Vince Cima

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

I think more Americans need to understand that their built environment is regulated by the groupthink of unaccountable organizations whose members think the sky is a different color abroad.

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

Actually evil shit

GOP is fundamentally the anti-autonomy party, in all aspects of your life. "you will be able to own your kids, women, etc." is their entire pitch

I honestly don't know what's wrong with this??

does the media ever—ever—ask republicans to disavow this open white supremacist?

vivek making a last minute play for the livia soprano vote

A head tax is functionally a rent increase but only for companies in the city limits. We should be less concerned about the head tax scaring businesses to Texas or Tennessee and more concerned about all that vacant distressed suburban office space looking more and more attractive.

I appreciate this guide but referring to the budget amendment without any context feels purposefully deceptive.

Any president who goes to China to map out how much of the globe to surrender to China and Russia should simply never come home. Stay where you belong

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

Joanne Compton holds an American flag at a No Kings protest in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on Oct. 17, 2026. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)

Anti-stop consolidation people will tell you it adds like 4 minutes of walking while saving the average rider around 1 minute of riding, but the truth is stop consolidation would help prevent gaps like this. Is 4 minutes of walking worth saving 32 minutes of waiting and 1 min of riding? Yes.

bureacratically legible quantifiable indicators are the only game in town for understanding things at a policy level, like full stop. they're frequently wrong. people often use them to lie. they contain a multitude of biases. they are also the only option.

nobody is ever allowed to tell me shit about America's culture of rugged individualism ever again

Also, not that this was in any real doubt, but it’s spectacular proof that Trump’s deportation machine is really about exercising extra-legal authority to jail and remove people he or Stephen Miller doesn’t like. ICE as a praetorian guard of stunted thugs.

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

The Israeli political consensus is that it is essential for the State of Israel to continue to deny self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population indefinitely, and virtually no mainstream American analysis will even engage with this.

Pure civic arson. Nothing but sectarianism. They see the Lebanese Civil War and the Troubles as models to be emulated. We're so lucky to live in a functional multiracial democracy, and these fuckers want to burn it down so they can squat over the ashes and piss on our corpses.

Hell yeah #Bluesky is the official app for sports #MNF #Rams

Consumers are *really* bad at expressing their economic well-being, it's basically just whatever pump prices are. Which is why maximizing EV share of the vehicle fleet is so important for breaking the carbon political economy in the US. Any other solution is doomed.

This will not get better if Democrats control both chambers next year

We found the median driver!

Mike Lee and Jake Tapper are going to shit their pants again, I assume.

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

@anilineapps.bsky.social any chance we could get an option to add the bookmark action to the quick bar?

as his brain melts he's lost most of his touch, but Trump does have a natural bullies intuitive understanding of how to use this type of dynamic. the winning move is to tell him to fuck off but that's not a battle a lot of people will want to pick with the president.

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much.

Part of the subtext here is the elite conviction that African-Americans, in particular, are lazy frauds using affirmative action to steal space in prestigious institutions from their children and colleagues, which doesn't necessarily translate to anti-immigration sentiment more broadly.

#cta stop spacing makes no sense!

the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

As a DC resident i really don't like the way news reporting treats "the President, with a history of 1) wanting to kill unarmed protesters and 2) 'joking' about not leaving in 2029 is yelling he is building well-supplied and well-provisioned snipers' nests throughout the city" as just another quirk

Telling my spouse that I will not be going grocery shopping tonight because Aldi has treated us very poorly and I refuse to go until they start buying groceries from me

I like how anti-immigration activism or violence gets the most stereotypically "woke" response from the media and government now---you can kill your whole family and the police will be like "Look, he had a difficult childhood, he saw a Black person once and he was trying to process that trauma."

Oooh, was just informed that Zexion is the cheapest its been yet. Fantastic retro Metroid'y thing by Metroid sickos for Metroid sickos. It is oppressive, dark, claustrophobic, hostile, and the boss fights are intense and have Contra-style 8-way aiming. It has some of my fave bosses in YEARS.