I am pretty informed and even I hadn't realized Mamdani hadn't said globalize the intifada. Thanks for the episode!

Went to the Goo Goo Dolls tour a couple months ago and they literally bopped black balloons into the crowd for this song

People tack on a lot to the SF School Board recalls in 2021, but the instigating factor was the change from testing to lottery admissions to the elite public high school in SF.

Otters are back to stealing surfboards in Santa Cruz, which is just cute if slightly evil, but evil done by otters
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...

It's definitely a question of judgment. Nearly 20 or even just weeks of ignoring the Nazi symbol on your chest is not procrastination, that is poor judgement. Platner just might not have the judgment to be a senator!

www.nhpr.org/2025-07-23/s...

Wasn't another superintendent in VT or NH detained coming back into the country and CBP kept trying to get the credentials to his work devices?

My boss's boss, who should know better, said premiums are going up this year, mainly because of COVID. And no... it's political

I feel like I should be concerned that I never have a strong reaction. I got my COVID and flu shots a week ago, and my arm was a little sore the next day.

The reason why the FP sold for so much — relative to its small output — is because it has a world view that is embraced by a readership of very wealthy people. Weiss isn't anti-establishment. She comforts the comfortable.

Ultimately, it would be far more useful for Nichols and other never Trumpers to help us inoculate US society from R messaging rather than attack the everyday people and activists who use this kind of language. I'm sure they could help, but they want Dems to be more like Rs instead.

My phone says the air quality is in the yellow zone out here in Oakland, and my allergies were bad last night and this morning. So maybe that's it?

But also, even if they are mentally ill, they have rights

OMG same. The way I depend on the supply chain, just for my health.