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This is how we used to do it before 9/11 as well and there’s no reason we can’t just go back to the airlines being responsible for their own security and employing private companies to do it.

As Minneapolis seeks a new MPD leader, let's revisit the outspoken chief who attempted reform in the 1980s.

For the evening crowd!

If you could make any 5 people vanish from history, completely removing everything they accomplished and leaving no trace that they ever existed, who would the other 4 be? Milton Friedman. Ayn Rand. Lewis Powell. Ronald Reagan.

The Independent Restaurant Coalition is urging the FTC to block Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Restaurant Depot.

Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

As a Gen X I love how we went from being called lazy, cynical slackers to somehow being boomer 2.0. It’s all bullshit, the propaganda machine needs to continually convince younger people that working yourself to death is noble. We called in sick all the time, I just did last week because I was sick.

AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/

I have one coworker who’s covered in nature themed tattoos. Every so often they’ll have an appointment for another and when you ask what they’re getting they just shrug and say “I’ll find out when it’s done.”

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

There was a pizza place in a nearby mall that was 80s nostalgia themed and it was great. Get a slice and a drink and play one of the several 80s arcade cabinets they had.

Every so often on here I’ll start out agreeing with people and then slowly go “Ok there’s nuance here, maybe you could chill… um ok we’re kinda ganging up on someone who’s on our side… and it’s a full on dogpile…” and back away. Y’all need to take a breath sometimes.

Probably a popular opinion around here but no sports stadium built with any public money should be named after a corporation and naming rights money should absolutely never go to the owners of the team. If the people built it they should be able to name it.

I’ve got 28 years of seniority in a unionized county job, a pension and a paid off house and I don’t feel the slightest bit confident about the future because I know for a fact that the oligarchs will burn everything I have to the ground in a second as soon as they get the chance, just for fun.

Oh man I sure love that new thing that Bluesky does where if you’re looking at an image and flick it away instead of tapping the X it kicks you all the way back to the top of your feed. I definitely hope they don’t get rid of that.

There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit: www.weforum.org/stories/2026... 1/

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

This is what we get instead of health care. About a hundred million dollars in aircraft up in smoke due to friendly fire with weapons we probably sold to Kuwait. Meanwhile I have a friend who’s fighting to keep their Medicare so they don’t die. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I wasn't kidding about this very long 2-part reddit reply, most of which is not pictured in my screenshot. I learned so much. Best thing I read all weekend.

Just woke up and looked at the news.

Tatjana Wood was the first colorist that I actually noticed when reading comics as a teenager. She showed what a colorist could bring to the art of comics and it was always a pleasure to see her work.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

They deliberately set this up and wanted it to happen. Promised to edit out the swearing, didn’t, and had a microphone right in front of him to catch everything. Bastards www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

I knew there was a reason why this scene felt so familiar to me. That’s exactly it.

But does it create employment and keep the money in circulation?

Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next. But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Whenever you have a female character that knows how to fight or shoot and you want to explain why, remember that “Because I wanted to.” Is a complete sentence.