Apr 30, 2025
"Do you remember that scene in The Dark Knight with the Joker and the piles of cash? Yeah, it is essentially that."
—Alon Levy, researcher at NYU's Transit Costs Project, describing American infrastructure spending (Vice, 2024)
mehdi hasan claims 'muslims built america' and frames the transatlantic slave trade as uniquely bad, ignoring the fact that arab slaveholders have existed for millennia and still do
the 'overpaid ceo act' jacks up gross receipts tax on the biggest sf businesses. we tried this during the pandemic and it forced them to leave, triggering a doom loop. get ready for part two?
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment