I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is $6 a gallon. But at least now the president doesn't have to stand next to any Black generals.

It is absurd that the objections of a few homeowners are enough to create massive delays and cost increases for infrastructure projects. We need public transit and the studies show the K Line won't be a problem, the Metro Board should just approve the DEIR Alignment!

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, are traveling to Utah to more directly oversee the manhunt for the person who killed Charlie Kirk, according to two people familiar with their plans.

that'll do it

Please stop calling it a "political assassination."Charlie Kirk wasn't elected to anything, and calling it that elevates him to something he wasn't. It was not an assassination. It was a murder.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

The motivation of the man who shot Charlie Kirk isn't clear (although he's probably mentally unstable--duh). What is clear is it was another example of American gun violence.

andrewcuomo & 3d Follow I grew up in mom and pop auto shops and driving tow trucks in Queens. That's how I put myself through college. Running a small business today is even harder than it was. That's why government must support small businesses and cut red tape. Saint Gerard's, Saint Gerard's. I worked at an auto body shop called Cross Island.

Your dad was Mario Cuomo.

Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters? Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.

makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

Andrew Cuomo campaigning for mayor is like Sisyphus if the boulder he was pushing never went up, just further down an infinite incline, but he was allowed to quit at any time, except he won't because his dad was good at boulder-pushing and he thinks that alone should get him to the top of the hill.

Watching Kiss of the Damned (2012) where a screenwriter sent to a remote location to finish a script meets a vampire and lets her turn him which goes to show screenwriters will do anything to avoid actually having to write.

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

hot tip for people who would like to yeet chatbots in the sun: we're getting extremely close to having enough of these high profile "LLMs caused or exacerbated or anyhow were central to a psychotic break" incidents that banning use of them for children is going to start having mainstream appeal

the reason to defend affirmative action wasn’t because racial preferences were perfect but to defend the principle that institutions ought to account for disparities, disadvantage and discrimination. unfortunately we have a large clique of dipshit pundits who could get fooled by a wallet inspector.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

Stephen Colbert had the highest ratings of any late night show. Here’s why it made perfect financial sense to fire him.

if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

Seeing him reminded me of something @daveholmes.bsky.social wrote on Twitter many years ago:

I was at Tartine Sycamore earlier and Jeremy Piven was in line and he squatted down to pet a dog, calling the dog “him” and the girl with the dog was like “haha she’s a girl haha you misgendered her” and he laughed and said “well, I can do that starting today! It’s a new day dawning.” 🥴

Nothing proves that gender is a construct quite like an executive order defining it explicitly

Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.

Why is @washingtonpost.com confused? In the US, a President cannot amend the US constitution by an executive order. This is a fact, not an "interpretation"

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity

The particular shade of yellow being cast over LA right now is the exact shade of yellow Hollywood uses to tell you you're in Mexico.

Gotta say, congratulations to the developers of Watch Duty, whose service has been rock solid despite twenty million Californians hitting “refresh” every thirty seconds

I really enjoyed Heretic. [MINOR SPOILERS.] He is truly the final boss Debate Me guy, and that is very scary.