Inside the WAL-Room
Twenty years later, here’s what it actually looked like inside the most notorious astroturfing campaign in recent American corporate history open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Chris Abraham
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Membership Has Its Privileges
A report on where the American floor actually sits, and on the country’s staggering, almost pathological talent for not noticing what it already has open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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USDA Already Calls SNAP Stimulus
SNAP gets sold as charity because charity is the only frame that survives a floor vote. The government’s own paperwork has called it something else, honestly, in writing, roughly every recession since open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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They Never Hid the Word Stimulus
SNAP looks like charity because charity is what clears a floor vote. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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The Ceiling Becomes the Floor
How rescuing widows and orphans turned into demanding parity with billionaires, and why the receipts don’t back up either side of that fight the way you’d expect open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Democracy Is DSA Code for Mob Rule: “It’s democracy” and “first principles” do the same job: they let you skip the argument chrisabraham.substack.com/p/democra…
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I just figured out that “democracy” is DSA code for “mob rule” pca.st/episode/0…
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Low Fidelity
Pidgin, AAVE, Connecticut, and the collapse of “women” into “woman” aren’t three unrelated linguistic curiosities. They’re the same signal-versus-rapport tradeoff, running in real time, in your own mouth. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Burritoflation 5: The Livable Wage Paradox
The carrot moves as fast as the raise open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Burritoflation 4: You Didn’t Miss the Rent, You Missed the Train
Nobody in this economy is poor. Some of us just missed the train. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Burritoflation 3: Too Big to Poop
Thank God the burrito bubble isn’t the housing bubble open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Burritoflation 2: Electric Boogaloo Tokyo Drift> The Ant and the Grasshopper Taxhttps://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/burritoflation-2-electric-boogalootokyo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1
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On Burritoflation
Nobody is mad about the price of a burrito. They’re mad they have to make one themselves. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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All they can talk about is restaurant burritos. The issue about the #burritoflation is making food at home from scratch.
The Burritoflation Debate pca.st/episode/5…
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Despite its reputation for lenient sentencing, Canada maintains one of the highest incarceration rates among developed nations, outpacing almost all of Western Europe. While trailing extreme outliers like the US, Canada jails around 85 to 114 people per 100,000.
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Do you fancy this a molehill or a mountain
Youngest Black professor at Cambridge resigns as university investigates allegations of plagiarism apnews.com/article/b…
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Confessions of a Red-Letter Christian I spent years on the vestry of an Episcopal church and never had the insights I got from forty minutes with the actual text chrisabraham.substack.com/p/confess…
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America = Afghanistan
Why the U.S. drains and buries movements the same way Afghanistan buries empires chrisabraham.substack.com/p/america…
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I love Lioness! It’s killer 5'2" 90lb fierce covert tier-1 operator porn. I missed season 2. They’re already at season 3. Sweet! Two seasons left! I’m in!
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A Pagan in Messiah’s Clothing?
Rome didn’t sneak paganism into Christianity. It dissolved Christianity into the paganism that was already there open.substack.com/pub/chris…