People imagined Joe Biden/Kamala Harris The Warmonger in their heads and ran from there. As said, nothing to do with objective reality. However much you hate Democrats, the possibility they would've just willy-nilly bombed Iran and murdered millions by destroying USAID is infinitesimal.

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

Polis appears to have been driven mad by the online environment in the last year or two.

“A ballot measure to codify free parking“

a) he's not wrong b) worst possible messenger on this.

Back on the old website a general officer's wife once stopped talking to me after she was telling me her family "couldn't afford" for her husband to retire and I told her that his retirement salary would be larger than the salary I was making at that time as an active duty NCO, with a family.

Leave It To Beaver is probably the most common reference point for this and in the pilot they make it clear she's from Kentucky horse money. She has a trust fund. And in a time when the average white man earned 5K a year, he earned over 20K a year. That's around 200K in today's numbers.

"Both parties same" was only ever lazy delusion, which is pretty damn culpable in itself. I can excuse very young voters (18-28 y.o.) but no on else.

Are electric vehicles denting oil demand? Yes. By how much? 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, according to EV Curve Futurist. Caveat: These estimates are hard, but the numbers are certainly adding up.

I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

Pretty sure the Kool-Aid man stayed in this hotel room once

Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.

We should not have to pay for safe streets with blood.

"Spread the Word: Legal Immigration Is Difficult" [Alexander Kustov]

Exploding the deficit and making it impossible to properly fund all the important government programs liberals hold dear but progressively for no real reason

This is Part I of a two-part series on the history of the Republican Party - and a long-term radicalization that ultimately paved the way for Trump’s rise. Part II will follow later this week. Please consider subscribing to Democracy Americana:

This outcome was not inevitable. The anti-democratic tendencies that dominate today’s GOP have pulled the party to the right for decades. But there were alternative paths available. Republican elites, in particular, had agency – but chose to go along with or actively further the rise of extremism.

I'm just gonna say it: Booker's proposal to end income taxes below $75k is idiotic. We've just crippled our state capacity and your response is a tax cut? Come on man

It’s cool to see how effortlessly NATO could shoot down missiles headed for Odesa if it cared to

Share of homes with HOA fees growing. Maybe we should stop needless HOAs from being formed MN and AZ have bills this year on that topic. www.axios.com/2026/03/09/h...

This is an example of designing cities in such a way that drivers (and their cars) face actual consequences for the dangerous things they do

".. The last few years have been a steady exercise in market humility. 'Oil can’t go negative.' It did. 'Russia will always be a reliable supplier of gas to Europe.' It wasn’t. 'Hormuz is too important to actually stop.' Until it did." - Morgan Stanley

I'm glad we've spent the last years engaging in a moral panic over e-bikes

your average r/stocks poster now has "William T Sherman didn't go far enough" as a baseline, things are going Well for capitalism I see

A mark-to-magic tax avoidance vehicle. as.ft.com/r/91c0a6e4-d...

Telegraph in even-a-broken-clock-right-twice-day moment:

We deserve better trains

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

People where I live have admitted to hitting flex posts on purpose to make cycle lanes accessible to cars and to discourage cycling. If they can do that without fear of consequence (neither damage to their vehicle nor social, other financial or legal consequences), flex posts aren't up to the job.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

I’m not a big curling guy, but I get the significance of this, and WOW it’s mind-blowing. Some are calling it the best shot in curling history! #TeamCanada at the #ParalympicGames.

Which is impressive for Brussels, which was most definitely not a cycle-friendly place even a few years ago. It was renowned for its terrible car-centric urbanism. The cycling culture is created by political will and popular demand.

Happy International Women's Day from my fav out of control Vulcan. 🖖 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #lowerdecks #T'lyn

There is a widespread yearning for the return of any kind of stability that leads to wishful thinking about how quickly the chaos in America, Iran or the wider world can be brought to an end.

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

Stuff like this gets mega-reach on here but “oil is back below $100” 8 hours later…not so much. This dynamic is why you should absolutely not be trading actively unless you have a high risk tolerance and capital to burn.

they really thought we were gonna have a TikTok war where you just swipe away when you’re bored of it

A whole lot of US political commentators really do seem to believe in a kind of MAGA Ephemeralism - nothing Trump does truly matters, because he’ll chicken out, and there will be no consequences. And it led them to treat “murdering the whole leadership of a large nation” as another empty spasm.

Flex posts were designed to be hit by cars and we act super surprised when flex posts are hit by cars.

My husband and I filled up our car yesterday and we have committed to biking and taking the bus to work for the foreseeable future because Trump is driving gas prices up like crazy. Can Americans afford three more years of this?

Concrete should damage cars before drivers damage people

Proper urban infrastructure deals out consequences to the motorists, not the people they attempt to hit with their cars.

“It makes no sense to say that solving homelessness doesn’t start with actually building homes for the unhoused, & the amount of available housing…How could anyone fail to connect a crisis of homelessness with an absence of homes? Plus we know that housing the unhoused actually saves public money.”

They like Trump and want to help him rule us a king, so they help downplay scandals that would've merited banner headlines for weeks under any other president

this is the kind of visionary thinking we need from ordinary everyday americans

This thread and the replies are interesting in what they discuss of academic hiring in history. They bring up how a shortage of positions doesn't lead to hiring the best but to mediocrity - some universities avoid the best candidates worrying they'll leave and the tenure line won't be renewed.

I wonder what's going to happen at your local gas station when newspapers and TV stations start reporting in all-caps headlines that gas is currently the cheapest it's going to be in a long time?

How long until Americans figure out that it's going to be cheaper to fill up the tank today than tomorrow? And going to be cheaper to fill up tomorrow than the next day? And so on? I guess the silver lining here is that MAGA types will be the last to admit it and thus will eat the brunt of it.

Okay, just to be more explicit about this, if you're a Dem and you want to do the absolute maximum amount of damage to Trump over the Hormuz energy crisis he's creating, you need to accentuate people's experience of the crisis. Right now it's being covered as a sideshow - "It'll reopen in a week!"