this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

my favorite genre of international dialogue

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

would a gas tax cut really help ordinary americans? no. but can dems score easy wins by doing things that make people feel like they're being helped? also no. but they can they expand the base by relentlessly focusing on affordability instead of trump's lawlessness? signs still point to no

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

The greatest free throw merchant of all time.

no Robert Pollard? does quantity mean NOTHING? he's written seven songs since this article was posted. mathematically speaking, he's probably already written the exact text of this article in the form of lyrics in an album called Clown Miracles for Speaker Witches

Real-time information on the steadily rising costs of the Iran War. This is costing the US vastly more than *any* Dem social or economic proposal of the last 50 years. It would have paid for the entire original Build Back Better proposal.

A Franklin County jury found former Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade guilty of reckless homicide for shooting and killing the 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in December 2020. matternews.org/community/po...

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

I compare a lot of things to On Cinema but this is like, point for point EXACTLY what Tim would do in Kash’s position

Illustrative of the abject failure of the US to compete on EVs: Only one US manufactured car in the top 10 in Norway.

Kennedy's goal here is consistent with all of his other policies aimed at undermining proven health interventions: he believes the people who benefit from them are defective and he wants them culled from the population. It's comic book villain logic, specifically Viltrumite logic.

You should watch the video. He accelerated pretty damn quickly into the student.

Incredible delivery from Tim.

May Day is a great day to be a fan of workers and America’s Hardest Working Team! Up the Lads and Seize The Means!

the Knicks are leading 60-19, which is actually higher than the scoring margin on the scoreboard in this Space Jam gag before it says "kinda one sided isn't it"

So the trustees would have almost certainly known this when they decided to hire him. What a shit show.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Sorry Democrats, you cannot make me think "the border" is real or a good idea.

A world historical banger of a post from the mind that gave you "getting a tattoo tonight, Monster Energy". RIP JCH.

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"We're gonna put the team in a shit suburb, make you pay for it, and then name a violent piece of shit the starting quarterback and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it" bsky.app/profile/insi...

It would be kind of funny to have January games in Columbus, but this is obviously the best decision.

What is especially hilarious about the "86" panic is that it clearly doesn't even imply violence in its original restaurant context. Clearly meaning "get rid of" or remove from a menu.

It was really cool to be in a room full of people working to make transportation better/safer/etc. Thanks to @transitcolumbus.org @thewaroncars.bsky.social for an awesome event!

This is unbelievably fucking stupid. Let me buy a nice Chinese EV (which are dominating the EU market due to their clear superiority).

Is this good?

OPEC+ man I can't keep up with all these streaming services

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

“Political violence” is a nearly meaningless phrase in an era where grave harm is so routinely caused by political institutions that it doesn’t trigger an ounce of introspection

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

The Funniest Thing Ever keeps edging us but never brings us to climax

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

Roy Orbison was born 90 years ago today 😎

Craziest story you'll read today, even as America's TV news networks fall over themselves to strike deals with Polymarket and Kalshi and present their data as newsworthy. The world has gone mad. finance.yahoo.com/markets/cryp...

People don’t think immediate access to a personal driver is a luxury because it was subsidized for a decade-plus by billions in venture capital money. I remember people warning about this 10 years ago!

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

"just one more lane bro" as official DOT policy.

Hard to carry on with normal life while the US is just straight up murdering hundreds of random people in boats and no one is really talking about it anymore: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I am a huge NWSL fan and I would 100% get season tickets, but this is sleazy AF.