Disappointed in @heyratty.bsky.social

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Fake populism: no one who makes $75k should pay income tax Effective Populism: close the carried interest loophole

I can't compete with this.

Relative to other rich countries, two things stand out about the US tax code: 1) we are a very low-tax nation 2) our system is very progressive The problem with our system is not that we tax people too little. We need revenue to fund the things that make society less unfair.

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Open container should be legal but only if you look ridiculous

Sounds great 👍

One must imagine the Itsy Bitsy Spider happy

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. on.wsj.com/3PoQMj5

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

It’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, and buddy, I’m all out of Tony Dokoupil

Joe Mazzulla says Jayson Tatum will start tonight.

"‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut" -- www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

[after a solid minute of the funeral director staring at us, i repeat] …bunk coffins [my wife doing stacked hands motion] like…double decker

Conference championship week means more institutional and university ads. The West Georgia ad has a guy preparing to house a mountain of fried chicken and I immediately regret all my college choices. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @dreyesceron.bsky.social

I loved this show very very much a long time ago it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Congress should authorize postal banking *and* allow USPS to ground lease its land to multifamily homebuilders (provided any project on a lot holding an operating post office includes a new, renovated post office on the ground floor).

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Blog entry: Why government software is so expensive. In my experience, there are four major reasons: outsourcing the whole thing, the pricing death spiral, funhouse-mirror price tags, and procurement processes that don't favor quality development.

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

Strongest signal yet from Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) that he'll give clemency to Tina Peters as President Trump has demanded. Polis notes a fmr Dem State Senator recently got probation on charges that drew prison time for Peters, who unrepentantly defied the judge at sentencing

What’s the name of this organization? We call it the Department of War And the head of that department is? The Secretary of War And the workers in this organization? Warfighters And these people are fighting a war. Oh no. My goodness no.

Some very rare good news: despite what Hegseth said, trans kids are still welcome in scouting. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

"Rampant political spending continues to cripple Roku City's economy. Rather than fight any of these issues, the mayor’s office invested in a Ferris wheel to provide a view of the alien attacks."

This is very good

“If we elevate fighter jets as “strategic” assets but dismiss a functioning education system as “mere aid,” and if we always find money for missiles but not for water or electricity, we are not protecting our societies. We are weakening them” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...?

Bluesky is bad because everyone thinks identically (tells me I stink) instead of featuring a diversity of thought (telling me I'm a smart handsome boy)

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

what this also means is you can just skip the 2002–2003 politics and go right to the 2006 politics: everything is their fault and no one likes it.

An odd quirk about Trump's revanchist nihilist imperialism is that the post-1945 international order was broadly set up for American hegemony but it required paying half a modicum of respect to the notion of shared rules and instead Trump wants a world where the US acts unbounded & the world obeys.

The absolute best. (🎁🔗)

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

As @clairewillett.bsky.social writes: "I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Homer called it Οργή. It's what Achilles feels. (It's what Achilles DOES.) Also used by St Paul for the wrath of God.

The Iraq War AUMF vote destroyed multiple political careers and, via Hillary Clinton, helped decide at least two presidential elections. Congress’s big takeaway from that experience was to stop holding votes on wars.