Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.” Via @theguardian.com.

There’s nothing you can be that’s cooler than kind.

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

there's so many of them lol

Students in the US are under deportation orders for saying much less than this. Worth remembering there is significant disagreement within Israel about the war.

Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for nonviolent revolt at weekly anti-government rally www.timesofisrael.com/ex-shin-bet-...

Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

“In interviews and depositions, Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant in President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

That Giuffre’s name is not forever linked to Trump and Mar a Lago is another piece of evidence for how broken our media is, how feckless the Democrats are, and how Teflon Trump is.

This is exceptionally well reported: in case after case Trump has surrendered long time US interests to favor Russia and gained nothing in return. When you put it all together it a staggering surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

Brinkema's response to ICE's affidavit trying to prove TdA membership. "This is a terrible, terrible affidavit. If this were before me in a criminal case and you were asking to get a warrant issued on this, I'd throw you out of my chambers." At the end of the rant, he grants the habeas petition!

Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets

Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administration

Very very important read. A startup backed by the paypal mafia and the Kushner is set to get a contract to privatize the entire internal govt credit card system. No compete sweetheart deal. Justified by bogus claims abt fraud. Pure corruption. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Legend

In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

One problem that seems common among elites is that they expect there to be some way to take on fascism that is easy and risk-free, which is absolutely delusional.

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

Well it’s true that we shredded our alliance with the entirety of Europe, our historically successful trading relationships, our role as leader of the G7, but at least we built strong ties with El Salvador, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, so it could imprison our people

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

Whenever right-wingers deride empathy, I am reminded of this quote from U.S. Army psychologist Gustave Gilbert who interviewed the Nuremberg war criminals.

Calling this a "mistake" when the administration has repeatedly lied to try and justify sending this man to a foreign slave camp is so fucking dishonest from NBC. If your starting point is "America Good" in every scenario,you can't properly cover this moment. This is embarrassing shit.

This is so embarrassing

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

'They've blown up their own country by letting ChatGPT make their trade policy.'

it’s honestly incredible that republicans in Congress, the Supreme Court, elite universities, and top law firms have all bought into this conception of Trump invincibility when he’s on the precipice of completely blowing up the economy and neutering his entire presidency

The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

"All right, mein friends, thanks for watching Birkenau Behind the Scenes with me! Remember, if you loved what you saw here, be sure to hit Like and Subscribe, and don't forget to alert the authorities if you come across any of them untermenschen in your neighborhood!"

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Stupid reality show that asks MAGA types to name a year when America was "great" and then forces them to spend 6 months living exactly how a household at the 75th income percentile lived in that year.

there really is something very Old Testament about the Trump years, a series of disasters, visited upon the people because of repeated, spectacular moral failures on the part of the polity

Watch this BBC Verify video on the shocking incident where the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers, buried them in a mass grave, and only admitted its version of events was false when mobile phone footage was retrieved from one of the bodies. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media. Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

no trans woman ever took my nintendo