“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party

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.

MODERATOR: Your rebuttal, Mr. Cuomo? CUOMO: You know, I have, these people, I have spent many times in an [eye twitching] Islamic Mask- SLIWA: [raising hand] In 1997 I Met A Vampire Inside Katz's Delicatessen

He's going to become a chiropractor.

Cool just in time for me to start doing strength training and need to up my protein intake.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

In college, my go to study snack during final exams was saltine crackers with tobasco sauce.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

It’s cool that we’re throwing away all our domestic mRNA research to pander to the country’s biggest morons when these are the breakthroughs it’s enabling.

Young people don’t drink anymore. When we were younger we used to get messed up on the good Four Lokos. Now youngs just do wellness shit that slowly radicalizes them into fascism. They should go out and act stupid with their friends to learn that interacting with + relating to people irl is Good

Thinking about my 1L criminal procedure professor who said “it’s bad that SCOTUS hasn’t definitively stated that ‘identifying suspects by race is unconstitutional’ because once they do get around to addressing the issue they’re going to conclude that racial profiling in law enforcement is fine.”

DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)

Opioids were the "new asbestos," which was the "new tobacco" (industry-wide risk due to a catastrophic, latent health hazard causing mass suffering that the industry definitely knew would happen), and I'd been thinking sports gambling could be the new opioids but chatbots might now be a dark horse.

PICARD: These “Borg” are a curious blend of organic and machine, a culture so sublimated to its own technology that the line between natural life and technological facsimile is porous and thin. RIKER: (nude in the holodeck) it’s insane they let us nut in the computer

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

I've seen discourse you people wouldn't believe

CEOs of big banks seem to have a revealed preference for being racist over having accurate BLS numbers

Like the Columbia deal it reads rhetorically as “we agree to what we’re already doing” and not only is that a lie (it casually throws trans people under the bus) but these are the most “give an inch, they take a mile” people on earth. How can anyone believe Brown won’t give away the store next time?

How about this beauty, every seat Harris +10 or better:

It’s really bleak how far housing discourse has strayed from the light of “residential desegregation is an good thing”

of course i was furious at first. but, when those weird little slaves performed that musical number about my son's irredeemable character flaw (loves taffy in an annoying way), i had to admit.. it was pretty funny how he got gruesomely pulled apart by wonka's fantaffically daffy taffy contraption

Tech bros are like, “Snoobi is merging with Gurdl to form VybHub” and beer bros are all, “Bro, did you spund and horizontally lager this for like six weeks?”

“antisemitism tsar” is an incredible phrase

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

this is where I post from

I am a single issue “put everyone who did this in prison” voter.

when there's a mangled body in a ditch

Eric Adams, a gentile, going after Brad Lander, a Jew, for not investing in Israel because Adams is running on the End Antisemitism party line to try to salvage his own corrupt legacy and hold onto power is really giving the game away in a way that I hope people notice

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

They already have the war criminal retirement home (Institute of Politics) but they needed to modernize and draw from the other major pool of our finest conservative thinkers: Young Men Who Look Like They’re Old Men.

I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.

Then California should conditionally abolish its independent commission and gerrymander the GOP out of state existence. The condition: CA suspends its hugely consequential commission until such time as TX and FL adopt independent commissions. GOP won’t stop gerrymandering until it HURTS.

NYT's eugenicist source screaming crying throwing up bc he found out he got one drop 😭 lmao

Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!

I think its bad that the failson publisher of the biggest newspaper in the country is super transphobic, a huge race science guy, and also thinks he inherited the democratic party like he did his newspaper

Figuring out how to tell my wife I’m bailing on our weekend plans to attend the historic “saddest July 4th game ever played in the majors.”

Lots of people asking why Millennials vote good and none of them have stumbled upon the true answer: the cultural hegemony of homestar runner

Lots of people (incl. Musk) want a GOP that marries brutal anti-immigrant & anti-LGBTQ policies with smart, technocratic management of the economy in a way that just can't possibly exist because the technocrats are overwhelmingly convinced by evidence that immigrants & LGBTQ people are good