Joel

it's such delusion of grandeur to demand that a serious mayoral candidate in the second-largest city in the country spend a few hours three days before the election getting yelled at by Marxist-Leninist Karen (Megan Romer)

the latent vitriol for Scott Wiener as a normative vibe in groupthink left/queer circles is pretty wild

WHO WOULD WIN objectively best living conditions in human history VS. "i have to see transgenders on twitter :("

October mood board

From the outside, a lot of DSA internal politics these days looks like a clash between people who are becoming increasingly successful at democratic politics and people who want to act like authoritarians despite having no actual authority

I still find it amazing that Musk is so bad at posting Elon, what do you mean you’re the dick inspector

curtains for zoosha?!

Dawg with a capital D

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is an attempt to outsource a key state responsibility—providing subsidized housing to poor people—to private for-profit actors so the state does not have to raise and spend tax money. It is profoundly neoliberal policy.

The same day a court threw out the Trump administration's firing of Comey's daughter, the Trump administration goes back, for the third time, to try to indict the head of the FBI who refused to swear loyalty to the President. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"At least five women accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company, according to interviews conducted by the committee." www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

TELL US, DOCTOR!!!

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

Harris Carney and Lula have more in common than separates them.

BRAZIL'S FLAVIO BOLSONARO: I HAVE NEVER SAID I WAS GOING TO FLEE THE COUNTRY

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Enjoy bunking with your dad you useless sack of shit.

jesus christ

remembering how in late 2017, certain people i used to respect on SA were cheering on "richard spencer teaming up with cornel west to body slam ta-nehisi coates off the internet", and it was a sign they were well on their descent to madness anyway cornel west, lol, lmao

Another data point for the “Yglesias brain is cooked” hypothesis. Imagine thinking that it doesn’t matter for American democracy if other countries are taken over by autocratic regimes. We just saw the result when Orban lost power and a bunch of conservative influencers had their income vaporized.

Jair is personally going to cook up a new COVID mutation inside his own body as revenge

Abbott finally addresses Hinojosa: He accuses a devout Catholic of supporting sharia law He's barely addressed her! Now why would he do this when Catholic Hispanic Texans are about to desert the GOP in droves seemingly? The rural white turnout is THAT bad. He's losing. thehill.com/homenews/617...

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

RIP, Walter Koenig.

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

i think this stuff appeals because it *looks like* you are sticking it to the developers, even if it in the end it harms housing affordability for everyone

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Catholic all boys school can produce some pretty conservative alumni so when even they're going "Dude, that's fucked up" you know that's fucked up.

"Leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee Which stated that the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?" -Bertolt Brecht

Also, vindication for the pro-voting socialist-progressive alliance!

A beautiful poem, by Howard Nelson. “My Father Went To Funerals”