I wonder about a battery slug, like a loco without diesel motors but with a huge battery feeding it and the other units' traction motors just to move it over the elevations. It charges off solar nearby when waiting for the next train to escort.

These "requirements to build affordable housing" are a demand that home builders rent or sell a percentage of brand new homes at a loss. This is a tax on new housing that has worsened the housing shortage and increased rents in every city where it was implemented. Policymakers should reject them.

There's a bubble in the US that says: it's OK to threaten NATO countries with invasion. It's OK to abandon Ukraine and suck up to Putin. It's OK to elect this fucking guy a second time. What Europe has done is pop that bubble. You think that's an acceptable way to act? Well, suck on this!

I will recommend to anyone the CEE country wedding model, where someone butchers a pig, someone makes bimber, someone decorates the church with flowers they nicked from the cemetery, and it all just.....works.

The best reasonable outcome of any Trump nom is for his toadie to be put in an impossible position immediately on taking office. And. Here. We. Go.

My latest at The Bulwark. Ukraine has figured out how to kill lots of Russians very cheaply, and each dead Russian costs a lot of money. The math for Russia is unsustainable.

You may feel righteous in your harassment. You may feel wronged by the world and that you deserve to behave that way. You may be going after someone who genuinely sucks. In a way that isn't about you and your struggles, though, the staff has to try to keep this a welcoming place for most people.

The love tap is a little old place Where we can break the ceasefire! Love tap, baaaby! Love tap, baby, love tap!

Btw and possibly more importantly. People who call him 'Putins brain' are clueless and don't know russia. How do we know? The term was coined in reverse and got switched up by click-baity editor. How do we know that? Well, the author of the term is here bsky.app/profile/abar...

I'm not a germaphobe by any means, but the events of this decade with cruise ships! I can't imagine voluntarily boarding a giant floating petri dish on the bleeding edge of infecuous diseases.

Menswear guy’s analogy to the Super Bowl halftime show is instructive. Everyone on here loved it. That was also a wildly expensive display of wealth that actually wasn’t to raise money for a good cause. Its sole purpose was to make rich people richer. Everything is gender, etc.

Iraq War reprise with somehow even less effort. Now watch this drive.

Mills dropped out. That's it. VBNMW. This discourse is finally stale.

I've said it before, I'll say it again 1. No taxpayer money to billion dollar franchises 2. When the Bears leave the city, they should be treated with the same contempt Chicagoans have forall other suburban institutions 3. They should have to pay off the remaining bonds on Soldier Field after moving

A Hanseatic League of trading cities on the Great Lakes.

This is about to be an EU/US row.

Republicans got Sand in their Randy Feenstra

Russia is a pioneer at horseshoe politics. Guess the wiki article this is from. Answer in alt.

Krastev called Orban the right-wing Castro, which I think is exactly right: the leader of a small relatively insignificant country, that nevertheless became the ideological lodestar for a global movement after being propped up by russia

What do you suppose the approval rating of the Democratic Party is among Marxists, socialists, and anarchists? Can't be more than a point.

This wage data is pretty amazing. Top three here Slovenla, Lithuania and Latvia.🇸🇮🇱🇹🇱🇻

I'm YIMBY forever, but I still find it slightly baffling how a state that's steadily depopulating can have a housing shortage. It's like Chicago still being a million people down from 1950 population peak. There's room for everyone, just not all in Logan Square.

This goes out to sex pest politicians destroying their careers.

Howls of derisive laughter at Trump claiming he will blockade the strait. The dude lifted sanctions on Iranian oil to relieve market pressure. Now, he wants to zero out Iranian exports. Right.

Does Carmela Soprano still vote Republican?

Welcome back Flugabwehrkanonetürme

When the big players get real, the real players get Real.

Nick Fuentes' current electoral goal is the complete destruction of the present incarnation of the Republican party by electing Democrats this year. Would that dirtbag left influencers made themselves so useful.

Same argument for YIMBY as pro-immigration.

I remembered Nathan Robinson being the primary driver behind the Russian Readefucking of Biden, but I did not recall Mehdi Hasan pushing it too.

A short thread of some North Macedonian Brutalism in Skopje. Starting with the Central Skopje Post Office by architect Janko Konstantinov.

Incoming Trump tariffs until he is freed.

This 2023 Chicago mayoral primary map is as clear a picture of the city's ethno-political regions I've seen. Red - white Yellow - brown Purple - black Green - liberal multicultural

The new Kennedy-Nixon

Reactionary authoritarians are Catholic like Henry VIII.

Susan Collins' base: "21% of Trump voters said they were still 'confident' in their votes but had 'some concerns'"

Seems like the House is more likely to provide resistance. A few of the glass eater caucus will join Massie to oppose based on spending, America First, and general war unpopularity.

Chaco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with thousands of archaeological sites in the buffer zone. The management plan they want to use is from 2003, before most of the survey work was done! Scoping comments go on the public record and matter in future legal challenges. Even a short comment counts!

Apropos of my Panic! at the Disco cover band ¡Pendejadas! at the Benihana

Rogan helps the right generally and Trump specially, with Republicans as the beneficiary. Piker also hates Democrats, so it kind of makes sense that if you can’t work with him to get him to be less of a dick, there’d be people who say “that’s not worth it.”

Beautiful. Clever like nobody's ever seen before.

I think people should go on both shows and roast the host for their shit views. Don't block. Make them block you.

Burn baby burn. Looks like the Ukrainians are going to attack it until they knock it offline entirely.

Was SciFi Now Fantasy

Hey now, this subtitled version of the VDV song makes for a very suitable prelude while we wait for the Kharg Island 2026 lobby to fill.

ridiculous hair splitting by Rubio: we’re not tying security guarantees to Ukraine giving up Donbas, but to the war’s end; but Ru said war won’t end unless Ukraine gives up Donbas. Also extremely embarrassing for the US to be acting as Putin’s errand boy.

Would never happen in the US. Our oligarchs would call it communism.

Not sure what Republicans mean by "moral values" these days. Loyalty to Race and Leader?

Platner's skeletons may be assets due to populist bad boy authenticity.