Judah

I mean..

Yeah i mean it’s fundamentally obnoxious behavior, hence the matty yglesias example lol

this feels like a matt yglesias style “shitpost by way of retweeting a person” thing

All the polling in this race:

That's... a fairly believable county map for the Senate election, give or take a couple. Obviously primary composition does not have a track record of being predictive but that's interesting nonetheless...

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

Do you have those #s for Montgomery handy?

All the caveats of early voting not being predictive historically etc etc but this is further evidence to me that Kaufman County is going to just continue rocketing left this fall

yep. I've never met so many undecided voters in my life. hell, *I* was undecided until the day I voted on multiple *statewide races*

Hot take: as bad as the online discourse has gotten, I think it's a really good thing that we have a contested primary.

Everyone I speak to in-person likes both candidates in this race. Healthy competition is good, and it gives campaigns head start for November.

It *didn't allow* voters to say they were undecided??? In *this* race???? Like I get pushing your undecideds but not allowing it at all feels like it could skew things very heavily. I guess we'll see how it holds up on Tuesday.

Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

It is a bit disgraceful, for example, that the first person to ask the US Ambassador to Israel where precisely he considers the borders of Israel to be is....Tucker Carlson.

probably why the disclaimer says "ECW"

I like to go heavy on the tahini as well, but 1:1 with the chickpeas is a lot of tahini lol

I'm not crazy about hummus with a lot of lemon in it, I just add what's needed to balance out the other flavors. There's a lot of hummus out there that way overdoes it on the lemon juice.

i’m very tired of know-nothing know-it-alls who tell me amtrak is a loser and trains are a dead end. amtrak has problems, but every time they’re given more money, they improve their service and sell more tickets. demand is outstripping supply!

This is such a great way to frame this dynamic, wow.

king

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

so gross. why is anyone pitching GLP-1s as the baseline. they're a great thing for a lot of people but people can make their own choices about their own bodies!!!!! jesus

If only the Governor had some degree of oversight over budgets

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

my least favorite Dem politicians are probably Josh Gottheimer, Jared Golden, Karen Bass, and Phil Murphy.

I would do everything in my power to stop them from winning a primary, but I would crawl over broken glass to vote for them in a general against a fascist like JD Vance. It’s not complicated.

I like that photo

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

If you'd like to support the efforts to help make Texas into the place you think it already is, these orgs are doing incredible work and deserve donations + volunteer time:

Out Youth: www.outyouth.org

Transgender Education Network of Texas: transtexas.org

Equality Texas: equalitytexas.org

I don't know a single trans person here who doesn't regularly fear for their safety. I know many people who have already left due to discrimination. I wish that it weren't true, but it is.

Many, many people here (myself included) are working tirelessly to change that truth, but we have not won yet.

Texan here. I'm not sure where you are getting this bizarre, stereotypical view of Texans from, but you are wrong.

There are good people all over this state, but it's barely safe for queer and trans people in *Austin*, let alone the vast expanses of rural and suburban Texas.

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again