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.

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.

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

Rushmore, but it's just Pelosi four times

if people haven't seen the tweet

i don’t want to see trump assassinated, i want to see him imprisoned after due course, but these fucking murderous clowns want to murder each other and i am hard-pressed to argue that our whole country would be worse off if they did.

so close! that's a policy

Blanche: "President Trump is being very careful to comply" with the gag order. Judge Merchan, sharply: "Mr. Blanche, you are losing all credibility with this court." (via Adam Klasfeld, Anna Bower)