Ben Carlos Thypin

@thecitywanderer Dude, landlord is not the preferred nomenclature, Landed-American, please.

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

Irony here is that if we had the elitist, aristocratic system he wants, low-rent vulgar mediocrities like R.H. wouldn't have a platform. He's a product of the populism but his life is dedicated to convincing himself and others that he belongs in some kind of superior stratum.

@jimshelton_nyc Didn’t think Jonathan Miller had it in him tbh

@SoBendito incredible quote lmao

“Most of the developers I know all have some sort of personality disorder, and that’s why they got as far as they did,” 🤣 nytimes.com/2026/07/11/nyr…

"Convenience has saved us time. The hidden price is that it has also saved us from one another." Good column:

"Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread."

“The people who came to the Town Board insist there is nothing racial intended,” the deputy supervisor of the Town of East Hampton, told The New York Times. She added, “They say they’re talking about overcrowding, but they’re talking about Latinos.” nytimes.com/2026/06/21/rea…

@pedrinyo_ I mean in next round versus Argentina; I’m rooting for Spain generally among who remains (tho I suspect France will win it all)

@SoBendito Rooting for Spain can help you

Dreading having to root for England

all the things she said all the things she said running through my head

@djperks_ I have no idea, just woke up with a sore shoulder one day and it hasn’t gone away since.

@SoBendito I agree with this and my back is killing me. What did you do?

Generally speaking I have loved getting older and have never been happier but I must admit that incurring my first physical injury that’s solely attributable to being old has me glancing into the abyss of mortality.

TIL Laura Ingalls Wilder is regarded by some as one of America’s first libertarians.

Watching the new Little House on the Prairie and pondering why stories like this continue to resonate and I really think it’s because so many of the struggles amongst humans have always been and always will be, on some level, about land.

Yet another survey has found that fewer than half of Jews in an American city identify as Zionists — this time in Milwaukee, the childhood home of Golda Meir, the Zionist icon and former Israeli prime minister. The survey, released last week by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, found that 43% of Jewish adults said they identified as Zionist, while 42% said they did not. A much higher share — 69% — said they feel somewhat or very “emotionally attached to Israel.” At the same time, 52% of respondents agreed that “Israel regularly violates the human rights of the Palestinian people.” The results join a growing number of similar data points generated by Jewish groups that point to evolving, and at times seemingly contradictory, views about Israel among American Jews. A survey released in February by Jewish Federations of North America, an umbrella group, found that 37% of Jews identified as Zionist even as 88% believed that “Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish, Democratic state.” The findings cut across North American Jewish communities of different regions and sizes and are prompting Jewish leaders to reexamine their assumptions at a time when Israel is shedding support among Americans of all backgrounds. Read more on The Times of Israel.

@DaveSteinSays I am sorry to hear that and would offer you a hand but I’m worried I’d further aggravate this injury.

@SoBendito If that’s how you feel, then I am inside the abyss and just holding onto a cliff’s edge to stop myself from falling in.

We are a populace guided exclusively by oppositional defiance disorder

It would be a wildly misguided response if the near-collapse at the former Pfizer building kills office-to-residential conversions more broadly. What happened at 235 E.42nd St. was a frightening construction accident. Every aspect of the process there needs to be investigated—inspections, engineering plans etc. But we have been doing conversions in NYC for 20+ years. Over 12k units have been converted in Lower Manhattan since 9/11, and it's been a huge success. Post-covid a new wave of conversions is bringing back formerly vacant office buildings all over the borough. Adding additional floors to an existing building is an engineering challenge. But it's something we have been doing in NYC for generations. This is a solved problem. There were obviously system failures at 235 E.42nd. Let's find out what happened and make sure it never happens again. We are in the midst of a severe housing shortage. There are approx 16k more units now in process of conversion, 1000s of which will be affordable. It would be a massive mistake to stop this.

DSA isn’t unusual in defining working class expansively imo. Every viable electoral force in this country uses some version of the idea that their voters are working/worked harder than an enemy group as a means to cobble together a coalition of ppl of varied circumstances.