A lot of leftist arts critique is useful and valid, and a lot of it is just reverse engineering a negative opinion from kneejerk disgust at cringe online fandom, and it's important to know the difference.

Basically all other countries enforce transit fares by some combination of hardening station gates or having people do regular proof-of-payment checks and fining those who didn't pay. Meanwhile, NYPD is shooting people on L trains and dragging people out of buses in the Bronx. Great work team.

What did I know and when did I know it.

this is why “popularism” was so misguided. you can do “popular things” but that doesn’t mean voters will be moved by them.

This is a much much tighter relationship than I was expecting.

“inspired me in class” k that’s good “three time hot dish champion” awww “disaster relief all over Minnesota” important!” “state football champion defensive coach” wow! “speaks Mandarin” huh? “joint NATO artillery training exercises above the Arctic Circle” ok now you’re just describing fanfic

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

my big takeaway from the past two weeks, in fact, is that Harris is a much, much more talented politician than i think people realize

look it's simple. Chairman Biden is in perfect health and fought ten tigers last night. and if for any reason he has to step down then Chairman Harris will be in perfect health and she'll have fought fifteen tigers last night.

Rushmore, but it's just Pelosi four times