And that's the elephant in the room: when these "too big to fail" corporations are so intertwined with institutions, how would you bring accountability and justice without having quacks sow mistrust of all institutions?

One piece of writing that’s stayed with me this year is this @himself.bsky.social post on social media and how publics are shaped, not merely reflected (I think it’s got broad applicability to shaping by elites and institutions, not just tech platforms) www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

There’s a reason they came from Sicily and Calabria, and not from Lombardy or Veneto.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Omg lmao

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

This is a brilliant analysis. The book in question is not anything by Ayn Rand. Liberal democracy's greatest enemies are those inspired by Richard Weaver, even if they don't know who he was.

Out of the top 5, Atlanta is #1, two Florida cities are on the list, and Milan, Italy, is the only non-US city.

This whole thing should simply be a commercial. Frankly, if the Democrats have any sense at all, they will take this clip and pay to air it, unedited, across 90 seconds of Superbowl airtime

If David Zaslav can get paid $50 million a year while running Warner Bros Discovery into the ground until it’s sold off in pieces and renaming HBO Max/Max/HBO Go/HBO every other year, you have no reason to feel imposter syndrome.

I feel like there's a thread or similarity to economists who assume humans are rational and put on their ceteris paribus blinders.

... only for it to get hijacked by some 2-bit low level huckster.

Football placekicker, or Congressional Minority Leader? 🤷

I have never seen such a complete repudiation of the concept of means testing in a single article. Happy Thanksgiving and buckle up, things are about to get worse

Baltimore’s zoning bill would allow up to 4 units on SFH lots. This op-ed is really good…she counters the “every neighborhood is different” justification well: if zoning’s purpose is to protect health and wellbeing, why would different neighborhood histories justify different laws today

They may not realize it, but front line Costco employees are local celebrities.

Heck, this Corporate Welfare Promotion Committee makes a mockery of City Council itself. They've delegated their responsibility - or at least their platform - to representatives of Big Money special interests.

Just incredibly sad that the Atlanta City Council appears ready to rubber stamp a catastrophic city policy whose ramifications will last 3 decades. And much of Atlanta seems to be cheering, or yawning. (See my comment below on article from Linked In.) www.ajc.com/news/2025/11...

BESSENT: That's what my analysts tell me, but really I think it could start as early as the fifth quarter of this year.

Hi I would like everyone to please absorb the lesson that echoing & amplifying GOP framing of *any issue* will always fail voters, policymakers, and progressives. Take the “border crisis”—there hasn’t been anything near a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border since 1916. It’s a racist dog whistle.

This thread, in a big way. So little investment in the south, and so much incompetence.

What to say to the person who takes my Eggo logo Lego set? 🤔

Dear god.

The arguments in favor of the party having a big umbrella make sense to me. That's one thing. But it's a whole 'nother thing to place people widely despised by the base in high-profile/high-impact positions in the party.

Prediction: He kills the case and replaces Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. Ambassador to Greece.

Feeling this op-ed pretty hard. "When tech is the villain instead of the hero, the future feels leaderless. And a country that stops believing its innovators can make the world better stops believing in much else, too."

To me, the problem with the argument about the cost of rail on the Beltline is that the citizens were given an opportunity to vote on funding this through a sales tax, and it was approved. That's the voters saying, "Yes, we know it's expensive, but it's worth it."

☝️Our polling data shows that district 2 voters are 2/3 in favor of rail, which lines up very neatly with our election results

So how much can a lower fed rate help to stem these job losses?

Reminder: these dumb pods are going to cost $200 per trip, so the economics is basically impossible that they are cost feasible. City leaders are basically spending money to subsidize a tech company.

This is what true public service looks like: Fighting like hell with every tool in the toolbox to return money but also power and dignity to people, and to hold a abusers to account. Bravo.

"Internally, the club’s commitment to a progressive workplace curdled into a culture of allegations and investigations." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

I'd make a crudité joke here...

Math is hard. The U.S. population is 347,930,963. 135 billion pounds would mean an average of 388 pounds lost by every American.

If you watch the video prior to this moment, you'll see he was clearly struggling to stay awake. And here, while standing, he's still struggling to stay awake.

Can any headline that ends in a question mark be answered by the word "no"?

CW: Suicide ryanbigg.com/2025/10/rub...

11. Importantly, the city is and has always been a much less controllable space for the far right than the countryside. It is less in thrall to traditional hierarchies and better able to mobilise: the sheer number of people provides a counterweight to oligarchic power.

From a friend, regarding the Georgia Public Service Commission election results. I think this analysis is correct. Georgia Dems still have a lot of work to do.

Terrible news on the council president election. Overstreet doesn’t deserve the promotion, and Dickens needed a counterweight. Happy about Kelsea Bond winning D2 and the statewide PSC election falling the right way.

More on Atlanta races: for Post 1 at-large, Michael Julian Bond should not have performed this well. But opponents of the public safety training facility, a.k.a. Cop City, should have considered this race in particular their highest priority. Did they even try?

In other news, precincts haven't started reporting their voting day results yet, but the Atlanta race I most expected to see go to a runoff might not. Amir Farokhi is an old friend of mine, but I think he went a different direction than his campaign promises, and I kind of hope voters noticed.

Not sure if all the votes are in yet, but wow @samformarietta.bsky.social, congrats for giving Old Scarietta a run for his money!

Funny thing about Overstreet's campaign is that citywide candidates who pander to the Buckhead constituency tend to lose.

The Trump Administration is an assembly of koolaid drinking trolls who can’t see how insane they are. Problem is the press corps actively covers this up and Democrats are too cowardly to beat on it like a drum.

This is exactly how the Turkey's Erdoğan dictatorship succeeded in remaking all mainstream media into regime media. Not mainly by overt censorship. Mostly by making it clear that media firms clearly communicating the truth about regime actions would be targeted by selective/perverted 'regulation'.

I'm no longer an Atlanta voter. But if I were, Rohit would be the obvious choice for City Council President. His opponent's campaign and allies have only served to make that choice more obvious.

How soon before they demolish the entire White House, and will Real 'Muricans™ care? (asked, breathlessly)

I'm not entirely sure I understand this, but it seems correct. 🙃

I'm no pundit, but you can count me as guilty of this anyway.