Writer, urban planner
Rhode Island
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In my latest for @curaffairs , I show how the administrative state was once a powerful force for good in many Americans’ lives, and how it can be again: currentaffairs.org/news/make…
Hey @Apple - nothing works on my phone since your most recent forced update. I can’t send images via text anymore, among other problems. I’m close to switching to an android phone if this enshittification trend keeps up. #nothingworksanymore
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I would love one day for the opportunity to interview or debate Bret Stephens. He says so much nonsense with so much confidence. The whataboutism is here is pathetic.
Is the interior minister of Japan daily bragging about mass murder and ethnic murder and making foreign mothers cry?
Is the interior minister of Japan receiving billions of dollars in US military aid?
Is the interior minister of Japan's government being investigated by the ICJ for genocide and wanted at the ICC for war crimes?
Are we in a war alongside Japan right now?
Do US politicians, both GOP and Dem, declare they entered politics to defend Japan or have dreams about Japan?
I could keep going...
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I'm reminded of Conan O'Brien's point that all statues should be made of soap. Watching Farage these days is like watching one such melt in the rain. Oh, the fall, the fall, the higgledy-piggledy crashing fall.
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I found one of the approximately six buildings built in 1932. Props to the optimistic souls who put it up.
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NPR has some great interviews with writers and other artists, and it's Congressional reporting is super. But I had to stop listening after October 7, as it has been National Pentagon Radio on Gaza, relentless pro Israeli pandering and propaganda. Who talks like this?
In my interviews with Israelis, a portrait has emerged: a people defiant but weary, resistant to Palestinian pain but traumatized from war, fed up with the world but fearful of global isolation, and in a tug-of-war with themselves.
Read and listen:
npr.org/2026/10/25/g-s1-1495…
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please do tell me which war crimes the Japanese interior minister committed lately with my tax dollars
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The most anti-intellectual US political party in at least a century is reaching for intellectual prizes as the measure of worth?
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Hard to exaggerate the anger and confusion that a lot of American Gen X pro Isr*el fanatics are experiencing over the fact that Americans now have direct access to world and especially Israeli media. They presumed it would be their role to shape and regulate public opinion.
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the best way to understand what's wrong with capitalism is to read the headlines in the Wall Street Journal
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Since he's on everyone's mind, here's Peter Taylor's profile of Lula for @curaffairs - "Worker, Prisoner, President" 🔗
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"The point about cheap, exploited labour is not to justify it because it brings us our inexpensive lifestyles: the point is that we should not be using it in the first place."
"On Trump, Immigration, and the Failure of the Left."
yasminnair.com/on-trump-immi…
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Disturbing how centrists mentally slip from "let's tactically avoid criticizing Democrats since Republicans are worse" to "Democrats never do anything wrong since Republicans are worse."
VBNMW isn't just a tactic, it's a whole weird epistemology
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In the final days of Lula’s campaign, he promised free public transit on the weekend across Brazil. Will be incredible if he pulls that off.
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In line with long historical practice, capitalist markets are already punishing the people of Brazil with capital flight, yanking assets from the country and making it far harder for the government to meet the public’s demands
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Democrats are an inch away from calling Trump gay in a misguided attempt to appeal to “the common man.”
The worst part is that I bet some consultant got paid hundreds of thousands to come up with the “messaging” that turns into these “jokes.”
