Castle Bravo
the first draft of anything is shit
- Because I’m a dork I’ve actually daydreamed about buying the Inquirer and turning it into an absolute buzzsaw of a left-leaning newspaper with bottomless resources for investigations (also with the best sports page money can buy). I would 1000% be better at being rich than these bozos
- (This fantasy also frequently includes buying the A’s and moving them back to Philadelphia but that’s secondary)
- I don’t want this to happen but I’m more than a little worried the 4th of July is going to turn violent in Philadelphia. I have a bad feeling they’re going to sic ICE on us in the name of “securing” the 250th and those goons are going to pull out every stop trying to provoke us
- Ok here’s an important tell: if they were getting this feedback about whistles from something that could be plausibly identified as speaking for “the community” (local immigrants rights groups, mutual aid orgs, churches, etc), they would have said so
- They didn’t, so either they got this cockamamie idea via some kind of radlib game of telephone and “the community” never said anything of the kind, or one crank in the org is speaking for “the community”
- Dad’s side: farming in North Carolina was a lot easier than farming in Switzerland Mom’s side: Mussolini
- Why doesn’t the Chemical Safety Board sell merch
- The people demand Television
- I had clocked the AI oligarchs as a death cult but never in one million years would I have made the Epstein connection I’m too much of a materialist to believe that everything would be fine rn if one rich pedophile hadn’t gotten the ear of a bunch of morally void elites but good lord
