Greens to Announce Zohran Mamdani-Style Cost-of-Living Policies Like rent controls and workers getting at least 10% of what the CEO does.

PSA to European leftists: if you want to copy Zohran’s cost of living policies, you should know what those policies actually are.

and one of Zohran’s most important policies is making it easier to build a ton of housing by explicitly rejecting NIMBYism

I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed X.com You know who's never caved to Trump's tyranny? Unions.

you know… I simply do not think this is true

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

I mean, an inflationary recession is one of the few things that has demonstrably broken a preexisting party system in the US.

The fact that Trump made it happen via a futile, horribly unpopular war is just the cherry on top.

These guys already want us dead and have every intention of holding on through violence.

And Caesar crossed the Rubicon because he was a criminal who kept repeatedly committing crimes and needed his military impunity to get away with it.

Rome's mistake was not knifing him before he got a legion.

It's kind of funny how Israelis are only very belatedly starting to realize that letting every asshole and psycho eligible for conscription do whatever war crimes they want is the perfect way to make everyone hate you as much as they hate Russia or the RSF or the IRGC.

This is genuinely amazing.

we're all chuckling at the half-marathon robot and that's fair but i really genuinely did find the Andor scene where the droids are massacring people terrifying and i have real concerns we'll see that in my lifetime

fwiw one of the reasons people dislike data centers coming to their area is that they're significant light-industrial that produce nearly no ongoing local jobs. staffing them up with security would probably fix that

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

The conclusion we should actually be reaching is that there is precious little worth investing in in rural America and we should build up our actually productive and innovative areas, so we can grow our way out the worst debt burden since the aftermath of WW2.

I'm going to make everyone mad too.

You want your bold new left of center security strategy? Here it is. (The title, not the book itself. That's just me being provocative.)

There is a global backswing against democracy. It is left or right colored in different countries. But it has to lose.

I think you guys are just encountering a population that's willing to talk to you as long as you shit talk Democrats lol

Rural voters don't vote for who gives them goodies. They vote because of culture.

If a Dem does something that increases welfare, or builds a park, or whatever, they will decry it as socialism and stealing their money _even if they are the impoverished recipients_ of it.

the most basic trait of a good politician is being able to see where the ball is going and this ain't that

It is pretty funny that Chuck Schumer voted against 85% of his own caucus on what should have been an actually very easy vote to block $300 million worth of armored bulldozers which are exclusively used to commit literal war crimes from being sent to Israel, but Chris Coons voting no is way worse

taking offense to the implication that North Korea has censorship while also claiming that it will possible to censor all foreign media that contains AI might be the most bluesky reply possible

I’m not a lawyer, and I’m exhausted, so I can’t say exactly which part of the constitution forbids it, but if the constitution does not forbid the president from suing the government in his personal capacity and then ordering the government to settle in his official one, it forbids nothing.

right, turns out people don't find it comforting when you tell them that they may no longer have a well-paid white collar job in the future, but they'll probably be able to expect to scrape by with a job that involves handling bodily fluids at a nursing home

This isn't true about *every* harmonious family or community. Or even most, in my experience. However, the ability for people to up and leave is essential to having any kind of harmonious arrangement at all, because those communities only form by like-minded ppl *moving* to live together.

yeah i’m a believer in the rotating villain theory but don’t think this is that. golden’s just a piece of shit

seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

This aspect of George Lucas' writing feels a lot less unrealistic when you look at how little money is devoted to endometriosis research.

Nasty, chronic condition that about 5% of the entire human population gets at some point (10% of women) and it's got rounding-error research budgets.

I don't think this is entirely accurate. The real lesson is that, in a two party system, Americans will vote out the incumbent party when borger price too high. The problem is that America has a center-left party and an Adolf Hitler plus The Moon is Made of Cheese party.

Gonna get a lot of ‘But Black Dynamite, *I* benefit from climate destroying corporate welfare!’ If ever we crack down on climate destroying corporate welfare

This is a really genuinely concerning thing and I think people need to start internalizing it. There’s a lot of appetite for accountability now, and that’s great and needs to happen, and also once we have power there’ll be people yelling that we should do this or that policy alongside it, and uh.

I think this is doubtless true as a descriptive matter, but I feel like, for all I've tried to read on this, my confidence on the prescriptive side of this - that they'd be better off with the fires - is lower?

For one, no army has as much fires as it would like in a peer conflict.