Associate editor @curaffairs; occasional writer @theintercept, @proteanmag. Proud union member @ChiNewsGuild. Business: alex@currentaffairs.org

New Orleans, LA
Some news: I've been selected for the Best American Essays 2026 anthology, for my article "The Super Bowl Exposed the Brutality of America's Class Divide." Salute to @mashagessen for putting me on; respect to @NathanJRobinson for giving me the creative freedom to write it. 🫡
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Yes. Sad that this is even remotely controversial; of *course* it isn't appropriate to have an alliance with a country that habitually commits war crimes.
Abdul El-Sayed tells ABC News in new interview that Israel isn’t an ally of the United States: “An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn't be fighting is not an ally.” “If your kid has a friend who keeps bumming off their money, talks about them behind their back, and gets them into fights with other friends, what would you tell your kid? You’d probably tell them maybe it’s not actually your friend.” Link to interview: abcnews.com/video/137396168/
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Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐 In The Internet Needs A Memory, Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve. Read it 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/2… @Brewster_Kahle @TheAtlantic
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Check out my latest in @curaffairs ! It’s a video game review that doesn’t require you to have played the game (or any game) to enjoy and get something out of!
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Ahead of the game's release on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, here's @_michaeltcarter's review of "Zero Parades: For Dead Spies" - a would-be successor to Disco Elysium that has some charms, but ultimately lacks the core of communist thought that made its predecessor unforgettable:
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I spent a year working the apps for DoorDash, Uber, Amazon and more; saw disturbing things; brought people single cookies; probably delivered drugs; smashed up my nose; met people who made insane journeys to get you pad thai; wondered what we’re doing here simonandschuster.com/books/D…
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Liberal Democratic politicians are the most pathetic people on Earth. Trump could walk in their home and piss on their rug Lebowski-style, and they'd still be scared to do anything back to him.
Sherrod Brown says he would not support Trump impeachment if elected to the Senate
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Class war.
BREAKING: Trump aides are preparing to impose financial penalties on millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year, per WashingtonSun. The plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections
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I wrote a full, detailed account of the October 16 settler and soldier attack on the olive harvest in Abu Falah. I think it may be the most important thing I’ve ever written. “The Palestinians Who Rescued Heidi Levine” Link in next tweet.
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Faşistlerin kazandığını düşünüp intihar edenler olmuştu. Çok geçmeden Mussolini topuğundan asıldı, Hitler kafasına sıktı. Geçmez zannedilen bu dönemler de geçecek. Dünya yine alt üst olacak.
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Actually one of @PlutoPress 's
What are you reading this weekend?
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Bread and circuses were not enough to sustain the Roman Empire and they will not be enough for the United States of America.
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John Brown is a hero. Full stop. And on this day, October 16, 1859, he brought the fight against slavery to Harpers Ferry. Among the most incredible, principled, and moral human beings to have ever lived, John Brown saw an America built off the backs of Black bodies in bondage brought to this country in chains, and in solidarity with his comrades they resisted BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, because when people are occupied, resistance is justified. Always. “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. His soul goes marching on.” 🎨: Deber614 (IG)
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This might be the meanest thing anyone has called Abdul
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Straw man. My communist dream IS to manage the sewage system. I fucking love water and waste management.
Everyone imagines communism will free them to write poetry while someone else enthusiastically maintains the sewage system. Your economic model is “what if everyone else had fewer dreams than me.”
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“As part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration.”
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Oftentimes in discussions of colonized people, men are left sidelined or worse yet demonized outright in a dynamic that leads to their being seen as disposable. We must be critical of the narratives and framings that produce this outcome. 🔗 in the thread below
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i wrote about a terrible racist video game latest for my newsletter ⛓️‍💥 are you subscribed?
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This is our @ChiNewsGuild contract language against AI, which I really think should become industry standard:
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