unpopular opinion guy
i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas
it’s so cool how most LA politicians wake up in the morning and are like “how can I make it harder to build housing today”
Our only hope to make LA a well-run, pro-housing city is electing Nithya Raman as mayor
Don’t mess with Texas because Texas is already messing with itself.
Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa had some goats. His neighbors said to him: Your goats are damaging our property by eating in our fields. He said to them: If they are causing damage, let them be eaten by bears. But if they are not eating your property, let each of them, this evening, bring a bear impaled between its horns. That evening, each one brought in a bear impaled between its horns. Ta’anit 25a
The HOA bylaws failed to account for God’s tendency to perform miracles for the righteous
Proud to publish this view on Hungary from a Polish colleague.
"As we learned, PiS left a staggering amount of traps and landmines for its successors — and many have proved impossible to defuse. Fidesz, which ruled for twice as long, has done the same in Hungary."
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
Exactly one year ago today:
The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
They have named this operation "Eternal Darkness" a truth in advertising revealing not only the aim but also the willingness of Netanyahu's regime to proclaim their intent to maintain forever war and enact total destruction on their neighbors.
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
Let's annotate.
1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing.
2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next.
3. Calls out his own institution.
THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground.
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While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
Headline: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
Why It Matters: The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The Big Picture: Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand
If you carry out war crimes under orders, you are guilty of war crimes
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
LA friends, speak something other than English? Got time to help voters?
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I think the most important question in political science right now is how should liberal democracies treat illiberal movements and to what degree is tolerance for illiberalism suicidal for such societies.
BBC news article titled "Sudan drone attack on key hospital killed 64 people during Eid, WHO says." Below the headline is a photograph of a damaged building. The article reports the attack on al-Daein Teaching Hospital, with 64 people killed, including children, nurses, and a doctor.
During Eid, a drone attack on a major hospital in Sudan killed at least 64 people, including children, nurses, and a doctor.
This is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The United States must use our leverage to stop these atrocities and help save lives.
love how "get paid while doing your job" is a constant source of contention between employers and employees, as if there's any possible argument against it other than "i want to steal my employee's time"
Pege Hegseth's chief of staff tried to block the promotion of a black female combat veteran because, as the article notes, "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" in Washington DC
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
(Published Nov. 2025)
This is one of Jason Isbell's first performances of "Dress Blues," if not his first -- when he was still with DBT, a year before his solo debut.
It's one of the most haunting things I've ever heard. I ripped it from that video to a mix CD & listened to it *thousands* of times. Shivers every time.
so much of the time when one of these guys says "i would do ANYTHING for my family" they mean "i fantasize about using violence to defend my family" and not "i'm willing to do some cooking and cleaning and spend time with my partner and kids doing things that interest them"
I’m at ICE HQ
I don’t think we should go back to twitter levels of toxicity but there’s a lot of confidently stupid turbolib opinions on here that can only exist in a low predator environment.
