Alyssa J. Pelish

Essayist. Fictionist. Narrative junkie. Likes secret decoder rings and linguae ignotae.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@bnfaraj @kukukadoo …social niceties spared.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@bnfaraj @kukukadoo Holy shit. I appreciate that silence is the best possible reply to this reply, but I’ve been away from twitter and … I just had no idea that the LLMs were now living their fully paragraphed Clippy/Ted Bundy lives right here, no holds barred, no creepy deployment of inappropriate

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@souljagoyteller American Prestige and The Dig. Sometimes 5-4 and Confronting Capitalism.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@kukukadoo Really the perfect troll.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Mahmoud Khalil has been "doing politics the right way" by exercising and defending free speech rights, and having public policy debates on campus with a hostile public. His reward hasn't been hagiography, it's months of unlawful detention and retaliatory threats of deportation.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

"At first, it seemed important to me that the language we used reflect the horror of what was happening. But I was defeated in trying to secure the most basic changes"

https://t.co/x6ihiqVYH5

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@DepartureJay I remember learning this phrase not in Emerson but from DFW’s TV essay.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@poisonville Apologies to all the mall walkers out there. This looks like a great food court.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@poisonville Sometimes, the signs that the world is ending are just so clear.

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

@poisonville "I'm at the Cinnabon. I'm at the Carvel. I'm at the combination Cinnabon-Carvel."

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

This interview by @UnhappinessPod about working people who end up homeless gets to the heart of the biggest problems in the U.S. Insightful and gut-wrenching work by @brian_goldstone.

https://t.co/0sICszaab2

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

Happy Remembrance of Frederick Douglass's Speech Day!

https://t.co/IKBGwnpyYc

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

My two thoughts on this are:

1) If every Dem would talk like this, the party might be a real opposition

2) It's shameful that some Dems have been more focused on using their platforms to demonize/undermine this guy than on fighting Trump https://t.co/QqhPxnaZuU

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.

Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

For the whole megillah of this spring's Conjunctions: https://t.co/dNJmN950Xq

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

Maybe you're in the mood for a story?

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

You can find this one in the pages of the latest Conjunctions, alongside a passel of yarns and verse by other fine writers.
https://t.co/mJH1OPweun

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

Insightful and heartening. How to build a movement that believes in ordinary people.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

New Dig: @nycDSA co-chairs @unionGustavo and Grace Mausser on how DSA and @ZohranKMamdani campaign orchestrated historic victory. A behind scenes look at how DSA built most powerful socialist org in the country—and how we replicate their victory everywhere https://t.co/ne6ZWaqKlN

[Alyssa J. Pelish @ape_lish]

"Andrew Cuomo lives, still, in a 40-room Victorian mansion..."

Seems like a telling opener for a Cuomo profile.

https://t.co/Xlr1zXhx7b

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

NYTimes Editorial Board 1935, evaluating Mayor La Guardia's first year in office. "[He is] fond of toying with haphazard proposals that may be benevolent in intention but are dangerous or impossible in practice." He seems always to want to have in hand some socialistic plaything or other. Just now it is a municipal power plant."