Meanwhile in LA, merely giving Angelenos opportunities to overpay first for tickets for mega events is a joke.

Tired: "congestion pricing resolves the problem of an ambulance driving to the hospital paying the same cost as the dude driving to buy potato chips." Wired: discouraging said lazy dude from driving/doordashing food with dynamic pricing for burritos

🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Nvm! Many of them knew and did nothing!

Maybe if Dem leadership were less focused on demonizing its own base or defending PACs that help Republicans they would have spent more time vetting CA dem candidates for governor and uncovered this monstrous behavior sooner, but they didn't.

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

they like trump and want to help him. they hated biden and wanted to hurt him

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

This man is threatening mass killings & war crimes on social media. When will enough be enough? These aren’t policy differences. He’s threatening crimes. It’s time to invoke the 25th. But we can’t do it alone—we need our Republican colleagues to do the right thing for this country & for the world.

Conversation to be had about American responsibility for Trump, but you can't do that without addressing the bile that is our media diet options. No amount of agency and only specific media literacy can overcome it, and The Altlantic has been a willful contributor to the bile that elevated Trump

<23% of the US voted for the president.

The notion that any person born here should be denied U.S. citizenship because their parents happened to be immigrants is an anti-American perversion of legal principles that actually pre-date the 14th Amendment. The only support for that proposition is Dred Scott, which is of course no longer law.

I know only polling nerds care about this but I am getting tired of media outlets gatekeeping polls on the LA Mayor race. Show me the methodology and crosstab links you cowards

Wrong. Education absolutely is a factor in what brought us here, because a good education is not just a matter of rote memorization or even methodologies of subject matter, it is the emotional development to grapple with difficult problems.

I specifically recall a criticism of Gideon in 2020: she was seen as the non-Mainer's candidate. I imagine Mills was seen in a similar light.

The ppl who deliberately did this to him should be tried for murder.

Well that summary didn't disappoint.

I remember being in London with my dad in 2005. He wanted me to see Speakers' corner in London, but as we got closer he turned to me and said "don't say anything. Let me talk if anyone addresses us" because he was that worried I'd be assaulted for an American accent. I was 15.

No good reason to put Miller above Rae unless you just want to treat the centrist candidate more favorably.

Refreshing to hear a side of Irish history I am so proud of but never heard from Irish-American Dems.

Things are not okay.

Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030. New preview in @boltsmag.org:

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him. Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

Rehl concedes that HSM lacks power to repeal zones citywide, but asserts he "has the power" to repeal the ones MOF created. How? Are 8 votes at City Council not needed to repeal a given zone? What unilateral means is being alluded to? Why is this not specified in the article?

It's not that I had fond feelings about Neera Tanden before but I think her retweeting Nick Fuentes is pretty good evidence that twitter is a gamma radiation field for your brain

Rae's background is in community organizing and nonprofit management, so this is a weird hit given how this is how Raman [rightly] stylizes herself on her office's LinkedIn page as a "lifelong community organizer" and is obviously proud of her work at SELAH and Time's Up.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

No one is prepared for suddenly Boston girlfriend

Once again: a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now

some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

ICYMI, yesterday I ran down several examples of federal officers who violated state laws being prosecuted. Yes it would likely be removed to federal court. Yes there would be claims that the officer was discharging his duties. So what. If you don't prosecute now you've given ICE practical immunity.

it’s clarifying to know these people would be fine with ICE killing you so long as it was within policy

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

Hours ago:

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I hate that I feel so certain most Dems aren't specifying what should be done because that means owning that action and chance failing, and that is far worse for them than the country failing. I hope they are remembered as cowards.

Something so deflating to know I can fully expect most Dems to not demand any specific or tangible recourse. At best, some vague notion of consequence, with most prefacing that Maduro is bad, as if there is any purpose in being measured about this.

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

twitter is so awash in AI CSAM right now (which is now a crime in most states) that you risk committing a felony just by opening the app

This isn't a Weiss marching order: it's who Dokoupil is. Watch the Dokoupul interview with Ta-Nihisi Coates interview again, and note how eagerly he projects violent meaning to Coates' words to rationalize his obvious hatred of Palestinians, Arab ethnicities, etc. Bleak seeing him in that chair.