"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..

Take half a bottle of Tylenol and you will never be hungry again

I do NOT need a $1200 edition of one of my favorite books

At the point my whole predictive mechanism for who will resist fascism and who will capitulate to or support fascism is "have they demonstrated integrity in their life and public presence".

A reminder that he did this last term, too.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

The America I was promised

Shana tova, peeps. May it be a year of health, of safety, and of collective liberation. ❤️‍

this sweater is meant to commemorate duckhead's 160th anniversary as a brand but i might buy it as a "160th anniversary of appomattox and emancipation" www.duckhead.com/collections/...

LOL oh wow the anti-vaxxers are mad that RFK Jr is saying Tylenol causes autism instead of vaccines. “We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer.”

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

Shaun King's been really slow to realize that there's more grift on the right than the left, but kudos to him for finally getting there, I guess.

❝ Francis represents a distinctly right-wing hermeneutics of suspicion. In his telling, the left is not seriously motivated by a desire for equality any more than the right is committed to freedom. ❞ The right refusing to believe that left egalitarianism could be sincere

❝ The Copernican Revolution The Kepler revolution Darwinian thought Freud’s ideas of the unconscious Cyborgs, robots, and automatons ❞

❝ Evans’s Epistemic Lemma: if they don’t link to primary sources, they aren’t reporting on them accurately ❞

An important and scary shift in conservatives’ attitudes toward “pagan” culture ❝ Unlike earlier authors who hedged or dismissed their links to modern Pagan practitioners, Miles leaves no ambiguity in ‘The Pagan Threat’. The book is explicitly about today’s Pagan communities. ❞

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

❝ One problem with this account is that it makes polarization seem like something that just happened to politics, sweeping up both parties in its wake. In reality, polarization was done to politics by conservative politicians and activists ⋯ ❞

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Expand the court, yes, but also make the court into rotating terms drawn from the circuits, panels of 5-7 justices that are determined after cert is granted so petitioners don't know their judges in advance and so can enforce ethics recusals.

Check out the chyron -- they are shilling their merch store during a funeral. The sheer vulgarity of these petty-hucksters-gone-big is wild to me. Government by fashy used car salesmen, I swear to God. It will never ever not be fundamentally strange to me that their own base find this appealing.

Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?

douthat is a liar because he knows that obama did so repeatedly

❝ I think he was the perfect representative of the modern Christian. ❞ Oof.

Sean Punch commented on a GURPS campaign (modern day grounded thriller) he was running; Whenever anyone fired a gun, he’d always say to the players; “the clock’s started.” That is, the cops are coming.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

Things aren't good. Now is the time to try lots of different things.

I do think MAGA managed to make the Kirk assassination their 9/11 Not in the sense they wanted, but in the sense that they took their brief window of public sympathy and strip-mined it so totally that everyone hates them even more, now

If you would like to point to one major problem that led to why we are here, it is this. And what people tend to pay for more and more is opinions from people who are on the same page, and who utilize reporting from the last few outlets that do much.

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

In my experience the compensating injuries are almost always more unpleasant than the original injury

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This thread makes me think of @lumpley.bsky.social doing that TTRPG which points •directly• at the player characters acting as unaccountable violent agents and growing frustrated with how gameplay turned out

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Happy Earth, Wind, and Fire Day to all who celebrate! (And if you don’t celebrate EW&F Day, what is wrong with you?) youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

If someone asked me to give them only one chart that explained the background conditions that facilitated Trumpism, this is the one I'd pick.

This is all extremely weird; it is both appropriate and necessary for people to say so. Charlie Kirk was a sleazy podcaster who constantly said repugnant things—that's all he contributed to society—but they're treating him like the Virgin Mary, MLK, Audie Murphy, and Superman all rolled into one.

"It's impossible to know how much this is real belief or fake play-acting" is almost, juuuuuust nearly nailing it. What's going on is kayfabe.

❝ Got to hand it to the guy. Trump is a veritable Wikipedia of America’s racial id. As a historian of this stuff, he even gives me a run for my money. ❞ prospect.org/politics/202...

Stingy policy is expensive and ineffective

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.