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
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
The problem is that most normal well-adjusted people coped with the pandemic by memory-holing it while all the crazies decided it was a big government conspiracy that we somehow all still live under
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
i think about this frequently
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
need more democratic officials to hire comms staff with "that dog in them" ASAP
Large scale LLMs don't need to be banned so much as they need to be starved of capital. All in good time
pedocons
the "it's okay for the government to have 10% stake in intel" is a wanting the government to be the bag-holder thing right
it's easy to be elected on "what makes your heart sing" when you're not actually that radical tbh
Breaking - there were 40% fewer Clipper cards sold at SFO kiosks since the launch of open payment on BART last week, and 19% of trips to/from SFO now use credit card/debit card/Apple/Google wallets!
it's so funny how most americans are like "oh yeah things aren't great in DC but they'll sort it out" while people i know who've lived through state collapses, however partial, are like "oh you guys are about to go through some stuff, you know"
It is also, weirdly, downstream of COVID denial
The faith I have that SCOTUS won’t find some way to uphold Texas’s maps and strike down Californias can only be measured on the Planck scale.
if you are aware of the ostensible difference between a "liberal" and a "leftist," you are already so outside the norm that you are already lost in the sauce.
LA is too big, spread out, difficult to navigate, and lacking a concrete center for “real Angelino” to be coherent. I’d say the main commonality is breathing the same air but that’s clearly not true just going between the east and westside
Lots of people on this website are deciding to be willfully obtuse and pretend that Trump shaking down Intel for an ownership stake in the company is the same as Marxism. People are doing this from the left and from the center and they’re both stupid.
Stalin-ass banners out in DC now
AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.
it’s cool how much of tech journalism is just republishing companies press releases now
if biden said this it would be a week long newscycle and jake tapper would monologue for nine hours straight about it
The typical college student is actually exactly who I think it is. Mainly because my understanding of higher ed was shaped first and most by watching my mom study for community college classes as a kid rather than The New York Times' coverage of elite college admissions and drama.
Good idea to plan to get boosted, uh, “within months”
All of this is performative cruelty directed solely to avoid admitting they fucked up when they illegally sent him to cecot in March.
SB 79 — our legislation allowing more homes near train & subway stations & rapid bus stops — is gaining momentum, including from environmentalists. Powerful piece by Tom Steyer — a leading environmentalist — about why the bill is so important for more housing, stronger transit & climate action.
Sustainable abundance eh
I’ve had a Chicago visit pre-electrification and it got called “weird metra”
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
you don't hate the media enough
She was in the photo op with the sombrita.
Like democrats, they are held to a different standard than other pols who we just kind of expect to be shitty. But a lot of it comes down to how much Eunisses Hernandez sucks
LA has a lot of centristy pols who have the vibes of being YIMBY aligned but then basically fold to single family homeowners on actually urbanizing this place. Meanwhile DSA endorsements are a pretty good indicator or support for this stuff aside from a few notable examples
this is, like, at best, a half step from hiring catturd to run your official twitter account
okay well enjoy your waffles then, idk man
I don’t think it makes sense to pit these things against each other
We’re litigating the above tweets. If you disagree with what you said earlier there are more dignified paths than this
Like it or not, affluent suburbs have their own resources to construct the infrastructure they want. They maintain their own roads and get to make those choices themselves. A world in which they spend those resources on bike lanes is better than one in which they don’t.
Yes actually. You seem intent on seeing urban vs suburban infrastructure as a tug of war of who gets nice things as opposed to thinking of shared benefits. Which is an impoverished mindset
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Warren acolyte
You think I don't know that? You are being so obtuse. The point is that benefits are shared, not that X group benefits more. We can improve mobility in the suburbs (helping them urbanize also) while also improving mobility urban cores. There's no reason to set these groups against each other
Progressivism is YIMBY-aligned
Then you should recognize that "better transit and the suburbs" and "better transit in the city" is a false dichotomy. Regional rail provides both, effectively breaking the either/or paradigm.
Caltrain owns most of its ROW. Metra owns some but not all of its own routes. One of them is already electrified. Buying ROW helps but would not be strictly necessary if we could just tell freight railroads what to do
There was no reason to continue after the "but"
It's time to paint metra logos on these babies
Metra electrification and through-running would be not that much investment for a lot of return for greater chicago and a lot of the benefits would be suburban. Caltrain is the model
Adoption and surrogacy are not all that difficult to explain and require much less of you than "how is baby formed"
POV: you are a bad parent
The crackdown is literally creating the crimes it is tasked with eliminating. Delivery driver allegedly has an open container, a misdemeanor. “Mr. Bigelow was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.”
Mark we are on year 10 of this shit
I need y’all to fully process that this is the LEAST stupid billionaire, or at least the least stupid straight white male billionaire.
I mean at least he's admitting the part none of them dare say: that they think being shaken down by fascists is preferrable to paying more taxes because the fascists are asking for less money
Caltrain is the most productive regional rail line in the nation, thanks to electrification and fast, frequent service!
Tariffs are like, classically, the worst possible tax. Doesn’t come close to a wealth tax at all. Stop frying your brain in billionaire IDpol
He’s crashing the economy Mark
all Intel shareholders just got diluted by ~10%. happen to remember what the headline number was on Warren's proposed wealth tax
BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide! This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
They have never stopped imagining a Trump who doesn’t exist long enough to internalize the implications of the one who does
It’s not that you shouldn’t do those things—good things are good! But you shouldn’t conflate your own policy agenda and politics that fucks. It’s wishful thinking to say that just because a policy is good, then it will be popular. This is the lesson of the past 5 years that we just can’t ignore
It is objectively not worse on Bluesky. You don't get yelled at on Twitter because you are saying things the Nazis agree with.
This is getting off track. Sure urbanization is good. But it’s not magic and you can’t say “oh we’d win every election if only…” The world does not work like that and we need to stop thinking that way
I realize that but this whole narrative is overblown. Like I don't think there is a materialism based cure for MAGA brain poisoning
I mean they're connected but there's always going to be more content. Even if homeless people are out of the picture, you still have protestors, you still have housed criminals and drug addicts. You still have guys who take videos of "where's the activity here" in public squares at 7 AM on a weekend
Well I don't know about that
Crime porn is connected to but distinct from visible homelessness. It's that but also just like these viral videos of "disorder" "taking over" they'll never visit.
This is most clear with Abundance and the housing crisis IMO. The average MAGA person doesn't give a shit about the bay area housing crisis, they care about taxes and CrIMe. Saying you're addressing their problems by making housing cheaper in places they already don't want to live is disingenuous
Finding "good questions" from which MAGA stupidity is supposed to arise is a major part of what pisses me off about Klein's whole shtick. Especially when these "good questions" often were things these people weren't even thinking about
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
This is like exiting the Iran peace deal. Zero upside at all.
very excited for MAGA juche to double the price of getting a bookshelf
someone alert these americans that third way said you shouldn't speak like thi
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
After years complaining about the language police, the anti-wokes have decided its their turn to scold
When you title your argument as “a case for X,” you’ve already admitted you don’t really believe what you’re saying
A majority of Americans continue to support expanded early voting, voting by mail, and voter ID requirements.
In new polling, 73% of California voters oppose Trump’s immigration raids & 62% support completing California high speed rail. Californians get it. We need to protect California from psychopaths & make it even better.
Wonk Brain is like, midwit meme incarnate over this kind of stuff
this might be a defensible point if twitter weren't algorithmically driven and if the owner intentionally down weights anything left of stormfront
Waking up with this tattooed on my back after libbing out too hard with the lads
Watched a documentary on the 90s infomercials industry, which generated gobs of money and huge bestselling books, and thought to myself—I hope I live to see streamers get treated as contemptuously-in-hindsight as these guys
It’s like if you found out a major chunk of the assumed liberal NYT writing staff were huge Rush Limbaugh fans
This guy has been allowed to whisper in far too many ears for the amount of crazy he is
This is not a story about AI. It's a story about how so much of the media doesn't bother with the most basic editorial checks, publishing bullshit from grifters and mercenaries as long as it fills the pages. It's been going on for years. AI just makes it easier.
Has nobody told her that the “unintended consequences” are completely and totally intended insofar that yes we do want to build more housing actually
There was a brief window, when ED 1 was still in its original form, when I thought Los Angeles might finally have a mayor who was somewhat serious about addressing the housing and homelessness crisis. My bad!
Good luck building more homes
speaking of things that are 100% true but will cause a normie to back away slowly and call the psych ward, try explaining the cathedral to one sometime
Gerrymandering? too far. General Strike? totally not escalatory!
POV: you are tremendously mediocre
Is... is this on purpose?
An LLM wrote this right
It truly is incredible that the first thing they did was literally build the FEMA camps they were always warning about.
It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
