Dunking on these people is important bc when you think the party that sponsors the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is equivalent to the party that gutted the VRA and wiped out black representation in the South, you are g-dd*mn idiot.

I learned today that “Try a new food, it might taste good” is fascist apologia, apparently.

Progressive motor vehicle weight excise tax. You tax cars at $1.00/lb up to 3500 lbs (the cutoff for sedans) and $2.50/lb above 3500 lbs. DAdd in a 500lb battery exemption and you’ve bullseyed big truck owners.

I initially read this as “Trump on massive life support” only to have my hopes dashed.

It’s not too late to deliver on the promise of 40 acres and a mule is it? Because the South sure are acting like they didn’t lose the war.

Alien Ant Farm’s cover of Smooth Criminal is way way way better than it has any right to be

Dear GOP, this is fantastic advertising for “Trump accounts”. Please keep talking about getting rid of Social Security. That is really popular, especially amongst your base.

I really like the way he sums up the NIMBY's credo as "“They’re afraid of sharing a zip code with people who don’t share their tax bracket. It’s the craziest thing” "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/06/business/marblehead-town-meeting-video-about-housing/

i thought it was really dumb when he got drunk, tried to fight the cyclops and started shouting “yankees sack” repeatedly

So kids can’t get a vaccine that prevents cancer but can give themselves skin cancer? Do I have that right?

No matter how much you hate them, it’s not even a fraction of the utter contempt they hold for you.

The iron-ish law of YIMBYism: Markets that spend decades below 6% rental vacancy are almost always expensive. Markets that maintain healthy vacancy rates are usually cheap

Should we all smoke cigarettes again? How about no.

The behavior of the tech oligarchs (and other billionaires too, excepting Cuban/Prtizker/Steyer) has moved me from a “wealth taxes are a bad and inefficient way to raise revenue” to “they have too much money and it needs to be taken from them - for their and our own good”

I think the even more frustrating thing is we’ve all but eliminated pestilence (thank you vaccines and public health) and famine (thank you industrial farming) but we put people in place determined to tear down those achievements.

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Had a great Twitter thread on this back in the day.

Chat, can you remind me why the name of the animal (cow) diverged from the name of the meat from the animal (beef)

Call me a simpleton for yearning for the last, but I miss the Toilet Paper USA memes of Kirk’s forehead getting progressively smaller and/or his forehead getting bigger.

I love congestion/demand charges, but I think a huge hang up for a lot of markets is an inability for your avg residential user to conform demand to supply. And electricity is the biggest loser on this front. Much easier to shift schedules by an hour for tolling than change heating/lighting.

One of my favorite politicians: progressive but not a radical; a fighter but not a blowhard; smart but not a know-it-all; an independent streak but still a team player.

I think a partial issue with why modern young adults are so pessimistic is that we are much more heavily taxed to support the previous generations while THOSE SAME older people have cut their own taxes.

As a (former) homebrewer and chemist, let me be clear: DO NOT EVER DISTILL AT HOME. YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF.

The unhinged responses on here by so-called “leftists” that range from Campist anti-Americanism to licklespittle fawning over a totalitarian (Xi) demonstrates why the NeoCons split from the Socialists.

Nothing but geniuses in the White House. Start a war, blow through a bunch of needed munitions killing the pro-western politicos, blow up a girl’s school, and all you achieve is - handing Iran a toll booth worth 1/4 of their entire GDP. Literally more valuable than their entire oil sector.

The JCPOA, TPP, & Paris Accords are what happens a President can wield moral authority as well as physical. They represent huge diplomatic wins that would’ve entrenched the US as the economic & political leader for decades. Then Trump & the GOP blew up decades of US leadership bc Obama was black.

This can’t be true. I’ve been told that supply doesn’t work. Developers and landlords in San Diego must be less greedy than in other places, like Los Angeles

What I like about Zohran is (1) he acts like being Mayor is both important and fun and (2) he views the government’s job as to deliver services for people. It’s a very, very different mindset from most politicians.

Another thing @kevinerdmann.bsky.social is be interested to see is when “ex-urbs” became a thing because that chart also reads as “we ran out of land within normal commute distance” and I remember the late ‘90s being about the rise of the exurbs.

"at $2 million a pop, that comes out to about $100 billion in revenue for Iran—more than one-quarter of Iran’s nominal GDP, and nearly twice the country’s annual budget. Unlike the U.S., these tariffs really can fund the country." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

"The Jeopardy champion should look right into the camera and express the exact same ideology as me" but it actually happened.

No better argument that SCOTUS is broken in that it’s apparently unconstitutional to regulate a medical practice. Bonkers.

I mean, the answer to it is to repeal the dumb, bad tip and overtime and extra social security deductions that are regressive, erode the tax base, and distort labor markets and hiring decisions.

Its funny bc this is exactly what I want, only its the Hillary Clinton version a la "A hemispheric common market, with open trade and open border...w/energy as green and sustainable as possible, powering growth and opportunity for everybody".

Nobody wants to hear this but progressives need to: universal child care will require a VAT. It will require taxing everybody more. A 5% VAT would raise 10x Warren’s wealth tax proposal.

Carter dies and we’re back to bad Special Operations ideas in the Middle East.

🎶One of these things is not like the other🎶

Bc my opinion of voters is, well, on par with a sewer backup, this is probably smart campaigning bc your average voter has zero, nay negative, understanding of Senate procedure and internal rule-making.

GOP leaders: “What if - instead of leaving it a subtext - we made it bold text that we’re trading healthcare and food for guns and bombs?”

Hey look what happens after decades of relentless property and income tax cuts? This is quintessential drained pool politics / enshittification to public services and goods. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/20/m...

Wonder what the 2026 Dem Congress will do with veto proof supermajorities?

82nd's involved? Operation Market Khargen

So, the price of gasoline rose by ~$0.35 per liter in Vancouver because of the Persian Gulf crisis, which is equivalent to a carbon price of ~$150/tonne CO2 🙃

EUGENICIST TECHBRO: Our species is in danger! ME: Carbon sequestration and reduced emissions can still help. Unless you were thinking about reducing nuclear stockpiles. Or preparing for future pandemics. EUGENICIST TECHBRO: I was talking about white babies on Mars. What the hell are you on about?

And to be that guy: when you have supply shocks like these is when you want to raise taxes on the food, otherwise the existing/surviving suppliers wind up with a huge windfall! It’s Exxon and Citgo and BP who will pocket that $0.183 per gallon, not you!

Wait, I’m sorry, those shoes are only $145? Jfc Trump is a cheapo.

Farm automation started in 1835 with the invention of the combine harvester, which dramatically increased farm productivity, reduced food prices, and allowed the average family to eat more, better, and cheaper.

For the record my position is people saying "I should be allowed to steal/drive dangerously/litter/do xyz other antisocial things because the world is FUCKED UP" have a basically reactionary worldview and if that's the way you go through life you might as well go MAGA bc that's the way they think

Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.

Admittedly we’ll come back from this after we *redacted for Fed-posting* all these traitors in this administration.