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the idea that a city's social services should be paid for one-by-one by these insane discretionary deals on a development-by-development basis is just madness. it's such a tremendous drain on the general prosperity in return for ???

It’s so funny when Tommy walks away at the end. Just sit down Tommy

@atrupar.com how long has Collins’ speech been like this?

Sad that Grant isn’t even among the best-known presidents

God forbid Mamdani cite approvingly the most popular president of all time

My latest World Cup dispatch: a tourist-filled city in the midst of hosting a 39-day megaevent is blanketed with smoke from a major structure fire that has burned for three days. And the mayor *just* declared an emergency

I hope Matt Mahan, Katie Porter, and Tony Thurmond are, like every other Dem in the state who cares about the future, watching each vote drop and figuring out whether Steyer has a chance to pass Hilton and feel terrible about their selfish decision to stay in the race past May 15.

“62% of people with post-graduate college education believe humans are causing the Earth to warm, while only 56% of college graduates felt the same” This might be the most concerning to me. These numbers are unbelievably low. I don’t know how to make sense of it.

Big FDR fan here, but one thing that I didn’t quite appreciated about him until recently is that in today’s money he only had ~$60 million. The scale of the the unbelievable wealth at the top right now is off the charts.

Just got around to watching DEATH BY LIGHTNING on Netflix and man, what a disappointment that they resorted to played out Lost Cause propaganda to explain opposition to Grant. In reality he use his political capital to take on the white racist south and lost political support for that effort. Drivel

Why did Netflix make confederate propaganda with Death by Lightning? Why spend all that money on the budget just to spread nonsense?

I wish people wouldn't use euphemisms like "policy & regulatory uncertainty" when they mean "every time Republicans get any power they fuck everything up."

The GOP is unequivocally a white supremacist party that wants to reverse the outcome of the civil war. It’s been true for 50 years but anyone who can’t see that by now is a moron

Why doesn’t the California Democratic Party hold a debate among just Steyer, Becerra and Porter? Clearly the governor is going to be one of those three.

The MAGA:KKK parallels just keep popping up

Being a dad is the best, but the 1.5 hours weekend nap is basically the only time I have to myself where I’m not stressed about cleaning and getting to bed on time, and I just had to spend today’s entire 1.5 hours on the phone with Spectrum and Verizon to process a simple service switch.

It’s amazing how much the internet and phone companies just waste your time

BOFA: we were big dumb dumbs

He’s running - 2028?

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

Who is he talking about?

Does Yelp know that “Yelp Assistant” has destroyed its “Projects” function?

It seems like a major breakthrough that Google “AI Mode” is approaching the functionality of 2010 basic Google search. Maybe someday they will once again achieve it.

Right on the mark youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM?...

My favorite of Bobby’s covers of Dylan is Ballad of a Thin Man music.apple.com/us/album/bal...

Bob Weir’s delivery of this, creating perfect space for Jerry to turn this song into perfection music.apple.com/us/album/bal...

RIP Bob Weir

He thinks he’s James Polk

SCOTUS rules the tariffs unconstitutional?

Multiple presidents?

for starters, relying on the alien and sedition acts as the source for original public meaning runs into the little problem of the alien and sedition acts being so violently unpopular that they helped deliver the presidency to Jefferson and helped inaugurate the terminal decline of the federalists

Listening to “You’re a Mean One, Me Grinch” with Stephen Miller in mind works

It’s actually insane that it’s 84 degrees in Thousand Oaks today. 20 degrees above normal.

My opinion on Star Wars is that Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 were amazing and season 3 was really bad

The idea that if Brooklyn rents were at Dallas or Houston levels anyone would still choose Dallas or Houston over Brooklyn is kind of insane

Michael Burry has hundreds of millions of dollars. Why does he need to charge almost $40/month for his substack?

Why aren’t there more Civil War movies and tv shows? Who doesn’t want to watch Grant start from nothing and take over at Cairo down to Vicksburg? @jamellebouie.net

I love a War of 1812 reference

I wonder what the Scottish towns in 1760 North Carolina would have said if someone told them they had to “assimilate?” Would the spit have been in the face or at the feet?

I feel like I just hallucinated. Did he really say “under any President, Democrat or Republican, they’re gonna care about American people’s healthcare and if they can put food on the table and try to bring down costs”??? Mark! No! Republicans DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS. That’s the essence of the fight!

As a busy dad with a sick kid, struggling to follow the contours of the Dem cave — that said, it looks like they funded SNAP to set up the same fight in January, right?

If Dems run on impeachment I think they win the senate

It was weird watching the World Series and the announcers talking about George Springer like some kind of WS legend, not as a fucking cheater. The dude should have been banned from baseball not praised on national tv for his outstanding stats from 2017

@mikepetriello.bsky.social who starts game 7 for LA now?

Seems like the Tolkien discourse since DHS posted a shire meme forgets entirely about WWI and WWII. Sauron is Hitler. The orcs are Nazis. The central dilemma is whether to use the weapons of evil against evil and whether that makes you evil as well.