TherynK

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

Was never able to fully verbalize it but there we go

*Record scratch* You're probably wondering how I got here...

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Wondering if this will make people realize that maybe government regulation could be a good thing but not going to hold my breath.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

Exactly. By this definition, it's only corruption if Trump explicitly says, "thank you for this plane, I will now favor you with _." What if he's already given them something we don't know about???

Basically, when conservatives have found being anti-science to be politically expedient and made it a defining characteristic, you can't take their arguments of viewpoint diversity in good faith, especially given their other central tenet of perpetual victimhood.

When Republicans take power do they expand "viewpoint diversity"? No. They purge scientists, delete data and promote their own mediocre minds. If you support Trump you are signaling membership in a movement that *hates* science, science is not obligated to pretend otherwise. bsky.app/profile/popu...

anyway as always if you want to read books by a British author who isn’t a raging bigot there’s Terry Pratchett’s Discworld I wrote a thread about it and everything

Had a serious talk with my dad in 2020 and it just resulted in my cutting him out of my life. Frankly I'm better off, but there was no convincing him.

good essay on it if you're curious www.vice.com/en/article/t...

This is absolutely true. They have no regard for law, and must be stopped. I just don't know if I believe the military will do it. Or any of our leaders.

Mass Organizations and NGOs: on the fundamental conflict between nonprofit advocacy models and mass movements midwestsocialist.com/2019/12/24/m...

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Good post by @smotus.bsky.social about what Congressional Dems can be doing to delay and challenge the Trump agenda, as opposed to…(checks notes)…nothing? open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

Changes to departments' operational budget, FY24-25:

Great piece from Bob Kuttner. The American Medical Association has *copyrights* on the diagnostic codes doctors and hospitals use to designate patient ailments and receive reimbursement. The AMA makes $300 million a year off this. WTF? prospect.org/health/2025-...

cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys. like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically

She wants to break the law as a LE officer? Oust her.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

Housing shouldn't be a commodity and people who disagree either already profit from it or want to because they know it's easy money.

My latest column: Another lie from Big Business about the minimum wage www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Camping ban pushes people out of downtown, out of visibility, into more communities and less safe conditions. City touts success while still not providing adequate housing.

and if we are, as a people, *institutionally prevented* from choosing "not evil" then how, i ask you, in the actual fuck, do you call this institution, with a straight face mind you, a democracy?

It goes even deeper than that. People suffering from the oppression in many cases are gaslit into thinking they (we) should be grateful for the status quo. We're tasked with building and guarding our own cages that we take with us everywhere we go.