Martyn Wendell Jones
Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Dad newsletter: martynwendell.substack.com
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- In difficult seasons, I have always found comfort in Sandra McCracken's 2005 hymn album, The Builder and the Architect. Today, she released a quiet cover of The Times They Are A-Changin'; I like it a lot: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- tfw it is really late
- tfw it is late
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- I had not been paying attention to Bitcoin's recent fall but holy cow, the price appears to have fallen by almost half since October
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- Here's @willsommer.bsky.social with another vivid look inside one of the most cynical and morally wrecked scenes you’ll find in contemporary American culture www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesour government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesHearing that almost all the WaPo arts section is gone, with the exception of a couple people. A major source of great writing as well as Pulitzers.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesYeah. When the administration shooting clergy in the face with less lethal munitions is outraged about "religious freedom," we should maybe take their indignation with a fistful of salt. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
- I have been letting my hair grow out just to see if it works for me, and the upshot so far is that nowadays I often end up looking like one of Philip Jennings's disguises in The Americans
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- an important one from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social today www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesthis is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesthere isn’t a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. I’m not really sure there’s anything else to say
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesSeven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesone thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
- "I'm going to have a Celsius. Do you want one? It could make you feel like you've been honed to a bright point, but there are, like, bloody piles of scraped-off flesh all around you, from the honing." Another illustration of the risks of extemporizing after a bad night of sleep
- Feels like winter is here
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jones...horrifying message without context, thank you
- At one point Chick tells Ravelstein (re: death) that he cannot accept that "the pictures will stop." Our 14-month-old seems to give voice to similar feelings every time we put him down for a nap
- tfw the Judge from Blood Meridian starts to operate at scale www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesNGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesJudge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
- NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1. Enlightenment Modernity and Its Discontents 2. Nature of Persons 3. Acting II: Shakespeare 4. Foundations of the Natural Sciences 5. Suffering
- really something to this!
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- [me] STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS [oldest son] NO (NEGATIVE) [middle son] I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY [me] YOU ARE RUNNING INTO DANGER [oldest] KEEP CLEAR OF ME [middle] MY VESSEL IS STOPPED [oldest] I AM CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS [oldest] ... [oldest] I REQUIRE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
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- Sometimes I comfort myself with the thought of how successful we have been in restricting screen time for our dog
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesFederal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."
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- Boosting one more time for the evening crowd:
- "The challenge for the Auschwitz museum now is finding a way to preserve the human feeling of testimony when the question of how it felt can no longer be answered firsthand." For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an important story from @cfhervey.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/saving-his...
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- Something interesting I learned from this piece is that the Auschwitz museum maintains a presence on every major social platform except one:
- "The challenge for the Auschwitz museum now is finding a way to preserve the human feeling of testimony when the question of how it felt can no longer be answered firsthand." For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an important story from @cfhervey.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/saving-his...
- "The challenge for the Auschwitz museum now is finding a way to preserve the human feeling of testimony when the question of how it felt can no longer be answered firsthand." For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an important story from @cfhervey.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/saving-his...
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- a very enjoyable feuilleton
- I neglected to put away our outdoor furniture before winter hit this year. Unrelatedly, the snow in our dooryard has an appealingly irregular quality, for some reason
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesWe went to see the Shaker film downtown. Two friends skied. Left em at front of cinema during film.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesthis is awful
- News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports. “The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...
- Snow gator finally came through, making it easier to see just how much accumulation we had today (it’s set to continue through 11 or midnight…)
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesi think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesDo thou, too, remain warm among ice.
- "Bearing witness today in America requires physical courage. Every single person who steps out their front door in Minneapolis to observe, document, and protest the actions of our government is taking their lives in their hands.
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- “The best of America has been broadcast by commonplace nurses, dental assistants, taxi drivers, baristas, and bartenders. It is not some warrior caste or a group of exalted aristocrats that exemplifies the best of us, but normal people who are choosing to do the right things when the moment arises.”
- Here. I couldn't think of anything better to say. othermeans.io/p/on-being-a...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesNonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jones🧵thread of right-wing reactions to the ICE murder this AM:
- They are sowing the wind because they *long for* the whirlwind, what they believe it would free them to do
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesthe "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesI am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesThey’re fighting for their city but they’re also fighting for all of us
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- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesI watched it. The agent unloads his magazine. This was an execution.
- There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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- I just adore the Yet Another Leak of Classified Info in a War Thunder Forum story genre and all related variants
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell Jonesa guy currently on a nuclear submarine was playing crusader kings 3, bragged about it on the subreddit for the game, and leaked his location. it may not match the war thunder forums in quantity but it’s up there in quality
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesThis looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
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- DHS didn't offer a comment for this story, for some reason www.thebulwark.com/p/target-of-...
- Reposted by Martyn Wendell JonesI'm excited to announce I'm doing a new Bloomberg column about the business of fashion. The first column is about how we can re-shore US garment manufacturing. Instead of mass deportations and raising tariffs, I argue the government should move the industry upstream: tinyurl.com/reshoringapparel
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