If California used ranked choice voting, candidates could stay in a crowded governor’s race without the risk of "locking out" their party in a top-two primary. Candidates wouldn't face pressure to drop out, and voters would have more choices. #RankedChoiceVoting

These takes are annoying when they're about AOC or Zohran. And you know what? They're annoying when they're about Susie Wiles, too.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

the average fox viewer does not think very hard about these setups. theyve been told all day long that they are the normal ones and everyone thinks like them and the media is biased and amplifies fake democratic whining. then fox shows them a diner packed with fox devotees so they can reinforce

The five-hole could also work as the name of the Olympics logo

Breaking News: NBC replacing Bad Bunny with a Bob Weir tribute jam, a 20-minute “Playin’ in the Band”

The unanimous opinion at this Super Bowl watch party is that so far, the Dunkin commercial is the worst and coinbase one is the best; but everyone’s let down at the reveal in the latter ad.

You know NBC is serious about keeping people tuned in for the halftime show because they’re keeping the countdown clock on the screen.

Werner Herzog

So the sheriff leading the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother is not used to people holding him accountable for what he says? WTF??? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Pro tip to House reporters: Print this out and have with you BEFORE you interview Mike Johnson later today.

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This article somehow never mentions that Dr. Oz is Turkish (doesn't mention Turkey at all). I suppose that saves them from having to explain why a Trump official, especially one who's Turkish, would be going after the Armenian community.

This tactic is really worth spending some time thinking about. It demonstrates a contempt for both the people they’re abducting and the communities they’re abducting them from which isn’t reformable or salvageable. It’s a contempt for the idea of law itself. They all have to go to jail.

stop asking questions and start making accusations. holy god, that is politics 101.

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

If you're still posting regularly on Twitter and bullshitting every day as if nothing is wrong I genuinely think less of you. Low stakes for sure but those are the stakes!

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

These are the sorts of things local authorities could be enforcing to get ICE out but aren’t, these are unequivocal public safety violations & with the mass of surveillance LP readers we already know where they are! (Post is from a month ago to illustrate this isn’t even a new thing)

Bob Weir was a beautiful musician who created a space for community to come together in joy. So many of these people followed his music and made their own homes on the road when they had nowhere else to go. He made people feel less alone, and that’s the highest compliment you can pay another human.

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Love all of these Year 1 pieces validating what those in the know knew: Congestion pricing is a success. We should strive to make it even better next. bsky.app/profile/stre...

Maybe this sounds hyperbolic, but the people who run our state are literal sulfuric demons from hell bent on increasing the stock of human suffering

That’s what happens when a flight gets delayed

Schumer needs to be banned from starting sentences with “if”. Everything he says starts with “if”, and immediately makes him sound passive and weak.

I’ve been thinking about this Fresh Air interview with Rob Reiner even before today. So much love and warmth and humor. Then yesterday I watched Spinal Tap 2 and all the delight and liveliness of his performance there www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...

Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

At Brown University today, a staff member decided to offer "free mom hugs." I saw many students take her up on the offer. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... @washingtonpost.com

They line up perfectly.

One big partisan asymmetry is Democrats have tended to approach politics as “find out what voters care about, then talk about it a lot,” and Republicans have tended to approach politics as “talk about it a lot, then voters will care about it.”

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

As far as I can tell, this is attack is entirely rooted in Mamdani's criticism of the government of Israel, which the American electorate appears to be increasingly inclined to agree with.

When the Democrats lose an election, they debate endlessly how they can appeal to more voters. When Republicans lose an election, they think of ways to keep more people from voting.

Forget about New Year’s Eve — it’s New Year’s Day / Inauguration Day that’s gonna be the real party in NYC.

A nice second-order effect of “the masks are coming off” is it might rope in some anti-vaxxers who aren’t paying close attention.

I’m so glad this op-ed was written, it clearly lays out what’s been on my mind for a while now.

“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”

We need to support Wikipedia.

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

A 60-second ad of this clip on repeat over and over and over and over.

can you imagine being sent to a country you never have been to before and be incarcerated with no charges? That is what the USA is doing to people.

The government’s social media channels are operated by incels, trolls, and YouTube commenters.

She should just lie and say she won’t vote for the release in order to get sworn in, then go ahead and vote for it anyway. It’s what all of Trump’s cabinet and judicial picks do.

Not helping his “I’m not 12 years old” case

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted." That will change the frame of the story.

This is some of the best baseball writing I've read in a long time; a vital reminder about how special and romantic the game can still be. And I say this as a Mets fan.