Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"
He is threatening any company that does not voluntarily surrender what he illegally took.
Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie: "Email is an important distribution channel. It should not be your only one." then he quotes Mills Baker on his team: "I know l've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to change, to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business, as you may know! You can blame a few things:"
Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.
Incredible thread by Norm. We are going to win.
Hey Iranians who are thinking about helping the USA: here's what awaits you if things go south.
As an Indian this fills me with a particular flavor of dread and recognition of how fully genocidal Israeli policy in the West Bank is
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
a photo of a gas canister that says TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL
a photo of a gas canister that says DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
Picking up trash in the blocks around the Alex Pretti memorial this morning and found two munitions thawing out of the snow
Bring back the iPod. Some people just want 700 gigs of their music with them at all times.
Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.
She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.
fuck it. all credit for sourcing and ripping this goes to rosamannen. i have to share history. sorry it cuts off a bit of the start and end bluesky won't let me upload a video that is 10 seconds longer than 3 minutes
I stand in judgment of no man’s heart, but the only thing I can think about when Rod Dreher is how he blocked out his ex wife’s face in a picture and replaced her with an oyster
So... ChatGPT is a ThirdWay spokesperson?
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america
we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior
apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail
honestly just realized that with "rumors that the heir apparent is secretly a changeling boost the succession chances of a prince living in foreign lands" we're speed running the glorious revolution, let's goooooooo
New: Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE face discovery in the lawsuit issued by the NY AG.
This could expose the names of white nationalist donors and activists who’ve stayed in the shadows for years:
open.substack.com/pub/michaele...
whY iS evERyONe aROunD TRUmP tiEd To EPstEiN?
Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.
Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
“Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.”
Umberto Eco, 1995
hey have you ever heard what happened to olof palme, a democratic socialist who actually pushed further left than the average democratic socialist?
Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate
The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.
Reminds me of when Christopher Hitchens asked Charlton Heston to name the counties bordering Iraq during the first Gulf War. (Go to 6:40) youtu.be/scmhi2Ub_g0
These nuts increasingly get platformed by clueless Prestige Press outlets to spew their poison. Occasionally one of the dumber ones gets cocky and tries to take on real people.
You won't see Wilson do this again.
Tell me it was the pierogi vendor
This is precisely why it’s essential for every signatory country to invite Netanyahu & all other war criminals. Maybe they’ll get careless & caught.
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
I’d often go further and say Trump literally does not understand polisci 101 concepts like free speech and couldn’t define “journalism” if someone asked him. The mob boss model of how he thinks is pretty good.
This is what he sounds like, but because he is pro-AI and anti-faculty, the Chronicle gives him a long interview and he will appear again and again in right wing media pieces aiming to delegitimize research and learning.
