I have rarely encountered something that described my politics as succinctly as this.

Tears are streaming down my face and my entire diaphragm hurts.

why is this so funny

one of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4 www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...

@holborne.bsky.social this is Jimmy.

It is fundamentally perfect and makes me want to run through a wall youtu.be/xPZigWFyK2o?...

Both? Both is good.

My man finishing his campaign by educating folks about Vito Marcantonio! NOBODY DOES IT LIKE HIM!!!

gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters

Show some respect for the Grand Nagus.

This joke was made for electoral nerds like me.

my home vs my home 2 hours before a guest comes over

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

someone told me the only thing flat earthers fear is sphere itself and I’m bursting at the seams waiting for the perfect moment to deploy this while out amongst polite company

A very valuable riposte to the “Biden had no leverage!” BS

“Ratio me. Please” I know degradation kink when I see it. That stuff belongs in the bedroom, not out in public where the impetus is having terrible opinions.

This is art.

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

Vacancy trutherism is the left’s Voter fraud, a totally made up, exaggerated, angry because they’re wrong, made up issue that is so tiring to talk about because it’s a fools errand. Dispel one thing, they pivot to another. Waste of time. We need more homes and voter fraud doesn’t exist

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but if not, it is one of the wrongest takes I have ever seen on this site. NYC is glorious, and I am charmed every time I visit it.

this is the synthesis of sexy murder poetry and basically pleasant bureaucracy

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Apulian waitress, c. 275-c. 150 BC, exasperatedly explains to Roman tourists how large the pizzas they have just ordered four of actually are and do they really want to eat all that

This is gonna be me tomorrow.

One of the greatest videos of all time.

I’m watching a live stream

Eye drops are technically blinker fluid.

Once in a while, Bluesky is _genuinely_ good, and this is an example.

Anything that gets American wealth out of homes and into index funds without being excessively noticeable is a great idea

I think fairly few people could have anticipated as recently as 10 years ago the awesome capacity of social media to completely liquify so many brains.

if you donate to the Democratic Party in response to one of its many scam text, you are participating in a "fundraising" ecosystem with an efficiency of 1.8%. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

New York has the worst senate delegation of any blue state

I would argue the ossification of the Democratic Party shows in ways like this, too: a party that is dominated by the old naturally has a rough mental model of the country's demographic makeup that is 10-30 years out of date, and thus way too white and way too rural

This is one of the truest things I have ever read.

joe biden personally vetoed sanctions against an Israeli minister who was denied the right to serve in the IDF because of his support for terrorism and who was caught on video celebrating the immolation and death of a Palestinian toddler at the hands of settlers

annual shark week reminder that: * discovery intentionally portrays sharks as dangerous when in reality they rarely become aggressive unprovoked * sharks don’t infest waters, they inhabit them * sharks are basically doggies and a lot of them will ask for pats with a little nose bump

This entire thread is amazing, but I really want to highlight this one component: in life, as in war, a _hypermajority_ of our work must be in precisely these gray areas: where victory is possible but not assured. That realm is where nearly ALL change applies.

Good night.

This is really good. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/07/07/t...

As someone who is about to visit Chicago, I need to figure out where this is and check it out!

"No, where are you REALLY from?????"

Trump is in some ways a villain from a fairy tale. You have make yourself grotesque in some way to serve him. For men, he emasculates you and makes you a servile dog, taking a picture of himself with you where he smirks and you look sunk. for women, he mutilates your face

This is one of the most accurate takes on anything that I have ever seen.

to anyone who needs further proof that Zohran is the abundance candidate over Cuomo: Zohran wrote a bill giving the MTA streamlined permitting authority, which would speed up and reduce the costs of subway construction

One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place. Andrew Cuomo does not.

Well, this taught me a whole bunch of nightmare fuel…

Regular people: “awww, that is a cute cat!” Star Trek fans: “why did you not name her Lokai?”

There were 6 legislative special elections today. No flips. Five of them shifted toward Dem since November, with net shifts of 9 (FL), 11 (FL), 13 (OK), 21 (FL), and 50 (OK) percentage points. The sixth shifted toward the GOP by 5-6 percentage points since November (MA).