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Imagine the funeral Mr. Beast is going to have

obscure philosophy memes

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Embracing pronatalism by making pregnancy as excruciating and undesirable as possible

My daughter's "I got put down for a nap 5 minutes ago but I'm not asleep yet" voice is indistinguishable from most people's "I am currently being murdered with a knife" voice.

Feels right that MAGA’s stabbed in the back myth is centered on their king getting banned by the mods for violating forum TOS

Talking about a Cambodia-Armenia War makes it sound like Trump has been playing too many Paradox games

least surprising “how it started/how it’s going” in history

Thinking about the Beltway reporters who in January told CJR they were relieved to have Trump back because he fed them more snackable content www.cjr.org/political_pr...

No one should pay to see this movie until Disney stops censoring employees who say things disagreeable to the regime. That will be no great sacrifice as this movie will be dull as rocks. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

When billionaires like Elon Musk stroll the Oval Office, it’s a reminder: corporations will bend government to their own interests. In #FiresideStacks🔥, Brad Lipton explores why leaders must act boldly so government truly works for the people. www.firesidestacks.com/p/corporatio...

"Don't RSVP, that puts your name on a subpoenable list." IDK. So does donating? So does putting your name down on a ballot-initiative petition? Frankly, so does walking out of your house with your phone in your pocket. Get rid of the fascist in your head and live like a citizen of a free country.

Part of the issue is that many Americans are inclined to think of Germany as a closer peer than Brazil, Argentina or Chile when I would argue the reverse is true.

Just block anyone who tells you that signing up for a No Kings email list is going to get you sent to the gulag. They are not worth arguing with and they cannot tell you anything of value. This whole debate is an excellent filtering mechanism for feed hygiene.

I truly believe that the New York Democratic Party has the most hapless, shit-for-brains party machinery in the country.

It's kind of fitting that Trump is slapping the Cool Zone button over and over because he demands total control over what the idiot box projects back at him

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

*public* credit scores are from 1989.

This is maybe the one case where it's genuinely unclear how the Harlan Crow Court will rule, because of the tension between their "Trump is God Emperor" doctrine and their "Whatever Bullshit Reason Gets Us To Our Preferred Policy Outcomes is Constitutional" doctrine.

Shot / chaser

I’m in the new issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social with a piece about what Albany can learn from Sacramento when it comes to housing policy: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cal...

Key takeaways: -The NYS legislature needs YIMBY leaders like @scottwiener.bsky.social, @buffywicks.bsky.social and others. -NYS needs more grassroots foot soldiers, especially outside the five boroughs. -Reforms succeed or fail based on whether they legalize projects that can pencil out.

If Indivisible was serious about fighting Trump they would simply organize a general strike but do it without collecting anyone's contact information

(Knowingly) This is all happening because DracuCorp has a pending merger with GhoulStar

Within days of Brian Kilmeade, a man who still has his job, calling for homeless people to be murdered.

The first Reconstruction 3.0 president should bring Lina Khan into the administration and inject her with the Bane serum

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

🧐 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

The thing about Bill Essayli is that he spent his whole time in the California legislature trying to get Trump to notice him. One of the thirstiest losers in modern Sacramento history.

The fact that Jimmy Fallon will eventually be the last late night guy standing is the most powerful indictment anyone could make of him

I honestly think the ongoing effort to whitewash Kirk and treat MAGAism like normal conservative politics is disrespectful to those principled conservatives who have publicly broken with MAGA.

The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...

look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans. it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.

Key takeaways: -The NYS legislature needs YIMBY leaders like @scottwiener.bsky.social, @buffywicks.bsky.social and others. -NYS needs more grassroots foot soldiers, especially outside the five boroughs. -Reforms succeed or fail based on whether they legalize projects that can pencil out.

"What if the Democratic party’s problem is not that it is too left-leaning, or for that matter, too moderate, but instead is too disconnected from the lives of the people whom it wants to appeal to? " www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Just had one thousand advocates, volunteers, and housing policy leaders from 30 states trek to New Haven, CT for @yimbytown.bsky.social & as far as I know, not a single high level leader or staffer for the Democratic Party was there. Seems like a huge missed opportunity.

I’m in the new issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social with a piece about what Albany can learn from Sacramento when it comes to housing policy: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cal...

It's fascinating reading their policy page because it's a whole lot of buzzwords and not much else. www.searchlightinstitute.org/policy/

Skocpol's work on how we went from mass mobilization to management is relevant here

YIMBYism is a rare thing in that it’s a disciplined and effective but largely nonprofessional movement, and if I were a Democratic funder I would spend money on figuring out how to build on that model instead of paying for more issue polls

Many people are saying publiccomment.blog/p/the-party-...

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.