Neil deMause

I am signing off all my future correspondence with "Some results may be inaccurate or inappropriate."

A city that can't win LA has limited options to get out of hosting in 2028 — but LA does have options

The great @awalkerinla.bsky.social has more on the story: www.torched.la/a-city-that-...

I just completed a study for SAJE on whether LA should try to back out of hosting the 2028 Olympics. The short answer: It could cost billions to extricate LA from its Olympic contract, but could cost even more billions to go through with it, so it's worth considering. www.saje.net/wp-content/u...

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US

When you've lost Sepp Blatter...

I don't have a full list, @goodjobsfirst.org might?

Carpenters Let me start by saying that I have no memory of how I ended up with this record in my collection. I tossed all of my jewel cases not long ago in favor of thin plastic sleeves, so there are no price…

When I sat down to write about the Carpenters I didn’t expect to end up referencing “Apocalypse Now,” but they do contain some odd multitudes. #uncertainfate

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Yeah, that's not great.

Vehicle Flips This one is gonna be a long walk, so let’s get started: Back in the ’80s and ’90s, I loved zines. I loved reading them, I loved making them, I loved talking about how they were th…

Zines, thermostats, and dams: a story of Vehicle Flips and me. (And Paul Lukas, indirectly.) #uncertainfate

Hazeldine For most of the bands in my music collection, I have a clear memory of the first time I heard them, or heard of them, or decided they were someone I needed to know more about. Hazeldine is not one …

I got distracted from #uncertainfate for a while, but it now returns with Hazeldine, appropriately a band that I got distracted from for a while.

Tl;dr: If you think the main problem with NYC development is obstructionist councilmembers blocking affordable housing, vote yes; if you think it's developers running roughshod over public oversight, vote no. If you think they're both problems, this may require more than a ballot measure to solve.

A Crash Course in the 3 Controversial Housing Ballot Proposals Do they represent YIMBY 'Abundance' magic or an anti-democratic 'power grab'?

Finally, an explainer on the NYC ballot measures that actually explains, thanks, Chris Robbins and @hellgatenyc.com!

Welp, it was worth a try.

My latest gig: writing @reinventalbany.bsky.social's weekly Subsidy Sheet newsletter, which runs down all the ways New York state is funneling public money to wealthy corporations. Catch up on recent entries below, or subscribe for free at: reinventalbany.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe

More blatant anti-Thanos bias.

Even setting aside substance, “a freelance healthcare journalist reporting in the NYT on a mayoral candidate’s old college application obtained in a hack and flagged by a prominent racist who is granted anonymity even though everyone knows who he is” is one of the strangest stories I’ve ever read

New York Times hits an abysmal low with hit piece on Mamdani's college application Wow. Just, wow. You could just taste the disappointment of the New York Times as the mayoral primary results came in last week, but this is just...appalling. As he runs for mayor of New York City, Zoh...

A reminder: It is possible to cancel your Times subscription for "news" or whatever it is they're pretending they're doing, while keeping it for games.

He actually did the meme.

Think you just answered your own question there, Baltimore Orioles customer survey.

Gameday 3D is MLB The Show meets Goat Simulator, and I couldn't love it more.

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now

www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

White House Denies Violating Judge's Order in Deporting Venezuelans

No, @nytimes.com headline writers, the White House didn't deny violating the judge's order, it said the judge had "no jurisdiction," which is a very different thing.

-- @neildemause.bsky.social

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And we have arrived at the “straight up disappearing people” phase of the autogolpe. hellgatenyc.com/r/17049bf8

Now there's a lede. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Subtlety was never our mayor's strong suit.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

I read this three times, trying to figure out why Buster Posey was delivering a talk to Giants fans in the form of a rap, before realizing the San Jose Mercury News doesn't know how to spell "rapt."

We're joined by @neildemause.bsky.social from @fieldofschemes.bsky.social. He discusses his love of the NY Mets & @fcbarcelonabr.bsky.social & schools us about the American tradition of shifting billions of public $$$ to help pay for private stadiums & arenas. thesportsfanproject.com/podcast/

Rep. Rich McCormick's remarks that schoolkids shouldn't get free lunch when they could "go to work at Burger King" reminds me of his '90s precessor Rep. John Mica, who testified about welfare reform by, well:

Bluesky account autoposting when new Aadam Jacobs Collection shows are uploaded is now up and running! bsky.app/profile/ajcp...