alex baca

direct action

I respect and acknowledge. Sabin is quick but kind of insufficient for my purposes…I finished it on NYE and spent the rest of the night being like, so this book was good but I wanted it to be 700 pages actually.

“To illustrate the intimate, if often inconsistent, relation between competitive individualism and family sentimentality, I will briefly summarize the evolution of Western liberal thought and market principles since the Enlightenment” is a SENTENCE.

the intro to the 2016 edition was too hot for me to post, I was too captivated. The rest of the text is definitely Of An Era that you’ll recognize, but simultaneously freaky to be reading 35 years on.

“the word family originally meant a band of slaves. Even after the word came to apply to people affiliated by blood and marriage, for many centuries the notion of family referred to authority relations rather than loved ones” jesus christ Stephanie I am hearing you!!

but simultaneously this lady is going to make me love the Consumer Republic for its liberating potential

I think I may not be able to emotionally withstand reading The Way We Never Were (1992) if there are even like two more grafs like this.

unfortunately we have been denied the blessing of a retraction

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It was a C. The two genders.

I am the only person on the southbound Georgia Avenue bus, no I do not know what its name is anymore, and I am spending this precious moment of unforeseen peace listening to “Name” by the Goo Goo Dolls. (My phone autocorrected “unforeseen” to “endorsement.”)

nut up about burnout. we all had to do it about emotional labor. shit that people who have it worse than you will come for you. be at peace that you are not materially or emotionally is where you thought you would be. it’s clarifying. i speak from authority as a person born in 1989.

thank u mike

listening to this rn and it’s a mistake to do so *only* bc I need to Read It and go nuts in the margins

am i just now realizing you grew up in anne arundel county?

if u read Do Something you know I used my prof-dev dollars to buy a ton of books the other week. Paul Sabin’s Public Citizens was one. It 9
overuses rhetorical questions (lazy device imo), but is otherwise excellent. One of the reasons I am still at my job is bc it’s a c4, so, less of this crap.

Some of the things we were up to at the advocacy organization in 2025

The golf course in D.C. that shouldn’t exist, or should be heavily redeveloped around, is at the Armed Forces Retirement Home! Any progress on which DOD canceled like three years ago. Our NPS golf courses can stay. The minigolf at Hains Point is particularly fun and you can buy beers there.

ya it’s not really a phenomenon it just do be like that

I work for an interest group that does polling *to figure out how to achieve our interests* lmao this shit is not hard it’s just my day job!! Unlike some pundits I guess.

After nearly seven years on staff at GGWash, I finally put "Should Government Stop Dumping Money In a Hole?" in a post. Applaud me for my restraint until now.

* the year. we only get a one-month sabbatical, lol.

A postmortem on the RFK stadium deal May the DC government ignore opposition to legalizing apartments everywhere the way it ignored all the evidence against paying for a football stadium.

aired my grievances before the close of 2025 and before i log off from work for a year: ggwash.org/view/101899/...

I didn't say it wasn't germane. I said it was fucked up, and that this is a pointless conversation overall. I do not know why you have such a bug up your ass about a bike lane on a bridge that kind of a rotten and overpriced project overall to begin with.

Jumping from the Bay bridge was very much a known way. I grew up nearby. I think it is profoundly fucked up that this is where we have taken this conversation, which is a pointless one to begin with.

I can see it being a substantial thing for ~tourism.

At the heart of our dysfunction lies a single law

not driving? now that's deviance.

i run my local club, i do be having ppl to put to work