It’s nice that Scott has gotten here — genuinely! — but as a longtime fan of his in general, it’s amusing to see national pundits reducing this antisemitism or lefty lunacy. He has consistently positioned himself as an anti-anti-Israel guy and it’s not surprising a lot of people don’t like that!

People disparaged “don’t do stupid shit” as a foreign policy doctrine but it’s still looking pretty good in comparison to the alternatives imo

There’s something beautifully illustrative about the differences between Trump 1 and Trump 2 that the “Infrastructure Week” of this version is “deal secured to slow the roll toward global economic catastrophe caused by our insane war about nothing” (announced by Axios citing Jared anonymously)

Wishing all those who celebrate a blessed May Revision, with the notable exception of anyone using the accursed term “May Revise,” at whom I simply bite my thumb

Trying this out for a similar issue — “Steyer has a good pitch on decarbonization from 50,000 feet up but the fact that everyone in the actual investor owned utility business is spending against him is an indicator that his ideas are unworkable and bad.” 🤔

In my opinion: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for President of the United States

The hubris to have this in paragraph 5 of 93 in your state of the union delivered two days before starting a war very likely to result in sustained $6/gallon (if not higher)

In fairness, there were also two Republicans onstage who proposed arresting all homeless people, zeroing out funding for homelessness prevention, and abolishing all taxation of gas or EV mileage. But yeah among the Dems it was up there alongside some very kooky gas tax ideas. Bad field.

Almost 20 years since this quote, and turns out, unsurprisingly, we’re going all in on “suffering.”

Catastrophic war in the Middle East justified with stupid rationale and lying, growing financial crisis fueled by speculation and greed, Christian nationalism fused with austerity, approval in the low 30s and sinking, truly we are all so lucky to get to experience George W. Bush’s second term again

It’s like poetry, it rhymes

lol. lmao even

I personally do not have any interest in watching first person combat footage but the way this article attempts to spin up sympathy for Israeli troops as if they’re just silly lil guys and we’re supposed to be outraged that Hamas would be so rude as to engage them in battle is, uh, revealing

Oh I see the confusion — we didn’t say “cease-fire deal,” it was “cease, fire! Deal?”

This one’s holding up great

Some worrying items in here

yeah, that's kinda how i feel about the country right now, good job

Can’t reply but I agree this is a really interesting paper. However, worth noting that the “fuel island” is likely to look very different by 2029 when the Western Gateway Pipeline is shipping from midcontinent into LA (by reversing a pipeline currently exporting to Phoenix and beyond).

The funny thing is that everyone is going “holy shit that’s so much money” (because it is) but we’ll probably look back on this in 5-10 years as a comically small share of the costs based on how things are trending

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Two things are true: 1) CA’s progressive income tax is good, notwithstanding the very solvable problem of “volatility” (and mostly non-problem of rich people flight) 2) Cranking up volatility to address “affordability” (which is mainly cost of housing, utilities, transportation, not tax) is silly.

Bringing this one back based on the news of the day

I want to be very clear here that I do indeed think assigning blame/responsibility to random Jews for what Israel does and conflating Israel and Jews generally is wrong. That's also why I think Jewish institutions and leaders should stop doing it.

It’s crazy how the people who “irrationally” hated Trump have been proven right in every conceivable way 10+ years running and all the people so open minded toward him that their brains will leak out their ears keep getting robbed by the wallet inspector

CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!

File this away with “they’re showing him fake polls indicating 90% support the war” as explanatory data points regarding the diseased mind boldly unleashing an absolute cataclysm

Ha ha ha, Jared Moskowitz trolled Kristi Noem with a “Justice for Cricket” button. Huh, it’s funny, I could have sworn I remembered him saying something else that was deliberately provocative…what was it…oh yeah…

Nothing bad can happen; it can only good happen.

As welcome as this might be, I feel quite confident nothing close to what he is promising will transpire, much less at the behest of Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona.

Today, something happened in the City of Sacramento. The beginning of something exciting. Language was filed with the city for a ballot measure to raise sales tax 0.5% to fund safe streets and transit infrastructure. It's gonna take everyone to get this passed, but together, I think we can do it. 🚲🚌

Just finished reading the print version of this article and can save you some time: it sucks ass. There’s a part where the writer uncritically regurgitates a Newsom aide’s claim that a rally for prop 50 was live-streamed to 150 million viewers (which would be more than the Super Bowl lmao).

still thinking about this dumb-dumb a couple weeks ago answering “what would you do to address affordability and the price of gasoline with all the refineries closing?” by saying “we need utility ratepayers to give homeowners with rooftop solar more money out of their pockets.”

When Green Day said “Information Age of hysteria, it’s going out to idiot amerikkka” I felt that

Many people are saying! #DraftBuffy @buffywicks.bsky.social

Getting around to watching this and…woof. What a field…

Grappling with various stages of grief over the fact that we’re gonna have Matt Moron, Eric Swalwell, or Katie Porter as governor in about a year. Or possibly someone even worse!!!

Not sure how it played into the narrative, but seems like I must have had a dream recently in which Tom Brady was dead because I just remembered that he actually isn’t

Embarking on a national project to provide a fully hermetically sealed “make a wish” style fantasy world for a decomposing 80 year old Nazi to dreamily inhabit so that he is never forced to experience a single bummer moment while serving as imperial king of the ash heap

“Canceling the midterms,” if taken as “there is no Election Day” probably won’t happen because of decentralization and competing incentives for relevant actors. But if the “results” are simply modified to fit a desired outcome, this sequence of event seems to offer several weak points of leverage.

nothing more millennial coded than the jarring experience of hearing the real version of a Limewire song that was etched into your brain 20 years ago

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

Should go without saying but any “Democrat” who can’t forcefully and unequivocally condemn the obviously illegal regime change war Trump started has no business getting a party nomination. Example Blob-approved gobbledook from spineless Debbie WashingMachine Shultz below - fuck her forever.

it’s so cool that they’re now just straight up doing “No blood for oil? No, blood for oil!”

Instructive to compare Brendan’s position today to his unhinged description of President Obama doing a YouTube video on a matter of public policy and meeting with agency officials. In fairness this statement was from the ancient past of…April 2024.

Let God Sort Em Out

Sick sick sick. And there were enough jurors who refused to convict under any circumstances that the judge declared a mistrial after ONE DAY of deliberations?

Many people are saying 👇

I know the “tech elite” is famously disinterested in learning anything about the history or nature of the world around them, but I’m still a bit staggered they would try to claim “AI” presents some sort of unique ethical quandary requiring special allowances because firms pay better than government.