This past Thursday Amazon announced they were cancelling their plans to put an HQ2 in New York City. I, like many other people, have an opinion about this. I commented on a NY Times article, and wanted to share the sentiment here:
In the Trump area I think we’re learning how much of America’s democracy is built on norms and precedent. Or…
Today I read “Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies”, which was originally published at some point in 2016, but updated yesterday. Unclear what the update was made.
Real talk: I’m behind on the news. I thought I was going to catch up yesterday, but then I…
When the Russia-election-hacking stuff finally came to light, I thought: ‘this is it! We can get Trump out! It was an illegitimate election!’. Then I was listening to Pod Save America and they addressed that question. The Russians didn’t hack the election per se, they hacked the…
In these batshit crazy times, we (humanity?) need a contemporaneous record, a play-by-play, of either the end of our democracy or its turning point.
Every day I have a million thoughts, feelings and ideas about society/politics/culture running through my head, and I want to store them…
