vote blue no matter who (laudatory, entirely correct)

Update. It's worse than I possibly could have imagined.

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

EVs are definitely the future/present but hybrid powertrains feel like the peak in terms of engineering

Someone get this technology to Paul McCarthy

Man I'm not a ContraPoints fan per se but woof the Wynn v Molloy comparison here, PM does not know game.

used EVs are some of the best deals in automotive history, in terms of the delta between what they cost and what they cost to make

aoc went i think tyranny is bad and literally the worst collection of people on earth from across the political spectrum bubbled up to call her a ****

they're very sorry they got caught

Well they might be giving the perpetrator a slap on the wrist but at least they’re closing the intersection to cars, right? Right??!??

One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites. Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous

Help stop the misguided attempt to license bikes in CA, it will only lead to making it more difficult for people to adopt bikes. We don’t need new laws, we need the existing classifications of e-bikes to be properly enforced. bikeeastbay.org/say-no-to-ma...!

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

🇺🇸U.S. zoning🦅 Putting cars in a house: ✅ and often required Using car as a house: 🚫 Doing business in a house: 🚫 Using business as a house: 🚫 Using car to do business: ✅ Putting cars in a business: ✅ and often required especially if it's a bar 😱 make this make sense bsky.app/profile/tmcc...

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

I don’t think the rubes are ready for us to hate them as much as they hate us.

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

I told you this was gonna happen and the constant "disavow Biden" from certain corners are dumb as hell

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

PASSED: the House just passed the resolution to end Trump's tariffs on Canada. Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it. Will share the vote sheet when I have it!

Bring it to California!

>working families tax cut >six thousand dollars exclusively for retired people lol. lmao. xd.

loooooooolllll

Who could have guessed

there are two things about this, one is that there is no prime minister of switzerland, he's talking about the president of the swiss confederation, which is a different thing entirely, and, two, i'm not sure you could make a more persuasive case to SCOTUS for nuking tariffs than this one

Very curious about who chooses transit headlines because we get this shit all over the place, whether it’s BART or CHSR

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

While Ukrainians freeze, Russia is stealing their power plants to make fake money

Inventing a third school of thought called AI realism where your daughter can just keep living her life and so can you

preventing changes to the built environment is the last gasp of death denial

Fascism is the cult of suicide. Until recently, America was one of the few large nations *not* facing population & then economic collapse. Why? Immigration! People wanted to come here. Now, we’ve lost ~7 million future people over the past year because Trump is stabbing the US with a rusty spoon

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

Reminder that this is a *friendly* question from a GOP Senator — and Lutnick still fumbles it all! I will never get over how the Trump admin is almost universally the least curious people you could appoint to public life.

🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR

bad bunny: my uncle asked me if i have a bunch of girlfriends republicans: VERY DISTURBING

“you might lose your job and have to find another one” right as new job openings are sinking to their lowest numbers since covid started shutting everything down is a hell of a midterm year message

"a fire department spokesperson told the Associated Press the 92-year-old driver was cooperating with investigators, was not injured and would not face criminal charges." With what other weapon could you kill 3 people and not face any criminal charges? ktla.com/news/local-n...

Something tells me this sort of piece doesn’t hit the way it used to

Who is this for

Far too many U.S. drivers are simply unable to conceive of a world without widespread traffic deaths. They think it's impossible, and so much discourse reflects that. People just shoot down left and right ideas that have been proven to work in other places.

i don’t want to hear complaints about rainbow capitalism or woke brands ever again

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Reason publishes how its staff are voting. Which is a kind of admirably honest exercise, I suppose. But it rather undercuts "I told you so" if your answer was this. In all they had twelve third-party voters, six non-voters, three Harris, two write-ins, and two who said undecided but maybe Trump.

Tbh I think the convo on RTO and remote work is absolutely brain dead in part because there are so many different types of jobs out there, so you end up with a lot of motivated reasoning on both ends.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

ICE is torturing legal residents until they agree to deportation