I didn't think when I wrote "Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand" it would be so prescient but, well...

All the polling in this race:

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

Hot take: as bad as the online discourse has gotten, I think it's a really good thing that we have a contested primary. Everyone I speak to in-person likes both candidates in this race. Healthy competition is good, and it gives campaigns head start for November.

Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

It is a bit disgraceful, for example, that the first person to ask the US Ambassador to Israel where precisely he considers the borders of Israel to be is....Tucker Carlson.

i’m very tired of know-nothing know-it-alls who tell me amtrak is a loser and trains are a dead end. amtrak has problems, but every time they’re given more money, they improve their service and sell more tickets. demand is outstripping supply!

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

my least favorite Dem politicians are probably Josh Gottheimer, Jared Golden, Karen Bass, and Phil Murphy. I would do everything in my power to stop them from winning a primary, but I would crawl over broken glass to vote for them in a general against a fascist like JD Vance. It’s not complicated.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

Not In My Back Yard (laudatory)

I need the nation's top NEPA lawyers to stop suing to block offshore wind energy projects to protect Connecticut millionaires' water views and start suing ICE to block concentration camps. Just this once, use your powers for good.

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

Hard pass for me, my local bus has more comfortable seats. Spending 6 hours in them on the San Joaquins recently was torturous. How did we peak with the la-z-boy superliner seats and then decide "nah, let's pretend weight matters like it's an airliner!" and then strip away the few joys of trains?

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

One of my favorite people to work with is in need of financial support after a horrific incident. If you've been an Amtrak employee or customer, and have ridden the cardinal, you likely know Heather. If you can, please donate to help her recover. www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

Last night, Missoula, Montana notched a HUGE zoning reform win. They achieved: 1️⃣ Shifted single-family only zones to 4 to 12 homes per lot (depending on zone) 2️⃣ Reduced minimum lot sizes 3️⃣Eliminated (❗) parking mandates citywide (‼️) ...And more!

My favorite part in the Ken Burns American Revolution series is right at the end when one of the historians says "it's obvious that Thomas Jefferson did not believe that all men are created. But I do"

This is one of my big pet peeves of American jurisprudence. Take the 9th Amendment seriously! We do not, for example, have a 1st Amendment right to privacy, we have a 9th Amendment right to privacy.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Re-upping for reasons.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk. Again, if a single Democrat ever talked about punishing rural areas like this for ___, it would be a nonstop national scandal for months on end. But Republicans can treat cities & urban residents like this & 🦗🦗

There’s a neighborhood bar like this a few blocks from me. COVID era permits allowed them to turn their parking lot into an outdoor seating area. NIMBY got pissed, realized the permits expired, reported them, and now it’s a bar parking lot again. Drunk driving is city policy.

Guys I was waiting for him to post footage - I KNOW HE HAS IT - but it seems like he may not. But last week I took Brad Lander on an ICE watch ridealong and he PERSONALLY CHASED OUT AN ICE CAR ON FOOT I am not making this up. He walked right up to a lurking unmarked car and they tore out of town

Cannot stress enough how much *this is not a prediction* but just for fun... Here's tonight's SD-09 swing (+31 from 2024) overlaid onto the TX state house map...

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

It looks like the Republicans are conceding Texas's #SD09 to the Democrats. They're conceding a Trump+17 district in an area of Fort Worth that's been favorable to Republicans for decades, just a massive massive loss for them.

hard to overstate just how much Houston nailed it with the dunking astronaut logo

Wow, buckle up. The early vote just came in Tarrant County, and Democrat Taylor Rehmet is up 56% to 44% in the special election for a Texas state Senate seat. This is a seat that went for Trump by 17%. This would be a huge upset. This is already 45K votes.

The Trump Administration released Epstein files which directly accuse Trump of assaulting minors, and then deleted that release.

Chart of roadway fatalities & serious injuries in Austin since 2015, when the City officially adopted Vision Zero Even easier to see the progress now with 2025 added. After a slow start, severe crashes have fallen by more than a third in the last 3 years Note these are absolute numbers

hey if I did another sixteen hour charity stream to raise money for immigrants in Minneapolis to pay rent and buy groceries you’d all show up and help out a little right

The Texas Monthly's food editor was stopped by ICE agents. He wrote about it: www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-ed...

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

A fundamental problem for the Trump administration is that authoritarianism appeals almost exclusively to cowards who project that cowardice onto everyone else If roving death squads came for MAGA most would stay inside. Hell, they stayed inside for 4 years after J6 because some people went to jail

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

i think people need to calibrate their beliefs about the administration’s ability to “rig elections” with their demonstrated lack of ability to do literally anything

This man died for his neighbor, and he died for you and me.

Alex Pretti was a union nurse, bravely upholding his oath to care for human life by rendering aid to a woman, despite the brutality and threat surrounding them. ICE's actions show cowardice, murdering a good samaritan they've outnumbered and tackled to the ground.

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”