Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.
Republicans could end this practice entirely tomorrow for the whole country. Almost every dem would vote for it.
The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
Salk Institute? Seagram Building? Marina City? John Hancock Tower? Nothing else in Las Vegas? If we're including bridges and arches, why doesn't the Hoover Dam qualify?
You're right, this list is a shortcut to madness.
I will defend the Rose Center, in fact I don't think there is *enough* modern or contemporary work on here.
Like there are a bunch of Richardsonian Romanesque buildings out there, why the Allegheny Co Courthouse, the Thomas Crane Public Library, and the Ames Free Library? All above the Guggenheim??
This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post
Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...
Wrote about Palantir and Alex Karp's whiny bullshit. GROW UP DUDE.
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I am a longtime Pitbull enjoyer, was my go-to music for writing essays against a deadline in college
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Fingers crossed then!
I'm sure there are various degrees of "right elbow inflammation" and it hasn't always been dire for all pitchers, but man, it feels as though going on the IL with that specific diagnosis means that Tommy John is a matter of when and not if?
I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe
Something something Rocco not letting the boys manufacture runs with aggressive baserunning
These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
Feels like there needs to be a big effort to treat these channels with the same disbelief that previous generations treated the National Enquirer in the supermarket checkout aisle.
Somehow as a society we need to widely stigmatize this type of media as fake by default.
Pro-social:
Make an effort to follow cultural events in your community and bring friends to them. Hop on local sports bandwagons if you weren't a fan already, Try out new restaurants or stores and spread the word. Walk, bike, ride transit and just be present on the streets and among your neighbors.
I think this is right.
And I don't mean to recast brunch as a heroic act or whatever, but I do think that if you care about cities especially, it's really on you to intentionally be a convener or a joiner.
Also to both pay attention to what's happening in your community *and* be social about it.
There is a great plan* to fill it in!
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Beyond political conditioning (bc I’ve talked to plenty of left-of-center people from other parts of the U.S. who are a little leery of the subway!) I think this is the biggest reason for the disconnect in who perceives New York as inherently dangerous. Cars change your relationship to the world.
It's a fair point but a key difference here might be that earlier debtors/Greenbacks/bimetalist movements had their base among commodity sellers rather than wage earners?
So the link between inflation and earnings was more explicit and obviously linear for them?
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
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I agree with this and also do not believe that it has sunk in just how bad the US budget situation may be by the time we regain power.
The Trump admin exploded the deficit and crippled state capacity, the dual effect of that is that we’re not going to get treats during the next Dem admin.
If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.
Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.
A graph of serious injuries and fatal crashes by mode of transportation in the City of Minneapolis. In 2025, there were 64 involving motorists, 14 involving motorcyclists, 46 involving pedestrians, and 16 involving bicyclists.
A graph of fatalities by mode of transportation in the City of Minneapolis. In 2025, there were 7 involving motorists, 2 involving motorcyclists, 5 involving pedestrians, and 0 involving bicyclists. The total of 14 is one fewer than the year before.
Coming up on today's Minneapolis City Council Climate and Infrastructure Committee, the 2026 Vision Zero annual report: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...
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I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán:
1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee
2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win
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He's literally speaking from a war zone here, but of course virtually no Americans have even the slightest clue about Cameroon's anglophone crisis
But it would be nice if there was more mainstream recognition of this strain of lying/psychosis for what it is, because every now and then someone comes out with a more respectable gloss on it and it gets some purchase because the ground has been prepared by the hysterical background chatter.