Tired: "congestion pricing resolves the problem of an ambulance driving to the hospital paying the same cost as the dude driving to buy potato chips."
Wired: discouraging said lazy dude from driving/doordashing food with dynamic pricing for burritos
Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.
🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...
"What is it with your fascination with roadkill?" Is a direct inquiry about his behavior that I should have not first heard from TMZ
This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself. Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?
Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics.
A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Nvm! Many of them knew and did nothing!
Don't like the lot of them and similarly feel resigned to that
And yet again, the rank and file must make the tough decisions because a sea of mediocre also-rans will see Swalwell's collapse not as cause to rally around another leading candidate, but a chance to be a dark horse, and CA Dems have already demonstrated their impotence in failing to reign them in.
Maybe if Dem leadership were less focused on demonizing its own base or defending PACs that help Republicans they would have spent more time vetting CA dem candidates for governor and uncovered this monstrous behavior sooner, but they didn't.
I am so fucking tired Spike.
Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.
they like trump and want to help him. they hated biden and wanted to hurt him
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
This man is threatening mass killings & war crimes on social media. When will enough be enough?
These aren’t policy differences. He’s threatening crimes.
It’s time to invoke the 25th. But we can’t do it alone—we need our Republican colleagues to do the right thing for this country & for the world.
Conversation to be had about American responsibility for Trump, but you can't do that without addressing the bile that is our media diet options. No amount of agency and only specific media literacy can overcome it, and The Altlantic has been a willful contributor to the bile that elevated Trump
<23% of the US voted for the president.
The notion that any person born here should be denied U.S. citizenship because their parents happened to be immigrants is an anti-American perversion of legal principles that actually pre-date the 14th Amendment. The only support for that proposition is Dred Scott, which is of course no longer law.
I know only polling nerds care about this but I am getting tired of media outlets gatekeeping polls on the LA Mayor race. Show me the methodology and crosstab links you cowards
It is genuinely upsetting that 8 years after 2016, people still cannot think probablistically. 20% is slightly worse odds than Russian roullette.
We have spent the last two generations treating education like a burden we were all trying to get out of paying for, and it raised a generation of people with no emotional development to grapple with difficulty. Of course they were going to be more susceptible to demagogues
Wrong. Education absolutely is a factor in what brought us here, because a good education is not just a matter of rote memorization or even methodologies of subject matter, it is the emotional development to grapple with difficult problems.
I specifically recall a criticism of Gideon in 2020: she was seen as the non-Mainer's candidate. I imagine Mills was seen in a similar light.
The ppl who deliberately did this to him should be tried for murder.
Well that summary didn't disappoint.
I have to travel to France this summer, and I'm frankly pretty worried about it.
I remember being in London with my dad in 2005. He wanted me to see Speakers' corner in London, but as we got closer he turned to me and said "don't say anything. Let me talk if anyone addresses us" because he was that worried I'd be assaulted for an American accent. I was 15.
No good reason to put Miller above Rae unless you just want to treat the centrist candidate more favorably.
Hate to cast negativity on such lovely words but it is pretty difficult to parse out how much the unfamiliarity makes the emotional impact stronger for me.
Thank you, @mayor.nyc.gov
Refreshing to hear a side of Irish history I am so proud of but never heard from Irish-American Dems.