The dark beer on the tap list thats not Guinness

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

Here’s how to put yourself in the mindspace of these people: imagine you don’t lik or follow sports but there’s a strong stigma against this, so when you get polled about the best team in the league you say something like “I think LeBron’s steroid scandal is really bad for the Mets”

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

I did a deepish dive into the legacy of Bidenomics--why it worked economically quite well, but politically not so much prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...

"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs." open.substack.com/pub/verysane...

Nothing about this dunk changes if you replace Waymo with Uber and yet I am unaware of an attempt to ban those

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

This fucking guy

The problem with slopulism is that it always tends toward “you, the saintly innocent voter, and anyone who is even vaguely sympathetic to you, will not have to change anything or sacrifice anything, just the Bad People”. Which is an easy sell at the ballot box but bad when it’s time to govern.

on a concrete level it would lower the overall tax revenue and on an abstract level it promotes the idea that social services and structures can be maintained by an ever-heightening class of higher earners, which isn’t true

I'm selfishly glad that while I enjoyed making sports bets in Vegas and would still play online poker if it were 100% legal, I get no joy from computer sports betting. And I can't even really tell you what makes them different

i sort of think way more social problems could be solved by tripling every city's parks and rec department budget than we might expect

If you think developers are making too much money building homes, you should raise taxes on their incomes instead of imposing de facto taxes on new development.

This is a little muddled by soccer managers having a little more control over personnel than is typical in American sports, but I pretty firmly believe if you've gone through two coaches, you should fire the people picking the team before you get rid of a third

great example of centrists using lobbyists to bypass serial communication restrictions btw

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class. I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

gas prices going up but @trimet.org is still $2.80 :D

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

Ugh, Merkley is in on this one? At a minimum it would be so much better to target vacation/second homes with this kind of stuff.

@bobbygough.bsky.social This is the movie I was referencing Saturday that spawned all the Keanu Reeves is nice stories in my hometown. I believe this is a representative review

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just got a free coffee by telling the owner The News.

I would assume it was somehow related to ska and still not really get it

become ungovernable

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

the fact that early-stage automated vehicles that still occasionally require remote operation assistance are like several orders of magnitude safer than the average American driver should be the real wakeup call here, not the idea that these vehicles still sometimes need remote operation assistance

a friend of mine who left DoJ early last year told me that, traditionally, when someone leaves after a long period of service they're given a seal as a going-away present but she didn't get one because they'd ran out of seals this is what's happened to the people who didn't get out

if it was happening you could prove it in an afternoon with a prepaid phone and wireshark and the fact that no one has ever done so speaks for itself

here's a longer form housing post, with three proposals for housing policy ideas portland could pursue in 2026 to increase housing production: urbanpdx.blog/a-2026-portl...

to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.

The Philly District Attorney compared ICE to Nazis & publicly vowed to hunt them down if they broke the law/harmed their people. If a DA rules against an ICE agent, that ruling stands IN SPITE OF the supremacy clause. Where is DA Vasquez in the conversation? Where is the pressure on his office?

I wonder if they ever think about hell

The Blazers are getting sold, so it probably just takes the right (bigger) number for the Seahawks

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

I gotta be honest if I was another data provider (and there’s a couple) I would not let the fbref opportunity go to waste.

when we talk about messaging, this is the person they have to reach

It really is fairly galling to see a number of the same people that claim to have lefty politics and spent the Biden years complaining about inflation now complaining that all the democrats ever talk about is the cost of living.

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.

You may have heard that "social security is going to go bankrupt." Many younger people assume social security will not be there for them when they retire. In my latest paper I correct the record. SS is not going bankrupt but we'll need to revisit it soon 🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Polling during Biden's Presidency showed that Americans believed unemployment was at *all time highs* when it was actually at all time lows. The media comprehensively and systematically lied to Americans

north dakota’s senator suggests that the head of the fed and the AUSA for DC get together and do some crimes to try to solve their corrupt prosecution disagreement

this is a good overview it seems clear you can craft a position with solid majority support that involves total overhaul of immigration enforcement and staffing, and moving ICE/CBP functions into more functional departments it's kind of neither here nor there whether you call that "abolishing"

100%, like, I think it would be great if the average person had a more negative opinion of law enforcement in general but the fact is they don't and you're fighting a much smaller front war when you fight "ICE is much worse than other cops" plus it's actually true!

yesterday: confirmed TdA affiliation, agent fired “a defensive shot” today: “suspected” TdA affiliation, no statement about number of shots

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

Do not believe Trump’s propaganda machine. This was not self-defense. This was murder.