Cathy Reisenwitz

“Creeping Shariah?” Ha! My fucking ass. Barreling White Christian Nationalism more like. (I like barreling as an antonym of creeping)

Yes

And just like that, Pearson’s opponent has a sexting scandal (hat tip: @evanhurst.substack.com) www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

freopp.org/oppblog/the-...

when authoritarian dictators tell us that they see western ideas--not western militaries, not western economies, but western *ideas*--as the most existential threat to their regimes, we should see this not as paranoid rantings but cold, accurate analysis. because it's true!

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

Inclusionary zoning requirements boost the cost of housing overall. So it not only fails to reduce homelessness or rent-burden, but actually makes it worse on-net. And it's not even that great a deal for the tiny minority of folks who directly benefit. www.curbed.com/article/affo...

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

The hypocritically-named "Woman and Child Protection Act" is another of these evil Republican snitch laws, encouraging citizens to turn on each other for money. Such laws have been a calling card of authoritarian regimes like the Soviet Union or East Germany.

"Ukrainians have to die so that we can allow a criminal country to sell diesel to lower prices jacked up by a stupid incompetent war" If this was a spec script for an episode of 24, it would be laughed out of the writers' room.

This is awesome www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...

This seems craven. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

In decades and centuries past, an artist might write to pay the bills. But a decade ago I started making art to fund my writing. My purpose is writing. Selling art is one of my jobs. Kinda wild.

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/shane-gill...

Correct! cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/western-ma...

*rings doorbell* Hello! Columbus Day has a social purpose (celebrating Italian-American contributions to American history) but Columbus is probably the worst historical figure to be its figurehead. Do you have a moment to hear about Giovanni da Verrazzano?

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/resistits-...

www.ft.com/content/3976... Trump and Hegseth’s execution-type deal

The Republican Party is the party of Donald Trump—a rapist, an open misogynist, and all-around avatar of male supremacism. What we can say about the particular ways American politics is being structured around rape as a core pillar of Trumpism? Liberal Currents Live is coming up at 1 p.m. Eastern.

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/muslims-ar...

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/in-the-nat...

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/bottom-hal...

"It’s understandable that people feel otherwise. But they’re wrong."

“Letting people get revenge on wrongdoers is what keeps societies locked in endless cycles of retributive violence. Indulging people’s thirst for vengeance only makes everyone worse off in the end. Especially in larger people groups, it only creates more net violence.” - @cathyreisenwitz.com

cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/lindsay-cl...

I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.

Okay fine I’ll fight you

da @cathyreisenwitz.com

It is only fitting the the vote to confirm Todd Blanche happened in the dead of night. Read our full statement on this shameful confirmation here:

#materialism "You find the north-south problem everywhere because different latitudes produce different weather, and so different crops, and culture is to some extent downstream of these material conditions." -Janan Ganesh, FT

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

“Moved 5 million people off food stamps”