iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 24/09/2026

The folks over at leftrenewal.org have been kind enough to republish my latest essay on genocide denial in Israel and Serbia. They’ve built a great outlet there, and I encourage you all to subscribe. leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

leftrenewal.org

Israel, Serbia, and Genocide Denial, by Neil A. Abrams – 16 September 2026 – Left Renewal Blog

041

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/09/2026

Wrote a little essay comparing genocide denial in Israel and Serbia - in particular, how leaders in each deny genocide despite openly admitting their intent to carry it out. www.readthedetox.com/p/israel-ser...

readthedetox.com

Israel, Serbia, and Genocide Denial

Leaders of both countries openly incited genocide. When accused, they reach for the fainting couch.

050

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/09/2026

“I am a professional opinion writer whose knowledge of computers is limited to emails, web browsing, and Microsoft Word. Here’a how I think A.I. will evolve over the next ten years.”

0122

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 22/09/2026

It's amazing the kind of split-brained gymnastics these people must perform to oppose genocidal occupation in Palestine and, in the next breath, call for accepting it in Ukraine. Is genocidal occupation bad or not? Should it be resisted or not? Make up your mind. www.open.online/2026/09/20/f...

Snapshot of Albanese speaking to an audience. Headline: "Open 2026 Festival, Albanese: "I agree with those who think we should stop sending weapons to Kiev" – Video

1173

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fellas, is it bad when 59% of members of the opposition party would support a military coup and junta combo?

2363

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Newsom is so thirsty for support for his presidential bid from billionaires and the worst of the worst people destroying our democracy he will undermine our most fundamental rights at every turn to get what he wants. Anything about the "constant contact" remind you of Trump?

45922

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 21/09/2026

For all his anti-Trump grandstanding, Newsom is hopelessly ill-suited to handle this authoritarian moment. If Americans want to restore their democracy, they should kick out every one of these establishment Dem assholes at the soonest opportunity.

3419

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 18/09/2026

Leaving aside the fact that this ain't gonna happen, the Constitution is not what got us here; powerful people able to *disregard* the Constitution got us here. Constitutions can be nice, but short of abolishing the presidency and supreme court, they don't protect against authoritarianism.

theatlantic.com

Buttigieg: Democrats Need to Get Serious About Amending the Constitution

The former transportation secretary spoke with The Atlantic’s editor in chief about what comes next for Democrats should they win big in November.

1182

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The RNC in 2024 gave every delegate a “Mass Deportations Now” sign.

513732

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"But surely we can still count on you to come and humiliate us at the next White House Correspondents' Dinner, right sir?"

2043379

Reposted by Neil Abrams

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thread. 😬 Some context: of the ten papers, the author of one yanked it on being contacted; the author of another said they couldn’t meet because of conflicting commitments; the author of a third just didn’t show up. For academics, publications are REALLY important.

2238

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Again, just this week, the @nytimes.com & everyone else ran front page stories & headlines about how the AfD in 🇩🇪 was a far right party. Not only do they still not refer to the Republican Party this way, despite all of 👇 happening daily, but 👇 doesn't even make the news. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

56221

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 10/09/2026

Taibbi laments how “boring” he finds Trump’s autocratic assault. This is a guy who spent the Biden years hyperventilating about phantom censorship by liberals. But actual, bona fide authoritarianism by the right? It’s just too dull to even think about. www.racket.news/p/on-escapin...

A writer’s most unforgivable sin is being boring, which makes saying anything in this time period tough. Whether you’re reporting or commenting, the game is up once audiences are able to classify according to current political taxonomy. You can publish 50 words or 5000, but what you’re producing for most audiences is a compass heading, showing where you reside on a map in relation to Donald Trump. Maybe you wanted to say something else, but the compass reading is the only thing most people care about, so that’s how the thing will be compressed, summarized, and circulated.

It’s fine if you find talking about Donald Trump interesting, or if it’s important to you that neighbors and family receive an unambiguous signal about where you’d like to place yourself on the TrumpScape. You can put out a strong “against” signal in legacy media – that’s allowed – while almost any other strong statement is interpreted in the other direction.

2173

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How many more months of war and how many more dead Ukrainian civilians will it take before Europeans find a conscience and transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine? What more proof do you need that Moscow does not want to negotiate? Let’s find a solution @de-nva.bsky.social

49725

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I won't let men in girls locker rooms" motherfucker you're letting GIRLS go in the girls locker room, the GOP wants men checking your daughters genitalia! ATTACK, RELENTLESSLY, HOW WEIRD THEY ARE AND HOW THE EPSTEIN PARTY WANTS STRANGERS STARING AT UNDERAGE GIRLS!

27515

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm going to try and be as polite as possible about this: this isn't a purity test, this is a "will you defend a minority group when the government is working hard to murder them" question, and acting like it's a wedge issue rather than the entire game is a failure of empathy and historical vision.

714443

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

how the mainstream media covered the racist trump attack on the smithsonian vs how we covered it @dailykos.com read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist

Trump Orders Smithsonian Institution to Promote ‘American Greatness’
The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

Trump Orders Removal of ‘Divisive Race-Centered Ideology’ From Smithsonian

Trump executive order seeks to 'restore' American history through Smithsonian overhaul

431431471

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/09/2026

For decades, people have been writing books arguing that fiat money is a "sham" and predicting that a massive crisis is just around the corner. But no, I'm sure Hunter's onto something.

3345

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/09/2026

While Dems fall over themselves to disavow Hasan Piker, the Trump administration proudly brings white nationalists into its ranks, thus gifting Dems daily opportunities to go on the attack and change the conversation. But for some reason, Dems refrain. They're more comfortable attacking their own.

0161

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/09/2026

At one point, I started writing a book comparing apologists for genocide in Ukraine and Palestine. But then Trump was reelected, so instead I'm writing a book on how to overthrow him (nonviolently).

1133

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/09/2026

It's instructive to compare genocide denial in Israel's case with that in Russia's case. People like Walsh would never dream of disputing expert allegations of genocide against Russia. Yet, here they are issuing the same inane apologias on Israel's behalf that tankies do for Russia. 1/2

1388

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/09/2026

Guys, when legions of human rights experts and organizations - you know, people who've *made careers* out of studying genocide - call it a genocide, saying "no, it's not" doesn't qualify as a legitimate counterargument.

1162

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump thinks that if you pay somebody $10 for a burrito than you have lost the $10, like it has been stolen from you. He's not pretending; this is literally the basis of his trade policy

672283412

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this is actually worth listening to. not because it's that more insane than most other stuff. but it's a window into how he understands trade. and he understands in the sense of having no idea how anything works.

581404256

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

👇🎯 Happy week, everyone!

0568

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 03/09/2026

One can just imagine the 9/11 victims looking down with loving appreciation as we enjoy our mini muffins in their honor.

062

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 03/09/2026

And the farmers? Bound to chairs at drag queen story hours with their eyelids clamped wide open. Every one of them.

040

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/09/2026

Listening to the Zionist voices Peter interviews stumble, stammer, deny, question, and deflect over basic shit—the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in ‘47-48, the deliberate assault on civilian life in Gaza, etc.—drives me crazy. Say what you will about Jabotinsky; at least he owned it.

peterbeinart.substack.com

Rabbi Yaacov Behrman and I Discuss Judaism, Zionism and Chabad

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

140

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/09/2026

"Like, SURE, somebody's REALLY GOT an idea for Israel and Palestine that's better than my '23-state solution.'"

042

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Incredible that Russia has now lost more soldiers in Ukraine than the US did during the entire Second World War(!)—and still holds less Ukrainian territory than it did in early 2022. Failure upon failure upon failure.

410436

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/09/2026

LEFT: Noah Feldman in Bloomberg in 2020, promising that his old friend Amy Coney Barrett would "analyze and decide cases in good faith, applying the jurisprudential principles to which she is committed" RIGHT: Noah Feldman in Bloomberg in 2026, "surprised" that Amy Coney Barrett did not do that

Yet these political judgments need to be distinguished from a separate question: what to think about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom Trump has told associates he plans to nominate. And here I want to be extremely clear. Regardless of what you or I may think of the circumstances of this nomination, Barrett is highly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.

I disagree with much of her judicial philosophy and expect to disagree with many, maybe even most of her future votes and opinions. Yet despite this disagreement, I know her to be a brilliant and conscientious lawyer who will analyze and decide cases in good faith, applying the jurisprudential principles to which she is committed. Those are the basic criteria for being a good justice. Barrett meets and exceeds them.

The majority dismissed this idea, interpreting the Lujan precedent to mean that the observers’ aesthetic reaction did not count as concrete and particularized but should be understood as mere “distress at or disagreement with” the government’s actions. To hear the majority tell it, if mere aesthetic objections were sufficient to bring a lawsuit, anyone could bring a lawsuit against the government any time for anything that the plaintiff disagreed with.

The vote that surprises me most in this case is that of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who clerked for Scalia and ordinarily takes pains to make sure the court interprets his views correctly.

It’s certainly true that if you read Scalia’s opinion in its entirety, his statement about the cognizability of aesthetic injury is what is known as “dicta,” which means words not technically required to reach the outcome in the case. But Scalia most certainly did not reject the plaintiffs’ standing in the Lujan case on the grounds that they were merely expressing disagreement with government policy. Instead, he was careful to say that they hadn’t shown that they had firm plans to visit the endangered species in question. In context, Roberts’s interpretation of the Lujan opinion is superior to that of the majority.

1418344

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Sedgwick, Kansas, Police Chief Lee Nygaard resigned after using Flock cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend more than 200 times over several months.”

6256121

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/09/2026

There's a lesson here: Unlike Dem leaders, Republicans don't follow public opinion; they shape it.

22110

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is so important. Voters don’t want policy triangulation to hit just the right level of this or that. They aren’t principled moderates. Voters want to take part in a narrative. They want it so badly that they’re trying out hating Canada. How can liberals channel the hunger for narrative?

0156

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/09/2026

"Making Bestiality Okay Again." Seriously, if I hear one more pundit complain about the Democratic Party being "out of touch."

The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality.

Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across the country, are no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the nation's top law enforcement agency.

In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel. According to multiple sources briefed on the matter, the FBI did so to facilitate hiring in some cases, even if candidates acknowledged they engaged in sexually deviant activities or stole from an employer.

091

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In my last job (Washington Post Opinion section), I was asked repeatedly to write about the book "Abundance." I kept making excuses. Finally, I just bluntly stated that there are many, many books published about politics and it was strange that the entire political media was obsessed with this one.

613100304

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Extremely grateful for all the support from everyone who's read or turned out for an event for UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY in the past few weeks! Been blown away by meeting all those opposing oligarchy, the rot of corruption, and more. The energy just keeps building. Very clear that it won't stop.

093

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 01/09/2026

Pundits: The Democrats' problem is that they've become distracted by culture war stuff and have lost sight of voters' real concerns. This guy:

071

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 01/09/2026

Left off of this pie-in-the-sky list is the one thing Dems *can* do, which is relentless oversight hearings on an authoritarian and world-historically corrupt administration. (Defunding the war is also realistic, but the rest of this stuff is almost comically not.)

120

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 01/09/2026

Leaving aside the well-worn fascism debate, I disagree that US democracy still "works." For all intents and purposes, we have transitioned to a form of authoritarianism. The distinction matters: It means a different set of tools will be needed to bring about a change in power. 1/2

2266

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 01/09/2026

Agree, but the media's gonna media, so it's really up to the Dems to make an issue out of the things we want the media to make an issue out of. If Dems yell, and yell loudly and repeatedly - about Trump's associations, the media won't be able to ignore it.

141

Reposted by Neil Abrams

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Glancing as estimated casualty figures, it is also the case that wherever Russian troops arrive, a lot of Russian troops cease to exist. Still, well worth remembering how total Putin's aim of destroying the Ukrainian nation is.

130149

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Already 4 wounded in Kyiv because of Russian attack , 2 of injured them are kids

24010

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 31/08/2026

The Democrats' problem is that they are out of touch with the median voter. They should try being more like this guy.

072

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 31/08/2026

Just a reminder that court expansion is Job #1 for a future Dem president and that any Dem candidate who doesn't say this explicitly is not credible. It's very simple: Do you want nice things? Expand the court. Otherwise, no nice things.

163

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Still waiting for all those podcasts, op-eds, & Substack posts from Ezra Douthglesias about how the GOP is mired in an urgent crisis of veering too far from the center & must now do an Abundance of Moderate Popularism.

36420

Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 31/08/2026

To all you people fulminating over how racist this is, it's not. Here's another CBS News tweet that's totally gonna happen, and soon:

Fake tweet from CBS News: "As the nation prepares to mark 27 years since the Columbine massacre, Tommy Tuberville, the Republican US Senator, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.

061

Reposted by Neil Abrams

Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Russian atrocities -sexual violence, torture, child deportations, filtration camps, forced disappearances, attacks on cultural heritage sites & critical infrastructure- "expose a coordinated campaign directed against Ukrainians as a national group," ie, genocide. By @kristinahook.bsky.social

atlanticcouncil.org

Russian atrocities in Ukraine are escalating and demand urgent action

When leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin embrace an ideology of national group destruction, history offers little reason to believe they can be persuaded to abandon that objective, writes Kr...

02121