This is a great framing. MAHA's the real luxury belief, not queerness or transness or enbyness or democratic socialism or social democracy.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

I need to remind myself that children are not machines where you put in good parenting and successful good kid/adult comes out.

trump has been the beneficiary and the product of elite failure for longer than i have been alive

I think some people may have thought i was exaggerating the extremely gendered maga perceptions of liberal weakness. I offer this as a rebuttal. bsky.app/profile/radl...

eeek this was good olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...

The article is about burdensome regulations on apartments (zoning, building code) vs SFH. And so far the replies are complaints about privacy, renting, not having a garden. As if those personal experiences and preferences justify unrelated regulations around staircases and sprinklers!

Apartments are treated like a hazard because in many ways cities would like to treat people like hazards but aren't allowed to. So we use zoning as a proxy.

Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory best explains why Black americans react so harshly to other Black, brown, and indigenous people who are perceived as traitors or coons. The feeling of being beytrayed or abused by someone like you can oftentimes be worse than someone that seems alien or other to you.

The assumption is that someone in your same or similar position should have more empathy, and more potential for coalition building. As we've seen recently, due to white supremacy and colonization, that isnt always the case. It is human to be let down by a person you perceive to be an initial ally.

The majority of slop is also not directly human-prompted, but is used to destabilize information environments with nullformation. Slop matters as an epistemic weapon. It does not respond to collective taste so much as attack the aggregation and assessment of collective aesthetic demands.

lmao predictably, Pirtle-Guiney has found a path to vote against accountability and is beseeching Dunphy to pause the process and use housing dollars to do this differently. USING HOUSING DOLLARS ON AN AUDIT INSTEAD OF RENT ASSISTANCE COME ON

What's more powerful, the ability for a migrating animal to find its way back to its original habitat...or the ability for a TV news station to find one business owner who might be negatively impacted by potential traffic safety improvements. www.king5.com/article/news...

tangent, wow I'm just now realizing how much her hubs looks like diet Walton Goggins. something something that one article was right when they said it was All Image.

I'm pretty doubtful of many people who frame themselves as the serious adults in the room, politically.

It's hard not to feel like a crazy person when I've been shouting about this at the top of my lungs for 5 or 10 years (even back on the platform where I nominally had half a million followers) and ... nothing happens. (I know @chrislhayes.bsky.social knows, but I'm not sure why it never resonated.)

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

somehow, I don't think the recently uncovered $40 mill for housing in PDX is actually the Pcauc's fault.

you don't know your neighbors because of cars your city doesn't make enough in taxes because of cars busses are slow because of cars they won't build light rail because of cars your city's air is awful because of cars one of the leading causes of death and injury from accident: cars

ambulances are so loud because of cars you can't walk to get a coffee because of cars you have to drive everywhere because everything is built far apart because of cars you have to wear reflective gear to jog in your neighborhood because of cars you fear for your dog's life because of cars

I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars

i post about why *needing a car* is a harm done to you by the society you live in and most of the replies are "but I need a car" folks! that is immaterial to my claim that you *shouldn't* need a car!

Bari Weiss is running the same playbook over at CBS now - just shouting from the rooftops "HEY LIBERALS GO AWAY WE DON'T LIKE YOU OR WANT YOUR MONEY" the vice signaling is more important than running an effective propaganda machine or making money or really anything else

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

We are told that capitalists and markets subject us to the rule of a rationalizing efficiency: the lay-off is not personal, it is for a smarter allocation of your labor. Maybe it's esp. easier to see under early or late capitalism but _inflicting pain and humiliation_ seems absolutely central to it

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

We've moved onto new CM Mike Nelson raising concerns about creating too much housing capacity, citing concerns around water scarcity and sewer capacity. He also came out strongly against reducing parking minimums, because the former CEO of Town & Country told him overflow parking impacts them.

Now CM Leslie Schnieder is distinguishing "housing for poor people" from housing for "ordinary people" and talking about how to build income-restricted units in Bainbridge Island that won't be bought up by "wealthy outsiders."

I was late, so I turned on tonight's Bainbridge Island Council meeting in time to hear deputy mayor Kirsten Hytopoulos giving a speech about how "density is a gift to development" and that the city is already "drowning in people of a certain income level" and doesn't need more market rate housing.

We gotta pull NIMBY back to just meaning “cranky homeowners who don’t want shadows/poor people/ruined neighborhood character”. If there’s lefties who don’t like anything involving developers- no, that’s a whole other thing. People who don’t want data centers - also another thing.

wish we did, I don't think the death of anonymity is good. but we have to be able to both imagine what ought be, and engage with what actually is.

don't self-incriminate. shut the fuck up friday is every day. leave your phones behind where practical to do so. memorize the phone numbers you absolutely need, including legal counsel. but your opsec isn't stopping you or anybody from getting ID'd. we simply do not live in that world anymore.

hence my pithy formulation: car problem is cop problem is gun problem

This feels like the house in Daisy Jones & the Six, but like in the forest.

"Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike"

Me, I'm a classical libertarian (socialist anarchist)

There's a lot to love about liberal currents, but sometimes their feelings on anarchists are just a little grating.

when u get a weird reply

For those in Cascadia's cities who don't ski or do winter outdoor recreation this is an invisible effect of climate change. But it is just as devastating as high summer temperatures.

I am here for this rivendelly thing.

I need you to know that Bainbridge Island has a version of "find it fix it" and that anyone can look at the submissions people send in. I also need you to see this:

The hate blue cities in blue states get often feels like a culture war script.

I don’t think that theory holds water, btw…I think the jump in southern school enrollment is more straightforwardly racist than avoiding Asians. These are white institutions that cater openly to more conservative white views. The lack of Asian students is simply a bonus.

There could be a fascinating generational rupture in some communities…clearly not everyone, but there’s plenty of kids who haven’t been polluted by TPUSA propaganda or their parents’/churches’ ideology