Take it from west coasters. Do not exercise in this shit and mask up or limit time outside as much as possible

Time Change xkcd.com/3272/

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Hi! I'm working on a new HTML feature: filterable select There are two proposed API shapes so far: 1. Nesting <input> in <select> 2. Sibling <input> for listbox <select> w/id ref Option 1 is more ergonomic, but would break selects in older browsers Thoughts? (Both currently in Canary w/flag)

Oh, and to be clear: you should probably be mad as hell, nearly all the time, about climate. But if you’re mad at LLMs before you’re mad at cars or meat or urban sprawl, you’re simply mad at the wrong thing.

The number of cars on US roadways has been growing at a rate of 10 to 15 million *every year.* There are now 300 million vehicles and only 6.5% are electric. But you’ll never see an article about how the growth of vehicle emissions is “so severe it’s almost incomprehensible.”

127 Lytton is about as SB79 a location as there is. It's less than a minute walk from Palo Alto Caltrain and near downtown. Hopefully Darbar finds a new location, though.

A new AP poll of Jewish Americans Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable 71% Unfavorable apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards

Ugh

The low temperature of 84F at New York City Central Park ties the all time record warmest low temperature (1869-present). The low of 87F at Newark is a new all-time warmest low temperature (1843-present). It's as if something has changed. 🤔

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

Top 10 US cities with the smallest share of workers commuting by driving alone: —Hoboken NJ —Cambridge MA —New York NY —Jersey City NJ —Berkeley CA —Washington DC —Brookline MA —San Francisco CA —West New York NJ —Somerville MA www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

Dear @theguardian.com , that headline is very easy to misread (either by swapping MP/PM or skipping a line).

NYT investigates US car bloat: “About 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

But I wonder how much the lack of a front plate adds to the degree of impunity that a motorist feels when they are tempted to act out their aggressions using their car. 7/

This all blows up the normal way things work in Washington. Annual appropriations are the norm because it gives Congress power over agencies. But now ICE and CBP can tell Congress to pound sand for three years, and know that it’ll be another President who has to deal with the fallout in 2029.

Speed of response is everything, and it's still lagging far behind. Essential explainer on the Congo Ebola outbreak from @JeremyKonyndyk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If this exit poll holds, this is starting to look like a scary trend of far right wins in South America...

Trump is trying every way he can to speed up his mass deportation machine. His new "mega master" hearing tactic hit NYC today, following NPR's report that they were already underway in Boston, Chicago and Massachusetts. It's where a judge sees 2-3 times as many cases in a single day than usual.

Flag Design xkcd.com/3250/

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

There is no California politician who has worked harder and been more effective than Scott Weiner when it comes to housing, and if you want to beat him on *that* issue you better come equipped with policies rather than red x emojis.

Before you cheer, understand that this amendment also applies to red light cameras and speed enforcement cameras. In PA, we rely on these to enforce red light compliance and to keep construction zone workers safe. Funds are invested in safety infrastructure programs statewide. That's the catch.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Harvard faculty decided to do something we have talked about for decades but never managed to pull off: cap the number of full A’s in every course,” the Harvard economists Jason Furman and David Laibson write. “Now comes the hard part.”

NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. www.notus.org/money/donald...

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

The outbreak of #Ebola #Bundibugyo is now the 3rd largest on record. The #WHO country rep in DRC, Anne Ancia, told the World Health Assembly today that the suspected case count is now over 500, with 130 suspected deaths. This will be hugely difficult to contain. www.unognewsroom.org/story/en/312...

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

This is a subsidy from all Californian renters to wealthy people who live in fire zones.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

May the 4rd be with you

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #dinosaurs #visualization

Proportional representation is the way forward.

Imagine trying to implement other social programs like this! Like replacing taxpayer-funded food stamps with an unfunded mandate that grocery stores sell 30% of their food at a loss.

I just can't get over how for decades the line among political scientists was that presidents get blamed for economic conditions even though they don't have much control over them ... ... and Trump just came in and proved that he could significantly affect conditions *and* reap the blame!

It's past time to end this mess of partisan (and sometimes racist) redistricting and switch to a system where everybody's vote counts: either proportional representation or mixed-member proportional. 1/🧵

It's past time to end this mess of partisan (and sometimes racist) redistricting and switch to a system where everybody's vote counts: either proportional representation or mixed-member proportional. 1/🧵

MBTA seems to have received red line cars 1960-1963; just saw them sitting at the platform at Alewife.

Climate change denial takes many forms. The demand for state subsidized home insurance in wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk areas is one of them.

Others have said a bunch to disagree here, but I'd add: One of the interesting side effects of gerrymandering is an increase in seats that are mostly but not completely safe. This means fewer truly safe seats, and maybe more representatives who have to care at least a little about the general.

GIF with a soft G, Gerrymander with a hard G.

Reminder that the Biden admin was bringing us a free online filing program, but then Trump/Musk killed it before it had a chance to be expanded to everyone:

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

I see mutual aid bluesky has found this. A broad social safety net that takes care of everyone's basic needs is fairer and more equitable than a network of privatized interpersonal charity in which people's benefits depend on their ability to accumulate internet clout and perform abjection online.

Whenever we next rewrite the Constitution, we should have a parliament.