Animals are smart and humans are, despite everything, *incredibly* prosocial. More than anything, that's what's allowed us to dominate Earth. We are hard-wired to help each other. That's why the arguments against empathy are so bizarre. They're not just wrong, they're fundamentally anti-human.

Drivers are so stupid they dont realize they're the main beneficaries of this policy. Making driving harder for people who dont need to drive (like me) frees up space for drivers who do need to drive.

Putting a ton of housing—including many affordable units—on top of a grocery store in a transit rich corridor is exactly what we should be doing and if NIMBYs hadn’t been so recalcitrant over the years they would have more bargaining power now but oh well www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era

is there anything that spoiled little child could do that this moron wouldn’t come rushing to defend? refusal to comment is a comment, and requiring comment from the administration is effectively a veto over journalism. thank you for coming to my tedtalk

The people who showed up to vote for a write-in dem candidate in a Trump+50 special election 2 days before Christmas are democracy's strongest soldiers.

Hello, I’m a trans person. I hope you get fatal explosive diarrhea.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

it would be cool if journalists put as much effort into policing themselves and their colleagues as they put into defending their colleagues from any and all criticism that are deemed to come from outsiders, regardless of the merits

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

This is from a word scramble gameshow where the host of this show gave plenty of clues and the contestant still got the answer wrong.

“A politician must earn my vote” is really the ultimate triumph of consumerism. No conception that voting is a collective power. Just an empty belief that a vote is a type of currency that one uses to purchase a politician.

bari weiss with the FE4 twincest plot: somehow arvis ends up sterile and also barbecues himself instead of sigurd

I appreciate the self-awareness of Bostonians here

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

Yep. It is in fact bad that people are addicted to a 24/7 Bad News Machine

Buddy, you think Donald Trump is gonna outflank your own side while presently underwater with white people? Have some fucking self respect.

Meanwhile Trump just signed the “Ban Bread” and “Make Circuses Illegal” executive orders.

Nah its a reasonable thing to point out that a man who's going to get every single therapy possible (including some highly experimental ones) because of his status and wealth voted multiple times to prevent anyone who isn't in his boat from receiving the same treatment.

to add insult to injury, Fulnecky got the subpar assignment removed from her final grade because now we do affirmative action for idiot bigots

posting scientists will be studying this breakthrough post for years

Also: real or not, it means anyone who said there was nothing implicating Trump in the Epstein Files was lying. You can decide this was fake, you can decide Epstein was embittered and deranged and lying, but it implicates Trump (accurately or not) and it's in the Files.

my girlfriend only has trans healthcare access because she lives in a state with Democratic governance but sure have fun with the revolution, comrade

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

New doc: A letter Epstein appears to have sent from jail to Larry Nassar referencing "our president." "Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The two most common predictors in the modern era of the success of a modern welfare state are the level of homogenity of the population and the size of the country. Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.

A complementary pathology is that there's the perception that erring on the side of being too naive is somehow far worse than erring on the side of being too cynical, despite the fact that overly cynical predictions are wrong *all the fucking time*, wrong in just as consequential ways too!

Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile! Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes! The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

Yes. Eric Adams had "an actual werewolf" do it when he was sworn in and no one was able to stop him, or even get him to explain why.

this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems

they can’t even consolidate their strongest soldiers, like, if you’re tearing the *heritage foundation* apart, it’s over, man

also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

don't ever listen to imposter syndrome, folks, all of these people are the most grossly incompetent imbeciles of all time, and if you see this, you're not on that list

i mean, whomst amongst us *hasn't* killed a story in the most ham-fisted and clumsiest way imaginable with an obviously bullshit excuse only to have a million copies of it pop up all over the internet like mushrooms less than 24 hours later

Just an observation that culture treats listening to rap as a bad influence on young black men, but does not afford nearly the same disdain for country music on young white men. I WONDER WHY THAT IS (I don’t actually wonder)

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

It's always funny when a movement spends years trying to hide the ball on their motivations & then Trump just says the quiet part out loud. See also: anti-choicers.

It's deeply clear now that 77 million Americans made the worst mistake of their entire lives last November and straight up voted a man who raped children into office. And no one wants to call them on it because they're afraid to confront what it says about us that so many still support him anyway.

I genuinely think one reason it's not the #1 story in the world (besides the general "media likes GOP and wants them to win" stuff of course) is that it just makes so many people uncomfortable they don't want to think about it for too long because it will make too many people feel bad.

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

and if you are bari weiss, and you watched this, and you said, "the main problem with this story is it's unfair to steven miller"—the moral deformation there is hard to exaggerate.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

DONDON SIGHTING

a contemptible fraud and an all time piece of shit

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

“Tonight on CBS—THINGS THAT MATTER: CANADA. Bari Weiss moderates a debate between Ben Shapiro and Kid Rock that considers the pressing question of whether Canada should be annexed by the United States, or merely nuked for insufficient loyalty.”