how does one tell one's downstairs neighbor that their tv is way too fucking loud

Jersey City has been the YIMBY Mecca of the tristate area for a decade but with this weird NIMBY replacing Fulop it looks like that’s coming to an end. thankfully Zohran’s picking up the slack across the river

It’s been liberating and radicalizing to come around to the realization that we cannot be truly free people without free movement of people

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

One wonders how this memo intersects with Castle Doctrine

he’s looking very “da fuck they doin ova der” and it’s making me laugh SO hard. 🤣

MAGA is a literal death cult, there is no other way to describe it at this point

publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point/... I wrote a response to this article. Let me know what you think. it is hot off my brain presses (aka, a first draft)

I’m curious how much these cost the agency per locker. A brief search doesn’t turn much up aside from the total project cost (including non-lockers).

I've been working on California state policy the entire time Newsom has been governor, and I can assure you that it has not been doing "just fine" with a governor who has always been more focused on podcasting and promotion-seeking than doing his job.

Remember what I said about how when Trump falters, the media inserts a fake, imaginary version of Trump into the news instead?

Hello there

1.) California deserves a full-time governor instead of one who will jet to the other side of the world in search of a live television camera. 2.) Has he even been paying attention at Davos?

No, I am not joining DSA because I think Democratic leaders are bad. I have always thought Democratic leaders are bad and I have always been a Democrat. I am still a Democrat and think Democratic leaders are bad. I have not been "radicalized." I have been proven right.

“I sometimes wonder why journalists are so nice to the people who want to destroy them.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

The global fascist right acts with solidarity against its enemies, the remaining liberal democracies instead stick their head in the sand and pretends that the fascists aren't fascists.

will It happen????

DART’s Techno Train sounds fun. Glad to see the beleaguered transit agency do something joyful while all the dumbfuck suburban council members (shoutout to the really dense dude in Addison) try their best to kill it. I’d even shun Plano and start the party at Cityline just to spite those assholes.

The only thing worse for DART than member cities leaving would be giving control to the suburban members. Better to lose every member and have Dallas go it alone than turn control over to them.

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

A day after Japan's PM Takaichi Sanae says she doesn't want a "turn to the right" but just "a normal country," her party said it's standing Sugita Mio for election in Osaka. Sugita has repeatedly slandered Koreans, the native Ainu population, LGBTQ people, and, somehow, women.

457 British dead you ungrateful orange fuck.

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

I’m always on high alert for phishing emails not because I care about the company but because I dislike our cybersecurity guys so much that I don’t ever want them to have anything over me

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

i think it's cool how the US is committing hegemonic suicide primarily because paleocon grandpa is addicted to X

it all started with the response to this video

If we got a landslide midterm (unlikely), the plan should be 1. Impeach Vance while Trump is on his deathbed 2. Refuse to a replacement 3. Trump dies or is removed for senility 4. Hakeem Jeffries presidency

Well, we hired the piece of shit that killed the Fort Worth library, so this was to be expected. Another beloved public resource flushed down the drain. “Regional model” my ass. Seriously, fuck this city. (paywalled, but yall know where to find archive links)

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Adam "I Would Shoot Biden Cabinet Members in the Head like My Hero Stalin" Tooze is doing panels at Davos with trump cabinet members, lol, lmao, lol

"One day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised....when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” -Dr Martin Luther King

"bullies understand one thing: force" "anyway I'm not sure why I just said that, let's wine and dine donald trump for nine years and endlessly douse him in praise and maybe he'll start doing what we want"

Read this excellent piece. Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan. Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists. Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.

cybersecurity “professionals” that still make their companies adhere to 90 day password resets should all be fired and never work in cybersecurity again

"Can a man become a woman?" is not a question anyone asks in good faith as it's a complete misunderstanding of what being trans is. Absolutely a GOP op.

Essential oils could falter without four people selling them to four other people each, Herbalife chief Bernie Madoff warns

is it just me or has (non-AI) siri gotten, like, noticeably worse at comprehending basic-ass instructions like “log my evening medications as taken” over the past couple years

This idea is floating around a lot, but it's not really true. It's people who half remember that substitution bias exists misunderstanding how the BLS deal with it.

"why are they hypocrites?!" is the wrong question they are perfectly principled around the idea and purpose to sell the American people a lie the perceived hypocrisy is misunderstanding what their purpose and goals are

mtsw is right, to the point that we're not even a real democracy, reflecting any will of "the people" now we are run by kleptocrats and oligarchs who control the "news hose," deciding when to turn it on to put out the fires of its choice, to help the politicians allied with their selfish aims

feels like a good time to check in on the folks who made "participation trophies" part of the political discourse a few years back

holds up spork

very cool that this dementia-crazed manchild has control of the button to destroy the world

Good lord. If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan. THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story. Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?

I genuinely think the leftie crashout is because Will Stancil, who they perceive as a dweeby online liberal, is actually doing in real life the things they daydream about

They also hated Clinton more than Trump. They hated Biden more than Trump. They hated Harris more than Trump. In all 3 last elections they did their best to make Dem voters switch sides or stay at home, and every time blamed the consequences on liberals. You can't trust tankies and campists.