One interesting thing is most combat sports have weight classes but some like Sumo don't. Sports are very random and weird about what counts as unfair.

The US Spends More Time and Money Building Transit Than Most Countries. Inefficient Community Engagement May Help Explain Why. Public participation remains essential, and policymakers can take steps to ensure engagement processes reflect the entire community’s needs without increasin…

Transit construction costs in the US keep rising, and projects keep taking longer and longer to build.

One possible explanation? Ineffective, inefficient community engagement processes, we argue @urbaninstitute.bsky.social ⏬

The super popular and super impactful low hanging fruit of SCOTUS reform is to make it illegal for them to receive any outside income of any kind or gifts valued over $200.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Jared's only qualification for being part of the US negotiating team is his corruption for Trump Family, so seems pretty weird to not mention it.

Noticed a lot of "no true scotsman" claims around unions lately that have started declaring many unions not "real" unions.

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

I still think this is the single bleakest thing going on. Our military is on a civilian killing spree. They’re not declining these illegal orders. And no one is stopping this.

the democrats currently are as close as we've ever gotten to a party for working people, and it's not that close.

this is inextricable from the fact that the democrats are as close to a multi-racial coalition as we've ever gotten. 1

Skinner I'm I wrong Meme version of this tweet.

Every elected official in California: Democrats, Republicans, MAGA people, moderate conservatives, centrists, liberals, progressives, and “socialists” alike are lockstep on this one issue:

“Insurance markets are not facing systemic climate risk, insurance companies are simply too greedy”

The big money supporting Trump bet big killing enthusiasm for Harris. They heavily promote/paid via X and Tiktok anyone attacking her from the left.

The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends.

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We will continue to make two-dimensional maps. Because your mind can't handle the truth.

incredible that idiots are still trying this line *after scammers have been hacking and taking over other people's accounts*.

Wild how dirty everyone in the media and much of the Democratic party has done Harris.
She campaigned on free universal preK and a massive build out of housing to bring down rent.

conservatives try to play dumb about the shadow docket, saying it's standard protocol and lacks any political valence. anyway, here we have the papers and roberts is saying "i realize this isn't standard protocol but we need to do this for politics"

We very likely were about to cure all cancer and we are going to push it back by like two decades because RFK Jr is an evil moron

on the ACA

some class consciousness here

fightin' words for the working class

here's Jeffries saying it. honestly if you've never heard Jeffries say "working class" in those words I'm not sure I believe you've ever heard Jeffries talk.

It is ok to love that a politician has charisma.
It is insane to think that specific politician is the only one using certain phrases or doing normal gov stuff hundreds of other politicians are doing. They just get like 13 likes on their videos.

lots of options here

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here's Chuck saying it

Yeah, there is a depressing possibility that improving "X problem" doesn't mean the party in power is rewarded, it just frees the voters up from economic concerns so they can vote culture war.

I still think there is an argument this theory is just p-hacking (find the only negative indicator to match negative vibes)
But there is a real possibility what the median voter really wants is someone to keep nominal prices and salaries stable so they can vote in culture war grievances

The normal inability of most humans to respond logically to criticism combined with the Internet making it possible to read thousands of criticism of your work is not a good combo.

Between DOGE USAID cuts and RFK Jr war on vaccines the Trump admin and Trump Iran war spiking fertilizer cost Trump has basically triggered genocides in multiple countries in the global south. We will see millions die.

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries

He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination
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Yeah - time and again people have merely asked the court to maintain the status quo while the court decides the merits of an issue. And the court has decided time and again that the greater damage would not be to allow Trump to dismantle your government before they rule on its illegality. It’s nuts

Here’s an audio recording of the Indian oil tanker Sanmar Herald pleading with Iranian military forces to stop shooting at it in the Strait of Hormuz this morning.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

There is a deep irony to the AI companies setting the precedent it is ok to steal everyone IP and data which means you can just keep "stealing" all their work to make a fine local one.