i think a big issue with american politics is pundits have predicted 11 of the last 2 realignments, which people have taken to mean that realignment is actually impossible and the status quo is eternal

I think it's really just that they're so fucking mad that their bullying didn't work. Ms. Rachel did a charity stream for a charity that included Gaza. They targeted her so extremely that she broke into tears on video and stood ten toes down on her principles anyway and they hate that.

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?

Someone (leftistly) told me to go back to China because America is fucked and I said "I was born an American, I will die an American" and they spent the rest of the day telling me to kill myself

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

TBH this is where treating driving like a civil right ends up.

Is 2026 the year of embracing a robust, well-rounded education? 🤔

SCOTUS may yet bail them out here, but remember these guys keep racking up big fat Ls.

SERIOUS POST Attention Santa Clara County voters. Today is the last day to crush Rishi Kumar by voting for Neysa Filgor. Don’t let Mr “Abolish Property Taxes Across the State for Seniors” win! Please vote!

They say this shit like "kids should go outside" and then DOT goes and defunds bike lanes

The Biden admin was also working to change Federal Acquisition Requirements (FAR) to promote memory safety in government software. Now the FAR is being rewritten directly by Musk's henchmen to favor Musk's own companies with lucrative contracts. It's going to be more scams, less safety.

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

1990S SCREENWRITER: oh yeah you basically always have to make the families in these movies be ultra-rich in a completely unremarked on way because otherwise it feels bad when Beethoven fucks up their car. but it's not like anyone is going to let that warp their entire worldview! ah ha ha

Fascinating stuff happening on @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

Trump (well Miller) thinks he can revoke even the citizenship of naturalized individuals who don't show sufficient appreciation of the American flag? The most anti free speech presidency of our lifetimes.

Peak economics

Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything

Fuckers

A certain segment of the hard right is clearly using anti-Israel sentiment, shading into overt antisemitism, to distinguish themselves from Trump, to represent the next generation of the MAGA movement, and to attract a crossover left-wing audience. It is incumbent on leftists not to fall for this.

The part in the Gospel of Matthew where the holy family just kind of hunkers down and waits for the tyrant to die is officially the most relatable version of the Nativity story this year

I've noticed that traffic engineers seem increasingly incapable of understanding that you don't have to channelize the intersections of two sidewalks.

You can tell these guys don’t watch the show because the coming out story was the one part of the las season that didn’t seem totally half-assed and actually connects to the heart of what the show is actually about

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

So he’s been shaking his left hand a lot now too eh

Robert De Niro should sue

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

KRON 4 doing the big story this morning: how more people are killed by automobiles than are murdered in San Francisco. Oh, wait, I am told they are pissed bikes ignore red lights on the embarcadero when there is no crossing traffic.

Started this episode having no idea who Scott Kupor was and ended it loathing a guy whose big idea is doing stack ranking in the federal government

i think if we get an actual recession, Trump is doing the exact kind of shit to end up as a second coming of Hoover

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

The fact that Elon Musk is pontificating about the important of experience in public services after gutting the federal government

You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

i am always saying this. bus schedules are where. car-free hopes. go to die

It is a mistake to let the Worst People decide they speak for all of rurality, if only because they get a lot of shit wrong. Like, lots of rural people do not worship alcohol and there are other ways people socialize. Like, idk, going to fucking church? Ever heard of that?

So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

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I don't actively use AI but to the extent it's thrust upon me in searches and such, I find it does a decent job of summarizing something when sources with complete and accurate info are easy to find anyway. when things are less clear cut (i.e. when AI would theoretically be helpful), it's a mess.

Based

It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live

"They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead." I AM THE SCOURGE OF GOD. IF YOU HAD NOT COMMITTED GREAT SINS, GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SENT A PUNISHMENT LIKE ME UPON YOU.

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Oh it’s okay, we’re burning a bajillion dollars building obsolete ships *abundantly*