Staff Writer, New York Mag. Screenwriter. New Englander in Iowa City.
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NYT names Bottom’s Up and The Devil Laughs among the top ten books of the year! nytimes.com/2023/11/28/books…
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THIS!!!!
My kid's MANDARIN IMMERSiON school does not believe in anything involving MEMORIZATION. A lot of education seems mired in some kind of permanent stupidity perpetuation trap & it's fucking evil
There’s a lot to say about Nikole Hannah-Jones’ parenting, but the infinitely more important thing here is how there are entire schools that just don’t assign homework or teach children anything. This is really bad! We should all be more angry about that! There should be riots in the streets!
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May those for whom Annie Dillard is beloved find her absent presence in the coming days.
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The people sending masked agents into the streets to round up foes, taking government stakes in companies, arbitrarily punishing businesses with tariffs/threats, and handing out cash bribes to voters to win elections are VERY concerned about creeping "socialism" in America.
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This is bad and stupid for many reasons, but the one I am most tickled by is how much fun trial lawyers are going to have with "so you didn't even write your own report" when this cop is on the stand.
I know, I know, plea bargain system. But hear me out in this short thread.
New: Texas cops who used Flock to search 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had an abortion used Axon's AI to write up their police report about the incident.
The tech "summarized" police discussion over whether a crime had been committed
404media.co/texas-police-use…
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The connection made here between Bohannan and DSA is... none, really. MMM explains what DSA is and says Bohannan would "fit right in."
For all the dust kicked up by resolutions, influencers, etc, you can just make any association you want and put it on TV.
Christina Bohannan is soft on crime, wrong on prisons, and weak on immigration. Professor Bohannan might be right for the DSA, but she's wrong for Iowa.
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Three quarters of the country now opposes data center construction. The coalition may be messy, the conviction somewhat thin for many. But we see mass politics like this so infrequently nowadays that we almost don’t know how to make sense of it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opini…
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Truly embarrassing and stupid how few Democrats will stand up against Trump’s incredibly unpopular tariffs.
@JeremiahDJohns wrote a great piece for @TheArgumentMag on this moronic phenomenon. theargumentmag.com/p/who-sup…
Gavin Newsom says tariffs may not disappear if a Democrat is in the White House: "I can't guarantee that, but I can guarantee you nothing like this — the level of disrespect, talking about the 51st state on the basis of our history, our proud past, our present, how important you are to our future and the world we're trying to build. No, those days are numbered."
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The Kansan is running for governor of Iowa by fear-mongering about Muslims praying in Michigan.
Zach Lahn: "We can see across the country what happens when cultures deteriorate…If you ask a 80-year-old in Dearborn, Michigan if they're more concerned about their tax rates or the Muslim call to prayer that's happening five times a day, which one would they probably tell you? They're worried about losing their culture."
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WSJ reporting makes clear that Pete Hegseth and Gen Dan Caine, not just Bibi Netanyahu, bear a lot of the blame for convincing Trump to launch an unwinnable war, while the U.S. intelligence community accurately warned of the risks….
WSJ: Trump listened [to Vance’s arguments not to launch a war] but was ultimately swayed by Pentagon presentations of “decisive” options, U.S. officials said…. Hegseth and Caine replied on multiple occasions that they would navigate any complications, said officials who attended the meetings.
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Every outlet should be able to say this plainly. NYMag was one of the few that didn't push me to change the word when I wrote my essay there this year. Others should follow suit.
New York magazine says it decided that “genocide” was “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages” nymag.com/article/comments-w…
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New York magazine says it decided that “genocide” was “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages” nymag.com/article/comments-w…
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Absolutely insane that not once has a Republican president actually cut federal spending in 60 years.
Party full of bullshitters and liars about their core issue, "fiscal conservatism"
Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year:
🔵1965 - LBJ
🔵2010 - Obama
🔵2012 - Obama
🔵2013 - Obama
🔵2022 - Biden
🔵2023 - Biden
No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.
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About 22% of Americans didn’t get vaccinated for Covid and fewer than 30% think it was a mistake to mandate work from home and social distancing in 2020. About 25% object to solar farms. About 75% now say they oppose data centers. It’s a phenomenon of a very different scale.
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relevant to Minneapolis’s extraordinary ability to coalesce around repelling ICE
Haven’t seen anyone talk about this, but the @nytimes made an interactive map called The American Mosaic, showing ancestry groups that make up every U.S. census tract.
There are many interesting communities to explore. You can zoom in and see what makes up your own neighborhood:
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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