Jennifer Jeffrey

My mind immediately goes to: How can they tell? And how is this communicated to wait staff?

"Potential Nazi at Table 8. Plain chopsticks only."

Or maybe it's the Uber email address on the booking? Lol.

Says something that the same people who can afford a $248 tasting menu ($390 with pairings) might also be Nazis!

Fascinating.

"At various junctures...you’ll get to select your own chopstick rests and Roland Lannier knives, including one inscribed with, “if we don’t make it dangerous to be a Nazi, they’ll make it dangerous to not be.” (“We’re careful with which tables we offer this one to,” Carrie Blease told me. Yikes!)"

There's a curious detail in a recent review of Wolfsbane, a new restaurant in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco that has opened in the former Serpentine space:

This election was not a grand public affirmation for his most expansive plans and aggressive schemes. The electorate was as close to evenly divided as is possible (Trump is ahead by less than two percentage points in the popular vote) in a system where someone has to win. The marginal Trump voter — that is, the person who put him over the top — wants lower prices and cheaper homes, not chaos, dysfunction and autocratic, strongman government. But there are no real Trump plans to improve life for most Americans. If there is such a thing as favorable terrain for a fight, this is it. This is the opportunity to weaken Trump and make his administration even less effective than it is already shaping up to be. The 2024 election was the end of one iteration of the American republic. But the new one is still gestating — still formless, its outlines still unclear. And we, as free and equal citizens, have the capacity to shape it. Yes, Trump will fight to try to impose his vision of the new world. Yes, he will lay claim to the powers of a monarch. Yes, he will speak as if he has royal prerogative. Yes, he will work to undermine our revolutionary heritage. But there is a large gap between a stated intention and an accomplished fact. And it is within that space that politics happens.

i just want to say that i wrote this exactly one year ago.

It's not how friendly Trump was to Mamdani. It's how hostile the leading Dems have been to Mamdani.

The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene

Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

An allegory for health care in the United States:

Just now—at a press conference in the Oval Office—a Big Pharma exec collapsed.

President Trump, clearly unbothered and annoyed, did nothing.

Some White House officials left the room entirely.

They don't care about you at all.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Opinion | Culture Is a Strategy, Not a Side Project Clinnesha Sibley writes about the importance of teaching culture and how the arts are the backbone of communities.

OPINION: Clinnesha Sibley writes about the importance of teaching culture and how the arts are the backbone of communities.

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Reminder: one of their *own investors* is amongst those who has lost touch with reality as a result of their product. And they still haven’t slowed down.

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

Class is in session! Thanks, @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, for this analysis of the importance of this moment.

"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

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#CA folks!!!

#affordablehousing is #climateinfluence

Just thinking about how when I was 25 and living in Amsterdam and got sick and went to a doctor who laughed at me when I tried to pay, I was technically an unauthorized immigrant receiving free health care.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Tell me with a straight face he's wrong here

Shockingly true. If everyone who liked my book told the great algorithm “I liked this” it would be amazing.
Cause the algorithm is shockingly dumb.