Billionaire heiress police commissioner Jessica Tisch is smugly taking clean hits on her boss, the mayor, in front of the entire City Council, cheered on by its speaker.
City Hall is letting this continue for political reasons, but it's increasingly unsustainable.
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Claire Valdez led on the fight against genocide from day one, when it was a huge political risk. Antonio Reynoso didn't even *talk* about it until he was running for Congress years later. We need people who will lead when it's tough, not people who sit it out until those leaders make it safe.
Two and a half years ago, Israeli leaders clearly stated their intent to carry out a genocide in Gaza. And that's exactly what they did.
I was in the streets with so many New Yorkers protesting our complicity and to free Palestine.
Antonio Reynoso stayed silent.
I think we can all agree that this is the most shocking surprise of the century
On headcount, overtime, incarceration, and low-level arrests, Tisch appears to be bucking the Mayor’s purported criminal justice reform agenda.
there is a type of left media figure whose main ideological principle is contrarianism. pointed in the right direction, that can lead you to plenty of good journalism. but it will also lead you to some of the stupidest takes imaginable
damn. too bad the new york times op ed page told me that we can't talk about this!
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This post is getting shared again for some reason, so I thought I'd remind people that I did actually eventually write it up into a longform article. 😄
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
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This is a longstanding fascination of mine; how mid-20th century science fiction created an extremely robust and durable vision of "the future" that people now take as true in a platonic sense, like it inevitably already exists in potentiality, and we're just waiting to discover it.
