There was a proposal to do a *third* referendum but eventually the city decided to try to push the rezoning through via a different state law and that's working its way through the courts now. Extremely normal process for "the city would like to give a developer permission to build apartments"

There is no reasonable case for having Congressional districts subject to partisan gerrymanders, Supreme Court justices having lifetime appointments, members of Congress being allowed to trade stocks, a dozen other obvious things.

it makes you think!

The Federalist Society is essential to the machinery of Trumpism

i also find it strange and bizarre that a common default response to "here is something that might make things better" is "oh that will never work, why bother." okay, well, why are you wasting your time thinking about politics if that is how you feel?

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The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

Been saying for ages Trump acts like a trust fund kid spending down an account he imagines is bottomless and has no concept of how to refill. Roberts OUGHT to know better, but seems not to.

Watching the gubernatorial debate and the real winner is the housing-theory-of-everything which seems to be agreed on by everyone.

Finally, we created the "make gas prices more expensive" button from the hit political cartoon "What Americans Think the President Does." Turns out people don't like it

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

They say 75% of code taste is actually code smell

you have people who spend their lives in politics committed to a theory that "actually, people like you should not lead political organizations." unsurprisingly this produces mild derangement

During that time I was public facing at Xbox and regularly got emails about how someone’s Xbox was spying on them and ruining their life.

Is Zohran Mamdani living up to his promises as New York City's mayor? We asked four retired NYPD officers at a driving range in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Alt-images for text only posts, so that they're accessible to image recognition models.

We asked the 4yo what food we should order out yesterday and he said the kind with "the chocolate tortilla". What is your guess as to what this could mean?

Hope Israel enjoyed what it had while it lasted, because it is *gone* gone

This is why I use Gemini: The LLM that hates itself just enough that you can't admire it.

the kind of 'ron paul to bernie to rfk to trump' voter, just buffeted around like a cork on the ocean based on some vague animus toward 'the system' - real moron shit

I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

The demand for anti-yimby scholarship has outstripped supply that meets academic standards/norms. Thus a black market fills the void...

Still kind of stunned that they just paved over the Rose Garden. Not that I have such a massive nostalgia/respect for the Kennedy era. But it's wild. Also a strong indication of how we should treat all of Trump's work. Destroy it, replace it, never mention it again.

'be into things women are also into' remains One Weird Trick; it's a little amusing to me that that includes tabletop roleplaying games nowadays.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Guy who can't afford to send a cease and desist letter so he has to settle for just a cease letter.

Insane being a Californian seeing people post pictures of $4 gas going ‘I don’t know how we’re expected to survive.’ You are a weak people, grown decadent and fat on the sap of the earth. You will welcome our armies as liberators.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

Banker: hello Rural American Trump Farmer. you are a net drain on the economy. Have you considered working a real job for the Gen Z boss and a mini girls?

This tweet by @dcpierson.bsky.social is to me the entirety of Mad Men

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

hey so who wants to bet that the reason for this is that the russian government had a compliant eu state with direct access to eu banks with which to spend russian money in the west on influence operations

I wrote a video game called "PipPop" Play it here: scidomino.github.io/pippop/

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

"why won't democrats elect corpses," say people who don't wonder why the Democrats lost the Supreme Court, presidency, Judiciary Committee, and Obama's Senate supermajority due to gerontocrats' refusal to retire over the last twenty years

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Re: replacing SCOTUS with a rotating panel of lower judges who server temporarily: I would add that one random panel should be in charge of deciding which cases get heard and a different random panel hears the cases. So those who vote to take up a case don't know who will be hearing the case.

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A few years ago I was watching some plastic surgery show where a trans woman was getting implants and as they slipped the cup in, her nipple went from regular to blurred

Wow they are really stupid

my wife just had a dream that there was something called the Oops App where everything you upload to the app is definitionally a mistake and I'm fuckin dyinnnng

I am legitimately confused at how this description in Ian Fleming's "From Russia With Love" is supposed lead us to believe Rosa Klebb is a lesbian and not bi (or maybe ace). Did they just not make the distinction back then?

Whether it happens or not, this is the kind of thought leadership we need going forward to build whatever we’re going to rebuild out of the ashes.

“I remember the first Trump administration. The policies he implemented made it possible for me to run ~30 min five miles regularly, I was never hungover, and I had no responsibilities. Unfortunately, he hasn’t implemented these policies in his second term.”

one reason that a graying population and electorate sucks is that there’s resistance to saying “it’s because you got fucking old. you were young then and you’re old now. that’s how time works.” to exactly this kind of shit