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Fascinating to watch Labour in the UK act out every fit of Yglesias-like Popularism and get more unpopular every step of the way. The truth is that what Popularists mean by "Popularism" is "do things that are popular with big donors."

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why would "the right" smear a guy who was their best friend in Albany? Cuomo is responsible for handing Republicans multiple U.S. House seats as well as killing the ability of state Democrats to get anything done in the legislature. For all Hochul's faults, she's at least an actual Democrat.

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I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 20 hours ago • 214 comments

you ever think about how the New York City commuter rail network is a testament to human achievement and engineering

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

You’re only supposed to start triangulating after you lose two consecutive elections, and you never compromise on human dignity. Democrats lost their first popular vote in 20 years, mainly because Biden coded old as hell and most Americans believed we were in a recession. Look at this mess.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

in another universe, “they crashed the economy and got rich off it” would be a very compelling rallying cry for an opposition party

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Gateway is also...already funded. there is nothing left to be done. Mikie Sherrill's campaign is an insult to people who pay attention, which I understand may still be insufficient to eke out a plurality.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m not sure words can adequately convey how much I hate Gavin Newsom. He’s a useless poltroon with questionable hair hell-bent on dragging California to the right to chase his pathetic political ambitions. No politician from CA is winning the presidency. None. Ronald Reagan couldn’t win today.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

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"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

Starship 9 and its booster fail, tumble to Earth. Of course, not enough bad things can happen to Elon and SpaceX, but this good enough for today. Reminder: zero goals achieved, all budget spent, five years late apnews.com/article/spac...

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No matter how slippery the SpaceX fans get in their defenses ("you don't understand, we learned so much!") the fact is these tests are waaaaay past the "experiments sometimes fail" stage. These are tests of what's supposed to be a working design and build. But it doesn't work. It blows up.

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We have empirical evidence that decreased amounts of bundled off-street parking have a larger causal effect on reducing driving than improved transit does. Discussion in latest UCLA Housing Voice podcast. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/05/21/9...

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"A human cop can't ticket all of us. A robot can." That's it right there. In other words: "Some of us are used to getting away with breaking the law and that seems unfair."

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

Just saw two cars run a red light in front of a Portland motorcycle police officer. I pointed it out to him and asked him why he didn’t do anything. He asked me why I wasn’t wearing a helmet. Fuck the police.

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This week! In-person and virtual! Registration is still open for JPP's international symposium "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field" (5/29–5/31)! 🗾 japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

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Stop the @bsky.app bashing. We’re all under a tremendous strain. We’re not perfect. I block when I need to, but ignore most foolishness. Don’t become goaded into leaving a platform that’s doing almost all the right things. To organize for 2026, we need to stay in communication w/each other.

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Incredible and detailed coverage of Shenzhens Metro Expansion from @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/shenzhen-m...

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New rules have gone into effect in Japan to crack down on "kira-kira names." Parents must now spell out a new child's registered name in katakana, & city halls can reject readings that have no relation to the underlying readings or meanings of the associated kanji. #japan

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Hey y'all I'm not tagging in someone I don't know who was just trying to tell a nice story but just a reminder that the word is disabled. Not "differently abled." Not "handi-capable." Not any other euphemism that was cooked up to make abled parents of disabled children feel better about themselves.

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A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

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“Bluesky has a hostile culture!” Hostile to who, motherfucker? HOSTILE TO WHO?!?

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🧵 (I'm going to keep my answer very narrow and limited to Korea) "Cleanliness" esp in public spaces is often a loaded topic, and without dismissing other factors, I believe public janitorial issue is mainly an equation of labor + allotted budget. simply, Korea puts a ton of manpower to cleaning

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It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

This morning I did an experiment, posting the same thing on [dying] Bluesky and [lively] X at the same time. I have around twice as many followers on Bluesky... and 10x higher engagement. But sure, liberals should stay in the bot-infested Nazi bar suppressing their posts. Because reasons. 🤷‍♂️

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I can’t get over my cousin’s graduation cake.

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Devastating news. I still can't believe we don't have bike lanes on Michigan Ave - it's a busy tourist and shopping street with Divvy racks galore, and no safe way to use them.

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lmao

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Elon Musk has described empathy as a “weakness.” But he is dead wrong, like his erroneous predictions about when we will have full self-driving capabilities. theconversation.com/empathy-can-...

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Cuomo is a straightforward NIMBY! Zohran is for extensive land-use reform and other regulatory changes that would produce a lot of new housing! I'm losing my fucking mind here.

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Maybe im turning Japanese but this lady beside me has her feet on BART seats which explain why they're covered in dirt all the time A big improvement would be BART doing the public behavior PSAs Japan does. I love those posters just everywhere saying dont block people, queue correctly, be clean etc

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I wrote about this in my newsletter but the idea that Bluesky has a uniquely hostile culture does not ring true to me. Twitter’s culture, especially at its peak, was so hostile that it lit people’s entire lives on fire if they tweeted something nice about their day that upset the wrong person

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centrist: bluesky is bullying me for my centrist opinions me: holy shit! you were harassed for wanting YIMBY stuff? cent: no, no not those views me: prison reform instead of abolition? cent: oh no not those views either me: which views, exactly? cent: oh you know the ones… ᵗʳᵃⁿⁿʸ….

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Paris Cycling Investment Helps Cut Pollution in Half. momentummag.com/paris-proves...

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My favorite example of this comes from over a century ago when the Self-Playing Piano industry argued that if they had to pay royalties on the hit songs they were programming their machines to play, they would go under. This really is a second verse same as the first situation.

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Motion to replace every invocation of "The genie is out of the bottle" when said in defense of LLMs with "The septic tank has leaked." Metaphors are not debate-ending truths. Metaphors are choices. We can reject the appropriateness of this one.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"this is how we grow our platform and attract new users" I'm sorry, you want MORE people? Have you MET people

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We love to see it.

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Personally I think that the problem with popularists like MattY isn't that they're recommending politically savvy concessions that are unpalatable to those evil, purity-obsessed libs. The actual problem is that the ideology they advocate for is essentially Starmerism, which is a colossal failure.

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