Here's a great microcosm of why housing is getting so expensive: It takes a year of deliberation just to get a shot at approval to build *half* as many units as were originally planned!

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

People keep saying gutting the VRA and Trump were reactions to the first black President being elected but this is all shit that conservatives have been obsessed with doing ever since the VRA originally passed, along with dismantling the Great Society and the New Deal.

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

The food scene in Columbus Ohio in 2026 would blow a lot of major cities' food scenes in 1996 out of the water

Is it bad that we massively de-incentivized EV development and adoption right before causing gas prices to double in a two month span?

These were pretty decent when they first opened. The last time or two I went to one it still tasted okay, but you could definitely feel the lack of corporate guidance behind it.

I’m… puzzled

This is the equivalent of a football team punting on third down because a statistical model said it would improve their chances of winning by 0.4%

the guy who came up with sleepy joe, krazy kamala and crooked hillary would like everyone to stop calling him names.

gotta say i am extremely over the minor league baseball team "alternate identities" thing

A long but good read about existing in public, and why it shouldn't be made so difficult.

I think maybe I’m skeptical about AI because I’ve never actually had a customer service chatbot solve a problem. Nothing like having to type it all in again when it finally gives up and connects you to a human.

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Regardless of whether or not you think the #RedSox needed to clean house, it feels weird to do it immediately following a blowout win. That's a rug pull to the whole team.

No. Every time I post about this someone is like "they cover Trump like this because they want clicks and views" and I don't believe that's actually the case. If that was true, the salacious Epstein allegations would be the top news story every day. They just like Trump and think he should rule us

Are we going to re-analyze last year's World Series during every single Blue Jays game? #MLB

The specific lines she tried to add being lifted from the sheet the white house circulated to all their propaganda outlets tells me Weiss isn't a useful idiot, she's just very intentionally working for the Trump admin bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

Smartest thing Trump did was putting his name on the checks and the dumbest thing Biden did was giving a lower amount that promised.

Can the #Browns draft new ownership?

Maybe I’m an optimist, but when I see businesses jamming AI in everything, using it to replace human talent and experience… without having a grasp of what it can (AND CAN NOT) do, I am reminded of producers thinking software could replace expertise in my old career. And I’m not scared.

Periodic reminder that I fucking hate Pete Rose

Relevant as the winning streak reaches 9 games. #GoCubsGo

Some of it is projection, but some of it also stems from the belief that everyone else thinks and acts the same way they do--and is just as corrupt as a result.

This is especially rich considering almost ever city name in Ohio is mispronounced

Somewhere out there Dave Schultz is smiling

We live in a society

The crosswalk to nowhere

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Not as good as banning them completely, but it's a start.

It's way past time to learn that a truly staggering amount of social media sociology takes are just someone who refuses to pay a professional for the purpose taking out their pathologies on you instead but framed as advice

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

If every play call is decided by analytics and every draft pick is done by AI, then why are these teams paying coaches and GMs millions of dollars?

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively there's a moral here, of a sort

If the Haslams believe in women's soccer, they should fund it themselves.

Always the same pattern: Trump makes some annoucement that seems like it's obviously bullshit, markets spike on the news. Soon after, it turns out that Trump was lying about the entire thing and markets fall, but still wind up at a higher level than they started at www.axios.com/2026/04/19/o...

I have a soft spot for late 80s-early 90s pop, and Madonna was an inescapable force in that era. She made a lot of music I like. That being said, anyone who doesn't believe the marketing machine helped elevate her is deluding themselves. 3 of the 4 most expensive music videos ever made were hers!

As you hear about the Padres - the team in baseball's 12th smallest market - being sold for $3,900,000,000, remember that before New Year's Day MLB Owners will at least threaten to kill the 2027 season because Imbalance because Disparity because Owners Don't Make Enough🤦🏼‍♂️

Also, a lack of housing supply makes gentrification a much bigger issue! Neighborhoods naturally change over time, but "there isn't enough housing in established areas, so middle and upper middle class people go to more affordable areas and outbid poorer people" often drives the most harmful change.

Columbus struggles mightily with this; the lines between city and suburbs are so inconsistent and blended that people treat them as one and the same--even when many suburbanites wouldn't venture into the city on a dare. But politicians govern the bubble as much as they govern the city.

I'm reminded of the people in Clintonville freaking out about traffic from businesses open late at night on High Street. Truly shocking that the main north-south artery in a city with 930,000 people is a little noisy!

We're gonna start seeing guys decline to go pro because they don't want to take a pay cut

The administration that decided Logistics Were Gay

Calling Jackie Robinson Day "Baseball's Holiest Day" just made me turn the game off. Pat yourselves on the back a little harder, why don't you? #MLB

Is Prime Video just the national feed for YES Network? Every time I see them pop up on the schedule it's for a Yankees game. #MLB

The party that spent the last 25+ years trying to prevent teenagers from having sex is now horribly upset that teenagers aren't having sex

"We still can't figure out why kids don't play outdoors anymore. Maybe it's the phones? Anyway, we're expanding our initiative to arrest anyone we find outside who isn't in the process of buying something."

We've shifted completely away from driving profit by creating products and services designed to solve problems and make lives easier. The focus now is on generating profiting by extracting wealth from consumers as efficiently as possible, by any means necessary.

Remember when Kamala’s team was like why are these people so weird and they fucking crumbled. And then the machine took over her campaign and it started being polite and then Kamala immediately started slipping and now we live in hell