Like many people I’ve been enjoying reading Gavin Newsom (or whoever runs his social media) trolling Donald Trump by parroting Trump’s patented brand of semi-coherent dementia-brained rant. The all-caps, the quotation marks, the repetition of childish nicknames and catch phrases… it’s all very enjoyable if you’re a hardcore Trump hater. But that’s also why I […]
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I am fast becoming a fan of Adam Conover, in no small part because of this incredible speech to Animation Guild picketers, but this latest episode of his “Factually” podcast is fantastic. I regret that I was not familiar with Elle Reeve, the journalist who says she has given roughly a decade to studying the
How 4Chan took over the GOP Read More »
Like many people I’m pleasantly surprised by the overall result, given the dominant narratives going into the election. I’m dreading another Georgia runoff, though I’m optimistic about the outcome (more on that below) and I’m hopeful that the Dems can hold the Senate, and maybe even pick up a 51–49 majority that would diminish the
Elon Musk versus Hank Green, the online influencer who is everything Elon pretends to be. Since I left Twitter I’ve been fulfilling my social media dopamine needs elsewhere, which is how I learned that yesterday Elon Musk got in a fight about his new toy with Hank Green. It wasn’t a big fight. Elon is
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A letter to the editor in my local paper makes a point that we encounter regularly, and one that I believe holds us back. To paraphrase, the writer recommends a recent book, about the history of racist violence in New York State, be added to school curriculum. I fully agree with the letter writer on this
Redefining American greatness Read More »
Last night I watched the latest episode of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, in which he did a deep dive on bail reform and the massive right-wing outcry against it. As always, Oliver presented a cogent, well-researched, and even entertaining video essay on the topic, and it’s worth watching if you haven’t already. The alarmist
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I joined Twitter in 2009, after most of my tech oriented friends, and I thought I was late to the game. I had no idea what the platform would become. In the early days most tweets were experiments, as users wondered what the platform might be good for. We were still in the last dying
Today I pulled the last of our 2022 crop from our backyard garden. Overnight temperatures have been dipping into the low 30’s recently, and there was still frost on the grass when I went out at 9:30 this morning, so in all honesty it was probably past time. We didn’t get any tomatoes this year,
Last harvest of 2022 Read More »
With the Supreme Court poised to eradicate reproductive freedom, and ICWA on the docket, will America’s indigenous parents be incubators for wealthy white adoptions?
Abortion, Adoption, and Abduction Read More »
I’m sorry to be a downer, but all indications show a bleak future for the American people and our government.
If United States democracy were a stock, I would short it. Read More »
