america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

Well past time to understand that religious, evangelical people can be and in fact often are *also* white supremacists and white nationalists, and that it is specifically their form of religion and evangelicalism that forms and reinforces white supremacist beliefs and identities.

Many are acceptably citing Roman tradition, and Marino Falieri, but America has done this before. John Tyler joined the Confederacy after his Presidency and we never honored his traitorous ass. No memorials in Washington, DC, very few outside. No one remembers this PoS and we are better for it.

The prohibition of cafes on small streets is another example of toddler-brain planning. Seriously, spell it out for me. *Why* should cafes be limited to streets with greater width? bsky.app/profile/warr...

Congrats to my favorite soccer player, Sam Kerr, on her signing with Gotham FC Welcome to the rivalry versus @bostonlegacyfc.com. Will be so neat to see her play in White Stadium in Boston next year!

every single person in the Maine senate race comes out looking awful: -Mills for being an awful candidate -Schumer/Gillibrand for recruiting Mills and discouraging others from running -Platner for being a sicko -the activists/unions who recruited platner -Collins for being a fascist enabler

And further, wallowing in your own ignorance and slop news diet is something THAT YOU SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR. Your choice of news/media is entirely on you.

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."

Are we ready to talk about how gentrification is mostly good

Mayor Mamdani took the mayor's Inaugural Swim in east Harlem this morning to open the city's pool season. (Look out for sea hags, Zohran!) Naturally, he wore his swimsuit.

Leaders like Ritchie Torres and Chuck Schumer, who refuse to endorse the...candidate like Mamdani in their own backyards and seem to lack the visceral hatred for the current administration most @democrats.org possess, have failed to meet the moment. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-democrat...

Have the people who make these posts ever considered that we want to change the things that prevent people from biking? Have they considered that we want to also improve public transit? Have they considered that we also want to make walking safer?

Why are we mowing the median between the two roadways in memorial drive? It’s useless space for grass. We could seed it with native plants and have it be a pollinator habitat and save money in mowing. @universalhub.com

The best way to face this, IMHO, isn't to try to argue with this preference. It's just to say, "Fine, but you have to pay full freight". There's nothing wrong with liking suburbia, you're free to put up an SFH anywhere you like; the sin is trying to stop your neighbor from putting up a sixplex.

It is more acceptable in elite intellectual circles to be a Nazi race scientist than it is to think it is acceptable to judge people morally for being Nazi race scientists.

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.

It's absolutely wild to me that, we as a society, have been tricked to believe that scratching a car is the eighth deadly sin.

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

Update -- The owners of the Banshee in Dorchester are behind the plans to reopen Flann O'Brien's in Mission Hill/Brigham Circle. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/06/flan... #boston #pub #bar #restaurant

I worked for Ed Markey in 2021 when he first introduced his bill to expand the Supreme Court. The Senator and his office took a lot of heat from moderates for sticking his neck out on the issue, but he was correct then and he is correct now.

"Car culture and motonormativity are so entrenched, it's too late for information and incentives to make the difference. 'Hard' measures are needed if we want to get serious about reducing car harms." - Absolutely.

The strength of the Democratic Party is that it’s a big tent and it has to deal with the challenges of a big tent. If you aren’t prepared to handle them, I don’t think you understand the party or how to manage it. It’s not a party of fellow travelers like the GOP, it’s something different and better

Yeah, shit like this. Read the room, Jeffries. Mamdani is the future of the Democratic party, and the country. You most emphatically are not.

Mom got an honor from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women today! masscsw.org/2026/06/17/r...

At caucus, they asked us, the party faithful, if we should add "abolish ICE" language to the Colorado Democratic Party platform. It passed with 98% approval. 98 fucking percent. That's why we're mad. Because y'all don't match our energy.

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social @jordanwood.bsky.social @loudforcongress.com @joe Baldacci doesn't have a Bsky account, which honestly doesn't bode well for his disposition vis-a-vis Trump

Republicans took away health care for millions of Americans. They didn't do it because the country couldn't afford it. They did it because their super-rich donors wanted to become super-richer.

Maybe it’s naïve at this point, but it bothers me that filing pertinent information away for a future book while working as a journalist isn’t considered a conflict of interest.

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

The reason executives, billionaires and barely functional futurist pundits think AI is sentient is because the only ppl they ever hang out with are predictable sycophants or other self-indulgent rich dildos that think just like them who never challenge their worldviews

"I don't know how the Dem party works" is shorter, go for that next time (hint: the Dem donor base is overwhelmingly small donors on Actblue, who contributed something like 70 cents out of every dollar the Dems spent in 2024)

nothing is more embarrassing than people who talk about their IQ all the time, man. like I know they're just a bunch of white supremacist eugenics nitwits but it is actively embarrassing to be over the age of like 13 and to still think an IQ # is your most impressive accomplishment

We barely tax or regulate them Both parties have revelled in neo-liberal deregulation and deprecation of the welfare state for decades And yet they insist on more decadence and stupidity at our expense Reconstruction in '29 must include bringing the tech tera rich to heel

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

minor note: i discuss a provision in the the ROAD to Housing Act in the article regarding build-to-rent housing i'm happy to say that the latest version of the bill as of yesterday appears to have been changed to protect build-to-rent housing (unfortunately Sen. Warren is still chasing Glonzo)

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

On & on. If you ask self-proclaimed centrists about this, the best you'll get is, "I must tell the truth as I see it, I can't help what other people do with it." But that's kind of bullshit. All of us should be (and are, if we're honest) cognizant of the *predictable consequences of our actions*.

How long it takes and how hard it is to undo the damage will depend in large part on the political will of the people elected to do it. If you get hand-wringing caveat peddlers who want to deliberate for years before acting it'll never happen. Plan has to be ready on day one

Netherlands v Japan. Definition of a World Cup classic soccer game.

The media opened Pandoras box when they didn't tell idiots to shut up because they were too dumb to understand the topic at hand and it grew into all of this shit.

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

"...basic level of taxation can fund the services that free up time and energy for its residents to work, care for their families, enjoy their leisure, make art, and build cool things together because they’re less worried about basic things..." newrepublic.com/article/2117... via @newrepublic.com

the conspiracy theories don't have a kernel of truth but it is ludicrous that counting California's votes takes longer than anywhere else on Earth

"Before you even get to Republicans being bad actors" — No. The *only reason* anyone gives a shit about California taking a week to tally votes is Republican bad faith. Stop pretending every fake GOP conspiracy has a kernel of truth to it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...