My dad and I, both diminutive Americans, used to drive thru North Philly in a Toyota MR2 to take the subway to Eagles games at the Vet in the 80s. It was fine. (He mostly drove.)

One particular advantage Texas has with solar is that solar peaks at the hottest times of the day

Remember guardrails? I miss those.

Hooting and, in addition, hollering

I am sympathetic in that I think he is bright, empathetic, but also pretty gullible. His opinions have basically gotten worse and worse as he's become more successful and, as a result, more surrounded by rich idiots and bastards. But he's also a grown man who is responsible for his gullibility.

This is obscene.

Searle was basically right about everything in philosophy of mind, and despite that his personal conduct and political views were horrific.

Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”

'out of the three mass shootings today'

I don't think that points to motive. It excludes some possible motives but Pointless Nihilism and Personal Beef are still lapping the field.

I am NOT sorry.

My most controversial post-ejection take is that treating voters as adults with agency and telling them the truth isn’t looking down on them, while telling voters things you know to be false to validate their feelings in an attempt to manipulate them is considerably more condescending.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls

Remco is still ahead of Pogacar on GC.

In Round 6 of the USCX, Day 2 of the Charm City Cross, the Men's elite race was won by Eric Brunner. firstcycling.com/race.php?r=4...

Ok well that's just common sense

Well I don't want to be on my best behavior all the time.

The waiters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the waiters

You can totally do an 8-0 gerrymander in Maryland because you can just say any ugly district represents a crab and then the residents will defend it to the death.

I find the degree to which he has his head up his ass relatable, but not admirable.

Tadej Pogacar and morally problematic shirt sponsors name a more iconic combination.

Would like to be able to get a Slovenia national cycling jersey without the stupid crypto sponsor on it.

it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real

Pogačar has to be favorited to threepeat worlds in Montréal.

with so many of our elites failing to meet the moment it’s worth highlighting ones who do. Charles Tillman worked very hard to land his 2nd dream career but walked away when Trump's awful agendas went against his values www.bleachernation.com/bears/2025/0...

Lmao

fwiw I think one possibility that people are discounting when they read these median voter profiles is that lying is cognitively harder than telling the truth. so people give bullshitting answers that sound dumb

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I can't stop thinking about the Riyadh Comedy Festival. A Saudi prince watching Whitney Cummings and being like, "That is what dating on the apps is like. She nailed it"

Universities don’t do quotas. They have very good reasons for affirmative action, namely the fact that it’s good for students to interact with lots of different kinds of people. The ones that have selective admissions generally have more students who can do the work than they can admit.

“Justin Driver, a Yale Law professor and the author of The Fall of Affirmative Action, told me that he expects any elite college that doesn’t start enrolling fewer Black students to be accused by the Trump administration of breaking the law.” This makes me SO angry.

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That they don’t have authority is clear from the lack of training.

Alito/Whelan are right. 120 days don’t reset. Don’t want to give anyone any ideas here but that would completely destroy the advise and consent function for US Attorneys if it did.

In My Cousin Vinny, the source of humor was that it was implausible that a lawyer would not know how to conduct an arraignment.

My approach would be to say you're for a whole litany of things and say you believe heath insurance is where you believe common ground can be found with thins and Johnson. Level with people.

It's very Congressional Democrats to notice that positive framing is more effective but relegate it to a dependent clause where the overall framing is still negative

I will name your baby for $29,995

I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it

She arm on my hammer til I baking soda

This is a way to blow off steam, to shout into the ether and talk with some like minded individuals and smart people who follow me. I don't care about "the largest possible audience" - I care about having some good posting pals and shooting the shit.

Ben Franklin would be too busy trying to be an OnlyFans completist to worry about this.

I think the guy who shit his pants and lied about how Kamala endorsed Mamdani makes a good point about how to speak in the future.

Klein is not a smart guy, I'm afraid. Absolutely stuck in a discourse loop where random lefties on social media are "the Democrats," and thus unable to notice Trump has actually cratered the popularity of hardline stances.

Gustavo, você viu Andor?

In the State Department’s original tweet, they tagged the wrong Gustavo Petro. Imagine being a random guy from Brazil and waking up to learn you’ve been visa banned from the US

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

That's right, you need to perfect your mind and body to extract revenge properly.

Calling this "incitement" is certainly saying something about how they perceive the consent of the governed .

I thought Trump was more of a Lindbergh guy.