"get ready to learn bike lane buddy"

A hallmark of Trumpism now is not just de-institutionalization but anti-institutionalization, which is an assault on America as understood by Tocqueville, which I am sure most Americans have read

Yeah, that's bad. Dumb populism. Think about it this way: If you had a pot of cash to hand out, who would you send it to? I'm guessing you wouldn't say: “Folks who drive a lot are obviously the neediest; that's who deserves my cash.. Also, I would love to subsidize reliance on foreign oil.”

Please blab this video around to everyone in Michigan. youtube.com/shorts/xzdT3...

We somehow decided the true sin of hypocrisy was not failing to live up to our best selves but refusing to embrace our worst.

The Biden Economy and its inflation was not a gambit to raise wages it was the inevitable result of channeling a 10% hit to GDP through the inflation channel to preserve firms and employement. Everyone has decided that was really stupid and has made up a bunch of stories about Biden, per usual

>what canons of construction do to an mf

in an alternative Korea (sans the war and the division) the city of Kaesong could've become a historic tourist site not unlike Kyoto. tons great architecture and history in an auspicious area. what little I've had of their cuisine is colorful and refined and many cultural facets are quite photogenic

love u, rice cooker. one of my truest friends

the hidden virtues of gas station hot dogs (must be affirmatively purchased in-person, in front of another human being)

this could be us (social democratic welfare state with one major urban area with a full-fledged metro system)

between shovelling a car out of the snow both to unpark and re-park it (not to mention warming it up in the cold) vs. standing outside, waiting for a heated bus, I'm not even 100% sure who's winning and losing in the winter between drivers and transit riders

Genuinely one of the most stark differences between most US cities (with a handful of exceptions), and basically everywhere else I’ve been is the number of children taking themselves places. Part of that is transit. But a huge part is the persistent US paranoid-parental style.

I don't hate the lutefisk

McDonald's doesn't come in the house. That's automotive food, not residential.

Italian government to Trump…

it should be socially acceptable for families and children to ride public transit regularly at all times of year (and transit services should be correspondingly accessible to facilitate this)

imagining a bizzaro near future where surrey is more populous than vancouver, but still legally grouped with all the other localities in BC (governed by the local gov't act), while vancouver (suburb of surrey) still has its own special charter

and even with a much larger population, surrey imo still has a long ways to go in creating a cohesive identity to the extent that saint paul has one (might have something to do with the extent of prewar development in both places)

born to use a pixel 4a, forced to use a pixel 8 (what's the deal with the massive camera bumpout and no headphone jack?)

in its highest form (Adrian Chiles), the UK opinion column finds beauty, mystery, and intrigue in the mundane more commonly, it's pub bore stuff.

bumping www.slashfilm.com/2142399/the-...

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

worth noting that the US mistake in targeting the school was the same sort of error made by north korea in its shelling of yeonpyeong island in 2010 (using old information to target former military structures turned over for military use)

B&O HS just posted this gem. What was the last train show you went to and how many of these boxes got checked?

if you squint enough, it's iowa city (chicanery by state republicans aside)

wishing bluesky had polls for the question of whether comic sans is an appropriate font for maps of the battle of stalingrad commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Op...

*hits blunt* the terraforming of north korea into an isolated total society and massive set-piece monument to the kim family bears some incidental resemblence to the structures of US megachurches

The macrobrained dismissal of "vibescession" rubs me the wrong way because it ignores that the Trump-era malaise & instability hits everyone in different ways. A freelancer in their 50s is getting screwed in a differently than a federal worker in their 40s, a parent in their 30s, or a college grad.

For the first time in 30 years, one of the extremely unusual Market Square buildings in Pullman is for sale. Four matching buildings were constructed a decade after the original Pullman factory town, initially housing guests of the Pullman Company during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Transit agencies need a “sales”-type person for negotiating these sorts of deals with as many employers as possible.

low key why the Climate Corps is a idea. men should graduate college, get a few years romping around the forest planting trees and shit to get these hangups out of their system so they can realize working in AC sending emails is chill instead of making it everyone's problem

We've made real strides in gender equity by dramatically expanding unhealthy body expectations among men, young men in particular

Conservatives in 1900: Saint Paul is Sodom Conservatives in 2026: #SaintPaul is Gomorrah Thank you Ethan for this timely reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

happy anniversary to those who celebrate

Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis, 2010

Decent chance that by 2035 Republicans show no apparent awareness that Trump or Vance ever lived, let alone led their party.

I am hoping the Your Shitty Dog Sucks Actually backlash is coming soon, for the good of both humanity and dogs

It is good and cool that public sector workers* have unions. It is good and cool for pro-labor and socialist politicians to try to get a good deal for taxpayers in collective bargaining negotiations. There is no contradiction here. *except those who are empowered to carry out state violence

To all who celebrate!

Finally, a job I am more than qualified for

i think this is an under-appreciated aspect of the tension - namely that we're habituated to believing government just doesn't work. don't get mad at unions for being unions, get mad at governments for refusing to govern. this includes managing the unionized workers competently!

a take about AI writing that I've found to be a mostly useful heuristic is something along the lines of, 'what's the value in reading (or asking other people to read) something that another human did not write themselves?'

i hold the normie position that taiwan should remain as is but that viewing Sino-American relations in a second Cold War light is a really bad way to look at things and will likely shape strategic concepts in a negative way

one immediate point of distinction between cold war I and cold war II is the capacity for americans to be more racist about the latter

I'm beyond thrilled to see Watermelon Truck in the @chicagotribune.com. Thanks @ninametz.bsky.social for highlighting this really special part of our collection. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/t...