Chris
freshcoaster.bsky.social
Chris
@freshcoaster.bsky.social
City guy in the upper Midwest.
Dang. I miss print editions of news. Scrolling on a device just never feels as satisfying.
December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
American Pravda has arrived
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
or any David Sacks owned entity
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Scott Baio feels left out
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Duck Phillips, too. They had to keep inventing weird reasons to insert him into later seasons because he was he was so good.
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I never noticed that Freddie, being played by one of the Murray brothers, has a Chicago accent if you pay close enough attention.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
What’s the art deco one?
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
She was gerrymandered out of a congressional district that she lost in a very close race in the 2000’s. About to be a very satisfying serving of “revenge best served cold.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Interestingly enough, I think the unexpected embrace of Blago by MAGA has sort of neutralized that potential attack line from the Republicans. Maybe it would only matter for the Democrats.
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Trying to think of which city’s self-assigned group of “natives” would find this statement the most incendiary.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
There was also one from circa 2021 or something like that where you said “we underestimated Trump once before, it would be unwise to make that mistake again”.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pro tip, every year there are at least a few questions on a taking. So study the important SCOTUS cases.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Swarm is inside because it’swarm. I’ll show myself the door, now.
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Awesome, both the content and the project.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thompson as a comparison for any journalist should be an insult, not a compliment. I regard him solely as a cultural folk writer of his time more so than an actual avante garde journalist like Tom Wolfe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Chris Sale is triggered by this image.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Neither I nor this platform are worth this sort of nitpicking expedition.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Did I say they created it? I said something was afforded from rapid economic growth.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And no, none of the description is meant to discount the narrative of slavery, first nations, and the historical poor in this country.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Look, I don’t think we’re going to disagree on much. I’m just trying to be positive in my description rather than normative. The availability of land was, and still is, a major theme of American society. The availability of some essential natural materials is important in understanding its growth.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Two swing state elections in two years is nothing to sneeze at.
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I mean they did? It was just limited in who could afford it. Look at the history of some of the early suburbs like Berkeley, Evanston, Oak Park, White Point, etc. Those people thought they were getting away from the supposed dirty, immoral, uncivilized city.
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Post script I do think the way that Americans wealth manifests itself is ridiculous, large and bulky cars along with 5000 sq.ft. suburban houses and impersonal car centric communities. Zzzzzzzzz
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Jeffersonian cultural traits, a millennia spanning human quest for privacy, and the largest societal acceleration in human history between 1850-2000 which created physical abundance of land and materials. When you see other parts of the world developing, they fall into similar sprawl habits.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wasn’t trying to give a value statement, just trying to identify a Jeffersonian rooted trend that I think a lot of people overthink. Sometimes societies has bad or flawed values.
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM