from “concerned so sharp an immigration wave might pose challenges to a community” to “they’re eating the cats” is the ultimate motte and bailey.

rewatched “The Warriors” forty years later. found myself nostalgic for a lost dystopia.

i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.

i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.

“It is often alleged that means-testing proponents…like the fact that the administrative burdens…exclude some poor people bc that saves money. But rarely do you ever see it laid out this explicitly” @mattbruenig.bsky.social on the UK “Winter Fuel Payment” www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/09/13/t...

perhaps laura loomer is an antibody, an apparatus to which a threat is drawn, rendering it visible and visibly noxious to the larger system.

“The lesson of history is that it does not matter where you draw the lines on the map. What matters is what kind of society lies on each side of that line.” @sjshancoxli.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-r... ht @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

“the right to interstate travel is a lot like the right to abortion once was: a core freedom that is grounded in our Constitution but does not appear in the text of the document” @andyreports.bsky.social and Lisa Needham www.publicnotice.co/p/texas-medi... ht @memeorandum.com

“social housing…can impose competitive discipline on private rivals. As a public option in the housing mkt, it can rein in the pricing power of…landlords and pressure them to raise standards of habitability for poor, working, and middle-class families” hbr.org/2024/09/the-... ht @jwmason.bsky.social

This (apocryphal) practice that has overtaken the national debate, I think I have a name for it — fidophagia.

[new draft post] Another man's poison drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/12/a...

who knew the whole gang was here? i’m so excited to find you all.

“In this context, Keynes is now irrelevant. ‘It is in determining the volume, not the direction, of actual employment that the existing system has broken down’ he wrote.That might have been true in the 1930s but it is not now” @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

so much of contemporary politics is coming up with something sacred they are profaning.

the wild year that has not, in fact, been.

“Students at New College are becoming more and more isolated by various actions of the administration, including…new rules that prevent ‘unauthorized’ gatherings of 5 or more students.” ncffreedom.org/%5B-%5D-blog... // can this be for real? #NewCollege

hello, world! i'm still getting my bearings here. for now my main microblogging home remains zirk.us/@interfluidity but there's lots of people i wanna talk to here, i find myself peeking at your feeds anyway, so i'll play a bit and see how it goes. love and lunatics. and lollipops.