My country, California.

Separate from currently events, I really want to go snorkeling on the Musandam peninsula

MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor, the Democratic-backed candidate, has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result expands the court’s liberal majority to 5–2, extending its current ideological balance for years to come.

Catastrophic strategic defeat

Iranian drones are blowing up in Ukrainian cities every night. They have been for years.

There's nothing more insufferable than the shitheads who spent the entirety of 2024 sinking the Dem nominee trying to claim the moral high ground because they thought they were doing it for the sake of the Gazans. They all unironically have the blood of those 150+ Iranian schoolgirls on their hands

This can’t be true. I’ve been told that supply doesn’t work. Developers and landlords in San Diego must be less greedy than in other places, like Los Angeles

Oh no my cheap and simple truck is cheap and simple!

@pontifex need u to speed up that auto da fé

This is literally the description of a truck I would buy

There are very necessary and responsible ways for historians of Nazism to respond to this moment, and what you see below is not one of them.

Deeply humiliating shit

The Venn diagram of ‘change will never come through voting’, ‘openly disdainful of private gun ownership and owners’ and ‘every amerikkkan soldier is an irredeemable soldier’ is depressingly large. The revolution will come about, presumably, through your posting.

Fr

Wild that he really does make Gavin look like a statesman

worst democratic governor in the country imo

Deeply this

Beyond parody fr

"THE MARINA IS FOR 🌈EVERYBODY🌈" ...except for the people who would live in this building, apparently. They can just fuck off and die, I guess?

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

Maybe this is apochraphal, but it evokes a story I heard about an SLA-like group taking the Safeway in Berkeley hostage and refusing to go until “Safeway stops the war in Vietnam”

My greatest wish is that they all live long enough to see this development fully built and fully occupied

BIG - Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Iran: Iran’s intervention in Syria for the past forty years helped the former regime to displace Syrians. Iran participated and spearheaded the operation of the Syrian regime against the Syrian people.

Ok

This, a thousand times, this.

Free trade is good. It’s like, the only thing that economists near-universally agree on.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

We should prepare ourselves for a 2036 Republican candidate who promises to reverse income inequality and not starting foreign wars, positioning themselves against Trump, who cut taxes for the rich and started foreign wars by campaigning on being against Bush's tax cuts for the rich and foreign wars

Marshaling a Fighting Liberalism and is Good Actually, despite what sneering dorks say. Fighting Liberalism is self-evidently good! When liberals have hardened themselves, they have harnessed the power of the sun to vaporize enemy cities! They burned a glorious path to the sea through Georgia!

New midweek podcast is up! @esqueer.net speaks about why she's been looking toward a legal framework invented in the wake of Nazi Germany called "the dual state" to better understand this moment: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Lee’s best tactical move was retreat. 🤷‍♂️

This is literally exactly the kind of thinking that lead to RBG not resigning under Obama. Gov. Chad Bianco will be a lot worse for California minorities than seeing Betty Yee's ambitions stymied. Fuck off.

The California coast is an incredible place, and we should make it easier to build infill housing in its urbanized areas so more people can live here.

Let me know when you can replace about 110 million tons of the “toxic” (google the basics of the nitrogen cycle sometime) stuff with whatever you’re selling, meanwhile the rest of us will try to keep the farms working so people don’t starve this year

Let's take the most violently illiterate people in America, put them in masks and have them unleash their violent incompetence on the highest propensity voters in America right before an election. Are we sure Trump isn't still secretly a Democrat?

if the national guard are going to be deployed here until 2028 i think they should be bettering themselves instead of loitering. take some culture with you back to iowa and go to a smithsonian. give me 1500 words on how the barbara kruger installation at the hirshhorn makes you feel by 0900 tomorrow

The Sierra Club are villains. Whatever good (?) they’ve done has to be measured against their (until only extremely recent!) history of being a stalking horse for eugenicist Nazi degrowthers and the current vehicle (pun 100% intended) of every gray-haired suburban pastoralist.

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Or -and hear me out- not one single fucking dollar

"urban planners" are just people who made redlining a career, change my mind

Man look at this photo of Toshiro Mifune this is out of control

There's already a party that wants to bankrupt the state with snake-oil economics and that party is called the Republican Party.

slopulism generator: Eliminate *spins wheel* Sales Tax *throws dart* for Teachers *draws card* on DoorDash

Bolsonaro is forever that one girl in middle school who always had a “sprained” arm in a sling for attention

Same

this triple whammy of Dems coming out with big tax cut proposals is dangerously close to negatively polarizing me against "tax the rich" rhetoric EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PAY THEIR TAXES

This is so fuckin’ sexy

Schlossberg is a true Kennedy in the sense that he is a feckless dilettante

Yeah I'm sorry but it's 2026, we're not doing ten year old discourse anymore