Slowwwly backing away from this place I liked. Ex-WSJ, Marketplace, Guardian. I followed you for pics of your pet. She/her. Hi.
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Nov 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Because it revealed who she really is. Disrespectful, snotty, deeply unserious. It exposed her frivolity and her arrogance completely. A total lightweight, unprepared to deal with serious issues. Zero gravitas. Just ego.
People who are reflexively dismissive about accountability and apologies are deeply dangerous and unworthy of holding a high position. It tells you EVERYTHING about a person.
Oct 28 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Watching a video of a man who bought a $15,000 house in France (the cheapest house for sale in France) and he recorded 30 days of renovations, which involve demolishing the entire inside down to the studs. Maybe more than the studs, because he had for remove walls, ceilings, floors, and joists. I am not exaggerating when I say I started this with very low expectations and now I think it's the most compelling thing I've watched in months
Really starting to understand those older Italian men who gather outside construction sites every day just to watch the proceedings
Oct 13 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
I saw a TikTok from a young woman about how she paid $1000 to go to a yacht event in Monaco and people invited her to parties on some yachts "because I was dressed to impress...you can dress to show you bring value to the yacht."
And I don't know if anyone will tell her that cute dresses are not why young women are invited to yacht parties.
She's getting cooked in the comments -- but only because other young women don't think the dress is cute, not because anyone is pointing out the obvious fact that inviting young women with no money onto yachts is the equivalent of "ladies night" at a bar. The young women -- in any dress -- are there to bring the old men in.
Oct 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
My landlord just sent out an email saying he changed the front-door lock an hour ago (?!) and our front-door keys no longer work and we all have to see him personally for a new key.
No warning at all. No preparation. People are coming home from work standing around waiting for someone else to come out. Residents can't even get into the building to see him (because the key no longer works). Masterfully chaotic.
It gets better, I just went to see him and he's out of copies of the new keys 😂😭
Jul 24 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I think a lot of lefties backing Kamala are not genuinely contradicting their claimed ideals but ARE extremely practical about the fact that there is no antizionist candidate, there is no socialist candidate, and it's a waste of organizing time and power to sit on the couch until the perfect one comes along. You have to pressure politicians. They're not going to come to us straight out of the box with the right policies. That's how politics works.
I'm sorry, I'm just really annoyed with the posturing about how True Leftists don't vote for Kamala. She introduced a version of M4A and co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which is as close as this country has gotten to leftism in the past 30 years. She has slowly changed her position on Israel, and that needs to go a lot further. So she can be pushed. Sitting at home and playing with anti-imperialism dolls living in the perfect commune is a waste of the chance to shape the historical moment. There's no purity in sitting around and complaining. Do something, say something, work with this moment instead of wishing for some perfect future that doesn't exist yet. Biden has been pushed out. Changing things is possible.
Jul 23 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
The idea that Dems are vetting PA governor Josh Shapiro is evidence of how out of touch the party is with the historical moment.
Shapiro is anti-free speech: He wants to harm people who speak up against apartheid and genocide. He's the classic neoliberal concession to mid-2000 neocons, but mid-2000 neocons aren't a real voting bloc any more. He does nothing to combat either the MAGA vote or the young white working class vote that JD Vance brings or the libertarian capitalist vote. Electorally, he's useless.
They can get all the benefits of a "swing state pick" with just an endorsement from Shapiro and a promise to campaign for her. Along with the promise of an ambassadorship. He doesn't need to be VP. And he shouldn't be in the cabinet either, considering his embarrassing and controversial stances against free speech and the First Amendment.
The rest of the country is not Pennsylvania. Getting Pennsylvania's votes - which it's not even clear Shapiro can deliver - will not help close the electoral gap significantly between Kamala and Trump.
This weird Democratic obsession with Pennsylvania is a creation of the Democratic consulting class -- which, by the way, has only ever picked similar liberal neocon failures in that state, like Conor Lamb.
Kamala represents, to many people, a chance for an empathetic future. Beshear is the only choice that works with that energy, and he delivers the Southern and evangelical votes who are on the fence and want an option other than Trump.
For Kamala to pick a throwback Boomer-style West Wing liberal neocon like Shapiro who is cold, rigid and unlikeable will hurt her image -- and her votes -- considerably.
Additionally: Whatever the liberal Democratic consulting class - the people who are ALWAYS WRONG - say, it's crazy work to choose to lock down Pennsylvania while ignoring the enormous effect of Uncommitted in far more important stages including Michigan and Minnesota.
If Dems try to ignore the message of Uncommitted, it WILL come back to bite them. And picking Josh Shapiro, a pro-genocide anti-First Amendment neocon, will lose all those states for Kamala.
Jul 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Kamala will be kryptonite to Trump, and I'll tell you why: She's attractive. Trump's form of somatic (body-based) narcissism prevents him from criticizing attractive people. He can't help but admire them. Trump is going to fold quickly whenever Kamala comes at him in a debate.
As an example, his one (1) criticism of Kamala this week has been that she has a laugh that he called "crazy," but then he swiftly followed it with "not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi."
Trump will never fully attack an attractive person because he needs to see himself as one of them. As a narcissist, he defines himself by his youthful attractiveness and so he sees other attractive people as his "mirrors," like him. So he will never fully mobilize against another attractive person.
Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I saw a TikTok about some eye makeup that was allegedly so good that "it made her ex cook her a roast chicken" and I was like "because of some colored wax and talc? Come on now. Surely men are not THAT stupid." Anyway I tried it and three separate men have respectfully told me I look great today.
We are not here to gatekeep and it's Friday so please go forth and try this this weekend if you are so moved. It's a basic smoky eye but it's very imprecise (and dare I say, French) so it takes literally less than a minute
Pronounced "dess- hab - iyay" by the way, NOT "dish-abile"
Jun 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We also need a real reckoning with the implications of the "one-state solution." After all this, you want Palestinians to share a state with these genocidal psychopaths who support their annihilation? The entire Israeli Knesset and the vast majority of Israel's population not only support the current genocide but consistently say they want it to be MORE violent and have MORE war crimes. That's who you want Palestinians' neighbors to be in a "one-state solution"? Delusional.
Would you voluntarily live next door to a genocidal psychopathic white supremacist racist who wants you dead? I wouldn't. Why would you demand that Palestinians work and live with people who have been openly urging their annihilation for 8 months? You can't reform this.
Jun 9 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
I'm really glad I spent some time this year reading/watching things about the Raid on Entebbe, because it really helped me understand why Israel committed this massacre.
In the Raid on Entebbe, Netanyahu's older brother Jonatan (Yoni) was one of the leaders of a secret Israeli intelligence troop who was sent to free Israeli hostages from the airport at Entebbe. Yoni is a national hero for the raid -- in which he died -- and he was also his family's favorite son. Netanyahu has been in Yoni's shadow his entire life.
May 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Something that more women should be aware of is that men who were brought up by strong mothers do not necessarily become feminists. Rather, some of those men grow up resenting female power and independence and they often insist on women's dependence and submissiveness as gfs, wives, and partners.
Basically you have to learn to discern whether a man who was brought up by strong women respects female power, or resents it.
ln his relationships, is he essentially acting out his need to control his mother and get her to do what he wants...except his female partners have to keep playing that mother role.
May 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I repeat my theory that society went downhill when we stopped having clear instructional dances targeted towards white people.
The lack of dances -- which hived off their energy and made them feel a sense of belonging -- left white people listless and angry and increasingly supportive of fascism, which is an ideology that promises to restore belonging.
The M A G A groundwork was laid after the Macarena faded from cultural prominence. Coincidence? I think not.
The answer is that the Israelis leading this genocide are not descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Netanyahu's family wasn't even in Europe during the Holocaust. Ben Gvir's family wasn't in Europe. Smotrich's family wasn't in Europe. All of their families were settlers in mandatory Palestine who participated in the first Nakba
When you understand that Israel is led by people who have no respect for Holocaust survivors, by people who descend from those who supported the first Nakba, you understand the arrogance and entitlement.
Apr 13 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The fundamental problem is that there is no "coexistence" with a state whose entire population is trained for psychopathic, boundaryless racist murder through its military. Israel cannot control itself. It is a rogue state. Annihilation of any opposition has been its only consistent goal.
We are nearly 7 months into a daily, ongoing genocide that has every characteristic of the slow-moving genocide that has been Israel's purpose for 76 years. It's time to call it. Zionism is a failure. It has cultivated a conscripted military, a government and a settler community entirely populated with psychopathic murderers. No one is safe there, no one is safe near it, no one is safe in the entire world until this failed state is dismantled by international law.
Apr 6 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
My opinion (with all due respect to OP) is that no one should offer an opinion of Mary Oliver until after they turn 35, or until they can regularly touch grass.
Mary Oliver's poetry is about regret and loss and it will mean nothing to people who haven't experienced both of those pretty regularly.
It's okay! Just step outside the Mary Oliver circle and come back later. Like June Jordan, she is not for people who have not lived. You're more likely to get it later.
Apr 6 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This is a good thread but I need to add something for women to understand: When men freak out about anyone's age, they're really freaking out about their own. Many men have an enormous fear of mortality, and with it, a fear of their own age and their own bodily collapse. They project this onto everyone else.
I fully approve of giving a thin, watery smile and leaving the table when a man says something ageist or obsessed with looks. But you also must understand that it's not about whoever he's with.
It's his own emotionally stunted insecurity; men borrow qualities they want through their partners.
Men often want performatively "beautiful" women (often with open evidence of plastic surgery) when they think that they themselves are ugly or nerdy; they often want tall women when they are insecure about being short; they want young or young-looking women when those men fear they are getting old.
If you know a man is emotionally unevolved, you can tell a lot about his insecurities by the partners he chooses.
Apr 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I do think that more women need to be aware that a lot of men don't want them for who they are, but for what they represent. And for a lot of men, what women represent is not someone to love, but an answer to the man's own discomfort and pain. A relationship not as emotional sustenance, but as a crutch.
The promise of a cessation to his problems. And obviously anything contracted under those expectations will never work.
It's not that men want to be rescued (though many, if not most, do), it's that they want a relationship to make themselves forget what they need to be rescued from. And that is often themselves.
Mar 27 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
One of the things NY Mag mentions about Huberman is that one of his girlfriend's friends called him "breadcrumbs" for his inability to sustain consistent attention or presence towards her, and it occurred to me that many women don't know how to identify breadcrumbing. (lil thread)
Pay special attention to "showing interest when you pull away," which is on here twice. It's important to understand that the breadcrumbers' primary goal is to keep you on a string without investing time in you specifically.
Note the texts in this screenshot: Vague, low-investment, standardized.
Mar 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Listen. I think the way to think about this that your mind is like your body: It will do whatever it needs to do in order to keep going. You know how if you break an ankle, you will start relying on your hip more to push you forward? Your personality flaws are like that. They are all coping or overcompensating for some underlying issue and your mind did that so you (and it) can just keep going.
A good example of this is addiction. Addiction is bad. But it exists for a reason: There is some underlying psychological trauma so noisy, so active, that the addict would not be able to function if that trauma were live and online all the time. So he drinks or does drugs to medicate the trauma. Then he can keep going, often at a pretty high level. (Until the drugs or alcohol cause more trouble for the body, then the addicted person is back where they started: Traumatized.)
Mar 14 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
We've come so far in European monarchies since the days when royal bastards were common and Queens knew better than to actually fall in love with their husbands.
Actually expecting the King to stay faithful (mistaking the nature of the transaction of marrying the future King, in other words) is very Catherine de Medici.
Catherine de Medici is known for many things -- among them, she hired Nostradamus as the court astrologer and was known for a series of mysterious royal poisonings of her enemies -- but the one least discussed is that she was actually foolish enough to genuinely love her husband, the King, and she waged passive-aggressive war against his mistress Diane de Poitiers. Who looked not unlike Rose Hanbury, actually!
