Jacob Fuller

Oh btw I wrote this!

It’s insane because I don’t want to diminish the suffering of others but twice as many people were killed by cows last year (22) than on the MTA (11) out of 1.5 billion individual rides

As someone who actively works in politics and has done so for a minute, I think the public generally lacks the knowledge that most politicians and especially guys like Gavin are total morons. Like in regard to national politics or identifying ideological trends they are sub your average voter

The War on Visible Poverty, and Addiction as Metaphor Contemporary crackdowns on America's poorest may be informed by our better understanding of addiction- but that may be making them worse.

Finally finished my piece for Substack. It's an essay on the rise in addiction and homelessness related crackdowns, and how an attempt to better understand these issues may have had unintended consequences for how we approach treating it. Check it out!

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I don’t want to hear shit about my milk consumption from ppl who’s bones are 50% these

Actually this constitutes as winning

Did you have this on you or did you make it?? It’s such a specific thing

Anyone who has ever been described as a “wonk” needs to be launched into space. For people who self-describe themselves as that we cannot risk failure, and need to ship them immediately to the closest volcano. It’s the only way

RIP Bernie Madoff, you would’ve loved the criminal press tour

There’s remarkably little data on the efficacy of political outreach texts, and no evidence of them discouraging voters. Regarding fundraising texts, they are a pretty ok source of revenue on the aggregate, and don’t seem to impact voter opinions. Most ppl are not that fickle on the issues

Inverse world where the Democratic Party is paralyzed by socialists who keep winning all the time and force all the centrist dems in line

Dems: We need the person who responds to the address to represent the new Democratic Party.
Sen Slotkin: before we start, I just want you all to know I probably knew about Abu Ghraib

Shout out Al Green for literally standing up to this

Yum! brands the owner of Taco Bell was one of the only stocks that rallied today based on expectations of increased sales revenue for this quarter. Screw everything else that happened in the market today, this is the biggest recession indicator.

-risk getting name dropped by Trump/Musk to an audience of extremely aggressive people who literally tried to kill them all at once 4 years ago at the direction of Trump who has since freed those people. At risk of humanizing these clowns, in some sense they are literally being held at gunpoint.

For people wondering why every Republican is acting like they live in the deepest red district in Kentucky rn- worth noting is that the GOP consensus machine is stronger than its maybe ever been. Republicans face an immediate primary challenger bankrolled by Musk but also-

Like a lot. Every day. Famously. Do you read the Times?

Uh they did. Like every day. For months.

And his win. Criticism of Kamala Harris and the campaign (which by the way i participated in and can attest to it being a shitshow) is not an endorsement of Trump, nor is pointing out that Biden who was obviously unwell and not fit to serve 4 more years.

I’m sorry this is silly, the Times editorial team put a full page out saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and routinely occupied the editorial page on the run up to the election with articles on how dangerous he was to democracy. It is a ridiculous to suggest that the times is responsible for him

I love going on Reels cause half the time it’s just a video of someone getting murdered followed by a Peter Griffin account explaining Scientology. Im not sure how they’re gonna include that in the upcoming The Social Network sequel but it’s gotta be somewhere.

Now I know everyone is very scared about everything going on right now, but I’ve been speaking to a group of democratic consultants and they’ve assured me that if we simply toss a few hundred trans people and student protesters into a volcano, we might have a chance at squeaking out the midterms

and it’s not even that complicated of a pattern!!!

Rereading Sontag for a piece I’m writing, and came across this incredible section. Denying access to ideas is as much about group/identity formation as it is an attempt to punish others. A lot of parallels here in the harm reduction/food assistance space.

Least favorite journalistic tic is when we get 100 articles saying, "Trump is threatening to break things- but some Democrats think some things should be broken sometimes."

Like yeah, ideology exists.

Twitter beef with Lew Blum towing rn. Might be fucked.

wordcel is crazy lol

Good reading day