Rob Parolek 🍉🐳

just a reminder that Biden spent $36B in taxpayer funds to bail out their pensions

I think that democratic politicians should not forget that the teamsters are going all out to defend swing seat Republican ghouls like Mike Lawler

Donald Trump is calling someone a liar. Got it.

nailed it

I just want to state clearly that I don’t think there would be anything wrong with the president being gay and it absolutely would not change my opinion of him.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

The Justice Department has indicted Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, one of Virginia’s most powerful Democrats, as part of a long-running investigation involving a family-run marijuana business. Here's the text from the unsealed indictment:

that's real weird because there were Maine Indivisible groups in your office every single day during the Kavanaugh confirmation repeatedly telling you he was going to do exactly that

The owners of Nabolom posted a statement about the bakery's closure on FB. No reflection is given to the fact that they blame both (1) a boycott due to their opposing new housing nearby and (2) their workers not being able to afford to live in Berkeley

MAGA is super obsessed with athletes’ genitalia and with gay men’s wardrobe and street festival choices. Wish they were more obsessed with not pissing away our national wealth bombing Iran.

This is excellent reporting. It’s one of the reasons I subscribe to her newsletter (and, if you can, you should too).

NEW ANALYSIS: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are finding themselves trapped in two devastating wars with one dangerous thing in common: Their enemies can strike back at critical energy infrastructure. Iran and the Houthis are exposing a vulnerability that could send shockwaves through the global economy

Breaking: An ICE operation in Houston left a Mexican man struck and injured by an S.U.V., but a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter told us. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

As soon as someone describes filtering as trickle down you can rest assured they are a crank.

I hate how they use the term "trickle-down" as if the primary beneficiaries are at the top. I propose we actively use "snowball" instead to head off this framing.

Reporters should stop quoting "experts" who reject the well-documented empirical evidence about housing markets out of an ideological distaste for market rate development.

The existence of moving chains has been documented in multiple cities across different countries using increasingly fine-grained and sophisticated data. The relationship between housing supply, demand, and rent growth is well known. Denying these phenomena is quackery.

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

Greece is a critical ally of the U.S. Greece deserves better than to have a corrupt and incompetent U.S. Ambassador. Glad Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned. She never should have been appointed or confirmed. Perhaps she will join disgraced Kristi Noem at the Shield of the Americas.

New professional responsibility question dropped.

Florida Congress candidate Mark Davis confronted MAGA face-to-face and said all the things we wish we could say.

fast charger prices were ~50-60 US cents per kWh, which is about what you'd pay here. presumably the dirt cheap hydropower has a lot to do with that, also that Iceland has to import 100% of its oil bsky.app/profile/glob...

went to Iceland as part of my Nordic policy series. one piece of advice: if you are renting a car, GET AN EV. there are chargers everywhere and petrol is more than $11 a gallon

I would like to find a time machine, travel back in time, and tell Amy Chua about her big mistake.

“Sometimes people with good politics and marginalized identities are obnoxious assholes who weaponize social justice language to be bullies” is a hard pill for good-hearted people to swallow.

Taking a deep breath and remembering this.

SF DSA is genuinely beyond parody and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the cities with successful socialist candidates like NYC, LA, and DSA have abandoned this NIMBY slop nonsense

"Not to decide is to decide." That was a popular wall poster slogan in my Vietnam-era childhood. Still true.

DSA’s attempts at justifying their refusal to take a position include “all our leftist friends are staying out too!”, which is (imo) an unintentional indictment of the entire progressive movement in SF

A new example of the unique brainworms found in the San Francisco left: DSA-SF has apparently refused to take a position on Proposition G, which would destroy Sunset Dunes park and reopen the Great Highway to cars. Why? It doesn't achieve "working-class justice."

Sure, keeping the street closed to cars and retaining the park have major benefits from an environmental and public health standpoint. But consider: it isn’t full communism, so it simply isn’t radical enough!

I would add, @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social knows all this. The leaders of the green groups opposing this bill know all this. They know the idea of a tradeoff-free bill just over the horizon is an illusion. It's false. When they say it, they are misleading their members, their voters.

A Trump supporter punched a protester wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt in the face at Trump’s rally in Youngstown, OH. According to Mediaite, police removed the protester while the attacker stayed and “high-fived other attendees”. This is disgraceful and sums up the entire MAGA movement.

Column by Philip Kennicott: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to live-stream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will implicate the U.S. military in a spectacle degrading to its reputation worldwide.

Troops should not be standing guard near ballot drop boxes in D.C.

Rapid response blog post on Tropical Storm Rachel and the growing potential for notable Southern California/SW US impacts. Will also be going live on YouTube at Noon Pacific Time (15 minutes!) to discus. #CAwx

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

Right-wing Christians are such deeply repulsive people.

This is as treasonous as it gets