After 8 months I think the AGs just have templates on a shared drive ready to break out for any eventuality

It's nice how you can just make up any one-syllable word following English phonology, add -ed, and it will be understood in context as meaning "high" Dude, I was so plenked

I had been thinking about the Paul Ryan fracas! God, that was over 10 years ago now. He was insistent on going along with Paul Ryan's self-marketing as a wonk

He truly is Chance the Gardener from Being There. www.kgw.com/article/news...

So much close reading of the Klein/Coates interview... I thought reading the NYT at all (except Bouie) was infra dig now?

The sad/pathetic reality is, the only difference between "luxury" condos and "normal" condos is, if you walk one aisle further down at Home Depot, you find the "luxury" finishes. That's it. That's what makes "luxury" housing. But left NIMBYs never built anything in their lives, so, no idea.

Klein has had a lot to say about The Groups being undisciplined and suffering from mission creep. He’s critiqued writers and activists for shrinking the proverbial electoral tent. It really feels like he’s doing the same shit with abundance. He’s undisciplined and does his advocacy a disservice.

Oh please no, this definitional dispute is relevant again.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Mostly good, but "local control"???

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

"i don't believe anyone should have housing if anyone profits off of it"

Congress should give 2-3 cities permission to ban non-wired internet, downgrade cell service to voice and SMS only. A few tourist towns would jump at the chance to offer a differentiated experience.

median bluesky poster // median liberal pundit with a national platform

The Fantastic Four movie has good review scores but I've seen nothing on it since its release. Was it actually good?

Odds on "they found an immigrant with a criminal record & the same name and have not imagined they might be different people"

BLINK

I wonder if anyone's ever broken thru someone's TFA by first hacking their phone mic & then waiting for an opportunity where they mutter the six-digit code under their breath transferring from phone to keyboard

@replsimon.bsky.social you gonna join?

Small traffic signals at human height in Barcelona. It’s wonderful how dimensions and scale shrink when you design for people, not cars.

It's so funny when people do anti-Trump posts that end up being pro-Hitler

I thought "this might be a little inadvertently presentist, like 55.1 is probably low in recent memory but not necessarily in true sustained recessions," so I looked it up. The lowest this metric ever got in the Great Recession was 55.3 in November 2008.

Applying housing insights to antitrust: traditional antitrust law, where the DOJ had wide discretion to sue against anti-competitive transactions or practices, worked pretty well in the first generation staffed with bright committed lawyers, but that discretion may have hurt the cause long-term.

it's hard to believe how much infrastructure can solve for pedestrianism until you try it in the Boston area (drivers every bit the unpleasant assholes you've heard; safe and pleasant to walk) vs. LA (drivers skilled and pretty considerate all in all; crappy and oft-dangerous to walk)

Having fewer elevators means more people live in multi-story buildings where their only means of accessing their unit is the stairs. That's a disaster for anyone with mobility challenges. Buildings like this one in Spain, which has 3 stories, 54 units, and 9 elevators, are completely unheard of.

I wanted to call Howard Jarvis "the landlord's landlord" but on reflection that created some confusing implications

What’s the deal with American socialists not being able to do class analysis any more sophisticated than Corporations vs The People?

CHOTINER: how spicy is the spicy tofu? SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: look I don't do it all the time SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: that would be like expecting Sammy Davis Jr to tapdance everywhere, I just want a sandwich SANDWICH GUY: I'm saying fucking nothing until my lawyer gets here.

Unless you assert, bafflingly & probably heretically, that the Holy Ghost provided a Y chromosome, logically you have to accept that Jesus was at least chromosomaly female

Lamenting lack of clothes hanger in office for suit jacket then Lamenting not knowing melody to "If I Had A Hammer" so I could adapt it

BREAKING: DOJ releases image of text on one of the bullets

The world is divided between supply skeptics who believe high hard costs are an intractable problem and those that have looked at US codes and buildings in other developed countries.

Strawberry level increases

Update: he spoke out against the censorship of Kimmel, but in the same podcast segment mentioned "the [expletive] globalist lizard people who run the world" as among those who would benefit. Not particularly helpful imo

I have a right to store my own private vehicle on public land without limitation, but leftishly

Sorry but parking "cops" are good, unarmed civil servants rightly ensuring access to public spaces remain accessible. I own a car and almost never get parking tickets because I park correctly and in consideration of other people who need curbspace.

in this specific case there 1) isn’t a good understanding in the legislature on the importance of commercial TOD 2) is almost nobody there who thinks public land should be used to generate revenue for the agency

I guess today is the day for gross sex details of Iberosphere dictators, because I was just listening to a podcast discuss the 16-year-old that Antonio Salazar both tutored and courted (Julia Perestrelo)

people who hate speed cameras are honestly just fucking losers. Literally just drive the speed limit!

they're bad bribes Elric

We don't internalize enough how weird the East India Company was. Its British staff came over as teens, 15-18, and the deal was, there's a high chance you'll die of disease, but if not, you get to learn the ropes of kleptocracy & come home rich. Sort of a monastic order, but w/o pretense of morals

Why does every other country understand Trump better than our own?

RFK at HHS is like if a baby crashed a car in to a crowd of people. Sure I'm mad at the baby, if not particularly surprised by the outcome - but my bigger concern is all the adults who handed the baby the car keys and insisted it'd be fine.

Whenever I interview for a job, I sneak ten coins into each other interviewee's pocket, so I'm never wrong.

Genuinely curious if makers of Tylenol have a defamation case. Very possible that discovery would find FDA officials reporting there was no evidence for what the White House wanted to say

His brain is falling apart like rotten fruit, that's the something.

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