We are actually a very wealthy country overall, but our land-use policies and patterns make us feel like we're poor. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

“Donald Trump wants to take $10B of your money as a taxpayer, that’s him personally stealing $30 out of everyone you know’s pocket” has to poll at Assad Election numbers as messaging

Republicans are going to end up building a statue of Jeffrey Epstein to put next to Columbus.

Walked over here on my lunch break and am convinced we should be taking the NFL barrier once the Super Bowl ends and putting it in the Broadway Tunnel for a steel-protected 2-way bike lane

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

New York Times is now the only real newspaper as such left in America. Grim for many reasons.

RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

This is the couple from @gabydvj.bsky.social’s Land Ho, which I think is the best thing ever written about Trads

Repeal every single ballot measure passed in the state from 1970-2000 and this state is so much better off it’s not even funny. California voters in the late 20th century were totally batshit insane: Prop 13, Prop 4, Prop 103, Prop 187 all passed decisively Just total fascist Id for like 30 years.

This family's blood is on the hands of the LA City Council and former Mayor Eric Garcetti. There's just no other way to put it.

this is something we actually talked about on tailgate recently. the use of anonymity in sports reporting is sort of ridiculous. i understand that it's better when reporters can pass along information to fans, but there's got to be some quality control here, man.

Stephen Miller loved Prop 187 so much he decided to make the backlash a nationwide phenomenon

The Dodgers are good for baseball

the socialism of fools eventually converges on the socialism of fools

For the most part, wearing masks to shield your identity to protect yourself from retribution is ceding the whole playing field to the fascists. Not indulging in the weird black ops security theater is itself a statement: this is our world and you don’t dictate how we live in it.

January 2026: Trump threatens to ground hundreds of Delta’s aircraft because some bullshit about private jet certification in Canada bsky.app/profile/mich...

been trying to figure out who the CEO of ServiceNow reminded me of and then it hit me...

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

Meanwhile Los Angeles is trying to exempt itself from having to build any housing near transit lines

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

"Joe Lonsdale reposted" - Palantir's cofounder. Silicon Valley's oligarchs seem themselves as literally at war with the American people because their end-goal is to enslave us.

Will America build transit using the latest design best practices, like automation, electrification and through-running service? Or will it continue to build slow, at-grade light rail lines; infrequent diesel commuter trains; and short, impossibly expensive heavy rail subway extensions?

What did you all think the War On Cars meant? Vibe? Essays?

This is exactly why it’s so important to not shoot back as well

Watching the slow-motion suicide of the US auto industry

“Metro staff report said SB 79 could harm the transit agency’s expansion by galvanizing opponents against new light rail stations & dedicated bus lanes,” because law requires higher densities there. But if a transit station area isn’t planned for higher densities… the station shouldn’t be built.

This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure

Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to

Deserving 10. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Maybe this would be received differently if the AI tools were introduced as the productivity boosters for professionals that they are and can be, instead of the method which the capital class would liquidate the PMC

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Dunkin’ Donuts now has a decal with the word “PROTEIN” repeated five times on its windows

"When Europe ponders enforcing its laws regarding child pornography on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X, then the administration is quick to issue retaliatory threats. But American auto manufacturers? Those Trump will kill with his own hand." — @ryanlcooper.com @prospect.org

Unimaginable evil. The driver just knocked the child over at first, but then killed him in an attempt to flee the scene. This is not an isolated incident. Violent drivers in PB intentionally destroyed traffic calming devices on Diamond st, a school street.

As I have been saying, Weiss pulled the CECOT story because it would have aired after a NFL doubleheader and drawen in normies. CBS is quiet killing the piece by having it air opposite an NFL game

Radical liberalism was the ideology of the abolitionists, and is in many ways is the bedrock on which the modern American liberal left is built more than anything else.

The world’s autocracies and autocratic would-bes are super clear that they are allies in this conflict right now, even if only allies of convenience for the time being. Everyone else needs to understand that.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

I believe more and more everyday that MAHA is just a marketing campaign by the Beef industry

The biggest thing that blackpilled me on housing costs was a paper from the mid 00s which said "as recently as the 1960s someone who was on drugs who did basic day labor could afford a safe small single room even in expensive cities. In an attempt to remove this cities invented homelessness

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

I'll say again that this is little different from the gestapo going door to door rounding up Jews.

There is this problem on here where it's just far more easy to whip people into a frenzy against Chuck Schumer than, like, Ted Cruz.

This is a good article that does a better job breaking down how the business of baseball works far better than all the fans mad that their teams can't win free agency

baseball’s second-biggest problem is that fully 29 of its franchises don’t actually care to compete for the best players and would rather do price collusion. its biggest problem is how many baseball fans are herb-ass scab losers who think this makes the 30th franchise the bad guy

If you wish harm upon the Dodgers, you are wishing harm upon America.

This sounds like a radical statement but the American people are not in favor of domestic immigration enforcement (at least for people without convictions of other crimes)