Nick Rizzo πͺ₯π΄ββ οΈπ°
@nickrizzo
Former bartender, politician & journalist; now a volunteer fireman who sometimes writes. I believe local/regional politics matters more than national politics.
Every year in the 2020s so far has been a new record-setting year for people very publicly losing their mind through social media filter bubbles
I sort of vaguely knew this, but then you read the words and it's actually jaw-dropping
doing some research on sojourner truth and it's amazing how that white woman changed her original words and dialect in the "ain't i a woman" speech to make her sound like a southern woman when she was a dutch speaker from new york. ridiculous lol
wow that is quite a line
Sliwa: Eric Adams is damaged goods⦠Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies. Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa
As recently as a decade ago, new Adam Sandler comedies would get one-star reviews. Now they get soft three-star reviews. He won.
extremely tragic if predictable iteration of the how it started/ how itβs going meme
NYC Mayoral: final round by Congressional District NY-05 π΅ Cuomo +20 NY-06 π Mamdani +3 NY-07 π Mamdani +52 NY-08 π Mamdani +12 NY-09 π Mamdani +4 NY-10 π Mamdani +37 NY-11 π Mamdani +3 NY-12 π Mamdani +0.2 NY-13 π Mamdani +19 NY-14 π Mamdani +24 NY-15 π΅ Cuomo +20
I have a theory that all grievances are some mix of legitimate and manufactured
Yeah when I think of the contemporary right I really think of a pig-headed insistence on reality...
Yes, we had, and have. Because the right is Reality-oriented and has a stubborn, even pig-headed, insistence academic theory matches Reality. The left does not hold with this, believing because they thought a theory, that thought is sufficient proof given by superior intellect.
A senator, no less. The most attention-seeking and corrupt body of federal government
A fresh face railing against corruption in Washington? This has never worked at the national level
As a tween in the late Nineties, I was obsessed with the hosts of TBSβs Dinner and a Movie, so itβs fascinating for me to learn that @LAGurwitch sorta comes from the Keith McNally universe.
Always stay til the end of council meetings, young reporters, because at some point the council president may confess to getting high & shooting someone in the head pennlive.com/news/2025/07/pβ¦
I mean, the northern coast potlatch societies kept slaves. But Liam might be right about the societies further down the coast who rejected inequality as well as surplus/saving
best quality of life in all of human history was precolumbian coastal california and the pacific northwest