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turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

Started/Going:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Tucson folks - Sabino Canyon, Madera Canyon, most of the Catalina Mountains, and more popular areas will be put up for sale if the Senate budget bill passes as is.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 327 comments

A few Democrats are urging the party to make amends with Elon Musk and using a bad take on history to make their case. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on how wrong they are: campaign-trails.ghost.io/welcoming-th...

submitted 16 days ago • 108 comments

Dave McKenna insists they have ham trucks in France: defector.com/dave-mckenna...

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Commissioner Slaughter and I issued a statement about the new FTC majority's decision to drop the lawsuit against Pepsi.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

submitted 26 days ago • 62 comments

Gee, no one could have seen this coming. 🙄 Yet another reason to oppose Prop 123. www.12news.com/article/news...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Being angry may feel like a luxury, or like a flash of immaturity escaping from a political pose of unsurprise. But telling our representatives to demand accountability before the law is the least we can do, and asking them to be angry too is at this point just asking them to be identifiably human.

submitted 51 days ago • 21 comments

Richard John Smith as Obi in Three-Fingered Jack, artist unknown, 1819, 📸 by Gregory Shamus

submitted 51 days ago • 56 comments

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submitted 58 days ago • 24 comments

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 69 days ago • 54 comments

How did Whitmer end up in an Oval Office ceremony with Trump, Newsom hosting a MAGA-fluffing podcast, various frontline Dems hedging their trade war critiques, and House Dems preparing not to run on Trump corruption again? I have a grand unified theory. www.offmessage.net/p/how-politi...

submitted 72 days ago • 33 comments

When you just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever

submitted 74 days ago • 372 comments

I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

submitted 86 days ago • 46 comments