There are more than half a million elected offices in the United States. There are tens of thousands of elections conducted ever year other than those on the November biennial. Fun fact: that works out to about one elected office for every 500 American adults.

Merrick Garland was so good a man that he was stupid.

In Milwaukee, beer costs literally the same as one bus fare.

"You made the libs angry--ALL OF THEM" is one of the great cosmic horror stories of modern history, replayed again & again & again. You can make some of the libs angry all of the time, and all of the libs angry some of the time. But if you make all the libs angry all at once, make peace w/ ur God.

I desperately want a man with these values in the Senate Democratic caucus.

They’re conceding a district that includes a town called White Settlement. No, it’s not named after a surname.

The Republican in tonight’s Texas State Senate race apparently sees the writing on the wall:

And by the way, I'm starting to really warm to bougie middle class chauvinism. Because here's the thing about it: it's remarkably porous, but it does set minimum standards of conduct. The ppl peacefully grinding ICE to a halt in the streets are mostly offended middle-aged, middle-class ppl.

we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???

The US needs to annihilate MAGA as a viable national political movement (it can hang on as a regional rump and we'll be fine) *and* dismember the Unitary Executive permanently. The latter can be done by a mix of legal statutes and packing SCOTUS with reformers, although we should do an Amendment.

I think it's a bit harder than that for us to *fix* it but we have much more agency to fix things than Chinese ppl do. And the Europeans have a good amount of agency but also a LOT more institutional clutter to fix before they can really stand up fully.

Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of. All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

“White Settlement has gone woke.”

But if there's a keystone to the current GOP coalition it's that Midwestern and southern suburbs are pretty red, particularly once you get out of the superclusters (and often the urban areas aren't *that* blue). Whacko nonsense becomes possible if that changes

Like it's a HUGE if

Genuinely worse case scenario for the GOP if southern/suburban racial polarization buckles, even if it's not by *that* much

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

finding out that 100% of the "rude" tag warnings are applied manually by bsky mod staff has been enriching because now whenever i see a post that objectively rocks tagged "rude" i know that some bsky mod was getting mad about what a good post it is

It's really all about the administrative state. We didn't have enough of a consensus to legitimize and limit the power of a permanent, powerful federal bureaucracy in the Constitution, so we kludged it together by handing the executive power over a colossal apparatus verging on rule-by-decree.

It’s interesting how many people seem to think subway and bus riders are entirely distinct communities and not the same one that people back and forth between.

I’m booked on a widebody domestic 777 next month.

Abandonment of coercive state power as a site of contention + carving out of ‘as a treat’ exceptions to universalism and empiricism are I think in retrospect the main issues with wokeness the first time around I think.

woke 1.0 loved social sanction but hated every other means of coercion, including the law. it was primarily a game people played online with others who had consented by their politics to participate, and its objective was extirpating the hidden seed of evil in the things in which it was latent.

This affects transportation electrification, of course. And makes it more profitable for crackheads to steal wire for scrap money.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

straight up Gestapo shit

No mention of Epstein on Page One. @nytimes.com

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

This will be interesting to attend at least. www.channel3000.com/news/former-...

Also want to highlight that for express service locomotive-hauled trains are not all that terrible from an efficiency standpoint. MUs benefit from better acceleration and deceleration, but with limited stops it’s less of an edge given the higher levels of capex required for initial implementation

Metra has issued an RFP for battery electric locomotives, seemingly poised for rush hour RI-Bev service

The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats. Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.

I refuse to do a better job than this, hope I'm not retreading already worn territory.

anyway, yes: the United States has offered generally a pretty good deal on political rights for immigrants. in exchange it has gotten: 1. more immigrants 2. more skilled immigrants 3. more ambitious and capable immigrants 4. dramatically less violence than less free societies

Kinda reveals how Weiss was able to rise so high and so fast despite being an objective mediocrity - she simply tapped into a huge network of elite pedophiles and signalled that she could help them!

Yeah -- Metra is operating double deck push-pull sets with locomotives on some services where the Germans would operate (checks notes) double deck push-pull sets with locomotives. (Or long consists of double deck EMUs, depending.)

(extraordinarily laudatory)

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

So for NFL owners in the Epstein files, we've got at least four: the Patriots' Robert Kraft, the Commanders' Josh Harris, the Giants' Steve Tisch, and the Vikings' Zygi Wilf

@jaketapper.bsky.social any ideas, bruh?

America's population density from 1790 to 1890

Elon...They scrubbed Trump from the files but not you. They're setting you up to take the fall! You gave them $300M and this is how they thank you. Next they're coming for your subsidiesss and contractsss

The problem with the flirts in Metras case is that they're only really going to excel either when frequency is high enough to spread passengers out but not for peak hour like on the UP lines where it's two to a seat and with people standing. The galleries still have their merits regardless.

Brother, I have pitched your outlet on this for half a decade.

Unless Biden is running again in 2028, I am confused as to how this matters.

I really think the odds are better than even that two or more branches of law enforcement or the military get into a firefight by 2029.

Please let him focus on this

The article above refers to a legal response time of 10 minutes with most calls answered in 6minutes (over 95% of the city can be reached in that time). That seems longer than North American, where NFPA targets a 4 minute response time (part of why fire services respond to some medical emergencies)