Allison Belan

@acbelan

Bull City by way of Rocket City. Food. Rescue dogs. Travel. Book publishing standards and best practices.

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Allison Belan@acbelan· 21d

This hit my husband’s LinkedIn the other day and we could not stop laughing. Best part: your old male ass can only possibly be unseated by a younger male ass

LinkedIn post with gendered pronouns highlighted: But right now there is a 38 year old VP in your building who doesn't need three cups of coffee to function by 9am. He doesn't lose his train of thought at 3pm. He doesn't need a drink to shut his brain off at night.
He is fully optimized. He is hungry. And he is watching you slow down.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Jul 12

It’s a mitzvah: one must immediately eat the blueberries that fall from the container into the bag on the way home

5 pints of ripe, juicy blueberries. Some of the pints are not quite full.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Jul 11

World historic caption

Caption below image of very large marmot from behind: “A marmot in Kamloops has a big backside.”

Allison Belan@acbelan· Apr 9

What are the tariffs and the decimation of the fed workforce and research all about? An American Cultural Revolution. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...

As I said last month, the project is about deskilling America: reducing white-collar work through Al and remote job cuts, destroying universities, starving higher education, using tarifis to wall off the country as a
manufacturing-and-extraction island, gutting the cities, and pushing men into manual labor while nudging women into domestic roles. It's not incoherent-it's a plan being implemented methodically.

None of this is about restoring dignity to labor.
It's about stripping dignity from labor that offers autonomy, safety, or intellectual freedom. It's about reducing workers of all kinds-whether white-collar, blue-collar, or no-collar-to servitude.

Trump's tariffs are imagined as a cure-all: destroy the livelihoods of the educated men they resent, displace women from the professional fields where they thrive, and reassert dominance over a labor force they believe was rightfully theirs.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Apr 5

Raleigh was a SCENE

Trump protests sign that reads TRUMP: A SMALL, PETTY DICK-TATER, and has a small Yukon gold potato shaped like genitals taped under the slogan

Allison Belan@acbelan· Apr 5

Big crowd in Raleigh, NC, today. Few thousand, I’d guess, plus the supportive drivers passing by.

Crowd of people protesting the actions of the Trump administration. Many are holding signs with protest messages. Faces obscured for anonymity.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Feb 18

Judge Chutkan captures the unlawfulness of it all with concise elegance www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

"Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight," she wrote.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Jan 1

This is not good

Allison Belan@acbelan· Nov 30

Very proud of this first ever turkey pot pie. Multi-generational effort; my MIL made her mother’s pie dough and we assembled together

A golden brown turkey pot pie on plate with sautéed broccoli raab

Allison Belan@acbelan· Nov 24

I was a poll greeter in a heavily democratic district and the most common interaction that day was people not having a drivers license and not getting clear info at the poll about alternative IDs (or not having one with them) or about the affidavit option

With tallies still incomplete, the measure has invalidated the ballots of 2,169 voters who did not produce an ID card, about one in every 2,600 voters and fewer than many expected.
But that number is itself a head-scratcher:
Virtually all of those rejected voters could have kept their eligibility simply by signing an affidavit explaining why they had no identification.
Which raises the question of what the law actually does.

Allison Belan@acbelan· Nov 21

I was too young my first time through Homicide to clock it, but now I’m delighted to recognize John Waters’s cameo in season 1

Director and Baltimore native John Waters appearing as a bartender wiping a glass on TV show Homicide

Allison Belan@acbelan· Aug 29

Soooo good with some completely original dishes