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/3mllvoizoqc2tAs Keir Starmer's premiership sinks to its inevitable doom, read @evenrobins.bsky.social in @thenation.com on how Starmer's horrendous misrule allowed the far right to make huge gains in the UK https://www.thenation.com/article/world/uk-local-elections-reform-keir-starmer/11 May 2026 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllvoizoqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mllvoizoqc2tAs Keir Starmer's premiership sinks to its inevitable doom, read @evenrobins.bsky.social in @thenation.com on how Starmer's horrendous misrule allowed the far right to make huge gains in the UK https://www.thenation.com/article/world/uk-local-elections-reform-keir-starmer/11 May 2026 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllvoizoqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3ml4x6ho7vk2nTONIGHT at 6 PM ET: honored to be moderating this event featuring a superstar lineup—Dima Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Corinna Mullin, and Antony Wood—talking about the Palestine movement nearly three years into the genocide. Come one come all, it is free and online! Just click on the link below. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4x6ho7vk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3ml4lwqtj6c24exactly 50 years after his daddy did the same thing. inherited wealth is fun! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4lwqtj6c24https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mkitzvhwns2fimportant piece from @chomilomd.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkitzvhwns2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mkefekmil22jhundreds of white house reporters watching the president getting shot at in front of them and then going "well back to dinner!" is so funny [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkefekmil22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjd43zx4a22nsince everything vance touches goes to shit we gotta start pushing for him to widen his electoral poisoning act. send him to france to stump for le pen! get him to argentina and talk about how awesome millei is! never let him out of nigel farage’s sight! let’s start this domino effect!12 Apr 2026 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjd43zx4a22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjd3kxejyc2nfolks i’m starting to think jd vance isn’t good at this [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Apr 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjd3kxejyc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjcp3br6d22bstrange graf here: klein says you can't compare zionism to nazism because nazis tried to "exterminate the jewish people." zionism's core aim while he is writing these words is the extermination of the palestinian people! if that's your reason for rejecting the comparison you need a new one [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Apr 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcp3br6d22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjcjydyb5c2btrump has never seemed more like the horrid, raging, whining, dangerous personification of the decline of us empire than he does right now12 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcjydyb5c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjcj2cz4z22bit's july. gas is 15 dollars a gallon. trump's double-blockade, triple-blockade, and quintuple-blockade of the strait of hormuz have all failed. in a 2 am post, he declares he has no choice but to enact the dreaded "infnity-plus-one" blockade....12 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcj2cz4z22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mjcirzxivk2bi'm old enough to remember when blockading the strait of hormuz was enough for donald trump to justify wiping out an entire civilization [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Apr 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcirzxivk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mj5s5aih4224i'm just a dumb nobody but i FEEL like "extortion of the World" could be defined as a card [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2026 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5s5aih4224https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mj3pblc2622xjust following onto this — trump picked up the phone from an *msnbc* reporter *in the middle of a war meeting* but sent jd to voicemail twice 😂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3pblc2622xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mj3p3atvf22xnothing to see here. i'm always interrupting my meetings about a war to co-sign my wife's insistence that she had nothing to do with jeffrey epstein, a question nobody was asking previously [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3p3atvf22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miye4hhwbs2hisrael is like a genocidal shark. if it's not constantly killing people it ceases to function. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miye4hhwbs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miydrtrxg22htrump picks up the phone for basically any random reporter who calls him but his vice president can't get through lmao [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miydrtrxg22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miycgrxnrc2hwe do not, in fact, all know it [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miycgrxnrc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3mix5sq4hjs2cnyt might want to update bret's latest column https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/opinion/iran-war-winning.html08 Apr 2026 01:37 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mix5sq4hjs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miwwe64okc2etrump wound up giving iran massively more control over the global energy market than it had before he started the war. job well done sir [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Apr 2026 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwwe64okc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miwvydujk22etrump isn't "chickening out." he's losing the war.07 Apr 2026 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:76bed4yvg4fex4cyqb4f7orp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwvydujk22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson.bsky.social/post/3miwisrbalk2edon't worry everyone you will be able to expect something of the democrats at a later date—specifically septober 45th 3074. until then you HAVE to leave them alone!!!! 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