Born Broke Again
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My dog ate my TV. Then I ate my dog.
Ho/hum in San Francisco Califor'ya
Ho/hum in San Francisco Califor'ya
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By law: enlarge House, proportional representation for multipartyism, SOCTUS expansion and term limits, DC & PR statehood (after AOC consultation bill), abolish DOJ, replace with independent prosecution service.
Then abolish the Imperial Presidency. Recently in @liberalcurrents.com
Then abolish the Imperial Presidency. Recently in @liberalcurrents.com
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
By law: enlarge House, proportional representation for multipartyism, SOCTUS expansion and term limits, DC & PR statehood (after AOC consultation bill), abolish DOJ, replace with independent prosecution service.
Then abolish the Imperial Presidency. Recently in @liberalcurrents.com
Then abolish the Imperial Presidency. Recently in @liberalcurrents.com
no man is indispensable
"Our highest offices and most consequential decisions have come to hinge on the declining health and faculties of individuals clinging to office into unreasonably old age." (from August) www.liberalcurrents.com/age-limits-f...
Age Limits for Politicians
It is no longer tenable to pretend that gerontocracy isn’t a real problem. The American people overwhelmingly agree.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
no man is indispensable
Maybe you're gonna lose your health insurance, but at least Trump has Mar-a-Lago 🏝️
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Maybe you're gonna lose your health insurance, but at least Trump has Mar-a-Lago 🏝️
"Housing needs to be affordable, secure and nonspeculative."
“These reforms have eroded housing as a social right. The inequalities of who can live where & under what conditions, have created massive grievances among a large share of the population [that] contribute to the increasing electoral success of the radical right.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Housing needs to be affordable, secure and nonspeculative."
Every deal America makes with Trump is a bad deal. There are no good deal between Trump and the American people. 🇺🇸
Impeach, convict, remove.
Impeach, convict, remove.
This is a classic Trump scam.
The hype is pure fantasy, a small reactor, tech not ready, materials that have not yet even been invented.
Hype, investment, skim, failure, money disappeared.
The hype is pure fantasy, a small reactor, tech not ready, materials that have not yet even been invented.
Hype, investment, skim, failure, money disappeared.
Why Trump’s social media and crypto company is merging with a developer of fusion power
The parent of Truth Social will combine with TAE Technologies with the aim of bringing fusion power plants online quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Every deal America makes with Trump is a bad deal. There are no good deal between Trump and the American people. 🇺🇸
Impeach, convict, remove.
Impeach, convict, remove.
"On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."
If you’ve read any celebrity profiles about youngish female stars during the past decade or so, you may have noticed that each woman, no matter what, is always stepping into her truth and power—she will also be stepping into her truth and power three years from now, when she promotes her next thing
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Eat, Pray, Love” was a huge hit in part because readers imagined they could be like its author. Her new book, “All the Way to the River,” shows how dubious that notion was.
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."
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Took not even a year to transform the former "land of the free" into a corrupt, repressive, authoritarian 3rd world police-state. Sad to see ... hope we can get rid of all the violence-addicted corrupt right-wing scum worldwide (and put them all on trial); and hopefully sooner than later ... :-(
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Took not even a year to transform the former "land of the free" into a corrupt, repressive, authoritarian 3rd world police-state. Sad to see ... hope we can get rid of all the violence-addicted corrupt right-wing scum worldwide (and put them all on trial); and hopefully sooner than later ... :-(
No problem, let's give this DANGEROUS DRIVER a little do-over, shall we?
"Redwood City police investigators said it appears this was a case of an elderly driver mistaking the pedal for the brake and that no charges have been filed."
"Redwood City police investigators said it appears this was a case of an elderly driver mistaking the pedal for the brake and that no charges have been filed."
Woman saved from burning car after it plows into Redwood City ACE Hardware store
Officials in Redwood City say a female driver plowed into the front of the Hassett ACE Hardware store in the Woodside Plaza Shopping Center on Monday night.
www.ktvu.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
No problem, let's give this DANGEROUS DRIVER a little do-over, shall we?
"Redwood City police investigators said it appears this was a case of an elderly driver mistaking the pedal for the brake and that no charges have been filed."
"Redwood City police investigators said it appears this was a case of an elderly driver mistaking the pedal for the brake and that no charges have been filed."
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The writing is on the wall: transformative regulation will be needed to address the harms from plastic. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
These kitchen items may be contaminating your food with chemicals
See the thousands of plastic chemicals in what we eat.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The writing is on the wall: transformative regulation will be needed to address the harms from plastic. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Good news! It’s December and I’m only 11 issues behind on my New Yorker reading!
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good news! It’s December and I’m only 11 issues behind on my New Yorker reading!
It might just be that women are for life and men are for death. That’s our evolutionary past, present and future.
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It might just be that women are for life and men are for death. That’s our evolutionary past, present and future.
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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The sensible thing now is to impeach & remove Trump. America made a huge unforced error electing him in 2024, but we don't have to crash out because so many were hoodwinked.
Toss him out. Let him fend for himself like the rest of us here in Real America. He's not my deal, and not yours either.
Toss him out. Let him fend for himself like the rest of us here in Real America. He's not my deal, and not yours either.
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The sensible thing now is to impeach & remove Trump. America made a huge unforced error electing him in 2024, but we don't have to crash out because so many were hoodwinked.
Toss him out. Let him fend for himself like the rest of us here in Real America. He's not my deal, and not yours either.
Toss him out. Let him fend for himself like the rest of us here in Real America. He's not my deal, and not yours either.
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Everyone is wrong about cars, so here's the recipe:
- Severe penalties for driver violence, including mandatory prison. Deterrence works.
- Fire all existing traffic engineers and replace them with safety engineers. Hard move! But neessary.
- Regulate the US car industry. We don't do it today.
- Severe penalties for driver violence, including mandatory prison. Deterrence works.
- Fire all existing traffic engineers and replace them with safety engineers. Hard move! But neessary.
- Regulate the US car industry. We don't do it today.
Didn’t realize your post was the source of all the discussion I’m seeing. But I think engineering/easement is a much better approach than ubiquitous camera enforcement — and without the moral hazard of generating revenue for local gov.
But I agree that DWIs are a much more difficult problem.
But I agree that DWIs are a much more difficult problem.
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Everyone is wrong about cars, so here's the recipe:
- Severe penalties for driver violence, including mandatory prison. Deterrence works.
- Fire all existing traffic engineers and replace them with safety engineers. Hard move! But neessary.
- Regulate the US car industry. We don't do it today.
- Severe penalties for driver violence, including mandatory prison. Deterrence works.
- Fire all existing traffic engineers and replace them with safety engineers. Hard move! But neessary.
- Regulate the US car industry. We don't do it today.
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www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
"The dad gave us the bird. He held up his middle finger to each and every one of us."
"The dad gave us the bird. He held up his middle finger to each and every one of us."
December 13, 2024 at 4:26 AM
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
"The dad gave us the bird. He held up his middle finger to each and every one of us."
"The dad gave us the bird. He held up his middle finger to each and every one of us."
"Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes."
"The Golden Boy," a long extract--really, a standalone novella--from Daniyal Muenuddin's extraordinary forthcoming "This Is Where the Serpent Lives," has just been published by the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Golden Boy,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes."
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And killing, well, that's as bad as it gets.
In most of Europe you'll go to jail for 3-5 years if you hit someone with your car and injure them. If you kill them, 10 years or more.
"But how will they get to work" they will walk down the hall from their prison cell when it opens, is how.
In most of Europe you'll go to jail for 3-5 years if you hit someone with your car and injure them. If you kill them, 10 years or more.
"But how will they get to work" they will walk down the hall from their prison cell when it opens, is how.
December 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
And killing, well, that's as bad as it gets.
In most of Europe you'll go to jail for 3-5 years if you hit someone with your car and injure them. If you kill them, 10 years or more.
"But how will they get to work" they will walk down the hall from their prison cell when it opens, is how.
In most of Europe you'll go to jail for 3-5 years if you hit someone with your car and injure them. If you kill them, 10 years or more.
"But how will they get to work" they will walk down the hall from their prison cell when it opens, is how.
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I hate how much he makes me hate him. It makes me feel infected or poisoned.
He has made me a worse person and I hate him all the more for that.
He has made me a worse person and I hate him all the more for that.
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I hate how much he makes me hate him. It makes me feel infected or poisoned.
He has made me a worse person and I hate him all the more for that.
He has made me a worse person and I hate him all the more for that.
"This is deeply sick public conduct…." Trump's America-hating henchman Stephen Miller asserted the President's authority to inflict state terror without any legal constraints. Trump left Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran prison because he could.
This version of America is very bad.
This version of America is very bad.
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"This is deeply sick public conduct…." Trump's America-hating henchman Stephen Miller asserted the President's authority to inflict state terror without any legal constraints. Trump left Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran prison because he could.
This version of America is very bad.
This version of America is very bad.
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i can't adequately describe what happens inside my body as i listen to this beautiful reaction to the ugly fascist bullshit we see all day every day
GEESE, whomst deserve every accolade possible for the entire Getting Killed album
Papa's album of the year
GEESE, whomst deserve every accolade possible for the entire Getting Killed album
Papa's album of the year
All people
All people must smile
In times of war
General Smith told me
I would never smile again
He said that I would never smile again
But not to worry
For all people stop smiling
Once they get what they've been begging for
All people
In times of war
Must go now to the circus
All people must smile
In times of war
General Smith told me
I would never smile again
He said that I would never smile again
But not to worry
For all people stop smiling
Once they get what they've been begging for
All people
In times of war
Must go now to the circus
music for revolutionaries. music to shake your ass to. music to cleave skulls to
"there is only dance music in times of war"
turn it up
"there is only dance music in times of war"
turn it up
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i can't adequately describe what happens inside my body as i listen to this beautiful reaction to the ugly fascist bullshit we see all day every day
GEESE, whomst deserve every accolade possible for the entire Getting Killed album
Papa's album of the year
GEESE, whomst deserve every accolade possible for the entire Getting Killed album
Papa's album of the year
Every time a GOP dumbo talks about more "muscular" policy, I assume they want to work harder, not smarter.
The worst in the Trump admin are wanna-be influencers, performing for cameras and getting their validation through screen feedback loops.
Like Trump, they're parasocial snake oil losers.
The worst in the Trump admin are wanna-be influencers, performing for cameras and getting their validation through screen feedback loops.
Like Trump, they're parasocial snake oil losers.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Every time a GOP dumbo talks about more "muscular" policy, I assume they want to work harder, not smarter.
The worst in the Trump admin are wanna-be influencers, performing for cameras and getting their validation through screen feedback loops.
Like Trump, they're parasocial snake oil losers.
The worst in the Trump admin are wanna-be influencers, performing for cameras and getting their validation through screen feedback loops.
Like Trump, they're parasocial snake oil losers.
"We like eating. I'm so glad we don't have to give it up."
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"We like eating. I'm so glad we don't have to give it up."
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Louise Erdrich is a wonderful writer. The language so powerfully spare.
Her latest short story in the @NewYorker:
'Love of My Days'
#fiction
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Her latest short story in the @NewYorker:
'Love of My Days'
#fiction
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Love of My Days,” by Louise Erdrich
She knew who the man was, knew a bullet furrow when she saw one.
www.newyorker.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Louise Erdrich is a wonderful writer. The language so powerfully spare.
Her latest short story in the @NewYorker:
'Love of My Days'
#fiction
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Her latest short story in the @NewYorker:
'Love of My Days'
#fiction
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...