AI is not going to cause a massive unemployment crisis due to the simple fact that we are already on track for some unsustainable working age/retiree ratios in 25 or so years.

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Fundamentally, the main desire of people who hate speeding cameras is to be able to drive recklessly with no consequences.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

This is just a recapitulation of TACO. It’s hope chess, you’re hoping Trump will chicken out because of political pressure. But the thing about autocrats is that they are unresponsive to political pressure!

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

i think if billionaires wanted to receive more respect and deference from the population at large they wouldn't say shit like this

with the worst energy shock in history taking hold and American democracy in tatters, I know just what to do: a huge tax cut for the rich

This is why I love biking everywhere. Truly the most efficient way to get around in a city. Plus, no gas, no parking, and no insurance!

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

We need to pay taxes. America actually has a massive social safety net (even if it is threadbare) and you will not like the consequences of not paying for it!

The rest of the world seemed to learn from America’s mistake: don’t let authoritarian strongmen into power. Well, everyone else except for the UK which appears hell-bent on destroying itself.

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

Exactly. The needle which AOC has threaded quite well about Tucker and MTG is that while it's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing you also don't have to trust these people any farther than you can throw them. This isn't a hard thing to understand, unless you're paid to misunderstand things.

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

If John Roberts is "just calling balls and strikes" couldn't he be replaced by the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System?

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

it is really important to emphasize, once again, that republicans are betting the house on us being afraid of them--so afraid of them we fold without a fight. but actually if we fight we can win. don't surrender preemptively.

if only every economist could've predicted that tariffs and shutting off 20% of the oil supply would be bad for the economy

Gun owners are like “gun control discriminates against my hobby” and i’m like… your hobby is collecting things that can kill many people very quickly. It should be regulated!

Destroying the economy and America’s standing in the world to get rid of Woke Passports

Hope the folks at the Times are happy with the role they played in platforming and legitimizing this know nothing bigot propagandist.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

I disagree. until there is a sane opposition party we should do everything possible to keep the GOP out of power. if that means gerrymandering, so be it

the Puerto Rico independence movement is so bizarre to me it’s like sure yeah it only gets 15% every time it’s on the ballot and it would completely crater the PR economy, yet some people act like it’s the only reasonable/progressive outcome

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

Mary this is literally how vaccines are supposed to work.

i genuinely wish the democratic national committee was as powerful, organized and ruthless as a lot of people seem to think it is

I think it’s very clear at the point that the Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution that must be torn down.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

There’s a precedent for a leader being a blustering dumbass who constantly undermines his own diplomats with his erratic decision making on the world stage. That precedent is the Kaiser Wilhelm. I will leave it to you to determine if Kaiser Wilhelm successfully prevented a World War.

It’s so important, we need to have a plan. Our beautiful General Schlieffen, I call him Slick Schlieff, has a very strong plan. We’re going to go through Belgium, which is a fake country by the way. We’ll go through there no problem and those weak Allies, they won’t see it coming.

They’re calling it the Great War. The War to End All Wars. But it’s going to be spectacular. They’re saying two, maybe three weeks and we’ll have Paris. Before Christmas, believe me. Those losers, the so-called “Allies”, we’ll take Paris and they’ll beg me to make a deal.

I’m externality pilled. The problem with everything is externalities. People need to bear the costs their actions place on society. You like driving? You need to pay for congestion. You like carbon? You need to pay for climate change. You like living in Florida? You gotta pay for flood insurance.

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

it is not judicial activism when it is going after what scalia called a “racial entitlement.” you know, voting rights.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

I think a lot of people understood the accurate message that ‘climate policy matters more than individual consumption choices’ to mean ‘policy should not try to change individual consumption behavior’ and that’s a very different claim

We could have a lot healthier coalition-building if folks realized that liberalism is historically an ideology of unrelenting intolerance of the forces of reaction and conservatism, often to the point of fanaticism - not the ideology of, like, Bill Clinton and Third Way

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

I would caution against reflexively saying every event is “staged”

"But a lot of people need their cars." Okay, so they'll have a very strong incentive to not drive in a way that can get people killed!

I have an even hotter one, which is that it should be more common for people to get their licenses straight up taken away from them. In edge cases, people who want the license back can retake driver's ed in a year or so.