the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top

Want to be president or a Supreme Court Justice? Great! Blind trust for life and you don't get to hold other jobs for life. We'll make sure you live comfortably after you retire and have a budget for travel/speaking.

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

“Just immigrate the right way” says a conservative movement which has systematically denied all avenues toward legal immigration www.indystar.com/story/news/l...

Indiana Republicans just passed their new congressional gerrymander out of Senate committee, setting up a vote in the full chamber on Thursday

True public accountability is when the Law Wizards make up new laws in the Originalism Cave and then choose what powers are given to the Golden President

Indiana really really needed this emergency legislative session to tackle the big issues of the day

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Me, a radical leftist who doesn’t understand politics: gerrymandering is bad. We should try to stop the Indiana GOP redistricting efforts Some centrist: stop doing purity politics!

Reilly Gaines was at least a good swimmer. 5th place nationally is actually very impressive and something normal athletes would be extremely proud of. That essay is really just bad even for the median undergrad

Who has made this 🤣

Climate change is an affordability issue

This is not burden-sharing or even burden-shifting. It is the US abdicating its role in European security at the time when the threat is greater than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Europe must plan how to defend itself - starting by integrating Ukraine into planning & force structures.

For the republicans that are saying “democrats did it too” as a justification for Indiana’s gerrymander, might I suggest you tell the republican-controlled congress, presidency, and Supreme Court to do something about political gerrymandering

Page 27, where, by the way, you can also find a not particularly well-hidden dog whistle for the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The new US National Security Strategy says explicitly, that the US should intervene in European domestic policy. It is difficult to interpret "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations." otherwise in the context of everything else this government says and does.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

ICYMI: Yesterday, I released my chat with Dr. Tepi Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity. Now available in audio-only and full video formats 👇 www.activetowns.org/2025/12/04/s...

Worth noting at no point in the 20th century have court decisions and lineups been so consistently akong party lines Any argument that the Court is anything but an unelected partisan branch of government should be over. And Dems should vote to rebalance it when they next gain power.

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Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure, says The Telegraph. Brexit Effect: UK GDP down 8% Investment down 18% Productivity down 4% Employment down 4% Immigration not cut No trade benefits No regulatory freedom Why do some still vote for Farage? archive.ph/L2Gqp

There is no human right to a parking space wherever you want to go. However, there is a car policy that gives you this feeling because people are considered more important than children.

How much space we afford to the arrogance of cars versus how much space they actually need.

1. America is not at war in the Caribbean. 2. The “fog of war”, as Robert McNamara came to realize after the Vietnam war, is precisely the reason why you don’t let loose unrestricted violence in zones where you don’t know whether or not people are combatants. www.ft.com/content/5566...

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

I swear to fucking god if I see any of you bummed at a single digit loss in a Trump +22 district

So what does it look like if we have more than 55 Senate seats in 2028 & the right end of the caucus is Jeanne Shaheen instead of Ben Nelson & Jon Ossoff instead of Tom Carper? Let me tell you what it looks like: it looks good

“Ignore what your eyes show you. And Stop complaining about affordability, peasant!”

They were 8 and 11 years old

The Teump admin (and his Republican majority in congress) is combining the ‘99 dot-com crash with Smoot-Hawley. We haven’t felt the pain yet but it’s coming. Next year could be rough. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

The new formula for mediocre white kids who can’t hack it in their upper level classes: write a Christian conservative screed at a 4th grade level and run to TPUSA the minute you get any negative feedback

She’s auditioning for Riley Gaines’ deal with conservative thinktanks

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

The constitution guarantees a republican (small R) form of government at the state level. A plain reading of the text should prohibit maps like these. Reconstruction 2.0 is the only possible response.

there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box

I swear to god car brain just completely makes people into zombies. Way too many people driving around fish tailing turns, locking wheels to stop, tailgating, no headlights on (I saw a Sheriff’s Deputy doing that one!). Folks. It sucks to go slow, but that’s just the reality when conditions are bad

I’m not religious, but I’m developing a personal faith: time spent driving is the root of a lot of modern suffering, and it’s a moral imperative not to induce more of it.

Hear me out: child daycare at workplaces. Small business can coordinate with other neighbouring small business. Take your babies to work. If there's a problem, your right there. Fund it publicly. Like school. After school programs- kids are brought to workplace daycares. It's an equity thing.

People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.

Important lesson here for democrats: Oligarchs and corporations respond to incentives. So if there’s a threat of punishment for wrongdoing, they’ll just do the right thing. But the accountability has to be real.

is the cure to loneliness mobilizing thousands of your friends to etch giant pictures in the ground that can be seen from space?

"Nobody knows who's liable if things go wrong." (How has it taken this long to ask that question?) "What they can't afford is ... a systemic, correlated, aggregated risk" (sound familiar?) Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts - on.ft.com/3M4Y61L via @FT

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

Instead of seeing it as an opportunity to unite us, this clown only sees opportunities to troll. Truly B-list leadership here. He’s also made this same joke a couple of times now because he’s a true original

No, it's not weird at all that the guy who shot those National Guardsmen was an Afghani trained by the CIA And the CIA training ppl in Afghanistan has never resulted in terrorists attacks on America before either...

Alright, I've made a list and checked it twice. The 6th Annual Christmas Challenge is hereby set. Marking the largest Challenge to date, all who seek the coveted trinket will have tomorrow, 11/28, to 12/31 to watch all 77 selected works. I have spoken.

Fuck him up, Bonnie!

Cars generally are horrible at scale. There’s a density at which in order to be usable, they completely shut down everything else. And even the cars themselves are not very good