the fact that they reflexively, and without external prompting, reach for this framing even when the subject is something dull - e.g. a small tax hike on the highest bracket - seems like a confession of sorts

turning a big dial that says "MISOGYNY" and looking back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right

I kind of think trump's superpower, is that he lacks any virtue whatsoever. He's an absolute void of virtue, and therefore everyone can perfectly map their own petty grievances onto him while ignoring his grievances that don't map onto theirs. There's a ton of side effects that are also useful

This is a good article, worth reading. Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

but what does Karl Kautsky have to say about it

I've seen more in honor of Rosalind Franklin today in my feed than James Watson. a highly non-representative media diet, I suspect

I feel like we should bring back late-19th-century corporate names. taking a new position at Consolidated Large Language Models of California, Inc.

🎵rock over London, rock on Chicago. this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism Is illegal to build in most American cities 🎵

almost all of them, frankly. I think I am a goddamned ray of sunshine in person, but the artistic personality generally does not

this, right here, is how it became extremely obvious and unambiguous that media execs are in the tank for Trump

look, we've enjoyed playing stupid games, but who among us cares to win stupid prizes? not I, friends, not I

TSLA is a cult, not an actual company designed to create wealth, and it represents ~2.5% of the S&P. adjust your retirement portfolio appropriately

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

this sandwich is your friend, it fights for your freedom

I don't want to hear about how if you're protesting ICE you need to hide your identity and keep no ID because otherwise you'll be rounded up and sent to the gulag, or whatever. they can't even land a conviction when you throw a footlong at them

if there is any parallel between Trump and Mamdani it is in how the contempt and/or terror he inspires in a sclerotic party establishment only serves to fuel his appeal

At this point it's very hard to avoid the conclusion that the harm Sulzberger is causing is intentional.

"Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace"

I'm trying to think of other people who have built an offline public reputation for themselves _solely_ through this kind of posting power, and can't

I mean we have a sitting president talking about exterminating us constantly.

Jones victory felt like giving them a taste of their own medicine. We have had countless monsters win elections and get appointed for the awful stuff they have said about the left.

No notes

the leftist fantasy of building a large, complex bureaucracy to handle large, complex human problems without any technocratic expertise whatsoever

what's the big deal? they're acting like Jones posted a video of himself dropping tons of shit on his opponents from a plane

imagine running the largest paper in NYC and specifically *not* making the results of the mayoral election that happened the night before the top story, not showing a picture of the victor

City of Sickos

This is my precinct, where easily 95% of the population lives in brand-new market rate apartment buildings, i.e. “luxury housing.”

The NY Times is not your friend. It fights for fascism and the right to sexually harass women

I can't remember when I was last so happy that a bunch of miserable old fucks were so sad

(Fairey Obama poster with Jones and caption [REDACTED])

The two aren't as incompatible as you might believe. If the former group folds the concept of patriotism into their politics the latter group will literally just follow suit and give you all the gay you want so long as it remains profitable. Could be an all-time powerful governing partnership.

meanwhile, the actual voters are out there going with the Democrat who talks about shooting his opponents and/or pissing on their graves

Ackman still out there doing his best Hiroo Onoda

lol

at the very least, we could perhaps close the loophole that gets them out of ever being cited for traffic violations

has anyone written a long-form essay on NIMBYism a death denial?

ok... yes, i was warned about california housing politics being insane. i didn't realize this specifically meant that you can either vote for someone who wants to increase housing supply, or someone who doesn't think cops should be able to vacuum people up off of the street, but not both

I'm honestly surprised we haven't yet heard of ICE agents in civilian clothes storming out of an unmarked van and getting mowed down by someone with a CCW who sincerely believes they're getting carjacked by randos

awesome how the entire developed world, with its sub-replacement fertility rate, is just deciding that it hates foreigners so much that it will build its own tomb rather than let any more workers in to keep the engine running

I would have more faith in centrists' preaching of the virtue of compromise if it ever seemed to involve compromise going more than one way

Jonathan Greenblatt finds the Nazis at Heritage far more acceptable than half of Heritage apparently does

there is an growing political movement among elites whose foundational principle is that all sexual predators are good and we need more of them in power

let's give a warm welcome to the city's new Chief Feline Care Officer

I don't understand complaints about blocklists at all! other than relentless clout fiends, who looks at a raw, unfiltered feed of below-median posters on a social media site and thinks "there's no point if I can't have lots of _that_ in my life"

someone left-leaning somewhere present a positive vision for the opposition party rather than continually, unconditionally badmouth it challenge (difficulty: the most impossible fucking thing on Earth)

rideshare drivers only seem to become more feral over time. had two of them try, unsuccessfully, to engage me in a conversation on the explosive potential of memecoins