Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

WV's capital is Charleston, but there's also a Charles Town, WV near Harper's Ferry

Alton Brown is a Tennessee Williams character

Philadelphia excellence:

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it.

Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters

(Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)

my Kpop-obsessed nine-year-old is currently furious with me because I keep insisting BTS stands for "boy...they singin!"

Drat
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Use bad photoshop like the ancestors did

As I hear, the last of the tankers to transit the strait are now arriving at US ports. Tankers are slow. We're only starting to feel the effects of the closure.

Defence of car dependency is a position of privilege. Extremely fed up with people confidently asserting the opposite; that any and all criticism of and attempts to reduce car dependency are an expression of privilege.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off its closure The Venetoulis Institute will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, converting it to a nonprofit to prevent the historic paper’s closure.

The Baltimore Banner’s parent organization will buy the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a deal that will keep one of the country’s oldest newspapers open

many do not know this but a big success of SF nimbyism is having one of the lowest % of rent burdened households in the country (by displacing all the poor people)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

apnews.com/article/pitt...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Everyone knows the "I hope gas goes to $8 a gallon" strip, but there are a bunch of other great Calvin & Hobbes strips about his dad being a bicyclist.

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

I have too much trust in isthmuseses 😫
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WTF-35

The average American spends about $290 to file. They also spend about 13 hours, often giving the government information it already has, which works out to another $486 worth of time assuming the average BLS hourly wage. The Trump administration says that Direct File was too expensive. Compared to what? Direct File cost IRS $16 million in its final year of operation. Between 2021-2025 Intuit also got almost $500 million dollars in federal tax credits.

Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things.

Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.

graph showing positive evaluations of Direct File by users

headline saying DOGE putting Direct File on the chopping block after meeting with lobbyists

Presidents since Reagan have been promising a tool like Direct File. Elon Musk even proposed an IRS app for taxpayers.

IRS actually built it!

Users loved it, but then DOGE killed it after a meeting with the private tax preparation industry.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Orange Catholic Bible: origins

Actually, kinda, yeah. I would've guessed I'd be living in PGH, rather than PHL. I think I was more optimistic regarding climate action and how that would change society, though. The last 15-20 years of denial are nuts

As we write in the book, a traffic report that says there’s been a crash on the highway that will make you late to work probably means someone has been seriously injured or killed. Most people just don’t want to reckon with that reality.

Speeding bad >:^[
Bussing good :^)

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.

Sweet crude, sour grapes
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I need everyone to understand this is eugenics in action—not just “quackery.” Much like the “anti vax” movement as a whole.