Mamdani, Democratic Socialist Muslim American Immigrant Mayor of NYC. Gotta love it.

If you had told me this was going to happen one year ago, I straight up would not have believed you.

challenge accepted, @theonion.com

The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

just finished watching @lsweeneymiran.bsky.social

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

bonkers

Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was intended to keep kids away from…

the boom / bust of data storage!

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pretty rough Senate map but interesting to think about: "It’s not likely … but we’re saying there’s a chance. It requires Dems holding every seat they currently have, flipping ones in North Carolina and Maine, and also flipping two out of Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Texas, Florida, and Nebraska."

Gimmicky low-N data analysis -- times in the past 25 years when the Nasdaq 100 was down in both November and December: 2000 (!) 2007 (!) 2011 (okay not exciting) 2018 (good buying opp) 2025* (if we closed here)

not even remotely close! Musk may be America's most successful con man

A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.

pretty interesting to see Trump's support among Republicans eroding in real time

70% of homeowners have a below 5% mortgage rate

good to know that retaliation and vengeance is the only reason Trump would veto something

the relationship between new home prices and existing home prices is pretty fascinating

Mortgage Rates Ease, Spread Narrows The spread between 30-year mortgage rate and 10-year treasury yield has narrowed 22bps YoY

I don’t put too much weight on years of the presidential cycle but it’s crazy how just about every midterm year going back to 1990 — 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 — was pretty challenging in markets. Two exceptions-ish were 2006 but that had a Q2 growth scare and 2014 (Ebola).

R.I.P. to a legend

You know in movies where they kinda wipe their hand gently over the face of a dead guy and it closes their eyes. It would be a good gag if they did that on a guy with glasses. Either his eyes close or the glasses turn into sunglasses.

withholding government funds just to be gutter racist. to children.

never walk into your kids' rooms without slippers on Legos? no. random thumb tacks sticking straight up from the carpet

gotta be the time I enjoyed cheese

Xcel Energy is asking for a 10% rate increase next year in Colorado

yes, we definitely need to fix Colorado's regressive tax system and TABOR

hey look the flu vaccine successfully defended against Influenza B

this explains so much

if you buy a flavored, easily drinkable form of acetaminophen you should probably have the poison control hotline on speed dial

Wait? This is using alcohol as an acetaminophen delivery device? I can think of more fun ways to destroy my liver.

why would you drink this when you can just take 1000mg of Tylenol instead

Waiting for 2025 to end

Incredible lol

lol this story reads like absolute horseshit

Trump’s approval is under 40% so naturally the New York Times found a whole bunch of people that support or defend what he’s doing, including a Kamala 2024 voter who regrets his vote lmao

the web 3 that wasn't luckily tech companies found a different place into which to dump computing resources

In a win for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal judge blocked the White House's attempt to defund the agency

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Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning. Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.

Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94

This is a public health crisis and cis people acting like it isn’t because it targets trans children primarily (even though it will affect cis children too!!) is nasty business

US hiring rates sank to the lowest levels since early COVID in October, but vary dramatically from state to state DOGE-hit DC has the lowest hiring rate at 2.2% followed by PA at 2.4%, while Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming have some of the highest hiring rates at 5.9% and above

the lack of sustaining media has been the biggest Democratic / liberal / progressive failure over the past 30 years. time to invest now.

the very model of a meme stock

silly season continues

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

good thing it's perfectly legal to buy a domain with other people's names in it: