Taylor Lorenz

~personal news~ I'm going independent and launching my own media outlet on Substack called User Mag. Please consider buying a yearly subscription to help me continue my work usermag.co/p/introducing-…

“He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside. He loved that it was fast paced. His co-workers knew him as “el mudo,” the mute. He built a community there.” Via @brittny_mejia latimes.com/california/sto…

This company has pivoted so many times in the past 6 months it's hard to keep it all straight :/

You’re brainwashed.

We're watching the final stages of a holocaust unfold before our eyes and it should upend the foundations of western liberalism which have been fully captured by the genocidal ideology of Zionism

Emmy winner Brad Garrett's IG feed is full of anti-Israel posts and Zionists are freaking out

So much this. I'm so tired of people acting like anyone is defending delivery apps' business practices or arguing against alternatives. It reads to me as intentional ignorance at this point

I’ll never forget how people rushed to relentlessly deny that Israel attacked al Shifa hospital almost two years ago. It had to be a misfire, had to be an accident, rocket rebound. Now, Israelis have destroyed every hospital, abduct and torture medical personell, and cause famine

We deserve a world where health isn’t rationed, care isn’t contingent, survival isn’t means-tested &life is not valued statistically—We deserve infrastructures built around life, not abandonment—We won’t get there by politely debating actuarial projections w capitalist parasites

the endpoint of capitalism: fake people listening to fake music to generate free money for the already wealthy while everyone else is cut out completely

This man has been sent to an ICE dungeon for expressing his First Amendment right, missed the birth of his son - and the media is still trying to destroy him.

I think this is pretty spot on, from @jwherrman latest

I'm curious about people who are keen on restoring American manufacturing capacity but not necessarily gung ho about building weapons. It's been interesting to watch the latter get folded into the former. If you're such a person I'd be eager to talk, please get in touch

A lot of ppl like to demonize the use of delivery services, and for some reason love to get real ableist when disabled ppl in particular talk about their use of it

If you dine in at restaurants you actually don't have the moral high ground to say that ppl using delivery apps - for whatever reason - just want "treat servants"

Where a good cafe in Brooklyn to work out of with WiFi, plugs and outdoor space? Ideally Bet Stuy/Crown Heights

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Disabled people make up the minority of food delivery customers, and yet the onus is almost always put on them to solve this issue. Really seems like people just want an excuse to be ableist.

this is the final official episode of my podcast ‘western kabuki’, but it is being reborn as a new show with my co-host caleb called ‘kill the computer’ i hope everyone sticks around for the new era and all the exciting stuff to come open.spotify.com/episode/6eTFPY…

I have deeply cherished remaking @WesternKabuki the past couple years, and even as bummed as I am not to be working with @BirdRespecter and @CantEverDie anymore, I’m so excited to listen to Kill the Computer. Thanks everyone for everything, I’ll be back as a guest!!!

The number of "leftists" "socialists" "communists" I've encountered who are utterly convinced that any disabled person can get assigned a caregiver if they need one and if they don't have one then they're just not trying