Going to go back to 1870 and tell Grant that West Virginia has become a den of traitors and Lost Cause aficionados, while Virginia has been taken over by northern carpetbaggers (laudatory) I’ll give him some time to process that before telling him about the Sixth Party System

in anishinaabemowin, akiing, the word we use for earth or the land as a place, translates to “the land to which the people belong” we aren’t meant to be disconnected from that relationship

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Example after example, red-handed. Accountability includes a lot of things, including breaking up companies.

Maybe it doesn’t work, but for a long time I’ve felt that Dems should run on technocratic-but-ideological legislation (eg fund IRS enforcement) and ambitiously ideological amendments like this. Tell voters who you want to be at different scales.

I think liberal billionaires should start mining some fiction that they can use names from and profane the meaning of ideologically, like Thiele with Tolkien I propose we start with Rearden Steel, a social democratic, state integrated railway-and-metal firm

A friend who works there sent me this after I told him about it. It’s a photo by his coworker.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Into The Woods

Friend of mine posted today abt a long-running battle he’s been having with assholes who ride motorbikes, and have their kids ride minibikes, on city park trails totally illegally. It’s explicitly political, with the asshole dad complaining abt “libtards” who call the cops on his illegal activity.

This morning I was awake around dawn, and I thought “oh shit I have a 9:30 meeting, I’d better set an alarm.” Then I realized it was Sunday, not Monday. I’m praying this happens again tomorrow.

The most egregious example of this remains the DC MSNBC guy who moved there to run a newspaper because he just loves local journalism THAT MUCH but could never be arsed to run a piece checking out what the synagogue HE HIMSELF GOES TO thinks about all of this, because it’d be bad for his candidate

* begats, dammit. Autocorrect doesn't know "begats." Autocorrect clearly never made it past Noah in its attempt to read through the whole Bible cover-to-cover.

Imp n Iron, a shot of Imperial whiskey and a glass of Iron City Beer.

Dory Selinger lost his leg in the early '90s after a driver hit him with a car. He went on to earn a gold medal in the 2020 Paralympics and was a three-time world champion. A driver killed him on 4/16 while he was riding a bike.

🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.

This is where I learned to put hot sauce on fries. Was there alone late night in about '96, the waitress asked if I wanted hot sauce. I'd never thought about it before, said sure. Never looked back. Same week I read The Handmaid's Tale, coincidentally.

scotty's diner (1942), side view, route 30, wilkinsburg, pennsylvania, 1989

Jim Abbott's story would be absolutely incredible if all he ever managed was a couple of middling years in relief. Instead, he did this.

This is also true in the U.S. in the used EV market if you're looking at the low-end daily driver segment. Recently priced America's cheapest used hybrids vs. America's cheapest used EVs, and the EVs came out on top *right off the lot* Now add in the next 5 years of fuel and maintenance savings

Today In 1955: Roberto Clemente makes his major league debut with the Pittsburgh #Pirates, hitting a single in his first at-bat! #MLB #History

The optimistic take on this is that Senate Rs who won in '22 will come up in an all-time blue wave year, & there's at least a decent chance IMO that '30 will still have high D enthusiasm. So there's 4 years of trifecta, & the '32 R primary will be a shitshow; maybe 2 more trifecta years.

Report to be presented to European Parliament on shows migrants intercepted by Tunisian National Guard, as part of agreement with the EU, are sold to people traffickers in Libya and subject to torture, rape & slavery. All with the help of EU funds so leaders can boast of cutting immigration numbers.

The most dangerous time for a woman is when she tries to leave a marriage. Never forget that when you want to blame a woman for staying with an abuser. It takes seven tries on average before she has the will, strength, and resources to follow through.

The Pirates one is a million times better than the last one but still pretty middling. On some level the reason AI design gets any traction is how often orgs with resources mail it in.

@curlyfro.bsky.social once argued teams should commission local artists/have contests to design these things. she was right then and now

The revealed preferences of downwardly mobile leftists is that they are selfish jerks who cannot be trusted.

Vance’s entire career is being the guy who gets told off by McLuhan in Annie Hall, except he then mugs for the camera and a bunch of trained monkeys applaud.

Honestly we as a society should come down harder on Youtubers. Like Logan Paul's career should have ended after that whole filming a dead suicide victim in Japan and we should have politely, but firmly, asked his brother to leave as well.

All these changes and many more would still leave us with capitalism, but many fewer and poorer billionaires. Unfortunately, intellectuals like Robert Reich, don't like to think about such things.

Sometimes Schulz wrote his characters as mini adults, sometimes as regular kids who are a little sardonic. But here he captures the sort of cargo cult nature of being a kid, imitating the forms of adulthood w no clue what might be behind them. Meanwhile he himself was probably annoyed at paperwork.

THE WAR IS OVER! POST GAZETTE IS NONPROFIT OWNED! A HEARTY GET FUCKED TO THE BLOCK FAMILY.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which DID NOT die

The Baltimore Banner’s parent organization will buy the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a deal that will keep one of the country’s oldest newspapers open

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

say it with me children who attend daycare after 12 months of age have better life outcomes than children who don’t

The only team in MLB with a better record than the Pirates is the Dodgers.

My 22-yo carries around a Discman and a digital point & shoot.

I got to visit the Large Scale Systems Museum outside Pittsburgh, and it was AMAZING. They have an impressive collection of machines, and you're actually allowed (nay, encouraged) to play around with them.

Nik does great work, anybody would be happy to commission.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

this is basically how I feel, but so many fans whose broad takes I agree with are super dedicated to the various media that filled in these backstories between ROTJ and Phantom Menace. Not sure how to resolve that.

Afrika Babaataa, founder of the Zulu Nation and leader of the Soulsonic Force, a founding DJ of the hip hop genre, died today. youtu.be/9J3lwZjHenA?...

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Appomattox Day is an appropriate one to remember that when you give reactionary white supremacists an inch, they will attempt to conquer a mile, even if it takes decades. Now that we’re living out consequences of their unfinished business, let’s resolve to complete what Sherman et al started.

I will not sit still while somebody slanders such a noble way to pass time.

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.