the "give trump enough rope to hang himself" strategy has mostly just ended up with trump using that rope to strangle his opponents

This is what every measles infection has a chance to do. Silently. Ten years later.

This is the roll of the dice.

And in the U.S., add crushing hospital bills for the survivors.

A measles shot has very high protection, and is much cheaper.

If you disclaim voting for Platner after he wins the nomination, you are making clear that VBNMW was simply a cudgel.

That you have ideological and temperamental lines that need to be respected, and (implicitly) that others lines are lesser.

And that's a 1 way ticket to atomizing any coalition.

We should stop referring to the potential solutions in Israel-Palestine as "one state" or "two state" and instead say "democratization" or "partition"

Screenshot of a gig nursing app offering workers the ability to bid the lowest wage in order to win a gig

'Uber for Nurses' apps are lobbying aggressively against regulations as they expand across the US.

They include allowing workers to "bid" on gig shifts with the lowest wage bid winning the gig
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m genuinely unclear on what laws the SPLC would be under investigation for breaking

okay but you have to reach a political environment where those things are even on the table. the table is currently occupied by undomesticated pigeons who are shitting on everything. let's be realistic here about what's possible under current conditions and what's required to achieve better ones.

In honor of me reading all of these thesis proposals, what was *your* senior thesis about?

We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.

two views of the holotype skull of the brazilian spinosaurid irritator challengeri

guess who's going home at last 🎉 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecoloniseScience

🧊✈️ HEADS UP SEATTLE‼️

⚠️ ICE Air coming to Boeing Field

GlobalX Airbus 320 – Tail: N530FL

ETA – 3:15pm 👀

One of the annoying things is there is a secret killer out there which we know has terrible associated health effects even though its near undetectable by human senses.

But it's not infrasound, or em waves, or even nuclear radiation.

It's air pollution, and people barely give a fuck about it.

“density is conducive to saving water“ is counterintuitive but seems about right iirc

The neighborhoods where this dynamic is the most acute are also the ones with a shit load of empty lots where we could build commieblocks for new PMC residents.

Also hold on Mesozoic palms I am curious

daaaaaaaaaaaaang

The step up in basis at death is super convenient for weird old multigenerational assets where you don’t know the basis (you can just, look at grandma’s Form 706 gift tax return) but it’s an insane giveaway to the rich when the estate tax exemption is so high.

Said it before but when SCOTUS eviscerates the VRA there will be second round of expulsion of Black/Latino members in the South.

The GOP campaigning against voting YES in the VA special election today has been

Well, blatantly hypocritical in some of the most infuriating ways.

Using imagery of gerrymanders across the Deep South that the VRA- the thing they’re trying to destroy- was specifically designed to combat

The Biden bill would have harshly restricted refugee admission.

In 2029, we should instead broaden eligibility for refugee status, admit as many refugees as we possibly can, and work to get them citizenship within a year of their arrival.

Connie Palacioz, Wichita’s own Rosie the Riveter, remembered as ‘a true legend’ In 1943, Connie Palacioz was a teenager working at a Newton laundry when she joined Boeing to help the war effort as a riveter.

rosie the riveter died yesterday at 101. rip connie palacioz

www.kansas.com/news/local/n...

…is this a thing people do?

I was riding down Vliet and a woman asked me a question about the bus. I looked up where she was going. To go 1.6 miles down the road, she had to take 3 buses. I wrote it down for her because she seemed confused. $2 billion on an extra interstate lane and for what? Fuck these transit cuts.

City program wants to bring more families to the South Side and West Side one vacant lot at a time Chicago's Missing Middle Infill Housing program has created 300 new housing units, and developers say the city initiative is crucial to bringing people back to the area after decades of disinvestment.

Chicago’s Missing Middle Infill Housing program has created 300 new housing units. Through the program, developers purchase vacant city-owned land for $1 & build single-family homes with ADUs, 2- and 3-flats, row houses, town houses or 6-flats.

chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

No

If you’re in Virginia, for the sake of everything that matters to the rest of the civilized world, please get out today and vote yes on the constitutional amendment

Midway is an underrated airport

Like if I am going *to* somewhere it’s fun, if I am *leaving somewhere i don’t spend much time* it’s time I could have in town

Tbh the problem is that my enjoyment of waiting in an airport is asymmetrical

Owning a car is a privilege. The freedom to move however we choose should be a right for anyone in the USA. I use my bike to get around, and removing bike lanes and other bike infrastructure will create more traffic and less freedom for all. @governor.pa.gov Keep funding bike infrastructure!