Aug 27, 2023
Editor's Note: In today’s Sunday feature, a surreal read from the American heartland intersecting the corridors of our largest technology companies, the United States Postal Service, and a wild culture of Chinese scam artists running more or less unchecked across the internet. It is a weirdly… charming tale? Of crime, modernity, and civic decay. But also hope. River Page reports — enjoy.
-Solana
mehdi hassan 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