Silas Hansen's Avatar

Silas Hansen

@silashansen

essayist, cat dad, Bills fan, dive bar connoisseur. he/him.

725
Followers
193
Following
315
Posts
03.07.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Silas Hansen @silashansen

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

08.03.2026 03:12 👍 11912 🔁 2608 💬 151 📌 96

AWP being in Baltimore at the same time that Lionel Messi is playing soccer in the city is, uh, pretty wild lol

If you’re out in Baltimore tonight, please don’t be a dick to your bartenders. They’re doing their best.

08.03.2026 05:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Buy my friend’s book. It’s really fucking good. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/the...

08.03.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what the fuck is a billy binion

02.03.2026 22:47 👍 64 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

02.03.2026 17:53 👍 1784 🔁 482 💬 14 📌 0

Name changes are done through a court order—they would have do do a lot more than to invalidate licenses.

03.03.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 👍 6987 🔁 3160 💬 71 📌 48

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

03.03.2026 15:06 👍 1022 🔁 262 💬 16 📌 2

I have spent nearly every day of the past fifteen years talking to college students and have never heard a single one make reference to the Iranian government

02.03.2026 17:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

Okay but you quite literally DID start it

02.03.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

28.02.2026 19:05 👍 4119 🔁 496 💬 45 📌 15

Would love this to be true but somehow I doubt y’all are going to do ANYTHING once you’re back in power. Every time Dems win, they seem to want to play nice. You’re like Charlie Brown letting Lucy hold the football. You’ll never learn.

28.02.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey man maybe do your fucking job

28.02.2026 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

28.02.2026 04:00 👍 1049 🔁 575 💬 12 📌 27

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

28.02.2026 21:41 👍 7790 🔁 1148 💬 149 📌 92
Preview
Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

From The Archives:

28.02.2026 17:21 👍 6721 🔁 1517 💬 58 📌 81

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

28.02.2026 15:12 👍 7269 🔁 1359 💬 72 📌 26

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

28.02.2026 07:22 👍 4767 🔁 1054 💬 54 📌 6
Post image

The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 at Metro Baltimore, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26

17.02.2026 19:52 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 7

Gavin Newsom can eat my farts.

27.02.2026 20:51 👍 44 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2

I will NOT vote for this man. Period. You shouldn’t either.

27.02.2026 13:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is not a regime who seems terribly concerned with subterfuge, content to enact whatever plans they want in the open with no threat of consequence. They don't need to distract, it's just that there are so many targets.

27.02.2026 12:32 👍 99 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0

disheartening after years of trans people yelling very loudly "these are the things they're doing to us, plan to do to us, will do to us", to see so many people react to the news with talk of how this is all a distraction.

27.02.2026 12:30 👍 317 🔁 64 💬 2 📌 1
Post image Post image Post image Post image

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

27.02.2026 13:02 👍 7883 🔁 2454 💬 343 📌 376

anyone that tells me the cruelty is the point has to buy me one years worth of Costco hot dogs.

26.02.2026 12:31 👍 198 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

26.02.2026 12:31 👍 5929 🔁 2294 💬 2 📌 24

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

26.02.2026 13:16 👍 4360 🔁 880 💬 89 📌 61
Preview
Democrats in four states seek to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs Bills aim to make ICE employees ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education and state civil service

“Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service.”

26.02.2026 14:37 👍 416 🔁 99 💬 1 📌 17

Two very plain truths:

1) This almost certainly can’t stand any legal challenge, especially with the precedent set last year WRT passports.

2) The point of this law isn’t to last. It’s to harass, sew confusion, and force undesirables out.

26.02.2026 14:35 👍 454 🔁 253 💬 1 📌 3

Oh great, another astroturf transphobe outfit masquerading as a Democratic concern.

26.02.2026 14:46 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0