Exclusive: Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE - www.reuters.com/world/democr...

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

Personality cults are the crabs of human social organization. We just keep endlessly producing them, regardless of the context.

48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far. Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.

Territories should be given the offer to become states or to become independent countries youtube.com/watch?v=iCxL...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Concentration camps for the homeless

One year ago

We should judge a political philosophy by total net value it offers to add if implemented. If your ideology offers benefits for the few, if it requires scapegoating, if it reduces the bounty for all, then your beliefs are garbage.

this is the moderate position

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

Trump is now calling up National Guard troops from states to send them into other states. He’s trying to send California troops into Oregon & Texas troops into Illinois. This is illegal & threatens to tear apart our country even further. He is trying to provoke a civil war.

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this.

ACS data is far from perfect, but I think it helps illustrate the reality that most "vacant" units are short-term vacancies related to either typical housing market churn, special / seasonal use cases, repairs, etc 70% of vacant units have been empty for less than 1 year

The sub-categories of this "other vacancy" category that most closely approximate a long-term, chronically vacated unit together comprise about 1.4 million units (or 1% of all "vacant" units nationwide) But keep in mind that many of these are not in good condition

The backlash to Trump's immigration agenda has impacted broader attitudes about the value of immigration in America apnorc.org/projects/abo...

he was instrumental in getting trump to pardon war criminals during trump’s first term and is participating in war crimes at the moment. i bet if you pushed him just a little bit he’d tell you that his much vaunted “warrior mindset” just means a willingness to kill civilians

me, trepidantly: we inherit the legacy of these war crimes, still; strange as it may seem, whether we like it or not it must be said that these were in a meaningful sense "our" war crimes. MAGA, enthusiastically: these were our war crimes!!!!

We should build more homes near public transit stops. That’s why we introduced & passed SB 79 — more homes, stronger transit systems, less traffic congestion, lower carbon emissions. It’s a win all around.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

if this stands and is enforced i think it's the end of the US's 75 year domination of academia and tech

You don't want a new civil war. "Oh, another coward who wants us to work through the system! You just want the status quo!" If you prefer civil war to the status quo that tells me you have no concept whatsoever of what a war would look like or *what the new post-war status quo would be*

Have folks considered that maybe we gave too much power to the FCC that even Disney is afraid to oppose them?

Can we talk about 1) what reforms would prevent this from happening again 2) what we need to do to pass those reforms?

I probably recognize the severity of this moment better than most. I literally gave up writing and making videos in my NATIVE language because of fear. My whole life has been a struggle with that fear. Many Chinese who aren't fortunate enough to learn another language simply keep their mouths shut.

The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.

Aurora Mayor John Laesch is defending his decision to have flags at Aurora municipal facilities flown at full-staff this weekend following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Driving around seeing all these flags at half staff makes me wonder: who are all these people - managers of fast food restaurants and principals of schools - each individually deciding to comply with the order to lower the flag to honor this terrible man?

I fear that by accepting the poisonous concept that empathy is weakness, the author accepts that the premise from the right, that there is something inherently wrong with liberalism. I am not ready to accept that.

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes. Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author... i think making a list clarifies this:

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

This may be hilariously wrong, but I doubt many people could draw the presidents from memory as closely as this. To me this looks more like how hazily I remember things and visualize them in my head

As of today, the US tariffs on China and Russia are much lower than those on the other major developing economies, India, Brazil, and Mexico. Trump saved the CCP once in 2017 by quitting the TPP. Now it's doing it again by crushing China's major competitors. Doesn't look like a coincidence.

From this month's edition of The Onion.

These people can only conceive of win-lose situations, and so they forgo win-win arrangements in favor of lose-lose arrangements

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet IG 3sixteen

My book from my previous life finally got a paperback reprint. Now I can finally promote it without guilt! substack.com/@hueyli/note...

I'm disappointed Harris won't run for governor of California. If she ran I doubt there would be many challengers from the Democrats, which would mean conserving resources for more important (House) elections.

I've been thinking about @hueyli.bsky.social 's excellent series of videos about proportional representation on YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Another update to the graph of intense pain & suffering as tariff collections remain near record highs

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?