english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Why are so many dooming on US? "The present kaleidoscope of declinist discourse reflects the cumulative wreckage of US domestic class war, imperial destruction, and competition with China into a staggering array of diagnosis & prescription" Tim Barker in our first PW issue bsky.app/profile/phen...

Legacy media covers Mayor Wilson like she's some lawless warlord who somehow seized power. They covered Harrell like a genial ribbon-cutting local fixture even after his own niece called out his administration's toxic bro culture & it came out he flashed a gun at a pregnant woman over a parking spot

*eyebrow raise*

assaulting a woman is a minor vice, scolding a man is unforgivable

CLAIM: "If you open Pike Place to pedestrians, fewer people visiting the Market will walk through the arcade and spend money at the shops." Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call that one debunked.

The screwworm decimates cattle herds. Beef is about to be $50 a pound for 70/30 ground chuck, because you all decided to put business people in charge of government. Business takes risk government ensures stability. Now stop doing stupid shit

It’s Pride month so just thought I’d remind everyone that I’m bi except when it comes to your man, in which case I’m a lesbian. We’re all lesbians when it comes to your man. I promise none of us want him.

Bari Weiss is perfect for her job because she is very much there to gut and neuter real journalism but she's also such a blinkered narcissist she genuinely thinks she has a vision for how to save journalism and everyone who pushes back is a hater

Protect the garden #pride #pride2026 #knight #possum #art

what, you mean the government usually has a reason for doing things and a bunch of dipshit crypto bros looking at a spreadsheet and going "lol that sounds stupid" is not a viable way to run the country?

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

The only jobs remaining will be the ones the future was supposed to "free" us from. THANKS, ANTHROPIC (you fuckwits)

hunter biden: the only good potential gen x president

should I put "skeet crone" in my bio? I'm 37 I don't think I can call myself a maiden anymore

something something once the county says it's UGA, the only thing you can rely on to limit development is critical areas

But existing elites can't see these modest efforts to redress inequality for what they are. So they resort to hysterical pronouncements about the "threat of socialism" like it's 1953. Stop whining! If progressive taxation to pay for services is socialist then we're socialist already.

It's becoming clear that global elites are in the midst of a moral panic. I don't know much about Polanski, but Mamdani's proposals (as well as the policies he's enacted as mayor) aren't particularly radical. Modestly raise taxes on the wealthy and improve public services. That's it!

One of the things I love about @liberalcurrents.com is how they don’t think that socialism is scary, and don’t automatically tar every social democratic thing as illiberal.

lol catholic school ads on Facebook

Like yes there are many people who have a dumb gut feeling that people who are homeless just choose that ”lifestyle” because they love drugs and partying or whatever they think homelessness is. This is not a serious question, however, because it is based on false information and emotions.

i think RTO mandates are complex — there are some jobs that can’t be done remote, there are plenty that shouldn’t be remote — but i think the revenge of the bosses is an underrated explanation for *part of* why everyone’s so sour about the economy and the future

there’s an inherent inequity problem when you have a large group of people who can plausibly do their job mostly-remote and a smaller group who can’t and need to be on-site, but the bosses in question here don’t care about that at all except to wield it as a cudgel against the WFH cohort

Great, Tom Kean can “work” (trade stocks on the taxpayers’ dime) at home, but USDA employees have to show up at a bedbug-infested federal building. gizmodo.com/the-federal-...

this is just conceding that roads are only for cars and everyone else has to fight over what's left of narrow sidewalks and multiuse trails.

i have seen kids acting irresponsibly on e-motos and it is concerning, but i still think most people are just reflexively annoyed more than genuinely concerned about safety. for instance, you wouldn't be recording in your truck next to a kid on a bike if you were concerned about safety.

AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER.

Owning the wokes as masulinity

This might be the worst thing ever written.

I do not love that most evidence suggests the path to success as a public intellectual is to become the dumbest motherfucker alive.

These policies are fine but farmers markets only have a few locations and extremely limited selection and hours. It’s not a strategy for getting Americans to eat better three meals a day.

Also there is no evidence that a lack of subsidies for local farmers has anything to do with ultra-processed food consumption! "Poor people should shop at farmers' markets" is one of those ideas that sounds great until you think about it for 5 seconds. Please be serious.

i think it's true but also conservatives in some sense want insane or evil rulers elected, especially in blue cities/states, as a way to punish and upset liberals, which they care much more about than about actually governing.

Yep. Media is attacking the Seattle Transit Measure because 1) they want to take down Katie Wilson and 2) they don't see transit as a legitimate use of taxes.

It's always hilarious to me when someone suggests that the problem with policing in Portland is that people don't like the police enough so police don't want to work here/work well, so the solution is to just be nicer to cops.

uugh I am emotionally wrecked today.

New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025. Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car. That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human. doi.org/10.32866/001...

the way FIFA has spent the last two years pretending everything is TOTALLY FINE with this world cup should presage the destruction of FIFA as an organization the corruption and the sportswashing, ofc, but they're also increasingly utterly unfit even for the ostensible purpose of facilitating soccer

Maybe I'm a weirdo here, but I *hate* podcasts. I don't like regular radio when people are just talking. I don't get why someone would listen to a podcast while exercising. Music yes, talk shows/ NPR interviews no. Gimme a transcript or a youtube talk show.

Ok. It’s June, and we’ve breezed past 5:15 sunrises and 9:00 sunsets

Today in "fun places I discovered through OpenStreetMap" 🦄 (in Maryland)

I need everyone to understand that "law and order" is a euphemism of fascism. That the people most obsessed with that phrase are inevitably seeking a society of domination where they are the dominators.

We will never win by being a pale shadow of our opponents.

guys you gotta focus on the positive: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is *least* stupid of John Carpenter's movies for Zack Snyder to remake.

happy pride

So the US has a choice: recognize that this paradigm is no longer viable and that any progress now has to be coupled with the willingness to impose consequences onto Israel, or just flail as oil goes up, up, up, up, up, up.

"Once you stop confusing “average” with “median,”...the picture that emerges is...long, flat stretches of stagnation punctuated by short, intense bursts when the labor market is genuinely, not performatively, tight." - @braddelong.bsky.social braddelong.substack.com/p/when-media...

"Thus the post‑1960 U.S. experience for the typical worker has three, and only three, sustained episodes in which real median wages clearly and materially rose: pre-1968, the 1995-2000 boom, and 2013-2022."