Each edition of The Chicagoan had a section called "Talk of the Town" filled with a couple pages worth of pithy little observations and it really is just like reading 1924 Chicago Twitter
It should be a much bigger deal that @WIRED fails to mention that its own former Editor-in-Chief Nick Thompson (Jonah Lehrer’s former editor at the @NewYorker) is listed in this group of members/attendees of Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.
americans are trained to believe european infrastructure is expensive and then paris builds automated metro for a quarter of our per-mile cost and we go "must be nice to have all that government money." brother they spent LESS than us
When Mamdani got in, my landlord started doing things he was supposed to be doing for years because he knew Mamdani was with the tenants, not the landlords. For example, monthly extermination hadn't happened in the 7 years I've been in my building until literally this year.
I genuinely think one of the highest forms of alienation is watching your people’s suffering become an intellectual exercise for people who will never bear any consequences from being wrong.
Peter Thiel, who reportedly* plans to replace US democracy with an outright aristocracy, is building a secret society of some of America's top military, political & business elite. Sitting officials incl. Trump appointees, senators, and the top US commander in NATO (!).
Federal repression is heating up. Organizers in multiple states have been raided and arrested in the past week. This is surely not the end of this terror.
The state wants to make us afraid. Solidarity and action is the only way through this.
Trump is using the “antifa terrorism” framework to crack down on routine activism and free speech, rounding up anti ICE activists in Minnesota this morning—many of whom are union members and leaders. This is another major escalation.
"Happy Bloomsday" Uhhh this is incredibly insensitive towards people who lack interiority. Maybe consider who your celebration of stream of consciousness narration is excluding