There are Lori Lightfoots everywhere for those with the eyes to see

I knew he was in the files but this is still a huge bummer

Good to know that David Frum is always on the wrong side

Trump Blames High Prices On The Price

You know what if we’re doing Christmas Carol anachronism here it is: A modern Bob Cratchit is fat and has a smartphone but lives under perpetual threat of eviction; people use the first two facts as an excuse to ignore the third. We need to update our image of ‘real poverty’ under rentierism

The Atlantic embracing worker rights only when the most racist person in America has been affected is maybe the most The Atlantic has ever Atlanticed

Right. Group 2 is more numerous and politically powerful. But they are not going to support new housing no matter what. Group 1 will, if approached the right way.

we could break him so easily if we actually had an opposition party, it drives me fucking insane every single fucking day

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Every time I see a cop hit the siren for a split second so they can run a red light and then just continue moseying along I am filled with a indescribable rage

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

a fairly important concomitant of fascism is a class of mewling centrist collaborators

Cowards, all! Kiss your jobs goodbye you dork ass losers

This is deeply pathetic and wrong for the moment. Amazing that another septuagenarian dinosaur actually said this on record.

Close enough

I heard in the club last night that all that was once solid is now melting into air?

this is incredibly easy to oppose on grounds that dont flatter maduro, "we tried that in iraq and all parties - including president trump - now agree it was a mistake and a failure, so yes I oppose it" he just doesnt want to

Dissent was encouraged, ask Susan Sontag, the most powerful person in the United States

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

Every cook can govern, and, it turns out, also engage in jury nullification against fascists

What direct cash transfers are to poverty reduction, direct deliberative democracy by sortition is to fighting fascism. A solution so simple, people struggle to believe how effective it is.

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.

The sad thing is that this is a reasonable request. Education is so damn expensive, commoditized, and fetishized as a credential—who could be blamed for being disappointed in their ROI? A democracy can only flourish with a generally educated citizenry, but every incentive points to specialization.

If millennials would simply stop buying lattes while out with their friends, they could afford single-family homes that they never leave

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

The rich and powerful expect perpetual impunity. They have never met a whiff of consequence.

I think rather than dismiss that Mark just isn't following the right people. It should be noted that there are a lot less international users here and we definitely hear a lot less from Palestinians themselves on bsky. It's improving for sure, but there's a distinct normie lib vibe here.

Marx: capitalism is a stage of economic development characterized by a mass expansion of the base of monied interests seeking ROI but it is fundamentally unstable because it causes calamitous social dislocation Modern leftists: we are actually poorer than Victorian beggars with no running water

15 years ago, America allowed SCOTUS to declare corporations unparalleled power in the Citizens United decision. 15 years ago, Obama was busy drone striking civilians and building up Tom Homan's ICE. This country has been losing the long game by refusing to acknowledge it exists.

What an ugly game

So much of personal budgeting advice is based around the idea that everyone should be a suburban homeowner that lives at Costco and never does anything rather than being a creature of the city where third places are prioritized and one must spend money more frequently (if not in larger amounts)

If there are commonalities among the men that I admire, look up to, or aspire to be like, surely foremost among them is that none of them sit around fretting about what it means to be a man

Watching all the defense wonks on my TL tear this NYT piece apart has been interesting. So many parallels to “Gadgetbahn” discourse in transportation policy. Editorial boards, pundits, and electeds are in love with the idea that “innovation” could relieve them of political problems and tradeoffs.

Which stage of campus panic is this?

key part of modern american conservatism is people viewing their children as their property imo

PATIENT: i consent DOCTOR: i consent AI (insurance underwriter in computer disguise): isnt there someone you forgot to ask

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

"I'm not sure there is a state, anywhere in the world, in the late 18th century, that has as wide variety of people who inhabit it" - a historian in the first 10 minutes of Ken Burns's American Revolution doc Uh, what??? How about...the Holy Roman Empire? The Russian or Mughal empires? Qing China?

before i answer any questions about my performance as a pitcher i'm only discussing the first inning where i struck out the side and not the ten home runs i gave up before being pulled out in subsequent innings

an IQ of 68 means you have some difficulty functioning independently and implies a pretty substantial impairment. for example it would leave you susceptible to believing things like "there's a country where the average IQ is 68. pic unrelated

With the twin tools of revolutionary optimism (I believe that we will win) and revolutionary defeatism (it’s good that bad things happen to me as a person in the imperial core) I am immune to all attacks

It’s also the product of competing for monoculture. We have more slop now than we did under a more monopolistic set of media, now we have a thousand streams competing for attention that survive by catering to the lowest common denominator *not among a niche subculture, but among everyone everyone*

Expect to see a lot more of this in the coming decades, since most of the so-called "Great wealth transfer" from Boomers to Millennials is going to take place among the top 2%. This is why estate taxation is so important. If we don't do it we're going to get a hereditary aristocracy.

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cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster