Where-in my city purports to give away $1B for a sports team to build a stadium in an awkward out of the way geographically isolated spot, while giving the team zero tax obligation. What an absolute insane fucking travesty. Politics as emotion for the L.

"If your goal is to cement your power, then it’s rational to pardon your most ardent criminal supporters who have been convicted of carrying out violent acts on your behalf. They will be your civilian army."

And Nixon was, in turn, white people’s revenge for the passage of the civil rights act.

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

i actually think i disagree here. i think nixon basically was the first president to essentially use the administrative state and weaponize it as a tool against the left

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

You all know we won't shut up about this, but there is a specific dynamic of national outlets reporting on Chicago carelessly—as if there are no real stakes here because the middle of the country is a big black hole to them Thanks to @huffpost.com for participating in it!!!

Another part of JRRT's life I think a lot of people miss is how influential the trenches were not just on his sense of horror, but on his sense of honor. Ideas of honor and chivalry were very powerful on his generation and class, and it's easy to think that they were all disillusioned by the war ...

super cool to find out that my DC Councilmember, Brooke Pinto, voted to give a fuckton of money to the Commanders for a new stadium, exempt them from any taxes, and use debt financing to do it because, wait for it, DC's in a giant budget crisis already so let's give some rich fucks a $1,000,000,000!

the actual problem here is that GRRM fundamentally doesn’t understand Tolkien’s project. when you’re aiming for literature, not realism, you don’t care about things like this. the Shire is (partly) a loving sendup of the bourgeois English country novel, where characters are always curiously sexless

This catches people off guard, but it's an old story in right wing. Pat Buchanan, William Safire, Ben Stein, and Diane Sawyer were all unrepentant refugees of the Nixon White House. The story of the American right has been a 51-year campaign of revenge for the Passion of Richard Nixon.

This works perfectly well for LOTR by the way, because it's telling a story in a very specific style and format, but it's pretty clearly true, and it's an interesting angle of analysis of the books.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

Epilogue: I often reflect, when people start pounding their chests about being Warriors (masculine) and offering social commentary along those lines, about how I personally know a woman Apache pilot who has shuffled more Taliban off this mortal coil than all of miltwitter combined

his secretary of health and human services doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease, routinely tortures and mutilates animals, and probably drove his ex-wife to suicide

It’s good to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies for millions of reasons but the amount of “pharma greed” accusations leveled around generic medications (SSRIs, HRT, etc) that the companies just don’t care very much about anymore is very funny.

Fevers are dangerous early in pregnancy and Tylenol is the only fever reducer pregnant people are supposed to take. In this freak’s mind, having a baby with congenital anomalies incompatible with life is *less bad* than having a child with autism

I remember when people talked about “the West” and they just meant NATO, not “we’re a coalition of neo-nazis, neo-confederates, and religious fundamentalists.”

It should be obvious, but from someone who is aware of the literature: There is no observed link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. But there is significant data on all sorts of bad outcomes if pregnant women don't treat high fevers.

If they were all documented, it's hard to imagine how this isn't another example of ICE using workplace as a proxy for determining who to bully and harass. I'm just glad Brett Kavanaugh thinks this is all above board.

my 72 year old very centrist family member said today: "I'd never heard of that man before in my life but now that I've heard all the stuff he said I have no idea why the white house wants me to mourn." none of this passes the sniff test, it's absolute freakshow shit

brix is a very kind and loving person who absolutely deserves as much help as we can give her. please consider sharing even if you can't donate (though every little bit helps!)

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

JC mayoral candidate Solomon, fresh off several proposals to impose higher costs on housing in JC, wants to impose mandatory emissions benchmarking & reductions on buildings in JC. You know what produces more emissions than bldngs in JC? Buildings built in suburban sprawl instead due to high costs

the ground is shifting, slowly, then all at once

this is actually legally important in the sense that the capital murder charge against Robinson requires danger to more than one person

he started this bit by wearing diapers on campus when he was like 18

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

McCarthywasm!!!!

essentially every business he has ever been involved in is fraudulent. he preferentially does business with dictators. he sent thugs to threaten to kill a baby. pete hegseth stole money from veterans. he lies about being involved in war crimes. he's a serial rapist and domestic abuser.

federal issues are really her wheelhouse because she knows the specifics of DOE cuts and is reading Jack for filth here. why are you running for state office, you clearly care about federal stuff more!!

if they ban autism we'll just do an autistic general strike and every train in America will hurtle directly into the sea within three hours. you people can't stop this from happening. they will beg us to come back and resume doing our various autisms

ICYMI: Published this very personal piece this week on my dear friend, who knew she had the heart condition that would eventually kill her and lived her life anyway, and two recent movies that embody that same spirit

I mean no disrespect. But it takes no special skill to be shot at, nor does the mere act of being shot at impart unique wisdom on its own.

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." -George Bernard Shaw

I used to be really into fandom versus forums when I was a teenager, and almost without exception all the most dishonest shitheads in debates about Star Trek or Halo or whatever always ended up being MAGA later on.

For all the talk of "climate pragmatism" (basically, doing stuff that further enriches billionaires and pleases autocrats and also might reduce emissions a bit), most paths to genuine US climate action run first through deep system reform that makes this country an actual, functioning democracy.

This is my meta-argument with a lot of what I see on BlueSky. "You want sustainable broad progress on [your particular issue]? That's downstream of getting back to responsive governance that values facts and expertise in general."

boy is it painful to read now

i mean, famous to us, but the average normie has not read dunlap (though they should!)

i think it's Cool and Good that random DoD influencers sound like the Spanish Military before 1933

READ THEORY

When you make your military the 800 lb. Capability Gorilla, you can't be surprised when everyone comes looking for it to Donkey Kong their problems. Mission creep is a defining malady of the bureaucratic resource curse.

This is amazing—this is my favorite magazine I don’t work for and I don’t read a lick of Japanese. (If you’re in Philly, Omoi Zakka in Old City stocks it.)