I'm old enough to remember when @davidhogg.bsky.social trashed @marypeltola.com for being "weak on gun control."

Killdeer’s nest survival strategy sounds like something you’d read in a medieval bestiary that turns out to be totally invented by the author, unbelievable that they actually do that until you see it

Typical Trump Ceasefire www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

Harris the Hawk, Donald the Dove

"Gay liberals tend to be right wing by any sane definition of the term" fucking what

MTG is still a far-right racist conspiracy theorist, but Ryan Grim wants to give her endless praise.

Democrats last cycle decisively won the informed, the early voter, the voter concerned with Democracy. They lost the ones who were searching their phones trying to figure out who was running, which we are only allowed to say is a failure by Democrats to not excite or entertain those people enough

I love it when they list some plant as "deer resistant". Deer think it's hilarious, too.

All five Nordic countries announced they will arrest Netanyahu if he enters their airspace or lands in their territory.

Trump’s social media interns are all former butterfly killing sadist kids, surprising no one

It is actually REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT to know why people are perpetually incensed with the economy starting very specifically in 2021, because it has PITCHED OUR COUNTRY INTO FASCISM.

Pan Turkic geoengineer trying to *increase* the shrink rate of the Caspian Sea so they can build a Azerbaijan - Uzbekistan causeway & reunite the Turkic peoples

and squirrels

Every spring I feel like we do the stray cats/coyotes tweet but with bulb flowers and deer

Surely this means that the exact boundaries of parliamentary ridings in the UK are extremely consequential and yet I hardly ever hear about the process of drawing them - why?

Woodlawn has half as many residents as it had in 1970, so it's not as if there's no room for people to live there

So unexpected how Ukraine gaining long range strike capability forces Russia to start negotiations, as opposed to triggering nuclear war. Who coulda guessed

In other words, the three hostages were killed by Israeli soldiers because the official policy being sent down was to shoot any male they encountered. (Reposted because two of the hostages were killed by sniper fire, not at point blank)

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

So an overall leftward shift by voters can mean a seat goes from center left to extreme right because single member districts are a terrible system when you have 4-5 competitive parties!

Yet again

Do you ever get the feeling that Israel isn’t invested in the success of the Board of Peace

Turns out if you constantly and loudly declare that you’re only looking out for yourself, it’s hard to find friends when you need them

Tavern owners

You can’t just bomb things and declare it’s not a war man

Sounds a lot less like late stage capitalism & a lot more like late stage feudalism, complete with manorial privilege

This is a great example of what’s up with the word ‘affordable’ because most Americans live in homes that they own

OTD in 1920 USSR signed Treaty of Moscow with Georgia, recognizing their independence. We invaded them 9 months later. Part of pattern.

Everyone who complained about Biden “extending the war” can go on and shut the fuck up forever, entirely independent if any good takes they may have on other topics

I would be unsurprised if there are people out there who think they can defeat a grizzly bear barehanded but are nervous about taking Trump in a fight.

The problem with pivoting away from college as primarily a place to get income raising credentials is that this was how mass college was initially sold to generally anti intellectual middle class Americans last century

"Lutheran not woke" "Lutheran not woke -ELCA" "What is a synod?" "Missouri Synod" "Missouri Synod not woke" "Wisconsin Synod Church Near Me"

No one has deserved the Crassus treatment - on the grounds of personal decorative taste alone - as much as Trump

Do I have the sequence right? 1. Iran demands the US leave middle eastern bases as term for peace. 2. US doesn’t want to capitulate. 3. Saudis tell US to leave. 4. Face saved. 5. Iranians win.

Iran won the war

🇱🇰🤝🇺🇸

The thing about Saudi Arabia is yeah it’s a petro state but it’s a petro state with a decent sized and rapidly growing population. MbS has certain constraints on his actions that the UAE leaders do not

Special military excursion

Russian cynicism at its finest - fire a week worth of missiles, then ‘declare’ a ceasefire for the next week and cry when your opponent ‘violates’ it

Dewey hatred is fascinating to me - I read a speech by Ezra Taft Benson encouraging LDS parents to think carefully before sending their kids to be educated in the ideas of Darwin, Marx, Dewey, and *Keynes* (the last one particularly jolting)

This is probably the most illustrative poll of all. It's like the opposite of the 'can you fight a bear' poll. Way more than 33% of Republicans could annihilate Trump in a fight (Dem figure is probably close to correct)

i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"

Add in "Actually getting a nice tan as a teenager is good for you, maybe greasy sunscreen is the bad thing"

Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem? Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations. Thread! github.com/drussellmric...

"It is one thing for an oil company to extract crude oil, an airline to move people through airspace, or a telecom company to distribute spectrum. But they should only extract the value of the service—not the resource." -Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis

Israel on the other hand will get another slice of Lebanon for their trouble, while we get...nothing

If nothing else it'll be academically interesting to see how the public reacts to losing a war. Not 'losing the peace', not 'we have no endgame', but straight up we fought and did not win - especially with the president who started it also having to face the loss

Okay a good one is this - Preston Brooks (of beating MA Senator Charles Sumner fame) got verbally savaged by Anson Burlingame, also of Massachusetts. Burlingame's speech was so offensive Brooks challenged him to a duel, giving Burlingame the privilege of choosing the weapon and location

Farmers shaking their heads sadly, once again voting for Trump in protest of the mayor of Minneapolis not being vigorous enough in opposing ICE. But no, seriously, what are we doing here.