Dan Watson

@wats.ink

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No buzzkill credit checks. No minimum down payments. That's not your bag. Baltimore, MD https://wats.ink/

primary voters who prefer socialism but voted for Crowley because “electability”
Andrew Cuomo's "Leadership Lessons from COVID" book written while he was still governor
bill clinton 2016 convention speech. "NY democrats urged hillary to run for the (senate) seat ... this had never occurred to either one of us"
forrest gump meme
nixon golfing with jackie gleason
guy in western virginia in 2017 has 50 trump signs. trump is president man, why not just be happy in peace? presumably he had to replace/update all these once the maga’s soured on pence
comment on reel: “just alarmingly stacked” reply: “my name is mohammed. my family is going through an unbearable time. my children are hungry” eventually this account links to a fundraiser on “chuffed dot org”
babe ruth exhibits at cooperstown
groucho marx in “duck soup” (1933) telling a young soldier to go out and risk his life while “we’ll be in here thinking what a sucker you are”
today’s story has a posed photo of fulop “by WSJ”
“constitutional interpretation is not the monopoly of courts” in “shattered dreams, infinite hope: a tragic vision of the civil rights movement” by brandon terry
“the Camp Logan Mutiny in Houston, where approximately one hundred black soldiers, in retaliation for local police assaulting a black mother and a fellow soldier, clashed with police and white residents, killing sixteen and losing four of their own”
“this is the first time i’ve ever been to this page”
shakir trying to differentiate “the democratic establishment” from “biden” and chotiner does one of his snappy replies “he was the president”. but obviously 2024 Biden was not the kind of president who has control over his party’s establishment, if he did he would have stayed the nominee!
warren 2020
In America, guardrail systems are sometimes installed—and, much more often, repaired—by local crews of laborers who have no real familiarity with how they work. As one guardrail executive told me, “Often you get guys that are plowing snow in the winter and cutting grass in the summer.” He went on, “They go to a yard where they’ve got a pile of parts—a bracket here, bolt there, a rail that looks like it’ll fit—and they install it.” In guardrail jargon, the practice of assembling a rail with a hodgepodge of parts is known as Frankensteining.
Melissa remembers watching Hannah dress up for a party on Halloween in 2016. She was going as an obscure character from a live-action role-playing game. Hannah had told her parents that the party was in Athens, and at first they had assumed she meant Athens, Tennessee, about forty minutes away. But the party was actually in Athens, Georgia: a four-hour drive. That night, Hannah and a friend set out in Hannah’s Volvo S80, a car her father had picked because it had a good safety rating. “I remember it like a snapshot,” Melissa told me. “Hannah putting on red lipstick and a white shirt, looking in the mirror across the hall. She was super chipper. It was a singsongy goodbye.” In the early hours of November 1st, Hannah was driving home when her Volvo drifted off Interstate 75 and collided with a steel guardrail. She was sober and was going under the speed limit but was tired—she’d nodded off, apparently, as her friend slept in the passenger seat. Hannah’s car hit a safety feature known as a terminal end, a black-and-yellow-striped rectangular box at the end of the rail, designed to absorb kinetic energy. In a collision like this, the terminal end should give way and slide along the metal strip of the rail, slowing the car down and forcing the rail to curl up before it. Instead, this guardrail tore through the Volvo and cut Hannah’s body in half.
fox news 2016 saying please clap, or something. take my phone away
astra taylor “democracy may not exist but we’ll miss it when it’s gone”
Graham "laughing loudly just after US strikes on Iran began, saying 'how long have we been pushing this?'"
drive your bike to the bike path? seems stupid
“Consider the infamy of what these suitors are doing; see how they are wasting the estate, and doing dishonor to the wife, of one who is certain to return some day, and that, too, not long hence. Nay, he will be here soon; may heaven send you home quietly first that you may not meet with him in the day of his coming, for once he is here the suitors and he will not part bloodlessly.” With these words he [Odysseus disguised as a beggar] made a drink-offering, and when he had drunk he put the gold cup again into the hands of Amphinomus, who walked away serious and bowing his head, for he foreboded evil. But even so he did not escape destruction, for Athena had doomed him to fall by the hand of Telemachus.
they should have just turned right, looped through mcdonalds, then gone left across four lanes then quick right (29th / exeter converts from two way to one way so no eastbound traffic at the light)
the sticker
"There is an almost cherubic expression on his small, round face as he talks about life—clothes, money, the Baltimore Orioles and heroin. He has been an addict since the age of 5. His hands are clasped behind his head, fancy running shoes adorn his feet, and a striped Izod T-shirt hangs over his thin frame. “Bad, ain’t it,” he boasts to a reporter visiting recently. “I got me six of these.” Jimmy’s is a world of hard drugs, fast money and the good life he believes both can bring. Every day, junkies casually buy heroin from Ron, his mother’s live-in-lover, in the dining room of Jimmy’s home. They “cook” it in the kitchen and “fire up” in the bedrooms. And every day, Ron or someone else fires up Jimmy, plunging a needle into his bony arm, sending the fourth grader into a hypnotic nod." https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/ithaca-college/introduction-to-journalism/the-fabulist-who-changed-journalism-a-study-on-janet-cookes-jimmys-world/137319714?sid=007aadd7-4060-4823-8d12-82c328a188331784445592
although the buttoning here is not pristine
Harper was hired to message a problem gambler by “receiving a request on Cameo for a personal holiday video for Thanksgiving” https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49352243/bryce-harper-denies-giving-fanduel-consent-video-customer
a google maps shot of the "BALTIMORE" vertical post sign, looking south, in front of a rite aid that is now a walgreens
the silicon valley handjob math scene
world cup match spain vs belgium
just kidding, baltimore tree trust
a political winner from david perdue
The Baltimore native and U.S. Army veteran runs Boat Baltimore, a sailboat charter company. He started making Instagram Reels to promote his business but also to show followers Baltimore’s most flattering angles. That’s not his only job. During the winter and when he’s not on the water, the 46-year-old works as a national security background investigator supporting the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.
yglesias. sorry
Jefferson Davis “erected by Ladies Confederate Memorial Association 1930”
quarterfinals at wimbledon women's singles Osaka vs Muchova Pegula vs Gauff Kostyuk vs Paolini Noskova vs Mertens I follow tennis a reasonable amount and don't think I ever heard of Noskova.
Franca got nearly 5,000 votes (35.9%) as a Green candidate in a city where almost everyone's a Democrat
https://jacobin.com/2013/12/socialism-converting-hysterical-misery-into-ordinary-unhappiness/
bras and bibs on drying rack in laundry room
Dunne had many faults, but I don’t think he had many illusions about himself. Maybe Didion admired him for that. There’s this story in Vegas about how Dunne discovered his voyeuristic tendencies. When he was young and living alone in New York City, he used to spy on the woman in the apartment across the street. He’d watch her eating meals, getting dressed, having sex. “I told no one except the girl I was later to marry,” he writes. “She came back to my apartment with me one night and we sat and stared, neither of us saying a word, until exhaustion finally took us to bed with each other for the first time.” I have no idea if this is true. I hope it is. https://email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-fljlhjy-trujtujiv-w/
Slippery Dan speaking the fatal words that will get him impaled on the horns of a nearby bull head: Christ, that’s one country ass-kicking! from Deadwood episode 2 of season 2
picture of toy borrowed from this page https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/i-tried-the-new-minions-meal-at-wendys-i-went-bananas-for-this-item/ar-AA25IjB1
up goes frazier!
section 126 behind one of the goals.
i don’t believe in this “round up to donate through taco bell” type thing because i think it turns a tax writeoff for you into a tax writeoff for them, but still
Dig radio transcript from https://jacobin.com/2026/06/avila-chevalier-espaillat-nyc-socialism
“just say it later, when they are playing.” https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/world-cup-philadelphia-french-fans-20260622.html
Mamdani attended and spoke at a police affiliated charity fundraiser on Thursday. the crowd was “rankled” but the story doesn’t explain any details. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/wall-street-realizes-it-needs-more-than-money-to-counter-mamdani-f2c6ac61
quack
pride parade "boyfriend of bi girlfriend" tweet
“we were not willing to allow someone to make that choice out of seniority” this is an auto transcript so not perfect. the audio is at the 34-35 min mark here: https://podtail.com/podcast/max-murphy/nyc-dsa-co-chairs-on-the-2026-primaries-mayor-mamd/
shitty screenshot from someones youtube but this is the scene i mean
greenmount ave (north south), 35th st (east west) auto traffic can't go straight across
"Del. Stephanie Smith (D-Baltimore City) sat in fourth place, 440 votes behind Chanel Branch for the third and final slot to represent District 45 in East Baltimore." from https://marylandmatters.org/2026/06/25/maryland-delegates-tight-races/ Chanel Branch is the sleepy daughter of old lawmaker Talmadge Branch who appointed herself through a committee vote and then lost her first election four years ago. not someone you would call a popular figure
excerpt from King Riverside speech, 1967 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
In our time, there are entrenched institutional liberal forces, not only in formal politics but in the universities, the press, the legal system, the nonprofit sector, and even the corporate world, that intone the threat Trumpism poses to democracy and the rule of law, yet work every day to defeat their own internal left-wing challengers: student protests, labor struggles, “woke excesses.” When they raid encampments (student or unhoused) or bust unions, they do Trump’s work for him, remaking Americans in authoritarian ways. The phenomenon that Trump represents can only be defeated when liberal institutionalists cease trying to quash the insurgent left in the name of protecting democracy, and instead look to it as an ally and a source of strength. This is not because the ideas of the left already represent a suppressed silent majority—a fantastical, self-flattering delusion—but because it is only the left that has a coherent vision to offer against the ideas of the right. Liberals have tried for a decade now to rid the country of Trump by ostracizing him as a grotesque aberration. They’ve pursued this through legal investigations, but also through elaborate and repeated demonstrations of bipartisan elite consensus against him. It has only made him stronger. Trumpism can’t be finessed because it speaks to real forces in American society—racism, misogyny, class frustration—and offers an obscene, satisfying expression to its addressees. It can only be beaten by direct confrontation—not just with Trump, but with what he represents, and the remaking of America he envisions. To call his movement fascism carries this unavoidable implication, which makes all the more galling the lack of appetite for such confrontation from so many who apply the label. from https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/