrics of songs by the Israeli rappers the Shadow and Subliminal. Itamar Ben-Gvir, attended the rappers’ joint birthday party in December.
@harpers.bsky.socialFrom the October Harper’s Index.
@harpers.bsky.social“Time when / you were six the day a / mountain. Mountain time. / Time I don’t remember.”
From Red Doc>, by Anne Carson, in 2013.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialReposted by @harpers.bsky.socialFor our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...
@harpers.bsky.social“Even though no fewer than seven Central American countries, in addition the vast expanse of Mexico, lie between the Darién Gap and the physical U.S. border, one of the perks of being an empire is that the true border is wherever you say it is.”
@harpers.bsky.social“Coover’s unlikely bid to seize a congressional seat that his Republican opponent won by 19 percent two years ago was only one indication this summer that a new sort of rural progressivism was beginning to stir across the Great Plains.” —@kpaoletta.bsky.social
@harpers.bsky.social“The person blinks too much or too little
Hair and teeth that do not look real
Distorted hands or feet”
From public-service announcements issuedby U.S. state and federal agencies alerting the public to signs of scams involving AI.
@harpers.bsky.social“There comes a moment when you realize that other people are not interchangeable. I looked for you! I said and suddenly wept. He wept, too.” —Anne Carson
@harpers.bsky.social“The war on terror’s ‘imperial boomerang,’ as the concept is known, can be seen in the militarization of domestic policing, which is fueled by the transfer of surplus arms and equipment to local law enforcement.” —Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social)
@harpers.bsky.socialEvery month in our Findings column, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi presents a constellation of the most—and least—important scientific discoveries.
@harpers.bsky.social“After observing the results of turning the country over to be run by the magnates of big business and the high priests of prosperity, there are not a few Americans who have decided that if these are the sane men, it might be well to try putting the lunatics in charge for a while.”
@harpers.bsky.social“I Am Morbid
Insanity Alert
Blood Red Throne
Blood Fire Death”
Bands that have appeared on the lineup at Hellfest, an annual heavy-metal-focused music festival in Clisson, France, since 2023.
@harpers.bsky.social“Profit will of course find a way; there will always be shit to watch. But without radical intervention, whether by the government or the workers, the industry will become unrecognizable.”
Daniel Bessner on the life and death of Hollywood.
@harpers.bsky.social“I’ve been tempted by, and succumbed to, that version of the past. But that’s not really a history. It’s a sentiment related to the settlers’ attachment to their innocence.”
From The Savage Mind: An American Legacy, by David Treuer.
@harpers.bsky.social“Realism wasn’t really Pavese’s aim. He was more concerned with the myths, both classical and eternally contemporary. This interest is particularly evident in work that, in America at least, has mostly been forgotten.” —Max Norman
@robertscotthorton.bsky.socialReposted by @harpers.bsky.socialKyle Paoletta: “While less heralded than the rise of democratic socialism in New York City … the ability of like-minded candidates to compete in the heartland by focusing on elite corruption and economic insecurity suggested what a truly national political realignment might entail.”
@harpers.bsky.social“How high the stakes in Edgewood had become! Good versus evil, freedom versus the end of all that.”
J. B. MacKinnon reports the movement that arose to protest the culling of hundreds of ostriches.