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The Manosphere Is Just a Scam With Better Lighting
Read more . . . →Sadiq Khan stood up in London this week and called the manosphere what it is: snake oil salesmen peddling pound shop misogyny to a lost generation of young men. He’s right, and the part everyone keeps tiptoeing around is that it’s a business. Tate, the HSTikkyTokky crowd, the whole grindset content farm — they’re not selling masculinity. They’re selling a course to a 19-year-old who can’t find a job, can’t afford rent, and has been told his whole life that if he just hustled hard enough the door would open. The door’s been bricked up for years. These guys figured...
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He Flew to Moscow to Ask Permission
Read more . . . →The manosphere’s hardest man spent this week in Moscow. Andrew Tate — the guy who sells teenage boys a religion of never needing anyone’s approval — showed up at Putin’s economic forum visibly looking for some. He was reportedly invited to promote “Christian values,” which is a choice, given that he’s a Muslim convert under criminal investigation for sex crimes in two countries. He got the bread-and-salt welcome, posted a folk-dance video to his timeline, and drew a grand total of three fans outside his hotel after his people promised a swarm. Here’s the part the algorithm won’t push to...
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The Richest School on Earth Just Waited Out Its Own Workers
Read more . . . →Harvard’s grad student union just ended the longest strike in its history — forty days on the line — and walked away with nothing. No contract. The raises they asked for, a real process for reporting harassment, protections for the non-citizen workers Harvard can punish just by doing nothing: all still “on the table,” which is the polite version of saying the table won. Eighty-one percent of members voted to go back, and not because anybody got what they came for. You can’t pay rent with principle, and a lot of these workers are on visas where one missed paycheck...
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They Named It a 'Jobless Boom' Out Loud
Read more . . . →Economists came up with a name for 2026 and said the quiet part straight into a microphone: the “jobless boom.” Corporate profits are sitting at the highest share of the economy since 1950. Workers’ share of what they actually produce just hit the lowest point since the government started counting in 1947. The 500 biggest companies grew earnings 28% last quarter. The seven tech giants grew theirs 63%. And they’re spending that money to fire you. Meta’s own internal memos described its May layoffs as a way to “offset the cost of AI investments” — corporate for: we swapped your...
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In My Place turns 24. It still sucks.
Read more . . . →24 years ago today, Coldplay released “In My Place.” It still sucks. One circular guitar line that goes nowhere, a drum part that just keeps time, and Chris Martin doing his wounded falsetto about being lost and singing lines he couldn’t change. He repeats “in my place” until you start to wonder if he forgot where he was standing. It’s three minutes of a man being mildly sad in a very expensive studio, engineered to sell you a sedan during a commercial break — which is roughly where the song lives now. 2002 was a great year for music that...
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The Alpha Male Is in Court This Month
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate is in a London courtroom this month, sued by four women who say he beat them, choked one of them unconscious during sex, and held a gun on another between 2013 and 2015. He denies all of it. The manosphere’s favorite philosopher — the man who spent years selling teenage boys a worldview where being a real man means domination — is finally being asked, under oath, what domination looked like when he actually practiced it. The answer, according to the claimants, is a woman strangled until she passed out and another told “you’re going to do as...
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Fire 290 People, Then Wave a Million Dollars at the Survivors
Read more . . . →ClickUp just cut 290 people — 22% of the company — and the CEO announced it on X like he was shipping a feature. Zeb Evans calls the new structure a “100x org”: roughly 3,000 internal AI agents that now outnumber his remaining humans three to one. The money saved by firing nearly a quarter of the staff doesn’t go back to customers or get banked for a rainy day. It goes to the people who survived the cut, in the form of salary bands that climb to a million dollars a year in cash. Get laid off, or get...
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Executive bonuses are tariff-proof. Yours isn't.
Read more . . . →The 2026 proxy season is the clearest look yet at how this economy actually works. Companies are quietly rewriting their executive bonus metrics mid-cycle to exclude tariff impacts — adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income, adjusted until the payout math works again. Axon did it. Caleres did it. More are coming. The tariff uncertainty was apparently too unpredictable to hold executives accountable for. The same uncertainty has hit small businesses for 13 consecutive months of job losses. The average American household is paying $1,500 more this year in tariff taxes. There’s no adjustment committee for that. These are the same companies...
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Trump's Name Is Getting Etched in Marble at Penn Station. You're Paying For It.
Read more . . . →Penn Station has been a disaster for decades. Cramped, sweaty, falling apart — New Yorkers have been begging for a renovation forever. Now they’re getting one: $8 billion, raised ceilings, two new entrances. And “President Donald J. Trump” etched in marble next to a presidential seal, gold railings, columns, and escalators throughout. Of course. This is a public train station. The busiest in the country. Hundreds of thousands of commuters a day, most of them not billionaires. Design renderings leaked this week showing a monument to the sitting president built into a transit hub that working people depend on to...
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Salesforce Replaced the Engineers. The Salespeople Are Fine.
Read more . . . →Salesforce didn’t hire a single engineer last year. Not one. Marc Benioff — $145 billion company, personal net worth north of $10 billion — stood up and told the world that AI handles the coding now, so why pay humans to do it? Productivity’s up 30%, he said, clearly pleased with himself. Zero new engineers in fiscal year 2026. That’s the headline he volunteered. That’s the thing he thought was worth bragging about. But here’s what he made sure to mention in the same breath: sales is booming. Nearly 20% more salespeople hired. Because someone still needs to walk into...
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