Geoff Green
@geoffgreen.org
Planner in North Carolina and a shameful nuisance. Friend of Desoto
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Snow, welcome to The War on ICE.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Snow, welcome to The War on ICE.
“It was never my intention to cause pain or division” lol when you told a parent asking for resources for their transgender child that there’s no such thing as a transgender child, what was your fucking intention?
“It was never my intention to cause pain or division, nor to bring harm to my employer or to those I love and have supported for many years.”
Shop Local Raleigh director apologizes for transgender youth comment
“It was never my intention to cause pain or division, nor to bring harm to my employer or to those I love and have supported for many years.”
bit.ly
January 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
“It was never my intention to cause pain or division” lol when you told a parent asking for resources for their transgender child that there’s no such thing as a transgender child, what was your fucking intention?
Counterpoint: at least one person age 70+ should take lots of aspirin.
People age 70+ should not be taking aspirin at any dose for prevention. Results of randomized trials show higher risk of all-cause mortality, major bleeding events and deaths from cancer. p 153, SUPER AGERS book
January 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Counterpoint: at least one person age 70+ should take lots of aspirin.
Someone willing to denigrate a parent asking for help for their child shouldn’t be representing Raleigh’s small businesses. c.org/Mswc2F62M4 abc11.com/post/outcry-...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Someone willing to denigrate a parent asking for help for their child shouldn’t be representing Raleigh’s small businesses. c.org/Mswc2F62M4 abc11.com/post/outcry-...
Yet another college football season where we are all wondering “can anyone stop Indiana?”
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Yet another college football season where we are all wondering “can anyone stop Indiana?”
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The Rose Bowl camera guy put a kid wearing a Purdue shirt on the Jumbotron, resulting in the loudest, most guttural booing heard all day
January 1, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The Rose Bowl camera guy put a kid wearing a Purdue shirt on the Jumbotron, resulting in the loudest, most guttural booing heard all day
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN for new years are drunk and gloriously unhinged.
January 1, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN for new years are drunk and gloriously unhinged.
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R.I.P. 2025 (2025 - 2025)
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
R.I.P. 2025 (2025 - 2025)
Fascinating background on the NYC MetroCard swiping system
Social media isn't a great place for nuance or context, but despite that I want to take a moment today to talk about some of the things that made the MetroCard special in its day.
December 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Fascinating background on the NYC MetroCard swiping system
Delightful story to end the year (and the Metrocard era) (gift link)
To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Delightful story to end the year (and the Metrocard era) (gift link)
Delightful look back at some of the best things from the year
It’s one of my favorite days of the year! Here are my 50 Wonderful Things From 2025.
Thanks as always to the editors who help wrangle this bear.
Thanks as always to the editors who help wrangle this bear.
50 wonderful things from 2025
Each year, critic Linda Holmes looks back on the year and compiles a list of the things that brought her joy.
www.npr.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Delightful look back at some of the best things from the year
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NEW: Mark Cuban on why he decided to sell drugs with a limited markup when he could sell them at higher prices: "Because I'm rich as fuck and I didn't care about the money.... My next dollar is not going to change my life."
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban...
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban...
Mark Cuban Tells Us How He Can Fix America’s Shitty Health Care
The entrepreneur wants to do what many in his position have tried and failed to accomplish.
www.thebulwark.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
NEW: Mark Cuban on why he decided to sell drugs with a limited markup when he could sell them at higher prices: "Because I'm rich as fuck and I didn't care about the money.... My next dollar is not going to change my life."
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban...
www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban...
I’m a sorcerer with green skin fighting against the oppressive regime of the wizard,
I run a tea shop in San Francisco and in my spare time I solve murders.
December 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m a sorcerer with green skin fighting against the oppressive regime of the wizard,
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Of course it might be an inconvenience to suddenly have your street be busier and more crowded. But that only seems like a checkmate if the quieter, less visible costs of the housing crisis have no weight in your outlook.
The Big House That Might Not Be Able To
A home expansion in Fairfax County tests the limits of single-family zoning
www.thedeletedscenes.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Of course it might be an inconvenience to suddenly have your street be busier and more crowded. But that only seems like a checkmate if the quieter, less visible costs of the housing crisis have no weight in your outlook.
@rodger.bsky.social so I got my road ridge LLC payment notice (great!) and my Substack subscription payment notice for rodgersherman dot Substack (not so good). What do I do???
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@rodger.bsky.social so I got my road ridge LLC payment notice (great!) and my Substack subscription payment notice for rodgersherman dot Substack (not so good). What do I do???
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
Trans athletes deserve grace and support, not opprobrium
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
defector.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Trans athletes deserve grace and support, not opprobrium
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Sculpt me like one of your french girls
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sculpt me like one of your french girls
Good piece by @drewharwell.com on the the utter pieces of shit running our government today
New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
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A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
wapo.st
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Good piece by @drewharwell.com on the the utter pieces of shit running our government today
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What should America should stand for? I think it is our moral responsibility to care for migrants, and my family put up $30,000 toward that end. I hope you’ll join.
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt" - Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt" - Exodus 23:9
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
What should America should stand for? I think it is our moral responsibility to care for migrants, and my family put up $30,000 toward that end. I hope you’ll join.
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt" - Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt" - Exodus 23:9