I'm riding the city bus and a man who looks just like Wallace Shawn got on-board. I can only assume that it's not Wallace Shawn and that Wallace Shawn would not be riding a bus in St. Louis, but it's also not entirely inconceivable...
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm riding the city bus and a man who looks just like Wallace Shawn got on-board. I can only assume that it's not Wallace Shawn and that Wallace Shawn would not be riding a bus in St. Louis, but it's also not entirely inconceivable...
Whenever I find myself thinking "What the hell are they even talking about??", I just have to remind myself that they're extremely racist, and then it all falls into place.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Whenever I find myself thinking "What the hell are they even talking about??", I just have to remind myself that they're extremely racist, and then it all falls into place.
"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
Regardless of how much money Zuckerberg has, Billie Eilish is just cooler than him. And nothing hurts worse than being criticized by someone who's cooler than you.
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Regardless of how much money Zuckerberg has, Billie Eilish is just cooler than him. And nothing hurts worse than being criticized by someone who's cooler than you.
A big reason simple right-wing rhetoric works so well ("The government is shutdown because the Democrats are evil!") is because Leftists have a hard time actually explaining what's going. This is probably the simplest/best explanation of the shutdown that I've seen and it's still 3 paragraphs long.
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A big reason simple right-wing rhetoric works so well ("The government is shutdown because the Democrats are evil!") is because Leftists have a hard time actually explaining what's going. This is probably the simplest/best explanation of the shutdown that I've seen and it's still 3 paragraphs long.