The social contract between drivers and the public was shredded and will not go back. The carnage toll has no limit.

We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.

🤔I had a college football teammate that would often drink to excess, then pass out and wet himself. He did not make good choices. One thing I never saw him do though, is wake up, notice that he was wet, complain that someone had urinated on him, and demand that someone else exchange pants with him.

In a car dealer waiting room while car has part fixed. Others arrived and are openly doing FaceTime. On their phone. I mean. I don’t want to hear the other side closing cabinet doors and kids in the background. Is this a new social contract that our daily life be shared in public?

Tariffs “don’t raise prices.” But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4e55...

This is a pattern with black police chiefs. But none dare call it racism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Walked through the kitchen and caught my spouse leaning into the dishwasher, hands on a set of bowls. Paused just like that. Frozen 10+ seconds, staring down. Okay weird. Then she resumed moving again picking up the bowls to shelve them. Stares right in my eyes. Pulls out her AirPod. “Podcast!”

JFC

Spotted in the wild! A new nimby euphemism for keeping people out. As Baltimore City Council nears vote to legalize multi-family housing in all residential areas, opponents lament loss of "single-family values." www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

California's anti-nimby "builder's remedy" and the "pirate" builder who took on Beverly Hills first. Ultimate impact "not just units that are built by using it, but the ones built in fear of it." Great report by @conordougherty.bsky.social [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...

There is one conservative type that loves a small crippled state so they can hide their criming inside bewildered dupes.

Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year. They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again. Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix

I just ctrl+f'd and... "Soros" appears in this dissent 17 times

I see a donut pattern. 🤔 Something going on on those fresh new suburbs… www.axios.com/newsletters/...

I have never heard of a default under circumstances remotely like this—the defendant fired his entire defense team, and new lawyers showed up on the first day of trial, and weren’t admitted in the district and one was literally an accused felon out of bail

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

There needs to be a serious conversation about the quality of the supply of “men” ICE are being found from. These stories keep coming and it’s telling on them. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Fully half of the comments I get on my art when I post it these days is some fucking version of "this reminds me of/this looks like" some unrelated character Kindly fucking stop saying the first shit that comes to mind please. Stop it, it's insulting. Say anything else

the 30-year mortgage is rent control for the middle class, and it's not particularly well designed rent control www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Republicans will never fix health insurance. Conservatives think the rich pay too much and the working class too little — and that means only the rich will ever get the care they need. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LPRiReX

A reminder: as your premiums go up, the Insurance companies are making record profits and paying themselves bonuses: consumerfed.org/press_releas...

The “old order” in this case being technocratic liberalism rooted in reverence for institutional stability via standardized rules & procedures, for epistemic deference to science & expertise, and for cosmopolitanism & politesse.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

My god

“The poor man has a stake in the country, the rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G.K. Chesterton

The Post’s criticism of the mayor-elect’s plans for government-run grocery stores amused me, because the Pike Place Market is government-run, the best place in town for groceries for over 100 years, and a major tourist attraction

Promise to tear down the Trump throne room of corruption. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Commentary: Conservatives used to push back against any attempts to use the military to police citizens. Yet today's conservatives are quiet as Trump stretches the definitions of "emergency" and "rebellion" again and again. minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/17/u...

"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:

China is bringing the hammer down on hyper-fast EVs, setting a minimum 5 seconds for accelerating from 0 to 100 KMH (62 MPH). For context, the Rivian R1S hits 60 MPH in 2.6 seconds, as does the Tesla Cybertruck in "Beast Mode." (H/t @reillybrennan.com)

Trump is now threatening “very severe sanctions” against countries continuing cooperation with Russia. At this point, few take these warnings seriously, especially given his record and shifting positions.

Definitely words a white collar criminal woud find coming out of their mouth. “"My passion is to provide society with value" Schenk said in the interview. “Whether in the form of innovation, disruption, influence or simply by contributing to a good cause." www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

What’s weird about this bus stop closure is the stop has existed for decades. Close it *NOW* for safety? Only thing changed is: - vehicles grew to monstrous sizes - drivers threw out the social contract not to kill peds since Covid - apartments went upscale www.metrotransit.org/rider-alert

The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. and people are generally trying to flee it

Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country: 1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech. 2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.

The global capitalist economy would be far better off if the investor shareholder class could be made to just get along fine with dividend returns, not short term “expected” stock growth.

remember the old days(*) when these people were calling anyone defending LGBTQ rights a "groomer" (*) like, last week

“A large housing project delivering more than 500 homes in west London will no longer go ahead…Specifically, [the developer] claims that the most significant reason for its termination was the new requirement to provide two staircases in London for buildings over 18 metres.”

Backend website guy told me once that they had a client build in alerts to their CDN to tell them if any executives pages started getting a ton of hits suddenly, so that they’d know some bad shit was breaking about them. Often a false alarm, glitchy WebCrawler or whatever, but not always.

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Yeah, if you have a violent rhetoric policy that takes "it was a quote/it was a joke" as a reason to undo a moderation action, you do not have a violent rhetoric policy.

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

2. I think people who get suspended have the right to clear and specific information about what rules they broke and with which posts. Obvious bots maybe don't need this? But real humans do.

Bridge collapse in Sichuan. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

Damn an iPhone 16 pro capturing the aurora far better than my eyes in suburban Minneapolis. All from my front yard. Go out tonight!

Has Amazon threatened to relocate their HQ with the Katie Wilson victory?

The dissolution of Five Eyes is both going to come later than it should and way sooner than we expected

Pluribus really started out strong with its two episode launch. Wish the main character was more likable but it is likely a more interesting story if they’re unpleasant.