When I was 11 years old, a few months after my parents split, my dad came over to the apartment. He was holding an album. This was not particularly normal, but there was something, he said, he wanted me to hear.
Walking off energy at 10:30pm, Lower East Side, and look, the immigrant fruit vendor is still at work; I’ll take a mango. How in god’s name do we not want these people here?
When I moved to Portland in 2004, the junkies in downtown's Pearl District, romanticized in Gus Van Sant's 1989 "Drugstore Cowboy," had been replaced by farm-to-table restaurants and a flagship REI store. Portland was on the up, a media darling poised to become the next great
I deleted a tweet that I need to make stronger. For 15 months, I have been explaining that black bloc protesters in Portland are the MAIN source of violence. Proud Boys and right-wing groups rolled through four times in 2020. Then who tf was committing the violence every night?
My former colleague, the beloved @miggyrod33, died Monday at 47. I don’t know if he ever listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast; I do know that, with 900,000 Americans dead of Covid, the misinformation spread there is inexcusable. My column. No paywall. wapo.st/3oskraQ
“They do things like stand in front of someone’s car and, when the car tries to move, claim they’re about to be run over,” she said. “They basically put themselves in danger and then make you responsible for keeping them safe.”
This, from @NellieBowles, would seem outrageous to the point of criminal in the normal times but now, instead, the person who brings the news of the human horror is made to shut up bariweiss.substack.com/p/tgif-inflati…
She referred to this phenomenon as safetyism, an idea introduced in Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind, which described the concept as a “cult of safety… [that] deprived young people of the experiences that their antifragile minds need,…
Many people saying to me, "all I see in my feed are peaceful protestors." I'll leave it at this: if this were your mother's house, would you consider this peaceful? Does it depend on who your mother is? Note "she" had not yet emerged the night I shot this
