“Sure the executive is waging a full throated assault on the constitution, but he is fulfilling a personal ideological goal of mine, so who cares”

On this trans day of visibility I see my trans peeps. Also trans rights are human rights.

the real trump core is the blue collar-coded petit bourgeoisie. the guy who owns the plumbing/flooring/landscaping business, who the media blithely conflates with actual plumbers/floorers/landscapers.

AOC was very famously a bartender, markwayne mullin inherited and sold a family plumbing business for millions, which of these two does the median american think to be more blue collar-coded?

because Everything Is Housing to me I had to point out that all these seniors have a safe, accessible place to live because a developer plopped a 10 story apartment building into a “historic” neighborhood

It turns out that banks allowing him to walk away (really, how do you fail at a business where the house always wins) consequence free from multiple bankruptcies , taught the president that his failures are always someone else’s problem.

US rig counts are down dramatically since Biden left office thanks to a mix of a slowing economy, uncertainty around investing in the US and Trump's newfound love for the Saudis which - until recently - kept oil prices below the ~$70/bbl level that starts to erode Saudi market share.

You may not be interested in great power politics but they’re interested in you. You do not get to throw a tantrum and walk away from the chess board, the other players will beat you over the head with the chess board while your back is turned.

It would be wise if Ds in Congress were thinking about hiring staff who understand the technical details behind the crimes the Republicans are committing. There might be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to go after financial self-dealing, war crimes, ICE, etc., but only if Ds have the muscle.

Hiring now for summer jobs in Berkeley: • Camp Staff (Member, Leader, Supervisor, Medical) • Aquatics Specialists (I, II, Senior) • Sports Officials Apply by April 20 through the jobs portal.

I swear if one more dipshit tells me this is "the art of the deal" I'm going to actually spit in their face

Lock, Stock and $200 Barrels (2026)

Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!

This is a 100% true fact about me in college by the way! I was a full on 'Real Communism has never been tried', Castro-defending, Liberation-theology loving Communist until I met people who had lived under Communist regimes in Poland and Ethiopia

Ending the war between the US and Iran will be hard, experts say, due to the difficulty of negotiating with a weak, erratic head of state.

this is horrific in some ways but also extremely funny in terms of "these people have no concept of how to authoritarianism"

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

The Strait is their only leverage, and not only do they have zero reason to think an agreement with the US/US interlocutors will be respected, the only reasonable expectation at this point is assuming any agreement will be ripped up within 1-4 years (they've already publicly said this)

Facism does *not* really like or support capitalism: it eats it. Fascism tends to regard wealth as something to be stolen, not produced. And it is primarily concerned with confiscating wealth from those groups it deems undesirable.

incredible cope

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

I think a LOT of you are behind on your Underground Transgender Mafia dues. If you had paid on time the leadership would not have had to resort to crimes. Think about what you have done.

All this hand-wringing over Single Family Home REITs buying houses and the returns for all of them are pretty dogshit and that's with the larger ones buying in the aftermath of 2008 lol. Invitation homes has a dividend yield of like 5%.

"A better approach would be to approve, retroactively, Trump’s air campaign to date, including its attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, but prohibit a large-scale escalation--" it is hard to express how much fucking contempt i have for the foreign policy Establishment

This article by Bill McKibben is PACKED with excellent news! Whatsizname can yell about windmills for the rest of his days (may they be few!), but renewable and battery technology are moving fast enough to drown him out.

Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.

I have this groundbreaking new theory of electoral politics, and my theory is this: My theory is that, in the same way that Peltola takes positions that she believes will win her votes from the constituencies she requires, so too are all the other Democrats in the country appealing to their voters.

The awesome “Paris of the Future”, by the great Moebius, 2000.

33% approval! How low can he go?

They’re half right tbf. Star Wars is the dumb person franchise and Star Trek the thinking (wo)man’s. That is why Star Wars was better at predicting the future.

Would anyone who lives anywhere near New York State be willing to take in my cat temporarily for up to a year? My original plans for having someone care for him just fell through and I'm scrambling to find someone. He is a very good boy and doesn't have any special needs.

The Venn diagram of the “AI will be dead within three years” people and the “COVID will leave everyone disabled within three years” people is an extremely funny circle

Honestly curious what Weir thinks of: * Moon Is A Harsh Mistress * Foundation trilogy * Left Hand of Darkness * The Dispossessed

this is like the Platonic ideal of Bay Area housing over the last decade: * 8 stories * replacing auto infrastructure (gas station in this case) * near rapid transit (Caltrain) * "on a corridor where little has been built" www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Co owner of Farley's is missing with an 'undisclosed medical condition'. Hoping for the best... www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

6 out of 10 Americans dislike the president but somehow we are the out of touch ones

Great @robindlaws.bsky.social quotes about “One Battle After Another” “North By Northwest multiplied by Running On Empty” “Sean Penn combines the Terminator with Popeye” “Benicio Del Toro steals every scene by doing the least he could possibly do while being the coolest he could possibly be”

This would probably be a more effective argument if Trump hadn't advocated and rolled out a policy by which people could become citizens FOR PAY.

turns out regular alcohol use can exacerbate depression. who knew

Disappointing to be blocked by an academic for answering her question “so No Kings isn’t doing anything about fascism or Fetterman”

John Yoo Ilan Wurman Michael McConnell Michael Ramsay The sum total of law professors quoted in this article. This is the legal equivalent of diner journalism with 12 angry Trump voters. Other choices, as always, were readily available.

Terrible answer from Beshear www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Zelensky says 30,000 to 35,000 Russian soldiers are being killed every month, which is more than Putin is recruiting, and that 90 percent of the losses are inflicted by drones. In February, Ukraine actually gained more territory than it lost for the first time since 2023. bit.ly/4bQjuRx

I like big teeth and I cannot lie

palestinian: i would like some civil rights please kahanist: i can't believe you want to rape and kill us palestinian: i never said that self-hating jew somewhere in los angeles: they should be allowed to rape and kill us palestinian: i never fucking said-- shsila: they should burn us alive

"Expelling the Jews to the Sea" is actually a /wildly/ unpopular viewpoint among Palestinian public opinion. This has been polled. It is a tiny minority opinion among Gazans, West Bankers, East Jerusalemites, Palestinian exiles, or '47 Palestinians.

Thanking Ms Abrams for making my morning. <3

I think Trump loses this one and I don’t think it’s particularly close, this is a hard sell to anyone except maybe Alito