Brian Adler

a tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"The Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build Houses" www.wsj.com/us-news/the-... "The arrests have also spooked foreign-born workers with legal status, some of whom have been caught up in raids and repeatedly detained"

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

WSJ reports that the Trump administration is deploying federal agencies in an effort to denaturalize and deport Representative Ilhan Omar: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

While Russia struck the CHP-4 power station in Kyiv, Ukraine, last night and in doing so once again violated the inexistent energy truce, Starlink has been throttled over Ukraine.

On a positive note, judging by how furious these fucks are and how they've brought out the real big guns to force Ukraine to stop, the strikes against Russia's oil industry are clearly having a very serious impact.

Trump announces importing diesel from Russia. 1 It will kill Ukrainians 2 What happened to the sanctions? 3 IT WILL KILL UKRAINIANS

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).

The Cook Political Report just moved the Kansas Senate race to TOSS UP. Kansas. Which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932. 🤯 www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...

this is especially egregious because the housing project being debated will house hundreds of people my rule of thumb is that if the NIMBYs can’t even match the capacity of a new apartment building, their protests should be summarily rejected

Supreme Court again blocks GOP's attempt to reinstate its congressional map, ending fight www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Tonight I took the car and drove across all of Kyiv, just to see how my beloved city feels at this time. It’s a strange feeling.

Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: When people talk about ending the war and they talk about historical reasons, it’s bullshit, really. If you want to end the war, you don’t start any war. If you want to solve the problem, you solve it.

I flatly reject the notion that incumbent residents have a right to pick and choose who gets to move into their cities, towns, and neighborhoods. We welcome the stranger, period.

If they win or if they lose it will be impossible to say if it was because of ads like this, but at their heart, these tactics are simply immoral and the illusion of triangulating your way to victory is corrupting to the soul.

if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer.

Fire Point's new FP-7 short-range ballistic missile is due to enter service with the Ukrainian military within "weeks," with the longer-ranged FP-9"currently undergoing flight tests," according to Fire Point's CEO, Iryna Terekh, speaking at a defense conference in Poland on Sept. 10.

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

#BREAKING: Over *no* public dissents, #SCOTUS *stays* the federal district court’s TRO in the Missouri redistricting case, effectively restoring the Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week (and the 2022 map that it requires the state to use in November).

Small business owners are not experts in transportation planning, parking policy, traffic safety, or urban design. Why should we listen to them instead of the city staff who do this for a living?

Pretty sure this is jail time for anyone involved but I defer to appropriations knowers.

John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

I'm biased (author on Ch. 14) but this is an excellent book and I hope folks check it out!

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

Brutal column on LA Mayor Bass' apparently terrible debate performance last night.

In contrast, a statistical model based purely on (a) historical error of primary polls and (b) the high quality polling of the race (Marquette and Impact were at Hong+11 and 13) would have given Crowley a 25% chance. Fundamentals probably even higher for him (Hong was outspent by about 13x)

Counterpoint: Polls underestimated Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota about as much as they overestimated Hong in Wisconsin

also going to pointedly note that the last Marquette survey of the WI Dem primary had like one third undecideds and that sometimes what polling tells you is that there's a lot of uncertainty and room for shifts in a race

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

Trump: "Very importantly, vaccinations for hepatitis B, covid-19, and influenza, among others, are no longer recommended for all children"

Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...

This is long overdue. Somehow, someway we need to increase regional cooperation and a reentry is a smart move even if it doesn't fix everything.

"Numerous progressives have won in swing states and districts in the past. Neither El-Sayed nor Hong would be the first progressive candidate to win in the Midwest. Ocasio-Cortez wouldn’t be the first president with a left-wing background." newrepublic.com/article/2136...

This is why DSA candidates are really taking off now instead of eg in 2020 or 2018 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...

This is American news claiming that a Russian attack on Ukraine was a Ukrainian attack on Russia. The only way Russia wins this war is when we spread its propaganda, as we are doing here.

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

Yglesias thinks he's shrewdly cynical, but really he's just an unprincipled dolt with mean impulses. Democratic candidates gain absolutely nothing by adopting conservative bigotries, they just signal to their base that they're not worth voting for. The net result is always negative.

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK

not really fourth of july content but i found thus explanation of affordable housing financing in DC very informative.

The alarmist "what if Putin escalates?" hand wringing every time Ukraine gains momentum is tiresome. Putin can't escalate w anything but full mobilization, which is risky for his political grip and might not be as useful in the new drone war. He's increasingly in a no-win situation. That's good