He quite literally doesn’t get it, like at all

Really hard to justify the senate once someone truly believes that all men are created equal and are owed equal representation as a result

Swapping the rapture for the revolution

If your town's economy would collapse the moment that the nearest large city instituted congestion pricing, you are just a suburb.

The Mother Jones article about Scott Wiener has a quote from someone saying "He has preempted virtually every local government from making the decisions they’ve made for over 100 years" as if that's a bad thing lol

I’m okay with this move just because Kirby hasn’t been able to get Carpenter out in particular.

honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up

Lawyer brain (laudatory) having deep qualitative knowledge of processes, and the relationship between processes and the outcomes they produce; Lawyer brain (derogatory) prizing process for it’s own sake, prioritizing process over outcomes

"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.

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Adams vindicated on the importance of civic virtue

Ashamed to say that I was momentarily fooled by a deepfake ad of Hoda Kotb shilling a salt-based weight loss trick; we are so cooked

Unbelievable how on the nose it is to campaign on ending asylum and then going “except for white South Africans”

I mean this is genuine "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" type shit

Every statement that this particular press secretary makes is the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life

Reading through 20th century/post-9/11 Supreme Court cases on presidential power in foreign affairs currently and in retrospect we really messed up with presidential power

Elder Race is fun and short

And correspondingly decrease the number of people who say “They’re all corrupt” as an excuse to vote for the guy who’s doing corruption in the open

There’s a podcast making the rounds in certain Mormon circles about an “ancient tradition” that heavily relies on people like Eliade and Rene Guénon so that’s… not great

Any good books to start with about the crusades??

Would the mention in Jeremiah 52 come from a later author/editor who realized that chap 39 didn’t say anything about it?