Seattle City Council President and mayoral candidate refuses to attend Capitol Hill Pride because the organizers objected to an event charging white people a $10-$50 “reparations fee”
This event, which is to be held in a city park, is almost certainly illegal. You’d think the people who run the city would be aware of that but hey it’s Seattle.
Friend recently said she heard a segment on the Middle Ages and how refreshing it was to hear something not about race. Five minutes in they started talking about race in the Middle Ages.
It’s not that race isn’t important. It is! But it’s absolutely taken over the network and there’s nothing surprising or even nuanced about the way they cover it. It’s like they all went to the same liberal arts schools and absorbed the same messages because they did.
Madeline Bilis wrote an honest and well researched piece about a horrible, intractable problem that many people deal with and of course people are being predictably awful to her.
The idea that there are “no bad dogs, only bad trainers” is a myth. Some dogs can’t be rehabbed and even if you can find a no-kill shelter or refuge to take them, a lot of these dogs end up in what is essentially solitary confinement for the rest of their lives. That’s torture.
Kudos to @madelinebilis for writing about what must have been one of the hardest decisions of her life. And if you’ve never lived with a dog that would rip off your face without warning, maybe try to have some empathy for people who have.
I cannot recommend @AliceDreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger enough for the story of Andrea James’s deeply fucked up campaign against @profjmb alone. This person is a menace. amazon.com/Galileos-Middl…
This is who we’re dealing with here so I suppose publishing my wife’s name on her website isn’t that bad alicedreger.com/in_fear
To protest the fact that Substack is paying these people I don’t like over a half million dollars I’m moving Moose Nuggets to Ghost unless they also pay me a half million dollars nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…
It’s unclear to me how a substack with 1800 paid subscribers is worth 430k but I guess bribery costs
The Laverys owe Ryan Broderick, Jude Doyle, Jesse Singal, Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan and all the other Problematics a fruit basket or 10
The neo-pronoun thing would be way less annoying if people stopped acting like giving yourself a special label is somehow sacrosanct and deeply meaningful
I’d watch a reality show where Kale and Brayden explain to their grandparents that they now use vamp/vampself pronouns
I’ve never trashed Abigail Shrier or her book (although I have defended her against deplatforming attempts) but this whole saga has been a fantastic example of horseshoe theory.
On that note, I’m going on hike on a beautiful spring day in an area with no phone service, thank god. If you have further complaints, take them up with my intern.
Update: You can see Seattle from the main viewpoint but we all have our flaws.