Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
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Still the best, and only, American city.
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How this major city became one of America’s most affordable for homebuyers
While there are many yardsticks for calculating housing affordability, the western Pennsylvania city stands out as uniquely livable.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Still the best, and only, American city.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I wrote a sonnet about scaring my kid about Zohran Mamdani:
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wrote a sonnet about scaring my kid about Zohran Mamdani:
Embrace Huáxià
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Embrace Huáxià
They're calling it America's most harmonious facade.
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
They're calling it America's most harmonious facade.
I wrote a sonnet about a toilet in the White House.
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I wrote a sonnet about a toilet in the White House.
Such people there are living and flourishing in the world—Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made.
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Such people there are living and flourishing in the world—Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made.
The thing about great design is, you have to urn it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The thing about great design is, you have to urn it.
Few are brave enough to say so, but Tom Cruise did some really excellent physical comedy and slapstick work in The Mummy.
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Few are brave enough to say so, but Tom Cruise did some really excellent physical comedy and slapstick work in The Mummy.
Leaving aside my misspent youth, when I hiked the Inca Trail last year we drank coca tea every morning and I chewed coca leaf anytime we went over 10K ft elevation (so basically all the time), and honestly the stuff is great and extremely effective.
October 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Leaving aside my misspent youth, when I hiked the Inca Trail last year we drank coca tea every morning and I chewed coca leaf anytime we went over 10K ft elevation (so basically all the time), and honestly the stuff is great and extremely effective.
As usual the FT cuts through the breathless reporting with a sobering dose of what's actually transpired and transpiring.
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Trump’s Gaza plan hinges on security force yet to take shape
Thornier second stage of US president’s proposal includes Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal
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October 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
As usual the FT cuts through the breathless reporting with a sobering dose of what's actually transpired and transpiring.
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
Extraordinary that in this entire article, the Democrats just do not appear. And that's not unfair of the author or the Journal!
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Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Extraordinary that in this entire article, the Democrats just do not appear. And that's not unfair of the author or the Journal!
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
They say to me, Bacharach, what's your passion? And I say, without hesitation: coffering. Coffers are my passion.
October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
They say to me, Bacharach, what's your passion? And I say, without hesitation: coffering. Coffers are my passion.
facades,,,, r my passion
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
facades,,,, r my passion
Genuinely LOL'd
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Genuinely LOL'd
Finally some good news.
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Have we passed peak social media?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
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October 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Finally some good news.
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They're calling it the most normal house, with the most normal rooms, of all time.
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They're calling it the most normal house, with the most normal rooms, of all time.
ceilings, and lights...are my Passion
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ceilings, and lights...are my Passion
The Allen Quartermain of Franklin County NC
September 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Allen Quartermain of Franklin County NC
So many Choices
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
So many Choices
I wrote a sonnet about pregnant liberal women taking Tylenol just to protest President Trump.
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I wrote a sonnet about pregnant liberal women taking Tylenol just to protest President Trump.
Kerry has written an incredible update to the Spahn Movie Ranch scene from Once Upon A Time . . . In Hollywood.
I spent some time wandering around SF with some kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius nymag.com/intelligence...
The AI Kids Take San Francisco
Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Kerry has written an incredible update to the Spahn Movie Ranch scene from Once Upon A Time . . . In Hollywood.
