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Brooklyn-based pest. Longtime volunteer with States Win, a direct action organization working to create and maintain progressive majorities in state legislative houses. No automatic followbacks.

A row of clean, curvy Empire Bins in Harlem. Sure, they’re plastic, but no mystery ooze and no rats!
Bright green with black & yellow dots Eastern Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar upright on a parsley stem. Looking very hungry!
Airnow.gov showing an AQI of 270.
Photo of place in Watendlath UK, the Lake District, that appears to be the place in the referenced painting.
My closest match is Zohran Mamdani.
My closest match is Zohran Mamdani!
My best match on this stupid quiz is Zohran Mamdani!!
Muting “scaramucci” FOREVER.
Program for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with set in background.
The three ladies from How to Get to Heaven From Belfast (Netflix)
Cartoon of a sparrow and crow making fun of each other's concept of bird gods. It ends with the sparrow saying of the departing crow: “You will burn in sparrow Hell.”
The 9/11 Onion: “Hijackers Surprised to Find Selves in Hell”
Graph showing Trump disapproval by state and by 2024 voters. He is under water in six Trump/Biden states: WI, MI, PA, GA, AZ, & NV. Strong approval only in ID, WY, & WV.
Oberon Wackwitz is missing in the Philadelphia area. He struggles with addiction and mental illness. He is a young, medium-toned Black man with a beard & mustache.
Mackerel striped tabby looking up. He is plush and delicious.
JD Vance as the Grim Reaper. Farthest door is Pope Francis, then Iran Negotiations, Viktor Orban’s Re-Election, and he’s knocking on a door labeled US Midterms.
Horseshoe jeans, dark blue denim with light blue denim floral/botanical print.
Overhanging branch with cherry blossoms in foreground; Green-hued lake in mid ground, and vermilion gate in background.
A stripey cat, in loaf position, looking up diagonally.
Screenshot of U.S. Drought Monitor national map, data valid March 31, 2026. Red and deep red is splotched across southeastern Texas, Florida panhandle, and northwestern Colorado, among other places. Maybe 25% of landmass? About 2/3 of America is in some kind of drought, mostly low to moderate.
Stripey kitty looks up
Interviews with three skeptical Waffle House customers, the last one remembering that he once ended up at Waffle House so drunk he didn’t know how he got there. Hmm.
Fake texting from r/ThePitt showing Langdon texting Joy that they are short-staffed and her replying damn that’s crazy goodluck tho.
Movie character in red glasses, holding a semiautomatic rifle, asking “What kind of American are you?”
Hand petting wobbly kitty, who is leaning into the hand and purring.
Wobbly kitty eats food from bowl, in a very wobbly way!
Two drawings of American women: a Latina woman and a woman wearing an American flag hijab.
Enormous crowd marching down Broadway in the March 28 No Kings protest.
White goat with black lining on its ear, around its eyes, and apparently lipstick (!). Lying down and lounging against a cream-colored wall.
Front page of post-9/11 Onion including: “Hijackers Suprised to Find Selves in Hell” and “Rest of Country Temporarily Feels Deep Affection for New York.”
The character Lady Russell wearing a fabulous maroon, military-inspired hat in the 1995 movie of Persuasion.
Backyard furniture showing about 24” of snow.
Snowy backyard suggesting about 2’ of snow.
Picture of a lot of protestors on NYC’s 5th Avenue.
Cong. Dan Goldman’s FB post stating the Venezuela operation was “an illegal act of war without Congress’s authorization.” He asks the Republican majority to “join us exercising our power to hold this administration accountable for this flagrant violation of the constitution.”
My 2026 word is “prosperous.” LOL.
4-in-1 pill cutter, crusher, storage, and drink cup.
Decorated Christmas tree with presents below flanked by bookshelf & piano. Merry Christmas!
Picture of packaging for NeilMed Sinus Rinse Kit — great for colds, allergies and sinusitis!
Still from Rushmore, showing a smoking Bill Murray in a very Houston location, peeking from behind a pine tree, with flat, treed suburban lot in background.
Laptop stand holds laptop screen at ergonomic eye-level.
View of people picnicking in a meadow in Prospect Park, with photographer’s long shadow and aqua wagon foregrounded. Top 1/3 is beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds
Wearing my Halloween Voter 2025 sticker on a dress with a magic jar print.
Flyer describing how to make a toiletry kit for chipsonline.org
Figure walking on Pacific Northwest beach, reflected in large tide pool. Conifirs rise in the misty background.
Neon green sign says “They’re eating the checks. They’re eating the balances.”
Throngs of protestors in front of a neon American flag in Times Square.
Parody protestors dressed in Monopoly costumes with signs that say “We paid for three terms” and “Raise the Rent.” Two men are wearing top hats and one is smoking a cigar.
A group of No Kings protestors line the street of Rutland, VT.
Gap’s flower denim horseshoe jeans, super soft with extra large elastic waste.
That said, for my money, the biggest offenders when it comes to the prevalence of wank are, in fact, the reactionary centre: the Ezra Kleins and suchlike of this world. The core emotional attachment for them is of being above the political struggle and effortlessly able to synthesise the ideas of the left and right into something better, that always mysteriously appears to be the status quo. In better times, this may well have worked for them and been sensible. However, we are not in better times: we are in a time of division, of lines being drawn, and of having to fight unambiguously for the liberal, institutional order that we believe in (apologies to my anarchist readers: I do think we need strong institutions, though I think the average person needs to learn a lot of lessons from you guys). To assert ideas about "coming together" and "the truth being in the middle" in such a situation, and then to claim that any probes at that are a sign of extremism and the probers being the enemy, is prototypical wank.
Film still from Roma, showing the family surrounding their beloved maid after she has saved one of the children from drowning.
Dunes north of Kijkduin, near The Hague, Netherlands, taken the last week of August, 2025.
Still from the masterpiece Italian film The Great Beauty, with an impeccably dressed Tony Servillo lounging in front of a lounging statue of Poseidon.
Article from April 2021 talking about Glenn Youngkin and his wife, now the current owners of the former Camp Arrowhead in Hunt, Texas.
Fundraising text from “an independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York” Abbey Laurel-Smith, who is apparently a Black man? Mentions public safety, so running in the same lane as Cuomo.
Captain America re-imagined as Captain Democracy with the no kings logo on his shield.
In foreground sign with Captain American on it and the No Kings logo on his shield.
Picture of the cylindrical Morton Salt container.