Ashley D. Polasek

2025 Travel Report: July

Home: 22 nights
Washington, D.C.: 6 nights
South Carolina: 2 nights
On the road: 1 night

YTD: 137 nights at home, 75 nights on the road

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Boswell still hasn’t figured out how chairs work.

I passed my American Sailing Association 101 certification! Yay!

I’ve wanted to learn to sail for decades, but I’m so glad I waited until New York Harbor was my home port.

I’m more of a Gilbert and Sullivan sort of pirate than the historical reality. Less pillaging, more show tunes.

It’s so much better, isn’t it?!?

Avast ye lubber!

Apparently I take up a new crazy activity every five years. Ten years ago I started sword fighting, five years ago I started ninja training, and today I took my first sailing lesson.

I also seem to be training as an accidental pirate.

An old lady in a hospital bed being fed dinner by a wheaten terrier in nurse’s scrubs.

I’m so excited to jump into rehearsals with this amazing team in August!

I enjoy my rowing machine more when I imagine myself traveling somewhere. It took my old ass 15 sessions to row the 50-mile perimeter of Loch Ness, a virtual trek I finished yesterday.

Today, I leave John O’Groats on the 874-mile journey to Lands End. Trying to arrive by March 9th—my next birthday.

I stand by my bloot.

It should be reblooted.

In this week’s episode of #StrongMessageHere (do you listen? You should), @helenlewis.bsky.social and
@aiannucci.bsky.social called BlueSky posts “Bloots”, and I will now never call them anything else:

“Did you see his bloot?”

“What are you doing?”
“Blooting”

“She blooted about it yesterday.”

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Truth.

I have no time for surrender.

Threatening people?
Disappearing people?
Deportation of citizens?

That’s because they know they’re weak and unpopular.

Push back.

2025 Travel Report: June

Home: 13 nights
Niagra-on-the-Lake: 4 nights
Prague: 3 nights
South Carolina: 2 nights
Mysločovice: 2 nights
Vienna: 2 nights
Munich: 2 nights
Washington, D.C.: 1 night
In-flight: 1 night

YTD: 115 nights at home, 66 nights on the road

Accurate

Jeff Bezos of Amazon had a 50 million dollar wedding in Venice surrounded by billionaires, celebs, and the elite but the true threat to American workers and democracy is Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who want affordable housing, health care, and higher wages.

Thanks for your vote of confidence…I guess?!

Unlike you, I’d actually be focused on the American people—the issues they’re facing, making sure folks have healthcare, and consulting with Congress before dropping bombs on another country.

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

Hahaha, get fucked, Cuomo. It’s a good day to be a New Yorker.

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

Enjoying a small pivo in the land of my fathers.

I assure you, none of them are mine.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

This was the Dashcon ball pit of military parades.

Fifty thousand of my neighbors and I came out today to share the NYC mantra: “If you fuck with one of us, you fuck with all of us.”

Niagra-on-the-Lake is picturesque beyond all reason. I think when I’m a bozillionaire, I shall keep my summer home and sailboat here.