Next Dem administration really should take the government completely off social media. Give press conferences & post on their own websites, but that's it

I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

For all its bluster, this is the least self-confident WH ever. Instead of Great Power Competition, theyre trying to cede Europe to Russia and everywhere else to China They imagine our capabilities are limited to the Western Hemisphere, and even there, our job is mostly to keep "them" away from "us"

This guy is now in charge of all of Heritage's data analysis & economic policy output

Brazen lies both express and cement power. Authoritarians worldwide understand this. E.g., it’s not that North Koreans believe lies about Kim. The lies demonstrate his power. Same with the Trump’s hand being bandaged because he is “constantly shaking hands.” 1/2

My lord, when you’ve lost Josh Blackman

How much should the Lions have been willing to pay to keep Ben Johnson? Twice his current salary? Three times?

40K fanfic in the style of a k-drama, or maybe hallmark Christmas film, about an Aeldari craftworlder on the verge of being lost on the Path of the insurance lawyer. Events force them to visit a maiden world, wherein they meet a free spirited Aeldari with whom they must bake a dinosaur themed cake.

Shit. RIP Ray

What this really is, is “I came to this angry because of the Big Account that wanted me to be angry about it, and then I looked at it and the reason I was angry was wrong, but I’m still angry so there has to be some way to justify it.” Very common on here.

after trump dies the megachurches will have something like this about him and they will complete their metamorphic change into a pre-christian roman imperial cult

I dont think I've watched one genuinely interested boxing match in my life, but I'm glad whichever Paul brother that was took a few fists to the face on his way to making nearly nine figures

We're one of those countries where it's critical to have a dashcam installed in your car now

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian homemade 122-mm MLRS based on the BMW 7 series

“You could not live with your failure, where did that bring you, back to me”

So far, Nolan seems to have sourced his boats from Norway, his breastplates from Shein, and his cowboy collars from 1980s football

Police.tonight: published footage from a surveillance camera led one person to come forward to authorities with information that directly led to the identification of the (now deceased) suspect

RR THE WORLD WONDERS

Something to consider for white boys looking for meaning, having been denied a place in the academy or newsroom: m.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRb...

did congress have scheduled posts thinking he was gonna declare a war

At this point, Trump would fail the Voight-Kampff Test, right? Not just his complete lack of empathy, but also bc he prob can't even correctly understand the concept of a turtle anymore

Making the Fallout show so focused on the pre-apocalyptic world (and trivially dispensing with the NCR) really does the setting a disservice, imho

So maybe Dersh has more Epstein exposure than he has insisted/litigated www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Your based Christian nationalist administration, sir:

After reading this story, I immediately thought of the historical plaque that Trump placed on his Virginia golf course, which told the story of a fictional Civil War battle. This is the same guy who criticizes Smithsonian and NPS staff for distorting history. 😆 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Maybe Democrats have trouble getting people to vote for them because a lot of their ideas are disastrously bad?

Even accepting this framing, the answer would obviously be Aramco

Monstrous. CDC is going to fund knowingly giving thousands of infants in Africa a placebo instead of a proven vaccine. Issued non-competitively to a foreign research org without ethics review.

Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public. When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.

Entering that stage in life where the firmament of everyone who had always existed since my birth is really starting to get winnowed, and at the same time, all of my thoughts about my parents are becoming ones I used to have about my grandparents Very strange & unsettling

Would be nice if some of the GOP Congressmen who repudiated Trump's gloating over Rob Reiner's murder would do something more substantive, like stop him from unilaterally entering us into a war

Dems have to figure out a way to get that tape released Everyone *knew* Ray Rice punched his girlfriend for months, but no one really cared until they were forced to look at what that actually meant

Given all that's happened in the past several years, it would be nice to restore the norm that people faced serious consequences for making violent threats

It's going to be a huge L for society if Tesla's slapdick approach to safety ruins the near-term political legitimacy of actually successful self-driving car companies like Waymo

SCOOP Harvey Risch is a Yale epidemiologist who has speculated about links between "turbo cancer" and COVID vaccines, while working for a company whose customers use ivermectin as a cancer treatment Trump just appointed him to oversee the US national cancer program www.wired.com/story/risch-...

The past sucked, people had kids in the past, it was good that they did so if only so things would suck less in the future that we all share.

US Demographics Are Changing Although the US population continues to grow each year, the number of families with children under 18 peaked at approximately 37 million in 2007 and declined to approximately 33 million in 2024. Torsten at Apollo

Come on this is too on the nose bsky.app/profile/rinc...

Thinking an awful lot about Wake Up, Dead Man, and how Josh Brolin’s Monsignor Wicks tightens his hold on his dwindling flock by demonstrating their cowardice when he says shit so revolting that others walk out.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Next FBI director is going to have to come in like

Republicans lost their minds when Biden gave this speech with soldiers in the background. Now every week, Trump says something like, "All crime should be legal if you support me" flanked by uniforms

The real pro-trump media bias is that the local news anchor never reads out the full texts of his posts; at most, they give viewers a much saner five second summary

Paradox is not the drug dealer to the extreme right They sell precursor chemicals to extremists of every description