Nina Horisaki-Christens
@ninahorisakichr.bsky.social
Art Historian (Lecturer, UCLA), Curator, Writer, Translator, and sometimes artist (she/her)
Buttigieg's second home costs more than my (financially secure) parents' only home, but he claims a "real America" persona because he's in the Midwest, and a Democrat persona because he's gay. How exactly does he think he's NOT playing identity politics?
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Buttigieg's second home costs more than my (financially secure) parents' only home, but he claims a "real America" persona because he's in the Midwest, and a Democrat persona because he's gay. How exactly does he think he's NOT playing identity politics?
Having been through a miscarriage where the D&C missed a clot, absolutely not. I nearly passed out from the one clot AFTER taking a (doctor approved) double dose of Motrin and downing as much peppermint tea as my stomach could deal while huddling under an electric blanket all day.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Having been through a miscarriage where the D&C missed a clot, absolutely not. I nearly passed out from the one clot AFTER taking a (doctor approved) double dose of Motrin and downing as much peppermint tea as my stomach could deal while huddling under an electric blanket all day.
Yeah, but thinking about this again, they never even tried for single payer. I knew conservatives who would've supported single payer because obviously our health insurance system is inefficient and financially wasteful, but these people wouldn't vote for ACA because it's a Frankenstein system.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Yeah, but thinking about this again, they never even tried for single payer. I knew conservatives who would've supported single payer because obviously our health insurance system is inefficient and financially wasteful, but these people wouldn't vote for ACA because it's a Frankenstein system.
Truly a party with no taste for integrity, solidarity, or values. If you all were going to cave in such a spectacularly useless way, why even start this fight? You put the country through hell for nothing. This was the GOP's fault until you caved on Sunday, but now it's on you.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Truly a party with no taste for integrity, solidarity, or values. If you all were going to cave in such a spectacularly useless way, why even start this fight? You put the country through hell for nothing. This was the GOP's fault until you caved on Sunday, but now it's on you.
I'm glad you get it and furious at Democratic leadership. I should have known that the a&$#@/@$ that voted for the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq and who failed to push for SCOTUS seats and failed to hold out for a truly robust healthcare plan would cave when everything was on the line.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I'm glad you get it and furious at Democratic leadership. I should have known that the a&$#@/@$ that voted for the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq and who failed to push for SCOTUS seats and failed to hold out for a truly robust healthcare plan would cave when everything was on the line.
Ummmm...where, pray tell, are people buying their healthcare from if there is no gov't healthcare, they are trying not to pay "money sucking insurance companies," and yet common procedures, like *childbirth,* cost upwards of USD 100k without insurance?!!!
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Ummmm...where, pray tell, are people buying their healthcare from if there is no gov't healthcare, they are trying not to pay "money sucking insurance companies," and yet common procedures, like *childbirth,* cost upwards of USD 100k without insurance?!!!
I always thought the goal was a SHORTER mortgage since, y'know, you pay more in interest the longer your mortgage continues?!?
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I always thought the goal was a SHORTER mortgage since, y'know, you pay more in interest the longer your mortgage continues?!?
I dunno, Anderson's always been into trying the latest tech in a fairly uncritical way. She has sometimes made amazing work that way, but I saw a VR work of hers in 2017 at MassMOCA and left feeling like I had no idea why that work needed VR. It seemed gimmicky in a bad way.
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I dunno, Anderson's always been into trying the latest tech in a fairly uncritical way. She has sometimes made amazing work that way, but I saw a VR work of hers in 2017 at MassMOCA and left feeling like I had no idea why that work needed VR. It seemed gimmicky in a bad way.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Ewwwwww...creepy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ewwwwww...creepy.
....I definitely hadn't seen that. Thanks for the source. Now I have to bang my head against a wall for a few hours.
I'm sorry, that show at CAMSTL, at that time, was absolutely unforgivable. It's like a textbook out-of-touch-with-too-much-money-to-fail move. And yet he still gets cushy gigs.
I'm sorry, that show at CAMSTL, at that time, was absolutely unforgivable. It's like a textbook out-of-touch-with-too-much-money-to-fail move. And yet he still gets cushy gigs.
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
....I definitely hadn't seen that. Thanks for the source. Now I have to bang my head against a wall for a few hours.
I'm sorry, that show at CAMSTL, at that time, was absolutely unforgivable. It's like a textbook out-of-touch-with-too-much-money-to-fail move. And yet he still gets cushy gigs.
I'm sorry, that show at CAMSTL, at that time, was absolutely unforgivable. It's like a textbook out-of-touch-with-too-much-money-to-fail move. And yet he still gets cushy gigs.
Jeffrey Uslip? I didn't see him mentioned in any of the press around this failed US venice pavilion...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Jeffrey Uslip? I didn't see him mentioned in any of the press around this failed US venice pavilion...
I had to watch it in two separate chunks because there were too many people to be able to sit down and my pain meds weren't keeping up the day I went to see the show.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had to watch it in two separate chunks because there were too many people to be able to sit down and my pain meds weren't keeping up the day I went to see the show.
Newsome is what we used to call a poser. He loves to make a show of opposing his party's political enemies, but hasn't shown much dedication to defending really any of its causes.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Newsome is what we used to call a poser. He loves to make a show of opposing his party's political enemies, but hasn't shown much dedication to defending really any of its causes.
My grandfather took his rights as a naturalized citizen very seriously, and took action when NC election officials tried to deny him his right to vote, likely making it easier for others later, as well. His right to participate was important *because* he was building a new community for himself.
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My grandfather took his rights as a naturalized citizen very seriously, and took action when NC election officials tried to deny him his right to vote, likely making it easier for others later, as well. His right to participate was important *because* he was building a new community for himself.
I'd rather vote for someone who put some thought into becoming a citizen rather than someone who takes it for granted. It's a much bigger deal than many politicians want to acknowledge to choose to become a citizen. It should not be undertaken lightly and it does NOT appear Mamdani took it lightly.
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I'd rather vote for someone who put some thought into becoming a citizen rather than someone who takes it for granted. It's a much bigger deal than many politicians want to acknowledge to choose to become a citizen. It should not be undertaken lightly and it does NOT appear Mamdani took it lightly.
Dude, my parents' home has a painted chef hanging out a faux window in their faux-French-cafe kitchen from the previous owners that they kept. That's tacky.
Trump's inability to decorate in anything other than marble and gold is a rich person's disease. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Saddam Hussein.
Trump's inability to decorate in anything other than marble and gold is a rich person's disease. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Saddam Hussein.
November 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Dude, my parents' home has a painted chef hanging out a faux window in their faux-French-cafe kitchen from the previous owners that they kept. That's tacky.
Trump's inability to decorate in anything other than marble and gold is a rich person's disease. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Saddam Hussein.
Trump's inability to decorate in anything other than marble and gold is a rich person's disease. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Saddam Hussein.
Steinway!!!!
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Steinway!!!!
OMG yes. Every time I think about these claims that people "use SNAP for all kinds of things" I'm like, how? 25 years ago my register was already programmed to automatically recognize SNAP vs. non-SNAP items. And it was always so depressing seeing what SNAP would and would not cover.
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
OMG yes. Every time I think about these claims that people "use SNAP for all kinds of things" I'm like, how? 25 years ago my register was already programmed to automatically recognize SNAP vs. non-SNAP items. And it was always so depressing seeing what SNAP would and would not cover.
Soooo many people told me it was the "best" place to raise kids "because it was so safe." To me, it was a petty cliquish fishbowl where literal adults gossiped about teens (like classmates told me they heard baseless rumors about my best friend from their parents, who heard the stories at work).
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Soooo many people told me it was the "best" place to raise kids "because it was so safe." To me, it was a petty cliquish fishbowl where literal adults gossiped about teens (like classmates told me they heard baseless rumors about my best friend from their parents, who heard the stories at work).
We had OpEds in the local paper that claimed allowing local businesses to commission a graffiti artist to paint an alleyway between their businesses would "bring in drug dealers." They claimed that an (unsubstantiated) uptick in marijuana indicated the start of gang wars.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We had OpEds in the local paper that claimed allowing local businesses to commission a graffiti artist to paint an alleyway between their businesses would "bring in drug dealers." They claimed that an (unsubstantiated) uptick in marijuana indicated the start of gang wars.
I find this whole "liberals live in a bubble" thing completely ridiculous. The small midwestern city I grew up in has not voted for a Democrat for president in this century. And you know what we kids called it growing up? The Bubble Town.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I find this whole "liberals live in a bubble" thing completely ridiculous. The small midwestern city I grew up in has not voted for a Democrat for president in this century. And you know what we kids called it growing up? The Bubble Town.