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Put up or shut up time for the Supreme Court

submitted 4 hours ago • 330 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 6 hours ago • 295 comments

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Abrego Garcia, criminal or saint, was denied his due process rights by the gov’t. In this country, people are entitled to those rights, whether criminals or not, whether citizens or not. joycevance.substack.com/p/does-it-ma...

submitted 20 hours ago • 494 comments

We used to have a city councilwoman who referred to "the bike people" as though they were a distinct species. At some point I learned that she had a truly extraordinary number of citations for vehicular moving violations. Bless her heart...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 21 hours ago • 281 comments

Critics of SB 79, Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize apartments near public transit, decry the high price of the “luxury” homes that would be allowed under the law. They argue that we should build affordable housing instead of market rate. This common argument deserves an answer.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

submitted 9 days ago • 239 comments

John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

A targeted search of the phone of a lawyer for a protestor. Stuff like this is how the rule of law dies.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 11 days ago • 845 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 11 days ago • 1115 comments

Trump: Pro-cancer, pro-depression, pro-Russia, anti-American to the core.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

I might make it a habit to post this from time to time.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Right to the point. Thank you sir.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Whew, this rally sign is 🔥:

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

Even among the darkest recesses of the human condition, there is no more paralyzing, bladder-loosening fear than conservative men’s fear of subways.

submitted 13 days ago • 134 comments

The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon

submitted 13 days ago • 173 comments

We are very far over the cliff here, folks

submitted 13 days ago • 1207 comments

Have you said thank you once?

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

If Trump, Musk and RFK were a cabal of movie villains vying to devastate the American economy, erode our leadership in science, tech, education and public health, attack allies, terrorize immigrants, and rule lawlessly, everyone would say, “too cartoonish, not believable,” and yet here we are.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

It’s as if wanting to allow Americans to die is the top priority for the key influencer of all the attacks on health care and research. I suggest thinking carefully about who is ultimately orchestrating all this through outsized influence. Not Musk, although he’s a bumbling-but-rich tool so far.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Since I’m a housing and homelessness guy I feel like I need to remind everyone that these tariffs are likely to have a cataclysmic effect on housing affordability and homelessness.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

This isn’t a one man wrecking crew and this framing absolves the GOP of complicity. None of these moves are technical legal, and it would take about 25 people in total voting to stop him. The entire Republican Party is doing this. They should wear it forever, small comfort as that is.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This seems about right. It's just a damn Don and his shady protection racket.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We go now live to our economics editor who has broken out the good whiskey and seems to be playing with a revolver. How are the markets reacting Greg

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

I wrote about the surreal experience of teaching the First Amendment right now on a green card, teaching lofty doctrine while the government is rounding up people like me for things they say www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

It’s still a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 17 days ago • 936 comments

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 16 days ago • 169 comments

This also works if you change "economics" to "vaccines," "immigration," "currency," "foreign policy," or about 12 other words.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

One man's pigheadedness, combined with his utter misunderstanding of economics, is going to wreck the U.S. economy, for almost every person. For no reason. Republicans could stop him. They choose not to.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

This is a tough read. Folks are going to starve. Farms will be lost. Kids will go hungry. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Public housing vs. zoning reform is ABSOLUTELY a false contradiction. When I chaired a public housing authority, we literally could not do what we wanted to do - house more families - with the property we owned. Exclusionary zoning had a massive negative impact on how much we could help.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

submitted 18 days ago • 295 comments