Tiny homes are now officially as big as homes-homes used to be. We should invent “tiny SUVs” the size of cars for the car-brained to buy so they don’t have to buy the child-killer-sized ones
Tiny homes are now officially as big as homes-homes used to be. We should invent “tiny SUVs” the size of cars for the car-brained to buy so they don’t have to buy the child-killer-sized ones
hakeem jeffries has expressed more willingness to work with donald j. trump than mamdani
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Dammit why can we never get the cool shit
If I were an editor, my questions for this Contributing Opinion Writer Who Is a Senior Fellow At a Right Wing Think Tank would have included: 1. What party is Zohran Mamdani a member of 2. What party just nominated him to be its candidate for mayor of New York 3. What are you talking about
I hate being right.
think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick
this is going to sound stupid but it's entirely because we live in the era of postmodern fascism and because they wanted to post a video about them killing people for the base
my favorite bit is how the moderate-abundance synthesis doesn't work because the zero-sum and low-trust scarcity peasants that make up the midwestern swing vote *hate* the idea of positive sum economics with the fury of a million suns
actual abundance means nuking Irene's entire life www.propublica.org/article/iren...
had to conclude anything other than huge chunks of mainstream media like donald trump and want him to be dictator
Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once you’ve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them you’ve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive
At one point I had a really cool wargame about US-China competition in SOUTHCOM. While testing it, it became clear there were two big "own goal" strategies players kept trying. For China, it was trying to be the US. For the US, it was acting like it was still the 1980s.
to be fair based on how Twitter centrists have rolled over it's not hard to see why they thought online was real life
this is basically how everyone on GOP twitter is treating it, except it's a good thing to them
to take only the most recent case, the main failing of biden's term was garland taking two years to start looking at trump criminally the base - or many of them - are furious about this, but I wouldn't characterise that is unthinking 'vengeance' it's about *enforcing the law*
Straight non-monogamous ppl are wild, man
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
He’s dead. They’re announcing he died
Yeah, honestly: “parental rights” are starting to sound more like “property rights.”
This shit is so funny
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
Well, they're assuming the babies will be white, now
one of the ways in which both tech and political media fail us is their failure to point out that these guys all have views that would’ve been considered noxious and unworthy of discussion fifty years ago
Can someone invent sex robots, so they can leave the rest of us alone?
These ppl are just so fucking endlessly foul
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
I think a lot about The Coward Merrick Garland wringing his hands for 18 months about whether to get Trump, while a jury of normal ass people convicted him of 34 felonies
again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
It's ppl refusing to realize that they've become their parents (they are the middle class suburbanites, now)
1 spot per 200sq ft of retail space? GTFO
Need some YIMBY's to go fuck up all the model codes. The amount of parking the international zoning code calls for is fucking ridiculous
important to realize that Greenwald explicitly wants to kill any site that isn't controlled by oligarchs and tyrants because his project requires trapping people in a propaganda-supported alternate reality
if people yell at you for advocating "moderation" on trans rights on Bluesky but not on Twitter the reason for that might be because Elon Musk, the guy who runs and owns Twitter, explicitly censored trans people's accounts and posts.
I think all the criticisms of the prevailing culture on Bluesky are basically correct tbh, I just don’t care that much because the alternative is ran by a insane billionaire who hates people like me shot through with literal Nazis. I’ll take the occasional annoying millennial with an MSW over that
The whole point of this is so obviously to find something where he could walk on stagee - apparently living, say two sentences, and walk off, without having to take questions or anything
This is such a perfect natural experiment because “imagine this were a Dem president” depends so much on priors, but in this particular case, all variables are controlled for: clear grounds for questioning the health and cognitive function of an elderly president. The party is the only difference.
"Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two Democratic leaders in Congress, wouldn’t dare oppose sending more military aid to Israel even though a full three-quarters of their party, in a nonpartisan poll, now demand this." nymag.com/intelligence...
1776: lawyers and farmers 1792: lawyers and peasants 1848: lawyers and merchants 1917: lawyers and murder poets and a guy who called himself joey steel 1960s: lawyers and students it’s lawyers all the way down.
This is insanely ahistorical. The Department of Defense was an all new creation in 1947, specially to bring together the disparate armed services. The “Department of War” was really just the army. I hate how stupid Trump’s most performative actions are.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Dick Wolf has his men furiously transcribing everything that happens here for the October 25 episode of SVU
BlueSky Users Against the War "No Venezuelan ever called me cringe"
/4 SALLY: For just pennies a day, you can give these pundits hope. You can show them someone is on their side. You can give them a place where they will be cherished. A place where they will not be questioned from the wrong side. A place called home. [BLUE TWITTER CHECKMARK APPEARS IN BACKGROUND]
cynthia nixon now is your time
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
ngl social media egging trump to do a "i am not dead" tour that ends up making him sick tired and miserable would be really funny
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
Yeah no social media has destroyed civilization. What do you mean pets are getting rabies because their owners think Rex will get canine autism
There’s only one place that Reform want migrants, and it’s in camps, and they’re about five minutes from saying it, and Starmer is six minutes from agreeing
lol, we're so fucked as a society
Ever since we gave him the vaccine my dog has been non-verbal
Kpop Demon Hunters KDH Kamala Devi Harris Wake up Sheeple!
Looking good, Sir!
At this point? I think America might collapse
School closures only seem to matter when Dems can be blamed for them.
The most perverse outcome of this dynamic: The more extreme and deranged rightwing politics gets, the more elite Democrats/liberals react with ritual self-flagellation. “They are elevating RFK? Wow, we really must have angered those good folks with our crazy liberal/woke/leftist overreach!”
Elevate the Army Corp of Engineers to be the Seventh Service Branch, and give them the budget to turn New York into Tokyo.
trump finally achieving god emperor status of everyone being uncertain if hes dead or alive and artificially preserved
Hannah Arendt: If “given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness”
"Closing the schools caused people to flock to RFK Jr." is genuinely the dumbest argument I have ever seen in my fucking life BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE RFK JR HATE PUBLIC SCHOOL AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I need y’all to understand this is what the Yglesias crowd wants to turn our country into even as they have clear evidence that it doesn’t work from this very dumbass.
i don't really mind the "bluesky is dying because people are mean to me" posts because i remember the alternative, which was "twitter is dying because people are mean to me" op eds in the new york times
I am not the biggest fan of the Canadian liberal party but I am increasingly convinced that they are one of the only remaining liberal parties pretty much anywhere
Good game plan for the next Dem admin I think
There's an argument that Bush is worse president than Trump, despite being less personally, intentionally evil than trumps because Trump is just the drawn out second order consequences of the bush administration
I'd kind of like to see what this looks like before 2000, because it looks to me like Bush broke the county
Good to see that he's doing such a bang up job at consolidating loyalty among the security forces
The thing that will kill us all is that there's Crime: a real instance of breaking the law. And then Crime: Things I Personally Don't Like. And nobody cares about the former and only ever cares about the later.
universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam
It’s now routine for the DOJ’s psychopathic lawyers to outright lie to judges in order to harm children.
Trump spent a *third* of his campaign budget on virulent transphobia. Telling trans people to not worry, after having a $200 million target painted on them for *months* with barely any pushback from the Dems, is wildly unhelpful.
Honestly, this potential national guard deployment to Chicago is the best thing that's ever happened to Brandon Johnson
Also, elite acquiescence to authoritarianism has little to do with any body of legal thought
The legal realists were right!
Me when my wife sees the browser history
Update … People are finally taking the Eugenicist on his word that he is a Eugenicist:
Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
I have been reliably told that there are many very wealthy people who live in these counties and are the exclusive reason that they go 80-20 for the Close Rural Hospitals Party.
It would be kinda cool until it stopped working
Erie PA becomes Chicago, Milwaukee becomes NYC, and Chicago becomes Tokyo
Tbf, that's not really a Biden problem as much as a post-Reagan governance problem
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social has the hardest job in show business
If Trump did die, all the journalists who were like "my biggest regret is not talking even more about Biden's health" should be buried with him.
Loomer. Because people only tell her anything to get in with the big guy
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
I've had it: if you're collecting Social Security, you're not allowed to be in public office anymore. Go enjoy retirement; go fishing; see your grandkids; buy an RV. But get the *fuck* out of politics
This is unconscionably idiotic. Every DSO in the country is going to submit comments against this. And they're going to have to explain why something that's been in place for more than 40 years suddenly needs to be changed for reasons that aren't just the policy goal of harming foreign students.
Businesses just bought a bunch of extra shit in Q1 to avoid tariffs (while selling the same amount), and then continued to sell the same amount in Q2 while buying a bunch less (because of tariffs)
"GDP grew 3.3% in Q2 of this year"
"Mom and pop landlords"