Protecting the prairie means a stop to sprawl, which also means sustainable growth needs to come from the areas we’ve already built out: infill and density. And making the urban core *more* auto-dependent blows a hole in the simple geometry of making more space for more people.

“You don't have to be stupid to win!”

lol

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

6. That election had a robust debate over the gulf war and criticism of the size of the 2008 bailout. Romney was framed as an out of touch plutocrat. To the extent energy came up it was the criticism of the Dems for Waxman Markey cap & trade in 2009, not "thank you for drilling".

That print layout sure is something

Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

(2/2) The big difference between the first and second Trump terms is that the assholes who head up our institutions decided that Trump's going to have his 1000 year reich and they have to just get in line. That idea is crumbling plus ppl realize he's going to fuck you anyway no matter what you do.

(1/2) I think Stefanik's downfall is a bigger deal that ppl think. Casting aside all principles to kiss Trump's ass was the smart move (Tessio was always smarter) and it destroyed her career. Washington Republicans are amoral sociopaths and they notice things like this.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

“Everything is bad always” is our new socio-political norm (unfortunately)

You have to be terminally online to believe these people are any draw for a primetime CBS broadcast.

finished Death By Lightning, pretty good! nice plotting, well acted etc. didn’t really buy the saintly portrayal of Garfield but boy are we loaded up with a lot of Guiteau type people today

We built this

The US is not going to have hyperinflation if we don't raise taxes. We're not going to get shut out of global credit markets. Again, I'm glad Romney has, long belatedly, discovered religion on the merits of government revenue from the wealthy. But this is deeply unserious stuff.

If I am elected President, I will make it illegal to require you to go to work if a pet is sleeping on you.

Spotted a 60-something man on the beach reading Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto.” His wife is nearby. She has Mar-a-Lago face and is wearing a trucker hat that says “Sun. Yoga. Champagne.” She’s been watching a live cam feed of her front door on a comically large tablet for the last 20 minutes.

The wife also yelled at the young man who brought her cocktail over to her beach chair. She snapped “So charge me for a double!” It’s 9 AM.

SCOOP: House Democrats suspected a few in their caucus would support a bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth So Sarah McBride reached out to Republicans Four Rs — Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Kennedy, Evans — joined Dems in opposing the bill www.notus.org/congress/mcb...

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

Fuck yes, Bari Weiss get ON. THIS. NOW.

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

Sometimes there are trade offs, but this zero-sum fixation is a poor and inaccurate model of public opinion. Lots of people are doing lots of different things over huge amounts of time. The idea that *at the margin* Van Hollen's activities with KAG *hurt* senate dems chances seems obviously wrong.

On a special episode of #GreatestGen, Ben, Adam, Wynde, Bill, and Rob almost have enough fun to forget that attendance to the Uxbridge-Shimoda Holiday Party was mandatory. Listen to the full episode at gagh.biz/greatestgen. #greatesttrek #startrek @maxfunhq

You’re invited to the Uxbridge-Shimoda holiday party! It’s already in your feed!

This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us

🎶 He’s making a list He’s checking it twice He’s gonna find out if you work for ICE 🎶

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

"If Dems had tweaked their rhetoric & 'framed' things the right way, political outcomes would have been dramatically different." This form of analysis is a) ubiquitous and b) utterly, delusionally wrong in 99.9% of circumstances.

Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

Actual research shows that there’s been an increase in social isolation across the board (which impacts older people more than younger ones), which means that the “male loneliness crisis” is just complete bullshit resulting from douchebro red pill podcasters telling young men that they’re victims.

HEY WANNA FEEL OLD?!?

Scottish independence - old and busted Welsh independence - new hotness

all these ceos are dumbfucks

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

Just say women. This is taking forever.

NEW — Gov. JB Pritzker will sign the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act this morning at Union Station The bill, passed in the final hours of the fall veto session, directs over $1.5 billion in funding to rework the region's public transit and avoid a massive fiscal cliff

Illinois's Dick Durbin is retiring. Who'll be our next US Senator? Attend the virtual IL Democratic Senate Candidate Forum, US Senate – Hear from the candidates! Wednesday, Dec. 17th, 7:00 pm CT. Hosted by @nwsofa-indivisible.bsky.social. Get info & register for Zoom link ⤵️

that’s true but I think it’s a mistake to think you can out-compete the algorithm in influencing their views, which have gotten worse across the board it’s also a mistake to think the algorithm there doesn’t influence your own views, almost everyone who spends a lot of time there goes right

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Mayor Johnson's 2026 bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure by a whopping 70% – putting our communities in jeopardy by threatening the progress we've made in preventative infrastructure. Email him and your alderperson today and tell them to reverse course!

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If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.