50% of reactionary thought is just believing that you are not responsible for your actions

“I have no choice but to run people over. What else could you expect from me!”

💯 And to add insult to (literal) injury, in #San Francisco there’s a rabid subgroup of drivers who, like abusive partners, attribute their dangerous driving to the city’s feeble efforts at safe bike infrastructure, which have so frustrated cars that they are forced to use their cars as weapons

I cannot count the number of people I see run red lights by our middle school. It’s at least once a week. And not close call kind of red light runs. I mean, slamming on the gas and going through even as the perpendicular street light has turned green and the crosswalk signal is on

biking will radicalize you if you just go let it

-English in Ireland
-Nazis in Yugoslavia
-Portuguese in Africa
-French in Algeria
-French in Vietnam
-The US in Vietnam
-Russians in Afghanastan
-The US in Afghanastan

Who could have possibly predicted that a major power wouldn't be able to put down an insurgency?

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

70 Minnesota children.

Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

Maine is fucking cursed, man.

"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"

With their first pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers select QB Peyton Brady

This is already happening for girls who people suspect of being masculine. All it takes is one parent from the opposing team to complain

my livelihood of posting online once an hour has been gravely disrupted by the installation of bike lanes on this road. it now takes me 25 minutes instead of 15 to drive the 0.8 miles to 7/11 where i get my breakfast

We are going to hand Iran everything it had in 2015 but also now it also knows that it has a tool with massive leverage over the US and Israel.

I feel like one funny potential side effect here could be that Iran may conclude they don’t need nukes. If they want leverage all they have to do is close the straights. Much cheaper than maintaining a nuclear arsenal. And now they can use their uranium stockpile to extract concessions from the US

I still don't fully understand why that IDF soldier pulling a statue of Christ off that crucifix and smashing its head in with a hammer is doing more diplomatic harm than the attacks on the Holy Family Church in Gaza did

A country that's been under sanctions for decades knows how to handle economic difficulties that come from international conflict, but now they know they can hurt the US too. And we're a country that has, above all else, been shielded from economic difficulties from conflict for the past 3 decades.

lmao. Iran knows it can play hardball now and hurt the US more than the US can hurt Iran. energydigital.com/news/us-isra...

The world sucks. Think I might get into alternate history

Spain spans 36 degrees N to 43 degrees N, which is about Nashville TN to Madison, WI here in the US

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸

Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.

This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.

Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

Let’s get one thing completely clear YouTube video by blumineck

dudes rock

I had one roll down her window to shout sarcastically "you're welcome" after she waited to make a right turn until I crossed (on foot). You don't get extra credit for following the law and not murdering people!

Small college towns are really fun, y’all.

One of the coolest traditions

Never ask a woman her age

A man his salary

And Texas why the Oklahoma panhandle exists

This is what the Medicaid cuts will do even more of