They're a month away from doing random local traffic updates.

[jerk off motion]

I'd need to see this without the potential anchoring effect of asking re-elect or no immediately before the ballot question to think it's legit (bigger sample would also be nice – Hyde-Smith's movement is barely outside the MOE).

I sometimes think Rubio got State specifically to show people like Stefanik that it's possible to grovel your way back in.

Very different feel in here with the roof open.

Trump approval plummets among Latino voters — except in Florida, new poll finds But while Trump’s support among most Hispanic voter demographics polled has cratered, the president was up more than 23 points with Cubans.

Related (gift link):

Bronswell Patrick is 100% an instance of somebody getting the first and last name fields switched in the database.

That doesn't look like a flat quarter century – maybe a little over a decade since peak? I agree cost has ~nothing to do with declining trust, but the 00s to early 10s concerns with rising costs coinciding with millennials reaching college age sure look legit in that chart.

Pathological stuff from the country's most toxic local politics.

²³We rode around all afternoon, he sold me his guitar. ²⁴I got a new friend and my new friend's name is Jesus. ²⁵Now people give me sideways looks when we set up on the strand. ²⁶It's hard to suck with Jesus in your band.

On balance I’d prefer to live elsewhere, but the occasional spoonbill sighting is one of the good things about South Florida.

The high cost of corporate cash in politics | Editorial Florida lawmakers cannot legally accept contributions during the 60-day session, but they were flooded with money the day before session began. A proposal out of Montana could change that.

Campaign finance reform advocates in Montana think they've found an end-run around the Supreme Court's execrable Citizens United decision. If it holds up, Florida's state incorporation laws make it well-postitioned to follow suit.

Our editorial (gift link):
www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/04/15/t...

I feel fairly confident the pope has a favorite Tooth & Nail band.

"Is the Pope Catholic?" (J.D. Vance apparently)

IIRC, somebody did a rough calculation the last time a case arose and it was like 1000x higher.

How can something lean overwhelmingly?

I keep seeing a Ram ad that says it uses "AI-generated performers," and no it doesn't. Those aren't performers.

This is interesting – Australia similarly regulates this through a series of barriers and requirements, which seems to both please and annoy fans of at least the AFL (NRL, I don't know). But I reckon Aussies are overall more likely to be watching over the air broadcast channels.

Particularly so given that even the "progressive" party line on the vibecession debate is that actually the economy was terrible.

This is going to be a room full of people who think objectivity requires not voting.

Who knew Essendon head coach Brad Scott was moonlighting as the US Secretary of the Treasury?

This is more evidence that "progressive" is a meaningless term in practice.

Every role Jason Bateman has played since Arrested Development has a moment when you expect him to say, "I've made a huge mistake."

Ah, cool, another tenured professor who needs a whisper network.

At a faculty meeting, I asked our department to stop permitting online assessments, which would effectively stop our teaching online asynchronous courses. There was some agreement and some concern with details, but not enough enthusiasm to move forward. I lacked the energy to push the issue vigorously enough, especially because there’s a structural problem with “unilaterally” taking such a step:

This and what follows really illustrates the nature of the problem. Dealing with this properly can only come from the top, and in some places (like mine) the top is explicitly telling us to do more of the stuff that we know is bad.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4y...

Looking forward to the op-eds about how illiberal this is.

Yes, I like it – better than Panic Stations and the songs fit well with their older stuff when I saw them a few months ago. But the first two albums are on another level for me. Hadn't seen them in ten years and realized I had a lot of muscle memory for those songs.

Kurt Cobain's exhale in the last line of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" in the Unplugged set

That breakdown in Radiohead's "Just"

Those first two big chords in NIN's "terrible lie"

When the music drops out under "I'm on fire!" in Motion City Soundtrack's "The Future Freaks Me Out"

Looked at the replies and QTs expecting to find a bunch of people saying Democrats should be doing this but they won't, and I was not disappointed.