Good thread

Amazing news!

Oh are young men lonely? Are they having a tough time?? Instead of incelism have they considered getting into DC hardcore???

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

The only thing that keeps me warm during this long cold night of American politics is the fact that Gavin Newsom will never be president, no matter how hard he tries.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

The replies to this are wild, full of conspiracy theories and copium. We have to face the fact that as a nation we did this to ourselves during a free and fair election. It's unbelievable, it's heartbreaking, but it's true.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

The Acting President discusses affairs of state, while the young boy and the old man share their boredom.

my hottest take is that cities are not museums. they need to be able to change and evolve or they will die.

This is all just a world-historic self own. Unreal how absolutely stupid it is. Truly amazing stuff.

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

From Harry Litman, “Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times” — “I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The median San Francisco home is SEVENTY EIGHT YEARS OLD. todayshomeowner.com/home-finance...

This is, and should be seen by our state's policymakers as, an urgent crisis to solve.

"I remember when the phantom Kamala ad hit me. It drew me in with a photo of Vice-President Harris and a positive and appealing summary of her policies. Then the ad exposed me, to a policy that I would not like – and which the candidate did not in fact advocate." snyder.substack.com/p/the-phanto...