Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com) Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtyoiag2rs25THE WRONG 80 YEAR OLDS ARE DYING. THE UNIVERSE IS OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE. WHAT THE FUCK. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyoiag2rs25https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtx2w5j3y22sicon does not even begin to describe [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtx2w5j3y22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtx2aeuctk2simagine being the person who gave the world both 'jolene' AND the covid vaccine [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtx2aeuctk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtwg7i4uhc2n"dolly parton dead at 80/george w bush alive at 80" is as good a summation of the lack of justice in the world as you are likely to get25 Aug 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwg7i4uhc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtwg45obpk2wdolly parton what the fucking fuck!!!!!25 Aug 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwg45obpk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mtekb2q56k22Today in @thenation.com: read Huda Skaik on one of the under-discussed elements of the humanitarian collapse in Gaza—the rats, weasels, and other vermin that are now terrorizing the entire population. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rats-gaza-vermin-crisis/18 Aug 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtekb2q56k22https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msydafmsz22athis is exactly the kind of thing @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social warned about in her recent essay on NSPM-7 for @thenation.com https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msydafmsz22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mswhjlt6a22y1. you cannot support trans people and also be in jk rowling's tv show!!!! it is not possible! this isn't complicated! you have to choose one or the other! 2. "but i love harry potter" grow the fuck up!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswhjlt6a22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msswayfags2jToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maryam-tahmasebi-iran-ice-essay/11 Aug 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msswayfags2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mssy4baam22jOne especially important thing in this story: Maryam and her family have *offered to voluntarily leave the US,* the thing the government supposedly wants them to do. But the government has refused and demanded that they remain locked up indefinitely instead. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maryam-tahmasebi-iran-ice-essay/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssy4baam22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msswayfags2jToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maryam-tahmasebi-iran-ice-essay/11 Aug 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msswayfags2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msgmcxhtsk2bstudio 60 still catching strays 20 years later lmao [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgmcxhtsk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msdthxc3fs25if someone had said a year ago "next year a leftist muslim will beat a sitting congressperson backed by her state's sitting governor and 30 million dollars of AIPAC spending—but the race will be close" people would have thought that sounded pretty gd good. gotta keep perspective! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Aug 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdthxc3fs25https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msdiib53kc2othe el-sayed win shows yet again that centrists are now everything they always claim the left is when it comes to israel: ideologically rigid, in hock to extremists, mistaking online beefs (ie hasan) for mass politics—and toxic to the electorate.05 Aug 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdiib53kc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mschdekmrk2inot enough attention being paid to the quote "i could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room and nobody would know." pretty sure they would know! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Aug 2026 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mschdekmrk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3msb7xqsk422twell now that he's made these vague and carefully detail-free assurances about his personal views, i see no problems! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msb7xqsk422thttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3ms6tczgb2c2yai is not sending its best [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6tczgb2c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mrq7q5rpxc2sbari weiss looked all over the place and found.....a conservative weirdo she used to work with. the funniest possible outcome, well done [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2026 20:09 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrq7q5rpxc2s