Our communities need more housing options. Yet modest townhomes like these, built in Marblehead in 1970, are now illegal to build under overly restrictive modern zoning here and across much of Massachusetts in the 1970s.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

“housing is a human right but the problem is developers who build housing” is simply not a coherent message Especially when you consider the fact that Seattle has actually done a decent job at building housing and is relatively affordable as a result compared to other high demand cities

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Silly FDA, flavored vapes are for kids

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Are we… kinda being pricks? 😂

Maybe Mexico will pay for the ballroom like it paid for the border wall

I am convinced that ~70% of anti vax sentiment is motivated by people’s dislike of needles.

The U.S.-Iran war only adds to the reasons the China human rights movement needs to move away from reliance on the support from the U.S. govt, who is increasingly a human rights violator both domestically and internationally. (My conversation with @asiasociety.org's Hai editor @goldkorn.bsky.social)

finding this shit on my Mac was a pain in the ass, btw I guess recent OSes hide the library folder? anyway, here's how I finally located the weights.bin file open finder > command + shift + G search for "~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"

Biden’s approach failed; at the same time, the post-Trump federal judiciary was/is so brazenly willing to ignore, rewrite or abolish law that hinders right-wing objectives that I sincerely struggle to think of how any approach could have succeeded. There certainly could have been; I just don’t know.

A Florida judge basically threw out a case of cut and dried classified materials theft and the Supreme Court drew-up a special standard to delay Trump's trial indefinitely!

In the 90s, Harrison Ford was the right age to play the president in movies. In 2026, Harrison Ford is the right age to play the president in movies.

Im genuinely unsure of the argument for how a majority minority district could violate the fourteenth or fifteenth amendments. I’d read the opinion but I don’t suspect it would be terribly illuminating on this question.

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

“Fuck that. I’d rather waterboard myself than put on a tuxedo and be used as a prop in a fascist game show host’s ritual of self-love and smug hostility.”

As a European why should I be so invested in preventing US embarrassment? Europe was much better off in January with Iran badly weakened. Now this stupid war threatens a recession, emboldens Iran, and gifted Russia an oil windfall The last thing Europe needs is an infinitely arrogant US & Israel.

my god

Safe to assume Zohran isn't getting the same bribes from Türkiye that the last mayor was accused of.

Five miles out

the trauma is coming from inside the generation

Democracy is when counties are equally represented no matter their number of residents. Dictatorship is when you count the votes of urban elites the same as those of honest rural farmer homespun did I say honest Christian loyal original heritage American…

The Supreme Court of Virginia should declare a *checks notes* state constitutional amendment unconstitutional.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

this site loads images like la croix tastes

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

You buy corners there.

checkmate, fellow terrorists

Shouldn't be so surprising that Trump is attacking Catholicism. He is an orange man, after all

Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbán, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

Hungary is going to vote out fascism

Viktor Orbán to join Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

Okay, sure, but there are five whole continents where Vance didn’t take an L this week.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

we have always blocked the strait in westasia

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This ship ain’t going to right itself before November

Started/going, Sohrab Ahmari edition

Imagine Obama winning in 2008 and directing his DOJ to probe Ken Starr over the conspiracy to politically damage Bill Clinton. That's basically what's happening now! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...