Nick Capozzoli
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Abundance Reigns!
The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.
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New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...
aloof wife winter let's go
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
aloof wife winter let's go
it's an unconventional pick, sure, but you can't deny that she understands how the intangibles can lead to victory in contact sports
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
it's an unconventional pick, sure, but you can't deny that she understands how the intangibles can lead to victory in contact sports
you fuckers made Bernie walk for a video
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
you fuckers made Bernie walk for a video
"trust the process" worked great for the professional basketball philadelphia 76ers, I think we should try it for the future of the republic
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"trust the process" worked great for the professional basketball philadelphia 76ers, I think we should try it for the future of the republic
"smart" progressive commentators: matty yglesias has the lay of the land
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"smart" progressive commentators: matty yglesias has the lay of the land
addendum to LRT: truly impeccable political instincts from the Dems—trump getting booed out of NFL games, GOP stuck perpetually generating headlines for each novel way they're trying to avoid paying out on SNAP, and *that's* the moment when Schumer & Co. bail them out. My kingdom for a wartime Capo.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
addendum to LRT: truly impeccable political instincts from the Dems—trump getting booed out of NFL games, GOP stuck perpetually generating headlines for each novel way they're trying to avoid paying out on SNAP, and *that's* the moment when Schumer & Co. bail them out. My kingdom for a wartime Capo.
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It’s too bad we don’t have a political party that could make something out of “the president is defying a federal court ruling so that he can starve poor people”
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s too bad we don’t have a political party that could make something out of “the president is defying a federal court ruling so that he can starve poor people”
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
what is a Continuing Resolution, if not a Corey Booker philibuster persevering?
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
what is a Continuing Resolution, if not a Corey Booker philibuster persevering?
been playing a bit of Escape from Duckov. It's a fine enough rendition of the PVE Tarkov thing (I'd say it's a few decimal degrees better than Zero Sievert) but I think it speaks to the lack of these games' imaginations that they revert to reproducing the same "collect 3 thermoses"-style quests.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
been playing a bit of Escape from Duckov. It's a fine enough rendition of the PVE Tarkov thing (I'd say it's a few decimal degrees better than Zero Sievert) but I think it speaks to the lack of these games' imaginations that they revert to reproducing the same "collect 3 thermoses"-style quests.
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So, letting the GOP take their feet away from the fire the instant before it really catches, in exchange for the chance, 11 months from now, to try to remind people about it. Bril.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
So, letting the GOP take their feet away from the fire the instant before it really catches, in exchange for the chance, 11 months from now, to try to remind people about it. Bril.
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
"Very low IQ creatures, these black goopy things. And could you believe it, they said they're modeled after me. Well folks, I don't see it. They haven't taken, the IQ test I took, the doctors said, it was the best performance they'd ever see-" [lights go out] [timpani drum sting]
The Oval Office now looks like a scene from the incredibly underrated 2017 video game ECHO by Ultra Ultra. (this is for like two mutuals)
This feels like a "too many cooks" gag
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Very low IQ creatures, these black goopy things. And could you believe it, they said they're modeled after me. Well folks, I don't see it. They haven't taken, the IQ test I took, the doctors said, it was the best performance they'd ever see-" [lights go out] [timpani drum sting]
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thanks I hate it (light gray unis on light gray court)
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
thanks I hate it (light gray unis on light gray court)
Liu Bei, though, rose to power by organizing to suppress peasants revolting against corruption and starvation in the wake of plague and natural disasters. I humbly submit he is instead He Yi:
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Liu Bei, though, rose to power by organizing to suppress peasants revolting against corruption and starvation in the wake of plague and natural disasters. I humbly submit he is instead He Yi:
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there are 3 NYT conservative columns and they just rotate bylines to keep it seeming fresh:
1) What the Dems Should Do, By Someone Fundamentally Opposed to Their Values
2) Change Scares Me, But Not Enough to Learn New Things
3) Good Governance is When I Have a Princess Leia slave, By Ross Douthat
1) What the Dems Should Do, By Someone Fundamentally Opposed to Their Values
2) Change Scares Me, But Not Enough to Learn New Things
3) Good Governance is When I Have a Princess Leia slave, By Ross Douthat
September 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM
there are 3 NYT conservative columns and they just rotate bylines to keep it seeming fresh:
1) What the Dems Should Do, By Someone Fundamentally Opposed to Their Values
2) Change Scares Me, But Not Enough to Learn New Things
3) Good Governance is When I Have a Princess Leia slave, By Ross Douthat
1) What the Dems Should Do, By Someone Fundamentally Opposed to Their Values
2) Change Scares Me, But Not Enough to Learn New Things
3) Good Governance is When I Have a Princess Leia slave, By Ross Douthat
my favorite response to this last night was a guy who was like "crumple zones"? who's this egghead think he is, foucault?
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
my favorite response to this last night was a guy who was like "crumple zones"? who's this egghead think he is, foucault?
Spurs not really clear on how to challenge Doncic atm. Feel like this matchup is gonna be resolved when Fox is back.
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Spurs not really clear on how to challenge Doncic atm. Feel like this matchup is gonna be resolved when Fox is back.
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[temple of the dog voice] Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
[temple of the dog voice] Zohran Mamdani
this is both incorrect on the facts and also missing the forest for the trees—tariffs are a very personal preoccupation for Trump and not at all in alignment with conservative orthodoxy. It's incredibly obvious that this is an easy crumple zone for the conservative court if they want to take it
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
this is both incorrect on the facts and also missing the forest for the trees—tariffs are a very personal preoccupation for Trump and not at all in alignment with conservative orthodoxy. It's incredibly obvious that this is an easy crumple zone for the conservative court if they want to take it