I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

I still post on X for work reasons and the major difference between the sites is that I have interesting conversations with my professional peers on here and I get called slurs on there.

do it do it do it We now have a light rail line directly connecting the campus to the city, residents in the nearby neighborhoods hate students and fight against additional housing all the time, and why let rent money go to petty local landlords when it could be reinvested at the school?

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Dems should straight up double the size of the federal judiciary. this is pretty defensible even on non-political efficiency grounds

honestly, kudos to him for this

Gosh I must have imagined those meetings when Trump's own Secretary of State basically surrendered to the Taliban.

Here’s where the story of ABC firing Kimmel appears on the ABC News page. “ABC preempts ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!,’ network says”

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

“It’s about protecting women in sports”

Max Dubler believes this monstrosity belongs in your backyard:

Wildly disappointed that I didn’t see a single one of the protestors who chartered a party bus to come be mad at me.

on the one hand, you have enduring principles that have been written about for hundreds of years. on the other hand, you can make money that will have no effect on your lifestyle as an already uber-rich person. what a difficult decision!!

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

"Who Wants to Run?" is the best book about this phenomenon that no one talks about. I live in an area with a pretty substandard Assemblymember and a substandard member of Congress. But why would I want a job that pays just a little more than I make now that's tons more work and mostly miserable?

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

libs don't go post up outside of Saddleback Church and do change my view debate videos because nobody fucking pays them six figures, plus a camera crew, plus security, to do so

Finally we can cancel Disney Adults for being fascist collaborators. All cancellations are oppportunistic anyways, but fortunately this one is also true

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states

Ben Shapiro genuinely believes that a) electing Obama (who none of them voted for) meant the End of Racism in America, and therefore B) talking about (or simply acknowledging the existence of) racism is actually what’s divisive “Obama was elected twice! Racism is over! Stop calling us racist!”

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Many people are saying this

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

Running down the street (in heels) to protect her community and stand up to ICE

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

John Lindsay was mayor until 1973; so strange that Trump would bring him up. I wonder what he was up to in 1973? Ohhh yeah, getting sued by the DOJ for racial discrimination in housing

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Your regular reminder that New York is constantly covered in piles of hot garbage because, and ONLY because, they are unwilling to trade 1/10th of the on-street parking supply for garbage cans

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/theb...

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

If you spend just a few days outside of a car in the United States -- which, admittedly, most adult Americans have never done in their lives -- you can't avoid concluding that we are an exceptionally violent country. Want to understand our current political predicament? It starts behind the wheel.

Literally yes! His daily unhinged tweets were a massive part of not just his presidential campaign but his prior years long campaign of hatred against Barack Obama that led to him running in the first place!

When i see this "we need to save Western civilization" stuff, it seems like the most insane crazy talk imaginable. Civil liberties protections are at the core of Western Civilization. The Magna Carta dates back to the 13th century! What could be more Western than respect for civil liberties??

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Charlie Kirk was an asshole who did not deserve to die because a well ordered society does not make being an asshole a death sentence. It also does not make it a crime to truthfully recount who they were.

When people say "crime," the mean, "I don't want to see bad things on TV (or social media)." This administration has made sure you see nothing but bad things.

Things that ⬇️ the avoided VMT: Some kids live closer. Parents might be making a detour on the way to work. Things that ⬆️ the avoided VMT: summertime trips, afterschool activities, social activities 2 Million avoided VMT makes teen ebikes the most effective climate action my city has ever done!

Tag yourself I’m “extreme seven story buildings”

‘Tis a flesh wound

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...