Paola

I talked with Jim Mathews about the situation at some length, hoping for clarity. Mathews didn’t have a perfect explanation either. He thought Brightline had been arrogant and callous, but he also thought the real issue was bigger. Americans are okay with tens of billions of tax dollars funding highways and airports overseen by powerful regulatory... See more

Yes, there were the (very good) “No Kings” rallies in June. And yes, groups such as Indivisible continue to organize conventional progressives. But for the most part, a miasma of passivity seems to have swept over the anti-Trump ranks. Institution after institution cuts deals with the Trump-administration extortion racket. In private, business... See more

At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people... See more