Larson's death is another grim reminder that when pedestrians or cyclists are hit by drivers, only in the most egregious and reckless cases are significant charges filed. Otherwise, it's seen as an "accident," and legal consequences and justice can be harder to come by.

Today Virginia resident Sophia Maltas was sentenced to 45 days in jail for hitting and killing 24-year-old Nina Larson as she was crossing Columbia Road NW in a crosswalk in November 2021. The sentencing hearing was emotionally wrenching and difficult.

I will repost this forever.

Neighbor Arriving Home At Same Time Offers Brief, Beguiling Glimpse Inside Apartment https://theonion.com/neighbor-arriving-home-at-same-time-offers-brief-begui-1819580042/

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

Parents Feuding With At Least One Aunt At All Times https://theonion.com/parents-feuding-with-at-least-one-aunt-at-all-times/

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas. There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings. There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency. There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out. Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/XjAdogE

Oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

wake up babe, new Ouroboros just dropped

It's not enough for the sports community on Bluesky to grow. Everyone who doesn't like sports should be kicked off it as well.

i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

i think this is the funniest* thing he's ever done, just on symbolism and optics alone. *mitigating factor in the humor: this man does not intend to leave in 3 years

Wait, this is the misunderstood working class oysterman? Grandson of a world famous architect?

So much stuff happens that I bet you already forgot about the whole “circumcision causes autism” thing. I bet that just went into the pile despite it being the craziest fucking thing you’ve ever heard

Everyone who carefully constructed obfuscations in politics over the last hundred years must feel like a real dummy. Actually you can call it The Department of Murder. You can post a video of yourself dumping diarrhea on the public. You can go on TV and say "I am stealing from you lol"

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

A common thread across so many issues in the U.S. is how a narrative of individual choice is used to obscure systemic failures or divert attention away from systemic solutions

I don't think it's at all pot-stirring. It's a solid observation: urbanism is a field of interest, like how one says "Americanist" to mean "historian of the US." Urbanists sometimes have political preferences emerging from this expertise, like economists or historians, but it's not an ideology.

Platner should've fixed it by adding Calvin peeing on the existing tattoo

"Bond offers a compelling historical account and a provocative claim: the histories we tell about labor organizing ought to start earlier than the medieval guild system or the industrial revolution." —Classical Journal

What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.

Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.

"They have high prices because of me! But also they need to lower the prices! I have dementia."

I shouldn’t have to have someone interpret tattoos on a half naked white man sitting for an interview before we all agree this is absolutely absurd and we all need to just move on from this guy. You cannot expect Black or Jewish people to put with this fucking ridiculous nonsense. Come on now

the basic story here is simple: just over a decade ago the media frantically covered a story about the Obama IRS targeting conservatives. now, it looks like the Trump administration is doing everything conservatives pretended Obama was, and it's a non-story.

My latest premium newsletter is about the Trump administration's plans to use the IRS to target its opponents, and the media's failure to cover Trump scandals.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

The struggle is real

What if bad things happened to bad people? Would that be so wrong?

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

I think Ezra Klein might be transforming into David Brooks.

Guys, there's no evidence ICE is buying guided warheads. The contract in question is for normal distraction devices, the kind they've been using for years.

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible

i think "brown scare" should be the priority of democratic legislatures before 2029. even state legislatures.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Graham Platner campaign today:

Bluesky's mascot is really Drax the Destroyer

Split-screen moment: the aspiring autocrat declared an expanding war against the nation’s cities and threatens to jail their elected leaders. Same time, he verges on losing his admin’s dominion over the federal budget as Dems make headway toward the reinstitution of healthcare funds.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Supreme Court rule 6-3 that the DOJ owing Trump $230 million is a bargain.