James Schamus
Leibniz: "Everything that is possible demands to exist."
- Reposted by James SchamusThe project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped
- Reposted by James Schamus“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
- Reposted by James Schamusthis handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget
- Reposted by James Schamusso bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
- Reposted by James Schamus"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
- Reposted by James SchamusI was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
- Note to self: When purchasing tickets online for chamber music concerts in Scandinavian countries with high percentages of tall blonde people, double check for raked seating.
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- Reposted by James SchamusI've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
- Reposted by James SchamusI've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.
- Reposted by James SchamusTrump posting the texts of European leaders groveling is funny ngl. They are all a bunch of worms “thanks for the the intervention you’re doing in the global south. Please don’t touch Greenland. Let’s be best friends”
- Reposted by James SchamusThe NFL has fined Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair $11,593 for wearing eye black that called to "stop the genocide" during a playoff match last week. The message referenced the genocide in Gaza & was visible also during his post-game TV interview on ESPN. The league says this violated its...
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- Excited to share, well, not sure i can yet call them *thoughts* exactly, but if you happen to be near Cambridge next week, please come by - www.film.cam.ac.uk/events/himes...
- Can you imagine if the media reported everything else the way they do the ongoing genocide, like "Man Liquidates Family Amid Ongoing Restraining Order Tensions"?
- A lovely appreciation of the late great Amos Poe's work. I'll only add that on top of all else, Amos was also a very kind soul. www.screenslate.com/articles/amo...
- Reposted by James SchamusTexas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson, who was told by the university to remove readings by Plato & others from his moral problems course, is replacing them with a news article about the university's censorship and violation of academic freedom. See Update 3 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
- Reposted by James SchamusI know they’re trying to turn this shooting into Dealey Plaza with their desperate camera angles and excuses for the murderous ICE officer but how do they explain the subsequent refusal to allow a doctor to reach the car? And lying that they already had medics there? All on tape.
- Reposted by James SchamusProblem is - the chuds banning Plato's Symposium because it advances Gender Ideology they'd be uncomfortable with is probably the hardest I have ever felt this meme in my life
- Reposted by James SchamusFuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
- Reposted by James SchamusTexas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
- Reposted by James SchamusIt's 2026 and Schumer is publicly admitting he continues to take Trump at his word
- Reposted by James SchamusExpect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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- Reposted by James SchamusI found an old blog post in drafts that I decided to modify somewhat and put out - my own little plea for humanism, why I self-describe and generally consider myself a humanist. Not sure if anyone else will care, but fwiw here it is. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-...
- Reposted by James SchamusTwo weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.
- A story about the great Rob Reiner. I grew up adjacent to but a world away from Hollywood. But for a brief period of time in the early 1970s Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall lived in a rather modest home just a few blocks away from where I grew up in North Hollywood. Years later, I met him, and…
- I got to tell him about how as a kid I used to knock on doors in the neighborhood and offer to mow lawns with an old-fashioned push mower I’d drag with me, for 75 cents a lawn. I got to mow his lawn just a few times. He was super nice, always paid me a dollar and let me keep the change. A legend.
- Reposted by James SchamusIf you have a bank account in your country or use U.S. technology, as most of us do, this will 100% affect you and your loved ones now and well into the foreseeable future. And this is why #Digitalsovereignty should be a goal for every democratic government if they are serious about freedom.
- Two immediate takeaways: 1) yes, the level of repression at Columbia is extraordinary, and these stories are only the tip of the iceberg; and 2) we are blessed to have students such as the journalists who are covering this and those who continue to organize www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/12...
- Very excited and honored to be returning to the Göteborg Film Festival next month; it's a very special gathering. goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/james-sch...
- Reposted by James SchamusAP reports that nearly 100 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war began, amid widespread torture and medical neglect documented across multiple facilities. A former guard at Sde Teiman says prisoners were routinely chained, beaten, and left to die in the yard.🧵
- Reposted by James SchamusFormer president of UVA talks about the process of his forced resignation. The DOJ, governor youngkin, and everyone who colluded with them sound like thugs. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by James SchamusSeriously, what is wrong with these people?
- Reposted by James SchamusNYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
- Reposted by James SchamusPeople fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
- Reposted by James SchamusTRUMP ADMIN: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO PROVIDE ANY DISCOUNT WHATSOEVER TO SNAP RECIPIENTS TO WHOM WE HAVE DENIED FOOD
- Reposted by James SchamusThis puts the current (known) total at more than 7,500 people, which is FAR more than I had thought
- Pure, if banal, evil. www.cnet.com/news/politic...
- Reality. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by James SchamusSlavery has always been the goal.
- Reposted by James SchamusThis was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
- Reposted by James SchamusTHIS is how you reject a faulty premise. Don’t rush past the facts to argue with a straw man. Remind everyone of the facts first!
- It’s real playbill.com/article/ang-...
- Why Genocide Enablers Like Bret Stephens Frighten Jews Like Me
- Why Genocide Enablers Like Bret Stephens Frighten Jews Like Me
- Reposted by James SchamusSo who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?
- Reposted by James SchamusEXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
- Reposted by James SchamusFront page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
- Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
- If you're in NYC Sunday afternoon join for the 35th anniversary screening of Raul Ruiz's wonderful The Golden Boat, the first film I ever helped produce. Kathy Acker, Annie Sprinkle, Jim Jarmusch, Kate Valk, Vito Acconci, John Zorn score, and more! www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/t...
- Reposted by James SchamusThis Reuters headline. Oof. Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
- Read this just for the incredible statement from the NY Times about why having staff writers help wage a pro-Israel "information war" is not a problem for them: Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War” open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
- Reposted by James SchamusBari Weiss, CBS News, 1965 - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...
- Reposted by James SchamusI feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
- Two Years of Genocide, Captured on Social Media by Israeli Soldiers Themselves zeteo.com/p/ever-see-o...
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- Reposted by James Schamusimportant for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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- Hamas Responds to Trump open.substack.com/pub/mouinrab...
- Reposted by James SchamusUnion says more than two million took to the streets Friday, with massive turnout expected tomorrow for Rome protests.
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- Reposted by James SchamusZohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
- I had no idea of just how insane Tony Blair's alliance with MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison is. Like $350 million insane. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by James SchamusNewsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
- Today.
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- Reposted by James SchamusIs the world going to let them get away with this?
- Reposted by James Schamus🔗 Read: t.co/TJYRlZYDuW
- I've been reading a lot of St. Paul this past month for some reason (a real genius, btw) and for some other reason was prompted today to recall Nietzsche's rather intense appreciation of him.
- Reposted by James SchamusRead this powerful piece by my mentee Nadera Mushtha who is in Gaza City wearenotnumbers.org/we-counted-t...
