how in the fuck is it even possible that ro fucking khanna is the most rational and normal person in this

no one knows. anyone who says they know are full of unearned confidence. any scenario is as likely as any other. preventing these outcomes requires an output of expense, effort and blood and treasure that is as impossible to imagine at the moment as giving up and going home.

DC RUMORS: Corey Lewandowski has reportedly dumped Kristi Noem and is now dating her husband, Bryon.

As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

I want to emphasize that I am neither for nor against what I'm about to say may be happening. That's for the ppl involved. But the rapidly diverging worldviews and values of American and Israeli Jews are starting to look less like an internal disagreement and more like a lasting cultural fission.

Pete Hegseth announces "The Greater North America" "From Greenland, to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Panama Canal and it's surrounding countries"

this is horrific in some ways but also extremely funny in terms of "these people have no concept of how to authoritarianism"

It's for the best that Trump is too busy living in a depraved AI slop wonderland to focus on regime consolidation. However, this also means that he's too far gone for this to end any other way than a legitimacy crisis as he keeps spiraling into ever more insane behavior and policy.

Angelica Oung update: she's doing pods with Carl Zha now

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

Immigration is awesome.

Dawg why can't we just have someone normal run for CA Gov

This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Things famously went very well for France in the period after 1789

oh now SUDDENLY he hates it when you tax international trade

This is Covid 2.0.

buying the Monday open after a Sunday night bounce

My local Chevy dealership has stupidly good EV inventory right now, and either isn't bothering trying to sell EVs (beyond discounts), or I *really* don't understand the US car buyer. Either way, I expect with gas prices being $4+ for the foreseeable future, these <$35k models will go soon. 🔌💡🔌🚗

You've never seen anyone as invested in a mausoleum since the guy in Halicarnassus.

found a beautiful old magazine to hang in the apartment. they don’t make em like they used to

The research exaggeration pipeline. -Unpublished paper -One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C") -No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?

Legislative term limits are a goddamn disaster and will ruin your state

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

Primary sources, famous for not being biased and having an agenda!

Translating: Everyone gets their own castle, thereby sidestepping the awkward power dynamics where that one guy in the castle gets too comfortable giving orders.

“No Kings or apartments”

Glad you went. The point is that the biggest possible numbers on the streets is visual confirmation that the regime isn’t in control and people do not fear it. That matters for opposing an authoritarian consolidation; the perception of weakness is weakness. Maxing crowd numbers is a valid goal

shot / chaser

Corporate ownership of single family house rental Discourse makes me insane because none of the neo-Brandeisians are willing to come out and say "I think that lower middle class SFH renters should be evicted and forced to live in apartments so that upper middle class families can buy those houses."

So is it just this meme, over and over and over, for the foreseeable duration?

I know “he’s got an SS tattoo” is hard to top as a red flag, but for my part I may actually be more disturbed by how consistently Platner’s line on wars has been “they’re awesome, killing people is fun, and my favorite kind of war is imperialistic anti-insurgency”

Yikes, here's a HUGE story that it seems not enough folks are reporting on yet. Drone swarms of unknown origin this month apparently attacked an important Air Force base—"the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

Eight years ago, I was a city planner in Central Queens. One of the worst part of the job was having to tell homeowners that it wasn't legal to build an ADU. Now New York City has a whole website dedicated to helping homeowners build an ADU. The arc of justice is long, etc. housing.hpd.nyc.gov/adu

Find out why U.S. forces are quiet quitting in the Middle East…

Hasan is maybe the prime example of my "internet communists are just groypers with different RNG" thesis there's literally no substance to his political beliefs other than reflexive categorical opposition to liberalism, if he was born to a different family he would just be hot Asmongold

of course what's really funny ("funny") is that the iranian regime never did this until we put the kind of strategic pressure on them that put their backs against the wall one can say of trump's war: worse than a crime, it was a mistake

I can't wait for this woman to be Governor one day.

Preventing any one power from putting up a tollbooth on key maritime lanes has been probably the most consistent US strategic priority since we inherited it from the UK in the early 20th century. The Iranians successfully setting one up, let alone maintaining it long term, is a disaster.

This looks like a gender reveal for someone coming out as trans.

Parking mandates add $34k per spot to housing costs, taxing carless renters and paving over natural beauty. States should cap these rigid rules, prioritizing people over pavement to cut rents, reduce toxic runoff, and build more walkable communities.

good thing fertilizer is cheap, now let me take a big ol swig of coffee before checking the price of fertilizer

🎵 corn is a shitty solar panel 🎶 leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

The net effect of this war thus far is double the global extortion rackets.

We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people. Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast. Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

It’s big ball chunky time

Inject it into my veins.