Forthcoming, coauthor I. Wurman (2026). cited in every supreme court case thereafter

A lot of affordable housing developers and charter schools are very pro-segregation, because their business model revolves around serving black and brown people in high-need environments, and certain segments of our local activist class are fully in the pocket of the nonprofit industrial complex

I mean, he can just port back, though

What I appreciate about this post is that even if it were true that most housing in Europe is ancient stone buildings (it’s not), it would show that Europeans have bought into the stereotype that cities are museums for display and not places for people to live.

L’etat, c’est froid! (weeps)

I’ve said this a dozen times before, but I’ll say it again: Before 2025, the most active part of the Democratic base thought that Democrats and Congress were doing everything they could to fight Trump and fascism. In 2025 voters learned that was not true.

the day that trump tries to use a microwave on camera is going to be like christmas for you and i hope it comes soon

it's picture perfect that the man who invented the axis of evil decided on a new triumvirate

Graphic design is my passion.

it's become clear that because of the ANTIFA terrorists who have put a GIANT crack in our NATION'S POOL, we are going to need an entirely new branch of math to understand and defeat the chemicals they have poured in, what one might call "algae-bra"

this is why they took fable down

I’m sure the other side of the story — which we’re not hearing in this thread — is that doctors encounter dozens of cases a week where patients are getting Doctor Google or Doctor Chatty to tell them what they want to hear

The lyrics were “we’re gonna be gonna be voting, we’re gonna vote vote vote it’s our moment” and if you make fun of that you’ve denigrated the fine work of gay men’s choirs around the nation……… ….. is exactly the kind of horseshit that won’t be tolerated under woke 2.

Just a few days ago a friendly acquaintance almost hit my kid on her bicycle. Mostly I'm just grateful—he braked in time, thank god—but the description of her as "darting out of nowhere" briefly made me see red.

Someone once said on here that the most toxic elements of the left believe the only ethical ways to survive if you're a trans person are either sex work or passing around the same $50 in a gofundme circle, I think about that a lot

I think about this a lot when writing about art that's valued for its paraphrasable content (lowering the stakes, e.g. Frost "I took the road less traveled by / and that has made all the difference" — does it matter that the poem actually casts decisive self-constitution as a nostalgic illusion?)

Harris would have won in 2024 if we'd had Muppet Silas Marner, implicitly acknowledging and correcting for Dickens's nauseating blend of sentimentality and misogyny via the actually good Victorian Christmas story.

I think what a lot of people identify as bad "cringe" is basically the use of sincere kitsch by people with no underlying belief in the things they say. And that kind of calculated use tastes hollow and sour.

honestly that's the shit I wish Woke 1 had focused on. the sundown towns and redlining and environmental and transit racism. that's what people needed to fucking understand. not necessarily the minutiae of interpersonal microaggressions when that could be so easily hijacked by grifters

I’d imagine that this is only the tip of the iceberg, globally

John Cornyn crying for himself with not-very-subtle sad posting about frogs and scorpions has got to be just the most pathetic display since the other Texas senator campaigned for the guy who said his wife was ugly.

If Talarico had lost and then pulled this sort of disappearing act, he would be roundly (and correctly!) pilloried for not showing up for the sake of party unity.

alcohol consumption by county

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a neoliberal shill.

Of course the Pentagon gets the passive voice.

Some of you are shouting ‘go France!’ Or ‘go Senegal’ while I’m shouting ‘go reflecting pool algae & the relentless tide of entropy frustrating a corrupt tyrant’

An Honest-to-god “the real destination was the friends we made along the way“ out in the wild

"Trump lost a war he never should have started" is the line here. That and "Obama was right, we had a good deal, and then this stupid fucker scrapped it for no reason."

Reminds of when refrigeration technology was beginning to take hold, the guy who literally sold the entire world ice carved from frozen lakes spent vast sums of money to convince people it was evil and "natural" ice was better. And it worked! Until it didn't. Eventually, the market wins

The theory that life is sacred needs a better explanation, imo, for why the world as given by nature is absolutely saturated with death. Every aspect of natural child raising involves the deaths of thousands of possible future people. Tough to square nature's volume strategy with individual value.

they would be absolutely hammering the media in unison for using “deal” instead of “surrender” and the media would capitulate under the pressure

i can tell you right now if the parties were reversed, republicans would be using the word “surrender” instead of “deal”

Stage play real time version of The Mill on The Floss. Takes a full eighteen years to complete. Admission price is one lop-eared rabbit, which Maggie will forget to feed. At the end of the play the river flood washes away not only the lead actors but also the audience.

Upon reflection I'm not quite sure this is right, or at least it's incomplete. It's probably more the growth of origin-story-as-genre (maybe the dominant genre of our time?), and flows from the bottom-up growth of fanfic on the one hand and the top-down corporate desire to maximize IP value.

I wonder if the impulse behind the decision to tell the origin story of literally every character is the background thought that heroes and villains are basically the same—no hero without his crisis, no villain without his trauma.

Madison! We've got a star-studded lineup, and we can't wait to see you at 4 p.m. at Atwood Music Hall.

If you can't see Christ in the migrant, worshiping Him on the altar is pointless.

Okay, we've hit saturation levels. What's really going to resurrect social media and bring Bluesky to the front is figuring out whether the MENA states would be more or less democratic today if the Ottoman Empire hadn't been broken up.

One thing I learned about Karp writing about him for the Monona Indivisible newsletter: he only ever appears on extremely friendly media. Another thing I learned: there is a huge amount of CEO-friendly media I had never heard of before.

I’m in a workshop about how churches can resist Christian nationalism and it is fucking adorable. A woman just shared her recipe for lemon meringue pie.

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

lol the local public radio station told us we can’t read the Declaration of Independence on July 4 because it’s “too political,” our media is hopelessly afraid of its own shadow.

Idealism: connecting the experience of health care to institutions committed to moral values is good and important. Reality:

“Both the masses and the middle-classes reciprocated the recognition they received from the state, coming to identify with it and its fate, and so raising the intensity for which they would fight for its interests to new heights.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-a...

🎶 You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan Designed and directed by his red right hand🎶

Little known fact: in the first draft it was actually "if you can make it anywhere, you can make it there," so by virtue of having made it in Madison, Wisconsin, I'm definitionally also a New Yorker.

This is actually the James Scott Take in Against The Grain, and archaeologists haven't stopped arguing about it with him since

Wait, has everyone dunking on this not read James Scott's Against the Grain? This is not nonsense!

I sympathize, but we're still arguing 5th century BC ethics about the nature of the good, so.