one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country. like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*

Drivers do not care about you. They will murder you or maim you in a crosswalk, and the public will defend their right to do so. The cops will take the driver’s side, you’ll never see justice, and the road will never be redesigned to prevent this.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

I have questions about --the amount of steel I need to buy --the optimum number of dolls --why the President thinks pencils are a major discretionary expenditure for American families

This lady was the Steve Jobs of the Online Death Threat Industry for like 10 years. Not to be a dick, but fucking spare me.

fuck

This is the pinnacle of late stage capitalism. No new ideas, just “financialize everything” that already exists. This will continue to creep into every facet of your life. Everything will be micro transaction.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

We call emergency community meetings to debate the "dangers" of ebikes, but systemic vehicular violence continues to get a pass from society at large.

It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president

Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.

Congrats to the "crunchy" "vaccines cause autism" and "processed foods are causing cancer" republicans. You got played. You are your own worst enemies. This will hurt you more than any of your current boogeymen.

Burger King executive: so what’s a mature meal for grown ups at Burger King look like Burger King executive 2: French fry is chicken nugget

Yeah, that’s a certified Lone Jack truck if I’ve ever seen one.

no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.

Proud of new CPKC Pavilion on the (current) terminus of streetcar. Looking ahead to thousands more residents, new local businesses, and great park space. The riverfront is our founding and our future. Collab by Port KC + Kansas City Streetcar Authority + CPKC + KCMO and more!

Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps

maybe the most white millennial coded thing about me is that i kinda think Vampire Weekend is up there with the greats.

In the Shameless Hall of Fame, this is up there with voting against the Biden infrastructure bill and then campaigning on the infrastructure projects in your district.

"I grabbed that hand, I don't give a hell where that hand's been." -a real thing the president said today that would be presidency-defining weirdness in any previous era

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

I have a terrible idea that won't work and nobody would like but it involves super powerful computers using up a lot of electricity so please send me $10 billion at your earliest convenience thank you.

Ben Shapiro: The Dumbest Man Alive

Sometimes, the fact that the internet is not really forever is a blessing

Find you a man whose bone-sawed his journalistic opposition, and you can have Trump look as pleased as this.

Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.

MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."

MBS: "I feel painful about the families of 9/11, but ... "

"There is no playbook for reducing exposure when people’s homes are being sprinkled with lead dust from the sky." A sobering piece from the NYTimes on the dire consequences of the international trade in recycled lead for front-line communities in Africa. #energysky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

personally intervening in support of traffickers and rapists seems like something that should have enormous consequences

I don't understand why this isn't the only story and why he isn't giving his resignation. I mean, I do. But still. How can the president. THE PRESIDENT. Of the United States of America. The. President.

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

Returned home from spending the week with my father after my mother’s funeral to find a letter informing me I’ve been selected for jury duty.

🏈 TB 32 - 44 BUF 2:35 4Q This game has a 97.38% chance of ending in Scorigami. Most likely Scorigami: 44-32 (69.53%)

if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?

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A 30-year mortgage currently has an interest rate of 6.3%. A reasonable guess it that a 50-year mortgage rate would be about 7.0%. ⇒ The monthly payment on a $500k mortgage: - 30 years: $3,050 per month - 50 years: Only $100 less at $2,950 (but 240 months longer).

shot, chaser

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

I’m fucking shaking with rage. Mother fuckers. Pieces of shit.

seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more

'Feed the hungry' is one of the basic, fundamental, direct-order-from-Jesus, tenets of being a Christian, and it's not 'feed the hungry when it's politically expedient to do so or advances your wider agenda'. You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this