All it took was Black people getting their representation sent back to the pre-60’s

Can’t show proof of life, can join a crypto caucus Its perfect

Memorial day will be the first big BBQ cookout event and really the officially start of summer, and we’re entering with rotten vibes. Memorial Day is a week away, at the very least July 4th gonna be fairly bleak too even if the war stopped tomorrow

The "Roberts Court" is now in the crosshairs of the CBC and that's precisely why I'm bullish on some sort of major SCOTUS reform (even if it will probably fall short of SCOTUS Lottery)

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

A guy who was blessed by God with the exact type of body that can throw a baseball 102mph and basically threw it away because he was (and still is) sure hes smarter than doctors are. Dumb guy!

Syndergaard is such a perfect avatar for the MAHA movement – a guy who probably cost himself several hundred million dollars via his persistent belief in quack medicine, most famously the time he refused an MRI while playing with a partially torn muscle then pitched again and fully tore it

Oil & gas really does feel like it's in a managed decline right now

just for reference, the number below is about twice what the largest American nuclear power plant generates, which is one reason I’m extremely skeptical that anything like what they’ve permitted is actually going to be built

okay but why is DeWine doing the choreography to Lord I Lift Your Name On High

the most immediate counter to this, imo, is simply winning the senate- both because that way you can stop what they want to do anyway and because that way you have a base in congress itself from which to exert power

It's one banana, Michael, what could it cost? $10? "Yes." -2026

*pounding the table* STAG-FLATION! STAG-FLATION!

not for nothing, but the dems continuing to be in lockstep on affordability messaging for months is likely going to start being very, very relevant this summer

the republicans think you and the people you know are fucking suckers and idiots who won’t blame them for this, and every time you scream into the text window about dem fecklessness, you prove them right. put the blame where it belongs.

we have a republican trifecta government and this is what they have delivered to us. put your petty fucking bullshit beefs aside and loudly blame who is responsible for what fucking ails you, or, if you can’t help yourself, shut the entire fuck up.

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

every dollar. every time you think “shit, that’s more expensive than i expected”? trump and the republicans. every time your tank costs half your rent or mortgage to fill? trump and the republicans. literally *all* of this is their fault.

hope you like the hot stove, we are gonna spend the rest of this term — and some time after — cooking our own asses on it because the president and every single person he has appointed has not bought their own groceries since the clinton administration

we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices

every extra dollar you pay in groceries this summer is the fault of donald trump specifically and the republican party generally and if you don’t understand that, you’re the sucker

Democracy relies upon finding out how to effectively message “Politics: It’s not for you, and that’s OK” to the exact demographic

“they’re all crooks”, great, stay home! “they’re all the same”, great, stay home! “there’s no difference between the parties”, great, stay the fuck home, and use anti-cut gloves when prepping your dinner!

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely

You can see this in their own evolving rhetoric. Partisan gerrymandering in Rucho was all "regrettable and undemocratic, but what can you do?" In Callais, it morphed into a "legitimate" and "traditional" redistricting criteria, put at the same level as contiguity.

Free speech culture means shut up with your criticisms or disagreements with other people’s speech. Free speech culture means students should accept, passively, without dissent, whoever the school chooses to honor with a speaker gig.

I read this entire article and could not for the life of me figure out why it was news. They picked a speaker, some students wrote a letter saying they don’t like the speaker. This is the sum total of what happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

This thing was already not getting built but its SUPER not getting fucking built now lmao

Everything in between is also significant, but, here is McElroy's ending:

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

"Disbar everyone who has worked at the department of justice since January 20 2025" is something we're hearing more and more

most places build temples and cathedrals. Indiana?

Didn't he used to post his own stuff? Has he hit the stage of dementia that he can't do that anymore? This shocks me more then I thought it would.

i don't want to downplay the seriousness of what we face, nor treat the future as predestined. yet i think he points out something very important here: namely that people like me (a white millennial raised in the south who hates what's happening) exist in statistically meaningful numbers.

Drizz as DDIR/FBI and make some blue state AG DIR/FBI

i think any story about haidt and freedom of expression has to be understood in the context that if you say something he doesn’t like, you might find yourself on the receiving end of a disapproving email that for some reason CCs a bunch of famous people in your field. you just might!!

there are many forms of poster's madness but only a few root causes, and the most common one is the inability to say "you know what, my bad" and walk away from an argument when you've lost

Just vote for Steyer, this is taking forever tonyortega.substack.com/p/surging-ca...

This has always been an open secret, nice that they're finally cracking down

No way Tate Reeves hasn't committed some federal crimes.

And then when we take the White House in 2028, we can unleash a true reign of terror on these guys.

It's going to be really fucking funny when 1) we flip the Senate seat this year and 2) Tate Reeves is succeeded by a Dem in 2027.

I guess my plea is that YIMBYs who oppose Lewis-George and support McDuffie admit that they're favoring the NIMBY-aligned candidate over the proud YIMBY, and acknowledge that they rank other issues more highly over housing and transit. Let's not dilute YIMBYism into a meaningless centrist omnicause.

Pretending Lewis-George isn't a YIMBY because she questions the efficacy of intensive community policing, for instance, sends the message that YIMBY voters won't reward candidates for adopting the YIMBY platform. It's even worse to pretend her opponent is a YIMBY just to rationalize opposing her.

Perhaps this dilution of YIMBYism was inevitable given divergent views among YIMBYs on issues outside the heartland issues of urbanism. But I think it's really bad for the movement. It shifts focus off the big goals and diminishes candidates' incentive to vocally support the original YIMBY platform.

The YIMBY movement is about building more housing, boosting public transit, reducing reliance on cars, and promoting built urbanist projects where there's demand for them. Shoehorning stuff like "should we hire more cops" or "should we impose a youth curfew" into YIMBYism dilutes the actual cause.

Lewis-George may be better on upzoning and transit and other heartland YIMBY issues, these critics say, but she's bad on crime, policing, education, corporate taxes, and other issues that rile up D.C.'s centrists. They then paint these issues as part of YIMBYism. I really do not think they are.

A note about discourse around the DC mayoral race: I'm seeing a lot of self-described YIMBYs favor the NIMBY-aligned candidate (McDuffie) over the unabashed YIMBY (Lewis-George). They've justified this by shoving their pet issues under the YIMBY umbrella, making it a kind of centrist omnicause.

This is not me complaining, to be clear. If all we get out of the next eight years is faster buses (bus lane expansion and enforcement), some meaningful expansion of childcare, and an Anne Hidalgo level commitment to progressive street use, Zohran will have been a smashingly successful mayor.

I said before the election that Zohran was going to take a sharp turn towards remaking New York City's streets when he was elected, because unlike his big-ticket promises he can do this on the cheap and make a big impact on people's lives. And lol and behold...