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The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Akamai? (They're basically Cloudflare, but for large enterprises.)
aside from Cloudflare and AWS what other internet-breaking single point of failure can we look forward to in the coming weeks
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Akamai? (They're basically Cloudflare, but for large enterprises.)
A great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.
The federal government right now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2...
Microsoft Windows XP Startup Sound
YouTube video by Ballyweg
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The federal government right now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2...
This is yet another great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is yet another great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.
Yet another awful sheriff. (Arpaio and him are two of many excellent reasons why sheriffs should be abolished.)
I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Her Husband Claimed She Was Murdered by the Mob. Hollywood Made a Hit Film About It. The Truth Was Far Darker.
A mythical sheriff, a murder—and a Tennessee town that wants none of it.
slate.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yet another awful sheriff. (Arpaio and him are two of many excellent reasons why sheriffs should be abolished.)
Dick Cheney was a huge war criminal who lived up to his name.
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Dick Cheney was a huge war criminal who lived up to his name.
The Heritage Foundation is a cult.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Heritage Foundation is a cult.
This is insane hegemonic bullying.
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is insane hegemonic bullying.
Many members of Congress are not just enablers but are practically owned by the military-industrial complex. (e.g. Lindsey Graham who is in bed with Trump)
The GOP in Congress are worse than useless. They are craven enablers of murder.
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Many members of Congress are not just enablers but are practically owned by the military-industrial complex. (e.g. Lindsey Graham who is in bed with Trump)
What the?! This is insane.
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What the?! This is insane.
Extreme localism causes or exacerbates plenty of issues in the US - whether it's law enforcement, building codes, or so many other things. Regionalizing things would have numerous benefits.
this is great - note that there's still police, but they're now part of a larger, county-wide department. the extreme localism of US policing is a *huge* part of its corruption, especially when you get to stuff like sheriff's departments.
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Extreme localism causes or exacerbates plenty of issues in the US - whether it's law enforcement, building codes, or so many other things. Regionalizing things would have numerous benefits.
Imperialism doesn't make us safer. It makes us much less safe.
(The only thing it makes safer is the profits of the military-industrial complex. That's a great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.)
(The only thing it makes safer is the profits of the military-industrial complex. That's a great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.)
US imperialism, poking entire nations and their people with many many sticks for generations: hey why do these guys all hate my guts
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Imperialism doesn't make us safer. It makes us much less safe.
(The only thing it makes safer is the profits of the military-industrial complex. That's a great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.)
(The only thing it makes safer is the profits of the military-industrial complex. That's a great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.)
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This graphic is absolutely perfect in understanding the versatility of single stair design. Rather than being stiff birds that bend when you break (double loaded corridor buildings), single stair buildings are like flexible noodles that can bend and twist into any shape to fit on a lot
once you see it, you can't unsee it
also - despite claims otherwise...
point access blocks and fine grained urbanism go hand in hand.
this is more parcels per block than a streetcar suburb in the US
also - despite claims otherwise...
point access blocks and fine grained urbanism go hand in hand.
this is more parcels per block than a streetcar suburb in the US
September 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This graphic is absolutely perfect in understanding the versatility of single stair design. Rather than being stiff birds that bend when you break (double loaded corridor buildings), single stair buildings are like flexible noodles that can bend and twist into any shape to fit on a lot
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"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings." newrepublic.com/article/1997...
The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy
Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.
newrepublic.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings." newrepublic.com/article/1997...
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Few things are less favourable to free speech than hearing "I'm all for free speech, but...." followed by being anti-free speech.
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Few things are less favourable to free speech than hearing "I'm all for free speech, but...." followed by being anti-free speech.
It should never take 11 years to do paperwork for a project that takes 1.5 months. This is ridiculous.
11 years to start on federally funded sidewalks in Chatham, NJ: “Ruschke attributed some of the delay to the fact that bids had to be sent out five different times because applicants were not filling out the federal forms correctly. He estimated that the work would take about 1.5 mos. to complete.”
Chatham Township Finally Receives Safe Routes to School Construction Approval 11 Years After Receiving $578,000 Grant in 2014
CHATHAM, NJ – Chatham Township has persevered through the bureaucratic red tape and will finally begin construction of the sidewalks funded by a Safe Routes to School grant awarded in 2014.Chatham...
www.tapinto.net
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It should never take 11 years to do paperwork for a project that takes 1.5 months. This is ridiculous.
Welcome to Howdy Arabia, where life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Welcome to Howdy Arabia, where life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.
This refugee program is, in addition to being blatantly racist, also blatantly hypocritical.
Keep in mind: Republicans used to hate refugees as a whole.
Keep in mind: Republicans used to hate refugees as a whole.
this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?
www.reuters.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This refugee program is, in addition to being blatantly racist, also blatantly hypocritical.
Keep in mind: Republicans used to hate refugees as a whole.
Keep in mind: Republicans used to hate refugees as a whole.
This image is what Trump Appreciation Syndrome looks like. If you blindly support everything that spews out of Trump's mouth, you may have Trump Appreciation Syndrome.
Related: Liberals will correctly note that the Obama years set us up to peacefully end the Iran nuclear program, until Trump tanked that.
But the median voter doesn’t know about that, and might not even care.
We are trapped in an era of reactionary, contrarian politics.
But the median voter doesn’t know about that, and might not even care.
We are trapped in an era of reactionary, contrarian politics.
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This image is what Trump Appreciation Syndrome looks like. If you blindly support everything that spews out of Trump's mouth, you may have Trump Appreciation Syndrome.
The 5% who voted yes are either brainwashed by the military-industrial complex, being paid by the military-industrial complex, or both.
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The 5% who voted yes are either brainwashed by the military-industrial complex, being paid by the military-industrial complex, or both.
Seriously: where's DOGE?
(Oh wait... Elon Musk probably found a way to profit off the Pentagon.)
(Oh wait... Elon Musk probably found a way to profit off the Pentagon.)
Giving the Pentagon even more money while it can't account for its expenditures does not make the country safer; it rewards incompetence and waste.
The Pentagon is getting $150 billion from the 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Giving the Defense Department even more taxpayer money is a recipe for waste, not security.
reason.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Seriously: where's DOGE?
(Oh wait... Elon Musk probably found a way to profit off the Pentagon.)
(Oh wait... Elon Musk probably found a way to profit off the Pentagon.)
Trade wars, sanctions (e.g. Cuba), and expansionism seem very inconsistent with this claim.
Vance's claim that the U.S. will no longer meddle in other countries’ affairs comes as Trump sets his sights on Canada and Greenland, and unleashed a trade war across the globe.
Vance Says America Will Keep Its Nose Out of Other Countries' Business
The speech came as Trump escalated his trade war with Europe.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trade wars, sanctions (e.g. Cuba), and expansionism seem very inconsistent with this claim.
Whatever happened to the First Amendment?
Did all these members of Congress forget the oath they took?
(Don't forget, the US establishment forces people to boycott certain other countries such as Cuba.)
Did all these members of Congress forget the oath they took?
(Don't forget, the US establishment forces people to boycott certain other countries such as Cuba.)
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so simultaneously absurd and disturbing: the House will vote
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
May 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Whatever happened to the First Amendment?
Did all these members of Congress forget the oath they took?
(Don't forget, the US establishment forces people to boycott certain other countries such as Cuba.)
Did all these members of Congress forget the oath they took?
(Don't forget, the US establishment forces people to boycott certain other countries such as Cuba.)