I live in a place where having a car is pretty necessary, I’m not anti-car. But there’s an obvious imbalance in “the government should pay for roads” is accepted by all but the hardest-core libertarians while “the government should pay for trails and trains” is actively resisted by half the country.

This was exactly my experience. I stopped seeing tweets from people I used to interact with daily. My engagement plummeted because people weren’t seeing my tweets either. Between the changes to the algorithm and links and the boosting of paid blue checks it became useless for news.

Teenagers should have jobs and learn how to drive. Also you shouldn’t need a passport to go to Mexico and Canada. (I suppose these could be boomer complaints too but they’re drawn from my elder millennial life.)

This 🧵does a good job of spelling out the point I only alluded to in my post about why pivoting right on certain issues a la Bill Clinton wouldn’t work today like it could in the ‘90s.

42-112!

Win number 42 for the Rockies and I am unironically this guy

South Park predicted this.

It’s weird to me when people think pivoting on some particular issue is a magic trick to win elections. Being liberal or conservative is a worldview that affects your views on every issue, you can’t just pick one or two conservative stances and expect that’ll get conservatives to vote for Democrats.

My main memory of reading Zinn in high school is being annoyed he lumped in the draft riots with other, more justifiable popular resistance movements. The NYC Irish definitely had legitimate gripes, but if you’re killing innocent people because of the color of their skin you’re not the good guys.

Any updates on this?

Fun map but I’ve got a question for any southern Colorado knowers — does the New Mexico zone extend too far into Colorado? It includes some counties that I don’t think were settled from here.

It’s funny how most people are convinced punishments were harsher in the past when, with the exception of the minority of people who committed capital offenses, they weren’t. Old newspapers are full of stories about assaults and attempted murders that don’t even result in a prison sentence.

I get that they’re being extra-careful with Ohtani but every no-hitter I’ve watched this season gets blown as soon as they bring in a reliever. If they’re throwing a no-hitter let them keep going!! I don’t think Ohtani would have given up six runs this inning.

G and it’s not hard. Although I would miss the unified culinary region of southern Italy and Central Asia.

Going to be clicking through this for a while. Looks like there are three precincts in New Mexico — two middle-of-nowhere ones west of Albuquerque and east of Silver City, and the one along the border that includes Columbus — that were split exactly 50/50.

Finally made it to Bandelier today. #newmexico #herps

It’s been a day here.

I’ve never read Dahl but isn’t the Constitution not being super-democratic a product of the Founders’ intent to make it so? It’s not some far-left conspiracy theory it’s something they talked about openly as they were doing it!!

I do think Democrats screwed up in the ‘90s going so hard defending Clinton. Having minimum character standards for powerful positions is good, it turns out!! That said if you voted for him you’re at least 46. And even people who like him never venerated him the way Republicans do Reagan or Trump.

I grew up back when the standard conservative view was free trade is good and towns like my hometown should be allowed to die. It’s an old grudge but it’s galling to hear the same people say now that we need to save certain other communities from the vicissitudes of the market.

Little weird to think the Pope is watching ESPN right now too.

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

GO BILLS!!!! But man I’m going to have an ulcer by January if every game is like this.

Matt Prater's PAT is good, and Bills take a 7-0 lead after the opening drive

This Broncos game is kind of dull but I don’t want to change the channel and reward the NFL for its belief the whole country would always rather watch the Packers over more regionally relevant teams.

Not a subscriber so I haven’t read the article but the lead photo being a guy with a Labatt’s in his vehicle’s cup holder is one of the most upstate New York images I’ve ever seen.

As a Bills fan with Mahomes on my fantasy team I really hope he keeps having good games but losing anyway. Best of both worlds.

My father-in-law is — or was until he pretended to stop watching the NFL — he even stuck with them in St. Louis. I think he’s the exception though. I see more Dodgers, Lakers, maybe even more Kings hats and jerseys when I’m out and about in Los Angeles than Chargers or Rams.

I was ready to side with Mr. Potato but two potato dishes with a single home-cooked meal is a little much. The obvious answer is she makes rice when she cooks and he makes potatoes when he cooks.

I got a pair of “waterproof” L.L. Bean sneakers for Christmas that are already starting to crack. And I pretty much just wore them around town. It’s too bad, I like the aesthetic and the American tradition they embody but I don’t trust them anymore for clothes I actually need to stand up to use.

It's legit underappreciated how many *barely* mutually intelligible dialects every large European country had before mass literacy plus centralization flattened almost all of it out.

Stop arguing about pineapple when there are far greater pizza atrocities happening.

I’m still team blue cheese for wings but one way I’ve changed from living in the West for so long is I no longer hate ranch; it has its uses.

This was a fun story to edit, and it’s made me want to learn more about the history of Agua Fría.

This makes me feel really good about my water bottle covered in Bigfoot stickers.

Even if you want to handwave away Grant beating Lee people arguing for Lee being better never take into account everything Grant did in the West that led Lincoln to put him in command of the entire effort in the first place.

There’s always a local angle. #journalism

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

House maps pre-1994 have more in common with Gilded Age political coalitions than with 2025.

I don’t know what to make of this. The few explanations I can think of — Republicans being more religious, class realignment — are also not things that would have suddenly changed a year ago. Maybe it’s health conscious manosphere/RFK Jr. types, but I don’t think there’s THAT many of either.

The writers of the last few seasons of Shameless. Even when I generally agreed with the points they were trying to make the writing was so heavy handed it was impossible to enjoy. Would have been a better show if they weren’t trying to make any larger points.

A teacher at my suburban high school used to call Schenectady “Scum-nechtady.” At least it was more polite than the version where people would insert the n-word into the second syllable.

Time went backwards during the Geerghel Bush presidency, the last few years of which overlapped with the 69-year reign of Emperor Clinfon.

I’m old enough to remember when Democrats wanted to use statistical sampling to help apportion congressional districts and Republicans correctly pointed out that it went against the plain language of the Constitution.

“Flashing Lights” came on in the car today and Kanye saying he hates the paparazzi more than he hates the Nazis just is really not a meaningful statement anymore now that we know he actually does not hate the Nazis at all. In retrospect he could actually be pro-paparazzi

One of the points Mike Duncan makes in his book about the decline of the Roman Republic is a lot of it was politicians started to ignore the unwritten norms that made the system work. The endless cycle of retaliatory partisan redistricting Texas is kicking off here feels like one of those moments.

The New Mexico Legislature has got to be one of the most Catholic in the country and most of its Catholic Democrats have been voting for laws protecting abortion and transgender rights for the past few years.