If you say "we already have enough homes" in response to people talking about solutions to homelessness, you should be willing to exchange your home for a randomly selected house that has been uninhabited for a year or more. Surely if we already have enough homes this would not be a burden on you?

I mean it's a lot easier to destroy programs or to engage in corruption than to actually build something! Trump hasn't really built anything impressive (the closest you might get would be the current version of ICE). Building a good healthcare system is just a much tougher challenge.

"don't mess with Texas" is an anti-littering campaign

"The American car industry decided they would go all in on oversized gas vehicles and then immediately got owned by oil prices rising" is the kind of thing that's understandable if it happened once but like,,,, this is the third time

The left should absolutely not praise whatever awful peace deal Trump comes up with just to let him save face! Trump getting us into a war and worsening our global position is something very worthy of criticism! That does not mean you would "rather see the world burn".

Which party had better primary turnout? red = Trump/Rs blue = Harris/Ds green = Trump/Ds purple = no data (NC does not report uncontested primary results, and I didn't feel like calculating them)

I was at the Dallas County Democrats watch party tonight and honestly didn't see much hostility at all between Talarico and Crockett supporters. This feels like very much an online thing when everyone irl just wants to win the general now.

in the nato alphabet her name is charli xray charlie xray

I'm sure Klein would have Warnock or Crockett on his podcast too! This is such a weird criticism.

Congestion pricing was the beginning of the end for this wicked administration. Their overreach there is what sparked the "No Kings" protests, the largest single-day protests in American history.

"TERFs typically aren’t radical feminists" aaaaaaa

You don't hate these people nearly enough. (And remember when Burgum was supposed to be one of the "good ones" in this administration?)

Do people have any idea how often human drivers run over animals? A family friend of mine ran over their cat accidentally. Another person I know ran over a cat while driving in an unfamiliar area. Neither are particularly bad drivers.

Guy who hasn't read Abundance award goes to

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

Your prayers have been heard. The Sonoma County cavalry is incoming.

Glad to see Mamdani endorsed Props 2-5. Shame it took him this long to do it, though.

Bluesky seems to have some level of Ezra Klein derangement syndrome.

So like, why did Comey try to get Trump elected in 2016?

Wakefield got to this fucking guy? Really? Wakefield in particular?

Funding what's going on right now is insane. Republicans have not done a single thing to earn Democratic votes to continue funding the government. Rolling over early because you're worried about electoral consequences over a year from now is insane.

The thing to understand about the Hyundai raid: even *if* the workers there were here illegally, it's still completely moronic to arrest them! It's humiliating our ally, who's investing in our country, for literally no benefit.

That's what he looks like??

"Trump won all the swing states" has to be the most annoying 2024 talking point to me. The definition of a swing state depends on preelection predictions of how well each party will do! Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, all used to be swing states but generally weren't considered as such in 2024.

I really hate the "living rent free" dunk (or well, dunk culture in general, but that's a large part of it).

I strongly support a left/liberal vision of abundance: abundant housing, clean energy, mass transit, medical advancements, scientific research, etc. but that’s exactly why I get so angry at the right wing “abundance” bros for whom abundance just means abundant concentration camps

Leftists don't try to justify refusing to vote against JD Vance in 2028 challenge.

Think I need to get a "Kamala was right about everything" hat.

A red mist descends upon me whenever I remember the most NIMBY post I’ve seen in years. Growing up in A2 had a lot of positives but the place is full of some of the dumbest educated people alive.

The current state of the trans rights movement really is depressing.

Am I exhausted? Yes. Can I sleep? Probably not. Guess I should try anyway though, right?

Washtenaw "Lake" County, Michigan

Detroit is done with fake "Democrats"

Seems like Nextdoor isn't real life #a2council

Next Democratic trifecta needs to remove "under God" from the pledge of allegiance.

oh my god the whole point of Abundance is that it's about making more *good* things! not making more *bad* things!

it's so funny to me how she went from looking like a Democrat to looking like a Republican in her official portrait and switched parties shortly after

this is going to be as destructive to global health as dismantling USAID. the single most negative-utility way you could possibly do drug price negotiation, so of course it's what they've chosen to do

A Republican-controlled state succeeding at housing production & economic growth allows many people to overlook heinous social policies and support Republicans in the same way a Dem-controlled state like NY struggling at housing & econ growth allows many people to overlook good social policies

One of the weird things is that housing is probably one of the more rational supply/demand markets out there, the people doing buying and selling are doing so occasionally, stakes are high, people do research, etc Stuff like food and consumer products is a complete mess by comparison

no, I don't think this random anthro grad student is going to impose some kind of pol pot back to land regime at gunpoint. but that's kind of my point, "oh it's harmless" for a couple decades and then whoops, millions believe it and an essential oils guy is shitcanning biomedical research

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

oh my god. he actually has dementia. we are so fucked

Holy shit y'all. Anyways, go vote! Last day of early voting is today until 7PM. Saturday you have to go to your specific polling location, which you can find on vote Denton.

Yeah the Canadian questions are staying in Juxtastat

I am deeply disappointed in @keranews.org for failing to correct some very obviously false information shared by Ricciardelli in this interview. I hope KERA corrects the record on these, but the following thread will go over some points that stand out to me: 1/9

The problem with bsky right now is I'm compelled to use it but I neither particularly want to see anyone's posts nor to post anything myself so I just repeatedly open and close it as a weird sort of stim

According to the rule of fool, he was definitely in someone's contact list as "Jeff, Chief-Atlantic" and they thought they were adding Vice Admiral Jeffrey Hughes or something.

Good morning. So-called “inclusionary zoning” is a tax on new affordable housing that raises overall rents in exchange for a handful of means-tested units for literal lottery winners. It’s bad policy that hurts most of the people it’s supposed to help and we should stop doing it.

Everyday I wonder how it’s possible to get angrier. In 2017 it was “outrage”. This is primal rage at what is happening to our country, to my state, to everything I was told to love and respect and that was a miracle to exist that it near divine intervention