Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are a tax on new housing that crush housing production without creating broad affordability. Blue cities and states need to admit that this policy is counterproductive and abandon it entirely.

For a movie that’s 36 years old, Dick Tracy’s make up & prosthetic artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains that still holds up.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

it's been obvious this is where we're heading for at least 4-5 years now — trump and his paymasters in the oil industry and petrostates are trying to shackle the US to fossil fuel so Americans can be the buyers of last resort for otherwise stranded oil and gas assets.

my feeling about this is that Third Way is basically just three guys in an office and should be ignored

The best thing Seattleites can do right now to help queer folks is build an absolute shit ton of housing so anyone fleeing oppressive states can afford to move here

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

Revolutions are fail states, and you shouldn't trust anyone who preaches them as ecstatic eschatology and deliverance instead of a tragically necessary *gamble*.

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

& when you threaten "the dems" with not voting, you might have in mind party leadership primary voters hear you as threatening *them*

In a cosmic sort of way, it’s hilarious the primary belief propping up the American stock market is the belief America will swiftly surrender to its wartime adversary.

Indeed the media instead framed this phenomenon as a huge problem rather than as a policy success, putting a lot of negative attention on e.g. fast food prices and other areas where rising working class wages caused inflation in consumer prices.

I've become very skeptical of comparisons between AI emissions/water use and almost every normal thing we do, because most people don't know how any normal parts of life actually compare. Here's a very popular older pollution comparison:

FYI: That image being shared around, the one where the government is trying to define trans people as terrorists? It's been edited. The stuff is all in there, yes, but two paragraphs have been put together to make it look as scary as possible. THIS IS EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE, DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was one of the most expensive college towns in America. Around that time, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, rents are below 2018 levels in nominal terms—a remarkable case of progress on affordability.

Another twist to the Politico story on the data center causing low water pressure: There was this great local reporting on the issue that found that the complaint about low water pressure was coming from a private well that the data center didn't even draw from thecitizen.com/2026/05/11/b...

more than that i just straight up think a lot of people conceive of “abuser” or “victim” as ontological and mutually-exclusive categories rather than statuses which can vary over the course of life—thus, a victim of something else can never be an abuser no matter their actions

What did they expect? They hired a bunch of people who put money above ethics.

[bowling alone voice] the real sign of how truly "bowling alone" our society has become is that we're getting these paeans to the most ephemeral and commercial of transactions, like "talking to a cashier" or "getting annoyed by a taxi driver" and not anything approaching actual community

Being skeptical of any media or journalism that is aimed at making you upset is how you stop yourself from becoming a fox news grandpa. You should not want to become a fox news grandpa.

I think something that Will Stancil hasn't quite internalized about people's experience in the current economy but doesn't disprove his point is the sheer number of 'get rich quick' schemes that fell apart that people are not admitting to having participated in. They were nuts in 20-21.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: *forms a Dolchstoßlegende in real time with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens* The Dumbest Suckers in the World: “Wow, I really think she’s seeing the light!”

One of the (many) frustrating things about the datacenter panic is that there's a good critique of the Great North American Datacenter Buildout sitting right there, namely that this much AI-related capex is not a socially good allocation of so much capital But instead we get medieval peasant brain

They don't want power. They don't want to endlessly critique power. They want to be two dumb motherfuckers sitting in front of mics going "exactlyyyy" to each other

Happy birthday, John Brown!

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

I do know that hantavirus is nothing to laugh at. But I can't help the fact that every time I hear it mentioned, I flash back to the Garage Sale on Achewood... achewood.com/2009/01/12/t...

“Vote harder” actually worked in Hungary!

The use of “czar” for a government executive really reached an absurd peak the other day when I read someone’s position was the appointed “anti-semitism czar” which well yeah he usually was

Calling market rate housing "trickle down economics" is a short way of saying you don't understand how housing policy works and if elected, will keep people poor and ensure they're eventually displaced.

More than anything, Republicans want Democrats to start to believe that it's hopeless so they won't bother to turn out. But the truth is that even the Virginia decision is not enough to prevent Democrats from taking the House if we have a wave election. But we have to have a wave election.

One of the myriad ways Joe Biden was always disrespected, even when he was running and winning, was the idea that beating Trump is somehow easy or automatic or morally deserved when ain't none of those things true

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

Will we have to rename the Trump card after this presidency? Will “playing the Trump card” henceforth mean laying down a real stinker, like you’ve got absolutely nothing but you managed to make it worse than playing nothing.

happy Tom Holland stormwater management day to all who celebrate.

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

The problem with pivoting away from college as primarily a place to get income raising credentials is that this was how mass college was initially sold to generally anti intellectual middle class Americans last century

-Farm bankruptcies are indeed on the rise...from historic lows, back to still-slightly-lower-than-normal levels. -The US used to grow a lot of crops for export. We can't sell them anymore. We SHOULD cut back on crop acreage. To keep growing the same amount we used to would be absolutely insane.

When Trump did this, it was expected that it would lead to a lot more Chapter 12 bankruptcies. Because it turns them into just another financial instrument wealthy people can use to protect their assets. That's another big part of why "farm bankruptcies" are up!

The key to understanding this is that the Demographic pushing back against being "Educated and Cultivated" isn't the working class; it's the petty-rich. It's the car-dealer class. It's wealth-inheritors who went from high school to their Dad's job, and resent the respect education gets.

The way that Republicans gain social capital with other Republicans is attacking Democrats. The way that Democrats gain social capital with other Democrats is attacking Democrats.

People will still be passing around this falsehood as gospel truth when I'm on my deathbed

The Roberts Court doesn't treat decisions of the Roberts Court as precedentially binding if that would be inconvenient to them, so I don't see why any future court should either.

Democrats are currently leading the generic ballot and are the fav for 2028 and you do not need to indulge in conspiracism and populism that will only blow back on you once you are in power, because you cannot resolve it to the satisfaction of the believers.