RHB
@celery.bsky.social
Current: MSU Law '28 — Alum: NH Dems '24 (proudly), NY Dems '22, Yang '20 (regretfully), Elizabethtown '19 — Fan: Ravens, Badfinger, lamb saag — she/her — Baltimore
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My father-in-law is a Democratic governor. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent bill because he is lost in wonder. We were in a treasury together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to raise taxes today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it'
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My father-in-law is a Democratic governor. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent bill because he is lost in wonder. We were in a treasury together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to raise taxes today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it'
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you know what kills off Main Street? everybody having to drive 20 minutes to get there
The answer to the first question is "reviving the Main Street of their small town definitely means encouraging housing density and transit"
I don’t always agree with of the broader political takes from some “abundance”-coded pundits but man the abundance critics are just pure nonsense merchants
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
December 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
you know what kills off Main Street? everybody having to drive 20 minutes to get there
Fuck christmas and fuck you
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Fuck christmas and fuck you
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really telling that bari weiss after all this time masquerading as a centrist immediately signs up to be political commissar for rabidly antisemitic fascists. also telling that the times' management intentionally made her invulnerable, because they share her beliefs.
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
really telling that bari weiss after all this time masquerading as a centrist immediately signs up to be political commissar for rabidly antisemitic fascists. also telling that the times' management intentionally made her invulnerable, because they share her beliefs.
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You don’t need a degree in political science to understand why Trump and Putin want Canada and Greenland. This image should scare the fuck out of anyone who still doesn’t believe Russia’s war on Ukraine is an existential threat to democracy.
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You don’t need a degree in political science to understand why Trump and Putin want Canada and Greenland. This image should scare the fuck out of anyone who still doesn’t believe Russia’s war on Ukraine is an existential threat to democracy.
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A lot of well-meaning progressives on this site have been funding slavery in Myanmar and Cambodia in the unshakable conviction that every dollar they give is instantly being translated into food magically making its way past a military blockade by the most competent armed force in the Middle East.
I just assume any accounts doing that are probably Myanmar forced labor scammers and instablock, and it's depressing that people haven't figured out that nobody legit is spamming people that way
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A lot of well-meaning progressives on this site have been funding slavery in Myanmar and Cambodia in the unshakable conviction that every dollar they give is instantly being translated into food magically making its way past a military blockade by the most competent armed force in the Middle East.
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well yeah, more than anything what happened to small-c conservatism was that its strongest adherents looked to the caricatures of greedy businessmen in media aspirationally. but like, anyone claiming any knowledge of socialism should understand why charity doesn't work
Because when you marshal the facts of:
1. Capra was a staunch anti-New Deal conservative
2. He still portrayed Potter as a fucking monster
3. Right-wingers *today* straight up think Potter was the good guy
...it flies in the face of everything we've been saying about conservatism since 1981.
1. Capra was a staunch anti-New Deal conservative
2. He still portrayed Potter as a fucking monster
3. Right-wingers *today* straight up think Potter was the good guy
...it flies in the face of everything we've been saying about conservatism since 1981.
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
well yeah, more than anything what happened to small-c conservatism was that its strongest adherents looked to the caricatures of greedy businessmen in media aspirationally. but like, anyone claiming any knowledge of socialism should understand why charity doesn't work
The third of three previews for "Justice: a Testament" has been posted to Substack.
IV. The Citizenship of Music
Artistic and perceptive capacity is under wholesale assault.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The third of three previews for "Justice: a Testament" has been posted to Substack.
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The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
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What does Harvard, our greatest learning institution allegedly, mean? Nothing, apparently! It produced John Roberts and is now bending the knee. What does the American civic religion of democracy mean? Nothing, apparently! The last election was an installation and now we all answer to King Pederast.
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What does Harvard, our greatest learning institution allegedly, mean? Nothing, apparently! It produced John Roberts and is now bending the knee. What does the American civic religion of democracy mean? Nothing, apparently! The last election was an installation and now we all answer to King Pederast.
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Summers/Epstein + Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza has done more than anything else to help me understand why elites have capitulated to fascism while normal ppl haven't. After decades of hot air from elites/their institutions about freedom, democracy, equality etc, they reveal they have no beliefs or morals at all
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Summers/Epstein + Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza has done more than anything else to help me understand why elites have capitulated to fascism while normal ppl haven't. After decades of hot air from elites/their institutions about freedom, democracy, equality etc, they reveal they have no beliefs or morals at all
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dc journalists and beltway media culture are significantly, if not nearly entirely, to blame for where we are right now
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
dc journalists and beltway media culture are significantly, if not nearly entirely, to blame for where we are right now
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this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
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this fuckin guy ...dropping allegations of journalistic malpractice and source betrayal in separate piece meal events like it’s delicious media gossip and then writing, “we haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events”
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
this fuckin guy ...dropping allegations of journalistic malpractice and source betrayal in separate piece meal events like it’s delicious media gossip and then writing, “we haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events”
I have just finished a book of eleven chapters. Chapters I and III have been posted on Substack, with chapter IV to follow on Saturday.
The other essays in the series are about Reconstruction, Stirner, the State of Exception, and metaphysics, among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/riderhbr...
The other essays in the series are about Reconstruction, Stirner, the State of Exception, and metaphysics, among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/riderhbr...
III. The Barbarism of Instrumentality
Human consciousness has been systematically narrowed.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I have just finished a book of eleven chapters. Chapters I and III have been posted on Substack, with chapter IV to follow on Saturday.
The other essays in the series are about Reconstruction, Stirner, the State of Exception, and metaphysics, among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/riderhbr...
The other essays in the series are about Reconstruction, Stirner, the State of Exception, and metaphysics, among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/riderhbr...
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me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
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yes reasonable and fair to wait until we have more information to talk about any motive. no not necessary to wait until we have more information to blame the president and the governors who illegally put national guard where they didn't belong to harass and terrorize their political enemies for show
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
yes reasonable and fair to wait until we have more information to talk about any motive. no not necessary to wait until we have more information to blame the president and the governors who illegally put national guard where they didn't belong to harass and terrorize their political enemies for show
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i don't get how people watched zohran's campaign and got the impression that he was anything but a massive YIMBY
I mostly stay off twitter but I occasionally go back because all the left NIMBYs stayed. The complete copefest going on over Mamdani putting YIMBYs on his housing transition team has been chicken noodle soup for the soul.
Posts of people who know they lost.
Posts of people who know they lost.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
i don't get how people watched zohran's campaign and got the impression that he was anything but a massive YIMBY
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yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
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these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
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There's a category of online people I know who spent the last decade on tumblr yelling at people who didn't follow artist norms like "always credit the artist" like it was the law, and are currently talking about how they "always have to call out AI art"
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
There's a category of online people I know who spent the last decade on tumblr yelling at people who didn't follow artist norms like "always credit the artist" like it was the law, and are currently talking about how they "always have to call out AI art"
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
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there exists a category of moral wrong which cannot really be punished by anything other than the public driving them to suicide and that's more or less what Nuzzi did
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
there exists a category of moral wrong which cannot really be punished by anything other than the public driving them to suicide and that's more or less what Nuzzi did
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yeah I kinda don't think Nuzzi and Lizza are themselves generalizable.
the people circling the wagons for them, though....
the people circling the wagons for them, though....
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
yeah I kinda don't think Nuzzi and Lizza are themselves generalizable.
the people circling the wagons for them, though....
the people circling the wagons for them, though....