Pretty much all of linear cable could be fixed by the following statement:

Them actually giving a damn.

With $200B, we could:
Spend $500M + 2 yrs to fix US rail delivery to match Spain.
At Spain's $35M/mi High Speed Rail cost, less ~$20B for SF transbay and major NEC infra, build 5,000 mi of rail:
Bos-DC: 500 mi
Sacto-SF-LA-SD: 600 mi
Van-PDX: 350 mi
Leaving 3,500 mi for presidential whim

there are reasons this guy has neither a teaching position nor a bloomberg column anymore and those reasons are that he decided that he liked being an utterly incurious fucking lazy moron more than he liked any kind of rigorous work

Jared Polis @jaredpolis •52m Last week, former State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis was sentenced to probation and community service after being convicted of four felonies including Attempt to Influence a Public Official. She made a horrible mistake, and she was wrong. I hope she learns from this and can rebuild Show more • 43 {7 12 • 30 sam @sam_d 1995 X.com first you defend RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx insanity and now you're considering pardoning an unrepentant election denier who illegally attempted to overturn our free and fair elections? what is wrong with you, man?

polis is probably going to unfollow me for this one but idgaf. what a fucking freak.

worst democratic gov in the country and it’s not even close now that Murphy is gone

I want to see more bad guys lose.

I want to see bad guys get punished publicly and severely. And painfully.

Just tired of good guys losing all the time.

I want more of a balance in the universe.

Don't DM or tag me for further details. I will not hesitate to block you.

I would go so far as to argue that calling this crisis "Purdue Pharma 2.0" is actually substantially underselling it.

Even at the worst of the opioid epidemic, mainstream media outlets weren't treating prescription drug abuse as normal and fun. All major sports aggressively promote gambling.

Yes! Rather than chasing Trump's policies, they should chase his strategy of shaping public perception.

The entire press corps should walk out, not come back, & we simply shouldn’t tolerate this.

Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

it is super funny that right wing mouth breathers spent literally years convinced that Epstein was the shadow king behind one half of American politics

and it turned out they were totally totally right about that just totally wrong about which half

Hot Take: I don't think you'd have a (Save _____!) movement around Fallon like you had with Kimmel and Colbert if they fired him.
Like, Fallon's face during this screams "Do they like him more than me?" and the answer is "You damn right, you Trump hair raking, NFT shilling fool!"

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

Peaceful resistance does in fact work, and has worked many times before

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.

It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.

Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.

Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

No I was raging at Dems for not taking a maximalist approach against Trump pretty much every day from January 2018 onwards

I have to say, I’m not convinced of the productiveness of the Americans who didn’t want any of this and the Europeans who didn’t want any of this yelling at the other lot that it’s all their fault on the website for people who didn’t want any of this

that's right. we need to reinvent liberal internationalism. we're ten years behind the curve on the authoritarian internationale here

"The real problem is that through our scientific genius, we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Rediscovering Lost Values" Detroit, MI, February 1954.

72 years ago. He knew.

Republicans and their corporate enablers will destroy America for the fantasy of white supremacy.

It didn't have to be this way.

Kyiv is under attack.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.

I want the world to know what russia does.

they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge

ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family

they feel invincible, change their minds

if you believe in peace and prosperity for america and for everyone else the only thing to do is oppose these people with every drop of your strength.

trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -

no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.

okay sorry having thought about this I have something more substantive to say:

The right has been on a mission to redefine pedophile to mean liberal/LGBT, someone "corrupting" "our" youth with liberal ideas about gender and sexuality

this isn't some throw away line, but an attack on Renee Good.

The posts where Stancil is talking about community organization that's agnostic of political alignment beyond fuck ICE is what triggered this crashout because "mutual aid" and "direct action" are the leftie things, liberals don't get to have those even if they fight nazis with them

I genuinely think the leftie crashout is because Will Stancil, who they perceive as a dweeby online liberal, is actually doing in real life the things they daydream about

The media printed “Mueller Finds No Collusion” without saying “according to Barr memo” but if it implicates police it has to be “critics say” even when the video is shown to them

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"