Some states also set it to to fit with times farmers had the ability to pop in for a few weeks to pass some laws and then pop out.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

26+ pages of jury instructions for misdemeanor seems like a bit much

I think we see once again how ordinary citizens are grappling better with this situation than sundry political and business elites. the jury pretty clearly was like "this is bullshit" www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

the tech industry is pretty funny, because a bunch of pretentious dudes invented software that generates sentences and now they think they’re demigods

Cannot overstate how unhinged and insidious what Candace Owens is doing with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. (Short version: a lot of huffing and puffing and “just asking questions” to lead people to believe The Jews Did It)

The first log scale projection I've seen with realistic error bars.

Not Darlington, but this is the men's where I work, two toilets and a shower and two of the doors have fallen off, not fixed for months. But obviously the issue is trans people using changing rooms and not the fact that the NHS lacks resources for basic maintenance

I think that this tweet is incorrect. SNAP functions as a subsidy to low-wage employers because SNAP has work requirements. In order to gain SNAP benefits, people typically have to work 80 hours a month (or be eligible through some other mechanism).

It's the first Friday of the month and we got no jobs data for the first time in 77 years. Hold me.

so much of axios/politico reporting on the shutdown is Republicans running to them saying "democrats are going to make a deal any deal now" and then when you ask to see the deal, it's non-existent

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

abroad, musk took medicine and food out of the hands of children at home, americans scavenge from dumpsters as SNAP runs out due to trump

“Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the exchanges were carrying Trump wines in a statement to Forbes, saying, ‘The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free.’”

“While on staff, Gross said, he heard a “credible report” that Wood and Sutton had a conversation about a possible presentment…they were “floating the possibility” of a “bishop-friendly” Board of Inquiry…stacking [it] with clergy and parishioners deferential to senior leadership.” wapo.st/43Obygs

the other day, mr. tweety called me weird for automatically thinking this way no. the rest of you are weird for not

“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

"American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year." "[B]lame the [..] deep staffing cuts under the Trump administration." "It's only a matter of time before people die." #USA #Food

being disgusted by the people you hook up with is a major red flag and a dividing line of human character

This is of course true, but again, every episode of our own history suggests that it will never happen. It would require a shared ethical and political clarity and commitment than I would be surprised to discover this country is capable of

we're gonna have the best sports fixing scandals

I see lots of people talking about trials and consequences for these monsters. But we should also be thinking of reparations for the victims.

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

the obsession with "massing" in architecture standards is one of my biggest personal pet peeves it's just this goddamn fetish with no connection to buildings that actually look good or even function as buildings

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

"To me, as an economist.. the much deeper, much harder question is, what is the national emergency? President Trump claims that it's bilateral trade deficits. If you talk to any economist with a pulse, they'll tell you that bilateral trade deficits are the most uninteresting thing in the world."

“Everything happens for a reason,” I explain as a small horse gives you a haircut

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

There’s something so frustratingly similar to watching people make self-and-other-destructive decisions in their individual relationships, jobs, finances because of a terrible spouse or friend Sometimes evil destructive people are just also very compelling/attractive and that’s about all there is

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Marjorie Taylor Greene is distancing herself from Trump not because she has actual problems with Trumpism but because she's hoping to be the first Neo-Trumpist

just casually tossing out "vampires but for other bodily fluids" like it won't revolutionize at least three distinct genres www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

“Do you really think that’ll work?” “Come on, man. We’re one of the Stans. The Americans think we’re all cavemen in turbans running around grunting dirka dirka jihad. It’ll work.”

ANDREWS But now with wokeness, what’s happening is, they’re saying girls get to go to college, okay, fine, we can all support that. But they still want to get more stupider. DOUTHAT Interesting. ANDREWS And so now you’ve got to make colleges have less knowledge due to the Civil Rights Act.

HELEN ANDREWS And so what the statistics show, Ross, when you look at it ROSS DOUTHAT Yeah, let’s dig in ANDREWS What they show is that, okay, 98% of boys go to college to get more knowledge DOUTHAT Wow. ANDREWS And almost 97% of girls, in contrast, they go to Jupiter to get more stupider

best ending of all time, let's be real

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Sure, the JACK-O'-LANTERNS and I VOTED feeds are spinning down, but the ADVENT CALENDARS feed is spinning up! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow. He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed. He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage. It’s enraging.

you can’t voter suppress your way out of this kind of enthusiasm people are Very Mad

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

President Weekend at Bernies over here