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Note that Milwaukee, like Houston and Bakersfield, is NOT facing a major housing supply crunch. More evidence that Housing First works but needs to be paired with land use reforms that encourage more home building.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I think a lot of this depends on voters' collective dyscalculia. We know people think 1/4 of the federal budget goes to foreign aid. Johnson said yesterday that Elon told him DOGE could save $1 trillion. At Vivek's rallies people think they are guaranteed a $5000 DOGE check.

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

'americans have oppositional defiant disorder' is both the country's curse and its potential salvation

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

submitted 13 hours ago • 61 comments

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

submitted 13 hours ago • 752 comments

The title says it all. The reason that Wurman and Barnett find the exceptions to birthright citizenship to be hard to explain (w/out the benefit of their ahistorical theories) is that they do not understand them. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ther...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

it's underdiscussed (but definitely mentioned elsewhere) how conservative think tanks exist to give jobs to movement conservatives with PhDs who are actually bad at their jobs and that's why they can't get jobs in academia

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

when you're getting your ass kicked, and the only communications you send are descriptive, then you're just constantly describing how your ass is getting kicked. who wants to give money to that?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's baffling to me that not every single person opposed to MAGA has tried this. They literally have no answer to simply being told to shut up. They don't have the facts on their side, they don't have any kind of relevant message, it's all lies! And they're cowards who don't stick up for themselves!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

more and more people are saying

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I have a paper coming soon that is, in part, about how we should see the civil service as an extension of civil society, rather than a force alien to it. That theory is vindicated when the civil service does funny and cool stuff like this to clown on the world's most annoying guy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

a shutdown is better than a bad deal.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

good. more repercussions for people who do nazi salutes in public, please.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

dawg

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

i think the takeaway here is that there is nothing special about Zionism. it is just another genocidal far-right ethnonationalist movement whose backstory includes being the victims of another one.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

even a spanberger style centrist would be a better senator than Warner

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

a big issue with the house dem caucus is you have all of these ancient creatures with so much seniority but relatively little time in the majority who are desperate to be chairs again or chairs for the first time and thus never know when to quit while they're ahead

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I think it's cool that the new deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino once got so mad that he did a multi-day tweet thread about how communists should be put down like dogs because I called him "bongo vagina"

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

“Two sources familiar with the matter, including a Trump administration official, tell Rolling Stone that the replies to the recent Musk OPM email have been flooded with pranks and, in the words of the Trump official, “very rude” emails listing fake, vulgar “accomplishments,”…

submitted 2 days ago • 384 comments

there is a generation of american jewry raised on "never again" that has flunked the most straightforward moral test imaginable "never again, unless associated with adjacent political power"

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

i think my one worry with season 2 of andor is that they try to cover too much in one season, because 3 episode per year is uh not a lot

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Trump loves oligarchs and believes the powerful should get to do what they want. You can read more into it if you like but he fundamentally believes in a universe where bullying is good and correct and if the bullied wanted it to be different they should strong enough to bully instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

This includes facts that would strongly support two cases now before the courts alleging that Musk/DOGE are exercising government authority in violation of the Appointments Clause. @mattbaidc.bsky.social in WaPo with details on USAID "tightly controlled" by DOGE⤵️ h/t @samsteindc.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Massachusetts' House delegation is really quite astonishingly bad. Four of the eight are massively below replacement level.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I think the reason that ‘civic duty socialism’, or ‘socialism with small c conservative characteristics’ is having a moment in left of center circles is that the long hangover of the 60s, where the assumption was that the median citizen would be a square too trusting, too patriotic, is finally over.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

@rokhanna.bsky.social cool story bro, I wonder how Bernie feels about you skipping a vote to subpoena the oligarch-in-chief

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Form follows function. A right-wing ethno-nationalist government engaged in a project of ethnic cleansing has more in common with other revisionist political movements than it does with any abstract communal traditions or diaspora communities.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Microsoft cancelling AI data center leases is perhaps the first time a major company may be admitting to themselves there’s not much of a future in this crap technology.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 2 days ago • 2157 comments

LIB ME THE FUCK UP!!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've never seen it stated so plainly: Joyce can imagine herself as an author whose book event is disrupted by protestors so she opposes the protest. Can you imagine yourself as a fired federal worker or deported immigrant? Wouldn't you want people to take drastic measures on your behalf?

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

I’m just gonna call it right now—agencies advising their employees to not respond to the OPM email is gonna cause Elon to absolutely crash the fuck out and do something even more batshit insane.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

The foundational principle of contemporary American conservatism is that it is better to be unabashedly evil than to be a flawed human being trying to be good but always falling short of perfection. It is a fundamentally anti-human philosophy.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The Biden campaign tried to do this when they were taking on water after the debate, & it was a good idea in principle, even as it was so scripted thanks to Biden's limitations that it never quite worked. An abler speaker could well make hay barnstorming local news outlets

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

expecting rashida tlaib, who had family members under bombs joe biden was providing, to provide unambiguous support in 2024 is psychotic behavior

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 273 comments

uhhhh. Sorry, you'll never catch me administering anything but the Tang era exam. No, I do not expect my men to compose poems as part of their day to day duties, but if you're not a master of poetry just to be a well rounded man, I have no use for you

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the reason that the american right are leaning hard into their immorality - which they themselves understand very clearly to be immoral - is, at the bottom of it, they don’t believe in anything.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments