imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

One of the first acts of an incoming Democratic administration should be pardoning the Prairieland defendants

Macron may have pulled the greatest political joke of all time.

I think this piece overall makes some good points, but I could not disagree more with this perspective. Ridership is in fact the only measure of success that agencies should focus on. “Coverage” that isn’t utilized isn’t a normative tradeoff but a straightforward failure of transit governance.

This line always drives me bonkers, there never was an American golden age in which high-quality weapons were produced rapidly, cheaply, and without bureaucratic friction. That is always has and will be a myth

I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

i have basically zero sympathy for his wife, but the way he routinely talks about his wife and children in public is legitimately shocking

when people say that there is an entire welfare network for far right cranks that are bankrolled by local car barons and billionaires, what that means is that every university is prone to opening a Center For Freedom Thoughts Studies that focuses on how to ban trans people and put migrants in camps.

Ok, so that's the thing! The Bennets' income (2,000lbs/yr) put them in the top 0.2% of English society at the time. To do that in today's US, you'd have to make $20M/yr. They were, in fact, kinda ludicrously wealthy! And the inheritance structure wasn't as big a problem as people think it was!

"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score

"The regime has overextended its security services in increasingly unpopular heavy handed immigration enforcement and has been forced to bring local officials from outlying provinces to the federal district in order to crackdown on affronts to the leader's increasingly unhinged aesthetic demands"

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

One thing it'd be really nice to add to the US Constitution is make federal contempt of court and contempt of Congress non-pardonable offenses. And explicitly allow Congress and courts to appoint special prosecutors to prosecute those specific crimes and only those specific crimes.

a Black man named Freeman scored the second goal and the first goal happened because of a great run by our birthright citizen striker, these chuds can fuck all the way off

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

this is also specifically why government IT overhaul/revamping to bring everything in house should be a major part of the democratic program. get rid of elon, get rid of palantir, get rid of the contractors

if Leo actually does formally excommunicate the heretic bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (medieval-ass sentence lmao) on July 1, he will be EXPLICITLY saying that the Vatican II denial caucus are no longer considered Catholic and that is going to be, as the people say, a spicy meatball

we're giving iran about as much money as all the gold in fort knox

They're calling it "Angry Denmark," folks, it's the ideology of the future, where lanyard-wearing National Security enjoyers hold hands with social activists who want global billionaire abolition under the watchful gaze of a well-funded treasury and near zero national debt

the fact that Chega was meeting up with Bovino at conferences is not going to lead anywhere good, imo

it should probably be a bigger story that the world’s first ever trillionaire is a straight up Nazi. not just a standard right winger, but a straight up Nazi.

Washington’s 1% levy cap means longtime homeowners’ (those who've owned their home for 20+ years like yourself) tax burden grows slower than their property value and slower than the cost of the services they use. Senior exemptions can even freeze assessments entirely.

You have to be deep deep in Nazi Germany history to reference Dietrich Bonhoeffer lol

It is funny that the John Adam’s "in search of monsters to destroy” quote continues to be used as proof the founders were realist isolationists when in fact you read the entire speech, Adams very clearly thought America had clear common cause with other liberal republican movements…

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

genuinely incredible watching Dort not know who Gerry Adams is

Its hard to think of anything that'd get society to demand it. It needs to be a very important piece of software to cause a mass casualty event otherwise the effects are generally too diffuse to cause anger. Also no way companies get on board with licensing because it means they share liability.

A cursory reading of WWII would lead you to conclude Allied victory was inevitable (in many ways it was) but (if you want American perspective) it cost: •4 years of continuous combat •40% of GDP on defense and (something like $4.7 trillion and $5.9 trillion in today’s money) •1 million+ casualties

no big deal, just elon musk saying he would've killed journalists at @theverge.com if he was, in fact, a killer

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

Whatever she needs to do to win is justified, because flipping the Texas gubernatorial mansion would fucking destroy the Republican Party.

Feels like Rogan announcing the Trump UFC fight is a good hook to talk about how the entire RFK Jr. program was in retrospect a pretty choreographed and deliberate ratfuck of the Dems and afaict nobody has written that longform article? Kinda wild?

YOU HAVE TO TEAR DOWN THE SYMBOLS OF THE REGIME, SO THAT FUTURE REGIMES KNOW THAT THEIR ABUSES WILL BE IN VAIN

no guys you don’t understand it’s very offensive to describe any of this as trashy

Man a lot of legacy auto makers are just going to die huh

Yeah. I guess this really is what the Romans must have felt like.

Repugnant

Dems probably need to do some measures to reduce super high refugee inflows / asylum claims / clustering at the border but if we do see the Great Hispanic Snapback, we really MUST deliver on the DREAM act AND a path to citizenship. The latter should be framed as protection against ICE abuses.

Glad they waited around awhile to disclose this for another book!

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

The United States is a nation mostly formed of and by immigrants. All food made here is American food.

Iranian hostage crisis vital for developing and reinforcing the cope that feckless libs were responsible for losing Vietnam despite conservatives being in charge and getting their way throughout the bulk of the war (yes, even under Johnson) bsky.app/profile/matt...

We are a mongrel nation, and it's the one thing I'm an unironic nationalist about

The richest part of this is that Trump was famously goaded into running by Obama’s WHCA speech which imagined a garish Trump-branded White House with a bunch of tacky additions, and that’s exactly what he did.

i really, truly, find this offensive