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Municipal gov is good. Frontage roads are bad.
never going to be a better us ship name than Bonhomme Richard
December 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
never going to be a better us ship name than Bonhomme Richard
give the New York City Subway 32 Senators
more people took the subway on a single saturday than live in 16 states.
The top Saturdays in the post-pandemic era.
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
give the New York City Subway 32 Senators
more people took the subway on a single saturday than live in 16 states.
The top Saturdays in the post-pandemic era.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
more people took the subway on a single saturday than live in 16 states.
how have we allowed id.me to exist?
ID.me
id.me
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
how have we allowed id.me to exist?
really grim in the UK
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
really grim in the UK
The columns fine (this isn’t a knock on James btw) but the governor implicitly says that this wide ranging diverse campus is new and that in fact prior to the crackdown on protests and “woke” it wouldn’t have been this way when actually it’s always been this way.
Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The columns fine (this isn’t a knock on James btw) but the governor implicitly says that this wide ranging diverse campus is new and that in fact prior to the crackdown on protests and “woke” it wouldn’t have been this way when actually it’s always been this way.
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Here's the election night dispatch I wrote about Perriello fifteen years ago!
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Here's the election night dispatch I wrote about Perriello fifteen years ago!
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
Kathryn Garcia Expected to Be Named New Head of the Port Authority
Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
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I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
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literally hooting and hollering in my goddamn living room
Per Politico, State Dem Chair LeRoy Jones comes out against the comptroller bill subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: New Jersey's Democratic chair opposes controversial watchdog bill
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December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
literally hooting and hollering in my goddamn living room
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Per Politico, State Dem Chair LeRoy Jones comes out against the comptroller bill subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: New Jersey's Democratic chair opposes controversial watchdog bill
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December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Per Politico, State Dem Chair LeRoy Jones comes out against the comptroller bill subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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This is your annual reminder that (canonically) Casablanca (1942) takes place in the wee small hours of December 7, 1941.
A ★★★★★ review of Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca is the movie that everyone claims to have seen and hand waves away any discussion of it as a serious film, or if they’ve actually seen it and don’t have a strong opinion about it, then they...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is your annual reminder that (canonically) Casablanca (1942) takes place in the wee small hours of December 7, 1941.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
I recall an article from a few years back about how Tory governance introduced a number of American electoral/political structures including a powerful high court and termed governance to a parliamentary system and how that was probably dumb and well here we are.
I don't know how you see poll after poll like this and not think "hm, maybe we should change our strategy a bit"
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I recall an article from a few years back about how Tory governance introduced a number of American electoral/political structures including a powerful high court and termed governance to a parliamentary system and how that was probably dumb and well here we are.
Dayton, assuming this is the epicenter, isn't all that close to the Nevada Test Site.
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dayton, assuming this is the epicenter, isn't all that close to the Nevada Test Site.
can you imagine it being a thousand years ago and discovering LAKE SUPERIOR.
its kinda not fair to the rest of the world and tbh country that the Great Lakes exist.
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
can you imagine it being a thousand years ago and discovering LAKE SUPERIOR.
its kinda not fair to the rest of the world and tbh country that the Great Lakes exist.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
its kinda not fair to the rest of the world and tbh country that the Great Lakes exist.
there's a young person who's become a regular at council meetings. I'm both glad they're interested in local government, and horrified that they seem to see sitting at council meetings as the way to be involved.
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
there's a young person who's become a regular at council meetings. I'm both glad they're interested in local government, and horrified that they seem to see sitting at council meetings as the way to be involved.
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Current* conditions near Silver Lake, MI:
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Current* conditions near Silver Lake, MI:
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we're not angry enough about the Insular Cases.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
we're not angry enough about the Insular Cases.
the brits have it nailed. be a declining global power unable to maintain the international bases for empire, so just have the US pay for your continued use of them. ahh sorry US we just can't afford to maintain Diego Garcia...
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
the brits have it nailed. be a declining global power unable to maintain the international bases for empire, so just have the US pay for your continued use of them. ahh sorry US we just can't afford to maintain Diego Garcia...