no abuser sustains a career of abuse alone. At every stage, they have people willing to give them second, third, 30th chance while the survivors keep being unable to pay their bills. those are also choices, and you don't get to be automatically loved for them. Who gets all the chances speaks volumes

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

For those who do say they're changing? Yeah we can do better than just taking them at their word, we can install systems/check ins by which that assertion is rigorously tested. "Compassion without accountability is a form of enabling" in the immortal words of Spacecrone from the other place. A BAR

Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

Star of a TV show run by a monster, at 1 point, heard EVERYTHING & more from credible & voluminous reporting on said monster (incldg some facts not published) He considered & said "we don't throw people overboard," illuminating that all the people *already* thrown overboard were invisible to him.

It was never "just a tattoo," it was the absolutely guaranteed tattoo comorbidities. The tattoo *means* something. That's why people get them

Motonormativity is when drivers simultaneously exaggerate the rule-breaking of cyclists while downplaying the reckless operation of drivers. Related is how they act as if a cyclist and driver running a stop sign are equivalent. They're not, because, you know, bikes aren't thousands of pounds.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo

i think a lot of issues could be resolved in this country if people stopped equating stuff like treating women like garbage and using slurs with “masculinity”

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

It should probably go without saying, but if you for any reason are calling for a public policy that involves sterilizing people, it's time to take a step back and ask yourself where the fuck you went wrong.

"businesses have mostly seen more profit than when people could drive their cars into the center of town" Louder again for the merchants with their fingers in their ears

San Francisco congestion pricing when

Philando Castile often paid for the lunches of students who couldn’t afford them or had debt. After his murder, his mother, Valerie Castile, donated money to wipe out lunch debt and was part of getting Governor Tim Walz to implement free school lunch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

A reminder that the observed warming of the planet is consistent with what models have predicted given ongoing carbon emissions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

The average starting teacher salary in Fairfield County is around $55k (if you have your masters), and I often think about how exclusionary zoning and car dependency are crushing young teachers who can’t rely on family homes and money Our unions really should be YIMBY/walkability advocates!

your continual reminder that a healthy vacancy rate is ~9%. if it's less, you gotta build!

As I've said many times before, we need to be much more aggressive about taking away people's licenses. No one was harmed this time, but what about next time?

Congestion pricing improves EMS response time.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.

God the graphics would be incredible

it is impossible to post about this game because something else happens before your finish the last thought

I can't believe people are openly rooting for england considering He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

There are growing indications that large, intense, & perhaps record-breaking mid-atmospheric high pressure system (aka a "heat dome") will develop somewhere between Rockies & Central Plains by mid-Jul. This could bring a widespread & severe heatwave across much of the U.S.

The reason these Temu KKK losers only march for 15 minutes at a time (long enough to get their propaganda footage and generate images that a horrified public will endlessly amplify for them) is that they know that if they hung around longer, they'd quickly be outnumbered by their opposition.

... what

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

80% of people who live in this country live in URBAN AREAS. You would not know this based on how the media and most elected officials act.

The best fireworks are in the garden

Here's Thomas Jefferson--yes, that Thomas Jefferson--going on at length in "Notes on the State of Virginia" about how slavery is a moral abomination and he hopes enslavers figure that out before they're all killed and deservedly burn in Hell avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

A chacun son cargo. Paris, 3 juillet.

They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

Absolutely this. Every urban parking space, especially on-street parking (that reduces efficiency of public transport and makes active travel much more dangerous) needs to be analysed from the perspective of broader value and opportunity cost.

Children love trains and bikes because their hearts are pure and uncorrupted by the auto industry.

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Wait until you hear about how much space cars take up. road.cc/news/malcolm...

Can confirm.

This is the actual truth of Independence The willingness to stand up to tyranny and say “I am willing to sacrifice what I have” Start thinking about what that might look like for you

“67% of profits went to just 0.1% of accounts” That is all you gotta say