lmao

Madison, Wisconsin — 2026

honestly my priors for rating a democratic elected is (1) how much they hate republicans and (2) if they're good soldiers, whether they are more ideological moderate or liberal is secondary

I-80 to the Bay Area is completely closed. Heres a photo i took flying by it on Amtrak, sipping on a bev and reclined in my socks. So much for the superiority and freedom of automobiles and freeways. If only there was a lesson here for planners.

There’s plenty of people for whom Jamelle Bouie suggesting AOC run for president is confirmation that both are actually quite “centrist”

K-12 Education: Cassellius Wants to Restructure MPS

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

Maybe we should ban golf carts because some people have crashed cars while going 120 mph.

This is shortline railroading: a train of four cars, probably bound for 3 different industries. It's the "last mile" connection from a transcontinental rail network to small town businesses and a remnant of a time where railroads carried just about everything to just about everywhere.

In terms of price, I feel like we should be comparing to the equivalent tolls and gas costs, which is like $35. So $40-50 seems like a reasonable price. We should provide supply such that prices are in that range

mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house

What’s amazing to me about the Amtrak Airos debuting later this year is they were first ordered in late 2021 (taking advantage of the Ventures Siemens was already building) but they are only a year later than the NextGen Acelas, which were ordered over 10 years ago

Good to see, unfortunate that it’s necessary

I‘m so excited to see how these help expand capacity and reliability on Amtrak. Hopefully we can see the Regionals return to “normal” pricing and allow for opportunities to try out new services around the country

WI’s drunk driving laws fall embarrassingly short, with deadly consequences. Today I was proud to join State Rep Ryan Spaude, State Rep Deb Andraca, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in the introduction of a bill that would close some of the loopholes in our state’s drunk driving laws.

People need to learn proper poasting etiquette. Quotes are for speaking to your own audience (and not necessarily the OP), as I’m doing now. Replies are when you are responding to the OP directly.

Looking forward to seeing Pam Bondi in an orange jumpsuit instead

Best reason I’ve seen for why the stated reason (emergency operations related to drones) lasted so long (And thus caused all of the concern)

Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens

Presuming that school district funding on net stays the same, shifting the tax burden from property to income seems like a good idea, since income taxes are both a statewide tax and progressive, making the burden more distributed

*yawn* Let me know when I can trade futures of futures. I like predicting where the prediction markets are going

The community had the opportunity to get a brand new senior center and said no. I can think of so many better things that $2 million can be spent on instead

Pretty wild to me how many students were willing to occupy university buildings to protest something happening halfway around the world, but not in response to those very same universities caving to an authoritarian administration setting up concentration camps in our own borders

Next week, Feb 16 at 6:30 pm CST, Boswell Book Company welcomes @juliaazari.bsky.social for a free event on her book, Backlash Presidents, discussing the connection between presidents who transform the nation's racial landscape and their lawless, norm-violating successors. RSVP: buff.ly/7Qb0vhJ

That this is the nightmare scenario seems correct. That this has grown more plausible seems quite wrong. Mostly b/c it’s likely Dems will take the House quite easily making such a nightmare scenario particularly difficult to pull off

Isn’t this mostly a non-issue for like 90% of servers (and a good policy for the other 10% that actually have sensitive content that is either illegal or problematic for those under 18?) I guess I’ll find out if there’s anything I usually do that would be locked under this change

Voters: "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised], But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

i know pokemon is still popular with younger people but millennial cultural hegemony is going to rock. we're just aging into the marketing demographic where everything is going to be catered directly to us. it's going to rule and we will do whatever it takes to make it last until we're 300 years old

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

Does Budweiser have exclusive rights to using Clydesdales in their ads?

The ring ad is geniunely dystopian “our automated surveillance network can find anything”

Not great to have a Super Bowl ad that’s basically “Insider trading is good actually“ for sports betting

Now Serving: Farmers Market Coming to Deer District

Looking at all special elections so far in 2026, here's how their margin shift from 2024 compares to the change in turnout. Obviously turnout is way down compared to a presidential election, but it shows an interesting trend, where Dems overperform more when more voters turnout.

Looking at all special elections so far in 2026, here's how their margin shift from 2024 compares to the change in turnout. Obviously turnout is way down compared to a presidential election, but it shows an interesting trend, where Dems overperform more when more voters turnout.

@thedownballot.skystack.xyz Have you guys thought about weighting the special election averages by turnout? I was looking at this Alabama special where the Rep overperformed by 26 points (significantly bringing down the average) and it looks like super low turnout with only 6% of VAP

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

My grandmother was already more liberal anyways, but good to see she’s on the same page as the wine moms and resist libs.

I gotta say this reads as spooked. GOP has always played like they're the ones with agency and do the ratfucking. They're not really built for a world when the dems don't engage them in good faith and just go to war with them back.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

I’m calling it: not letting the Epstein emails get dripped leak throughout the 2024 campaign is probably the worst decision in US history. This almost certainly would have allowed Harris to win and avoid this whole mess

The state of the world is bad. But New York State is doing well, and the alignment between Hochul and Mamdani is the most interesting development in Democratic Party politics in 2026, by far.

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