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This is why Republicans polarize so much more on eg economic sentiment when administrations flip and also probably downstream of edpol

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Local bagel place calling egg prices HYPERINFLATION. It’s working

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This is half-baked but I do wonder how, specifically, tradwife discourse has memetically primed people for this. Occam's razor is the causation is the opposite way but we have plenty of examples of viral memes giving an anchor to viewpoints people wouldn't have said they held before.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 22 days ago • 1772 comments

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a direct result of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

Chiefs are Glinda, eagles are Elphie

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RIP to an extremely real one. If you don't know anything about Shoup, he was the sort of academic who could write a 700 page book about municipal parking policy and not only have thousands of people read it but have thousands of readers be inspired to change the world by reading it.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

WSJ: A staffer for Elon Musk’s DOGE whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics He resigned Thursday after the WSJ asked about it. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 30 days ago • 71 comments

we are definitely getting some choice Discord screenshots in the inevitable lawsuit discovery

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

submitted 35 days ago • 741 comments

While President Grassley's term was a short 76 days after dying of natural causes at age 92, current Americans remember fondly his term for the Dairy Queen franchise he placed in the west wing.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 37 days ago • 1412 comments

fired the head of the FAA, disbanded an air safety commission, encouraged federal employees to quit through demoralization, this blood’s on their hands, whether they are directly or indirectly involved is up to them and their god, but it is coating their fucking hands either way

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

As an east coaster, something unsettling about doing time zone math with Mountain Time. 2 hours is the uncanny valley to be behind your coworkers

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

One of the Oscar nominated short docs is Whiplash but with Japanese 1st graders and is quite sweet. It’s called “instruments of a beating heart” and it’s on YouTube youtu.be/DRW0auOiqm4?...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

One thing the Adams/Tucker thing has me thinking about is that we should implement jungle primaries for NY state leg and NYC mayor/city council races. Would hopefully lead to more honest ideological positioning and less capture by machine groups who have stronger control in lower turnout elections

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

It can’t be repeated enough that Trumps reversal on TikTok happened because major Trump donor and human shitstain Jeff Yass is a major US TikTok investor. This is not a deep chess move to win over GenZ!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I am in many ways thankful for TikTok for such overt Trump bootlicking — we are going to see any major corporation negatively affected by legalization pull this stunt until 2028. Please Trump-sama, can’t you help us?

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone needs a little hit of TikTok methadone, I am happy to confidently explain something that is obviously untrue

submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

Also, the folks leaving CA are disproportionately Republican!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Who is the lone voter that lives in/next to St. Michaels cemetery in Queens? Liberal corporeal ghost?

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It's less about "who tells a better story" than who owns the megaphone. Dems have no propaganda infrastructure equivalent to Rogan/Fox/talk radio and mainstream media now controlled 90% by conservative ownership who lies to their audience. Invented an imaginary recession that never happened.

submitted 56 days ago • 15 comments

There was a whooping cough outbreak in ~2005 in Santa Barbara because of crunchy hippies, it does not need to come back.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

no surprise seeing NRO take a stand against property rights because they have no real ideology other than reflexive opposition to anything coded as liberal. the image says everything. if libs want to make it easier to build homes then obviously it must be opposed. a child’s worldviews.

submitted 71 days ago • 78 comments

This is the problem with everything being negotiated through environmental review and other processes that aren't, you know, actual planning. When resources are strictly constrained it forces agencies into taking tactical positions that are obviously against their strategic interest.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

NYC approves its set of major land-use changes: —No parking requirements in many areas (pink areas); reduced in yellow areas —20% density bonus for affordable units —ADUs in many parts of city —Increased infill densities —$5 b for infrastructure & affordable housing citylimits.org/2024/12/05/w...

submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

I think it's reasonably likely we'll have an event on the house floor next year where e.g. MTG will deserve assault charges for doing something insane to McBride

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

this gets to the point i keep making. to the media elites who are obsessed with anti-wokeness, something like mass deportation is a total abstraction whereas they are annoyed, on a daily basis, by their supposedly “woke” younger colleagues and social media antagonists

submitted 109 days ago • 118 comments

This is a good example of this phenomenon (that @aremay.bsky.social helped me find)—British voters supported cutting immigration by ~10 points, but they support most of the largest sources of immigration by 20 points or more. Only small boats and families of students were underwater.

submitted 110 days ago • 12 comments

Sauer was the one that said it was legal for a president to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

will be darkly funny if the destruction of Chevron deference ultimately gives states an out from a bunch of the insanity

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

https://youtu.be/aiVkyD1yzJg

submitted 571 days ago • 92 comments

San Francisco’s investment in robust neighborhood notification system for housing permits allows it to be resilient to a Twitter-free future. We will be able to leverage the same pipelines to send your neighbors physical copies of all your deranged takes.

submitted 616 days ago • 0 comments

Not really worried about AI taking coding jobs when it’s internal systems will need to debate whether to use scrum or kanban and burn it self out after two months

submitted 662 days ago • 0 comments

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! With the discourse focused on Martin Shkreli's medical price gouging, don't forget your local hospital is guilty of the same thing! $60 for an ibuprofen is enough to give any Hedgehog a headache! Healthcare pricing in the US is out of control, and that's not cool!

submitted 674 days ago • 7 comments

Just so you know, the test for whether you can kill someone in self-defense or defense of others doesn’t change if the person you are killing is homeless.

submitted 674 days ago • 15 comments