Hari Kunzru

I'm about to get ready to go out and celebrate the New Year, so I guess it's time for a list. I'm threading it into last year's, and I see I published much less than in 2024, mainly because I've been deep in a draft. New Year's resolution is to finish it in 2026.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Bari Weiss is literally going to run CBS news while complaining about being silenced

The man with the fakest job of all

Pen America’s ability to shit the bed is unparalleled

We are now at the stage of well-actuallying other posters about Count Binface lore

Someone on here called Trump Needy Amin and I haven’t enjoyed a Trump dictator epithet as much since The Tangerine Trujillo

Rahm Emmanuel has all the slipperiness of Gavin Newsom with added uncontrollable rage.

Farage is about as serious a politician as Count Binface. Binface is less dishonest and better dressed

Platner was supposedly justified because of his appeal to a working class that is always discursively coded as a white male industrial worker. Yet (while acknowledging the demographics of Maine) the 2026 US working class looks more like a black woman in scrubs than this 20th century image

The Latin American caudillo summer look kind of gives away where Nixon’s political heart lay

The don’t die guy announced that he’s dying of a gastric autoimmune disease. He says it’s due to sugary cereal as a kid. The internet has diagnosed him with Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease or TA-GvHD, from receiving regular transfusions from his son.

Has any politician in history been worse at reading the room than Hakeem Jeffries? “Yay for Trump’s corruption! Kickbacks get the job done!”