Having a rough couple days so decided to calm myself by going to Costco on a Saturday

It sounds counterintuitive, but allowing buildings with just one staircase access can actually produce safer buildings. Not to mention the tremendous effect on liveability that can come with smaller footprint buildings. Read this excellent story!

Normal people see what is happening and hate it. ICE was created while I was in college, it's not some longstanding thing worth preserving. It shouldn't be hard to say abolish this rogue agency and replace it with something that doesn't wage war on our cities as the president's personal militia.

It’s grift all the way down and always has been.

I’m excited to start off 2026 as a new co-chair of @prowroxroz.bsky.social As a @progressivemass.bsky.social chapter, we’re a grassroots organization fighting for shared prosperity, racial and social justice, and good government and strong democracy in our community & state.

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

Conflicted because Pittsburgh will be an easier opponent for the Pats next weekend but it’s also fun to watch Aaron Rodger fail tonight

This guy took literal bribes but tell me again about all the “fraud” happening elsewhere

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

If you think our administration gives a shit about you, you're a God damn idiot

There is no statute of limitations for murder in Minnesota or most states. Note that for when you-know-who is finally out of office.

This is The Way

For as long as I live, I will never understand how millions watched this happen - police officers beaten within inches of their lives, staffers hiding in closets, the Confederate flag in the Capitol, the deaths - and they thought, "Let's give the person who led it four more years." #jan6th

So it's my assumption that they'll force Venezuela to make crypto legal tender there. And depending on just how shameless they are about it, that will include TrumpCoin.

Please God someone take his keys away

Our illegitimate criminal president who tried to unconstitutionally stay in power deposing an illegitimate criminal president who did unconstitutionally stay in power. What a time.

This kinda plan has gone extremely well in my lifetime elsewhere. Should be fine!

Firing up the ol’ classic

This is completely unprecedented from a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Go Sox

If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

Pats Division Champs!

Sleepy

Yes but the Orange Line should really extend out to West Roxbury, with a terminus off the VFW Parkway near the former WR High School. Going only to Roslindale would be a big missed opportunity to do it right the first time.

Went to a movie last night and a dude walked into the theater, yelled DRAKE MAYE, then quietly found his seat. Honestly didn’t mind it.

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

It's fun how every pundit completely misread the anti incumbent anger in the post COVID inflationary period as everyone suddenly loving racism

Ideally the dumbest person in America and the President would be two different people

Thank you, Chairman Michlewitz, for stating this so clearly! commonwealthbeacon.org/government/s...

My father is texting me about Wemby on a random Tuesday night so I guess the NBA Cup is more successful than I expected

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

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Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

Goes without saying but it really sucks that the actual worst person in the country is also the most powerful

Important: Drake Maye is good

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

What a sentence.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

i am levitating

The blatant use of false, inaccurate histories to arrive at a decision the majority of the Court clearly wanted regardless of the facts is a feature of both Dred Scott and Dobbs. It’s an apt comparison. 🗃️

My Con Law professor scoffed at me in 2008 when I said that ever since Bush v Gore that SCOTUS made flagrantly partisan decisions and the easiest way to understand their rulings was through that lens.

One factor I've never covered before: Primary voters won't give a shit what liberal media taste-makers think. That'll be a shift even from the summer of 2024, when liberal columnists wringing their hands over Harris's anti-price gouging proposal was enough to get her to drop it.

Gee, it’s almost as if the Secretary of Defense ordered his subordinates to carry out an order his department’s own Law of War manual explicitly states is illegal.

It’s just unbelievable how good Drake Maye is

Marcus Jones is a DOG

It is so transparent when an elected official hasn’t been seen for years but suddenly is showing up to everything once they have an opponent.