Berny Belvedere
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Philosophy lecturer. Soccer knower. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
- One of the most informative and analytically useful explainers on the situation in Iran—from Middle East expert @ericlob.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net. Don't miss this.
- This is disgraceful stuff
- Pedro Gonzalez is awful in his own right, but he is absolutely cooking here.
- This, from @kenwhite.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net, is a genuine must-read. If the current state of free speech discourse interests you—and especially if it infuriates you—this is a critical reframe steering us away from the idea that bad-faith actors are actually our free speech heroes.
- The person who baselessly accused Obama of treason, supported various strongmen (such as Assad) against rebel movements, and praised Putin's invasion of Ukraine is now facing a serious whistleblower complaint. You absolutely love to see it.
- Important new piece in @theunpopulist.net "Congress and our courts have made it virtually impossible for Americans to hold federal officials and agencies legally responsible for harms they cause through negligence or abuse of power."
- The central political divide today in the U.S. is not between two sides offering slightly varying iterations of the same underlying political bargain but between a tradition affirming the historic liberal-constitutional order and one that enthusiastically strips rights from ideological opponents.
- They are building a formidable oppo file against Mamdani and there’s nothing you can do to stop them
- Stalin-Stan's Sugar Scandal: Watch as this third world immigrant mayor of NYC passes around the sugar packets at a local coffee house with such egalitarian enthusiasism that it's as if Marx himself was handling the distribution Read more at The New York Post
