had some amazing food last time i was in chicago but i paid for it this trip with some pretty terrible selections. and unfortunately that has kind of matched the vibe of this whole trip.
🇨🇴🗽The Trump administration quietly blocked New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani from holding his first meeting with a foreign leader this week, intervening behind the scenes to prevent a planned bilateral meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Washington Post reported.
State Department officials traveling to Bogotá made clear the meeting was unacceptable, in a move Colombian officials interpreted as a threat to arrest Petro if he proceeded.
Colombia subsequently shortened Petro’s New York itinerary, cutting off the possibility of the encounter. A State Department official cited visa restrictions imposed on Petro last year following public comments in opposition to U.S. support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, arguing that visas are “a privilege” and that the President can revoke them at any time.
I had a horrible nightmare: I dreamt that I died before managing to produce any red terror and got white washed by liberals as "one of the good, anti-authoritarian communists".
one very basic demand for trans liberation and gender equality in general that DSA does not include in our program is the demand to abolish legal sex markers
i think one effect of the Epstein revelations on the left (particularly among leftist men) has the embrace of Epstein as a sacrificial lamb to leave patriarchal rape culture even less challenged than it was in the past.
e.g. SA cover-ups don’t generate the same traction anymore
NYPD Commissioner Tisch told City Council today that she’s been budgeted to hire nearly 600 more cops. That would give her a larger police force than under Mayor Eric Adams. https://t.co/vby9UzkgtJ