Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier and it was a national scandal The Trump administration is telling people to survive on boiled chicken and broccoli and it's treated as rugged bootstrapping Neither the right nor corporate media operate in good faith

With the incredible success on every measure in New York, this shouldn’t be the question anymore. Who wouldn’t want less congestion, better air quality, more transit funding, and a stronger local economy? The question is can we find the political will to make congestion pricing happen & how fast?

No funding for ICE. Impeach Kristi Noem now. Hold Trump and his lackeys accountable for the violence and terror being inflicted all across our country.

I implore my fellow Dems not to overthink this. You can just say - I’m against the government shooting people in the face for no good reason. This is not hard. Same with the ludicrous invasion of Greenland. Democrats are anti-invasion of Greenland bc it’s the dumbest thing ever. Be ruthlessly blunt.

An under-discussed thing in The Discourse is that ChatGPT is a uniquely terrible LLM, but OpenAI has no incentive to fix it because users generally prefer the hallucinated responses and grab pitchforks when the model is tightened.

“.. on any given day, financial investors are in fact oblivious to fundamental shifts in global alignments or worrying attacks on U.S. institutions. Markets are fundamentally simplistic judges of the immediate future.” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/sto...

but I thought Burgum was an epic permitting reform guy...

"Sen. Catherine Blakespear, who represents coastal North County, said... that California needs to employ more professional rail experts to reduce its reliance on consultants." #JustTransitionForCaltrans Missed Monday's webinar? Check out the coverage here on KPBS! www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

BofA forecasts imply EM debt as the best risk-adjusted sector among major assets in 2026

Friendly reminder that not only was Henry Ford a literal, proud fascist, but his ideas were so powerful that Adolph Hitler -- yeah, that one -- had a giant portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk. Here's Nazi generals awarding Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle -- the highest Nazi honor:

"when is a debt instrument effectively equity and vice versa" the greatest thread in the history of US GAAP, locked by moderators after 12,239 pages of heated debate

Private right of action eh

*CALIFORNIA AG LAUNCHES PROBE INTO XAI, GROK *CALIFORNIA AG: PROBE OVER UNDRESSED, SEXUAL AI IMAGES

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

I think it’s because most self id-ed socialists in the U.S. are just liberals. Like they’re just doing Liberalism +. There’s no tradition to inherit really because there is no militant labor movement or party to do political education. Most “Marxists” you happen upon are feeling around in the dark.

This is NOT symbolic. If Dems adopt this position as a caucus, ICE get reined in. Full stop. Not after Trump, not after the midterms - NOW. Call your Dem rep and senators and tell them to back this play today.

It's not just progressives. Reps Dan Goldman and Eric Swalwell also told me Dems must push for ICE defunding and extremely onerous restrictions on the agency in budget talks. As Swalwell said: "I am not going to pay masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period." newrepublic.com/article/2051...

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

Wow. Incredible Cymbalism.

Gov. Kathy Hochul will use the NYS budget to propose exempting housing on “previously disturbed” land (basically, infill) outside of environmentally protected and floor risk areas from state environmental review, as well as childcare and green infrastructure www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

reminds me of this banger of bangers from @jum.bsky.social

Shawn Fain will have words I’m sure

Like many other folks targeted by ICE, Guan is in a lot of danger if he’s sent back www.dw.com/en/xinjiang-...

ICE already outnumbers cops in Minneapolis/St. Paul, so, there's no way to muster a viable defense in the metro area. It's worth noting that in developed nations, the scale of resistance you need to defeat fascism is *only possible in dense cities.* We have ~ three of those. And oceans of sprawl.

The government has acquired a device believed to be behind “San Juan syndrome” @estupi.do

morning roundup: your idols are still dead and your enemies are still in power, buuuuuuuut

as his 2022 election competitor Yoon received a death penalty recommendation in court, Lee Jae-myung was playing the drums with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, a heavy metal enthusiast, in their summit in Nara

US coffee prices continue to hit new highs in inflation data released today, up 20% over the last year and 50% since pre-COVID

What urban areas in the world have the longest existing/under construction metro networks per capita? In a quick analysis using Transit Explorer & EU GHS-UCDB 2024 data, the top urban areas are: 1—Chengdu 2—Hangzhou 3—Ningbo 4—Xuzhou 5—Stockholm 6—Zhengzhou 7—Singapore 8—Xi'an 9—Hamburg 10—Changsha

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

The fun thing about meme coins is that they found a loophole in US securities regulation where they are so obviously a scam that the government goes "if you are dumb enough to lose money on this you probably deserved it". Same reason why you can't sue people for losing money trading Pokemon cards.

*guy who supports trump but just cant support his brown shirts* are a very real and much larger group of people than i would’ve guessed!

all my homies hate David Graeber

funniest possible outcome: the supreme court orders tariff refunds and they try to brand it as a "dividend" anyway

The reason it gets pushed as evidence of cultural rot in the left is not because of all the posters who think it's fine to steal from Walmart and jump turnstiles, but because the left broadly welcomes these people. If you don't want to own it you have to disown it.

Makes sense that these losers hate one of the greatest anti-fascist thinkers of the 20th century

A forgotten chapter in the Sometimes Granpa Just Says Things: remember when he ordered the end of congestion pricing in NYC, and then a year later nothing has changed there?

All the bad bitches lives in Sacramento CA

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

DOJ subpoenas the Fed. 🚨 If the Fed loses independence to political and legal pressure, investors flee the US. This will result in: 💸 devalued dollar 📈 higher inflation 🏠 higher mortgage rates Watch the video for a breakdown of what's happening and why you should care.

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

All road projects look terrible when objectively compared to CAHSR. Adding 16 lane-miles of pavement to 101 in Marin, the Bay Bridge, Puget Sound Gateway, Sepulveda Pass, Oakland's billion-dollar frontage road. The standard for road projects is to go at least 2x over budget and save drivers seconds.

So he can't get a nom out of Banking and he's about to lose enough that he can't move them on the floor either *GOP. SEN MURKOWSKI: SUPPORT TILLIS' BLOCK ON FED NOMINEES *MURKOWSKI POSTS ON X ON POWELL, FED AND CONGRESS

I think about this @ryxcommar.bsky.social post a lot.

This video about why elevators are so much more expensive to install and maintain in North America than the rest of the developed world is fantastic. (Hint: it's a solvable policy problem!) youtu.be/Or1_qVdekYM?...

BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT: “.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..” (via @apnews.com)