ISB agent whose job is to monitor the Galactic Thunder holoforums for when someone posts classified TIE fighter specs to win an argument

one day the british will accidentally elect a guy who goes "what if we tried having an economy" and then they'll burn him at the stake

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Totally agree. And it would be so easy: they just have to sell their property.

Joining my college marching band.

Relatedly, it’s wild how many bad ideas for US governance (initiatives, referenda, parties being essentially part of the state, nonpartisan elections, *whispers* zoning) were Progressive Era reforms. That movement is remembered far too fondly in collective memory. It should be treated like dirt.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Single issue voter for anyone who promises to nuke Miami.

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

A broken Congress produces an overpowered presidency and Supreme Court. The ways in which Congress is broken are a consequence of the electoral system. None of these things improve in any viable long-term way without structural electoral reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's the bedrock necessity.

It is difficult to overstate the radicalism of this decision but this is really the point. “If you brand your political party the white party, you’re more entitled to cheat the political process” is Dred Scott logic. It’s a decree that racism *should be* the essential attribute of US politics.

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

also it is particularly fitting that trump has finally succeeded in proving that tariffs can fund a country, only for that country to be iran

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.

Carcels seething over buschads

Appreciate the clarity

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;) JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

ever wanted to go to jail on a civil case?

Imagining an arrested development subplot where Tobias accidentally emails Jeffery Epstein

Wild to for a jewish organization to be like "well if mamdani wasn't such a fucking rootless cosompolitan" bsky.app/profile/joel...

Friend of mine who’s a nurse, came from a pretty conservative family but became a normie lib a couple years ago because of Gaza stuff is basically fedposting every hour on insta now if that’s any barometer of where vibes are at.

the yankees flair is really what takes this "je suis management!!" post over the top. 'count the rings' to 'im just a small market new york fan' in 2 offseasons

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Become ungovernable

“Is it ok to kill people with your car?” The greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate.

my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica

To be fair this is basically the only “Long Island Opinion.”

Advocates: Drunk driving deaths are rising 2x as fast in California as elsewhere. We need to require speed limiters and breathalyzers for repeat offenders. Please act now. The California legislature, courts, and DMV:

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

"And that concludes our intensive three-week sales pitch"

To me the settling point is this: opponents of integration have to be removed from the professional managerial class. Like wholly. That’s what “Woke 2” is to me. Rather than gently moving towards norms of integration, anyone who expresses hostility towards the project is simply removed.

This is the apotheosis of what you might call “Citizens United-brain.” Our elites use and (importantly) *believe in* money as the only real form of speech. And they live in bubbles where money shapes (and deforms) their reality. Not much of a stretch to go from “money is speech” to “money is truth.”

The problem everyone’s sleeping on is that the midterms are going to be about SCOTUS. Thomas/Alito and maybe Roberts could *all* retire so every notionally right wing person in the country will be activated to save the Senate GOP from itself because control of the court might actually be a jump ball

The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement

Per tale: sculptor’s muse. Weather worn.

Funnily enough, this specific guy messed up the natural experiment in my undergrad thesis by being a gigantic partisan hack even before polarization swallowed everything.

LEWIS: Then the children meet Santa. The jolly old elf- TOLKIEN: Disgusting. Elves should be autistic war criminals who set off an apocalyptic chain of events that end with a moody twink stabbing Satan at the end of time. LEWIS: So you say. TOLKIEN: But my editor said to stick to hobbits.

There's a lesson to be learned here in that a lot of people looked at Mamdani and Platner and decided that the latter was a "young authentic candidate" and the former was not for reasons they insist are not racist

when you make the *existing city* illegal to build again today this is the obvious and inevitable consequence: www.latimes.com/california/s...

DOES NOBODY READ ANYMORE?

There are a lot of them, but this is one of the main reasons parliamentary democracies are usually more stable than presidential systems. There’s just too much political incentive for legislators to sit on the sidelines and cheer or jeer an independently elected executive without doing anything.