Diary of the Resistance

Open Letter to Vice President Biden, Gov Cuomo, Sens Schumer and Gillibrand, Rep Jeffries, and

{2/18/19} Reactions to Amazon

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:

{12/11/18} Stray Thoughts on Hamilton and American Mobility

{7/15/17} Race to the Bottom

In the Trump area I think we’re learning how much of America’s democracy is built on norms and precedent. Or…

{Drafted 6/19/17} Identity Politics is a Correction

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.

{6/18/17} Not Not Not Reading the News

Real talk: I’m behind on the news. I thought I was going to catch up yesterday, but then I…

Up until now (June 12, 2017)

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…