One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
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 handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer
Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡
Why is El Prado open to car traffic. The street is not functional. No one here is having a good time in Balboa Park. Closing it would make a better experience for everyone, including drivers
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
Wonder if the “Campus left” or Thomas Friedman was more correct about the outcomes of the Iraq or Afghan wars? 🤔
Perhaps we should base who we listen to on their previous track record.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now
A useful analogy I’ve heard is between cognitive bias and optical illusions. Squares A & B in the famous Adelson Checkerboard Illusion are exactly the same shade of grey. You can confirm this by cutting them away from or covering the surrounding imagery. BUT YOU STILL SEE THE ILLUSION.
My standard podcast queue:
1) "How everything you love about your country is being systematically dismantled"
2) "A weirdly hopeful technical discussion about emerging electrotech"
3) "The concentration camps your taxes are paying for"
For more of (2), subscribe to Volts
Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.
still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?
For most actual democratic primary voters, even if their last choice candidate wins the primary, they would still crawl over broken glass to vote for that person in the general. This is in fact how 2020 went for a lot of us (minus the glass)
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
the minute the fb algorithm clocks you as a straight man it immediately sets about trying to destroy your life & endanger those around you
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
Unchecked Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trap Heat, Destabilizing Global Weather Patterns And Putting Millions Of Lives At Risk
vs.
No They Don’t
San Diego ranks #2 nationally: 55% of spending goes to housing + transportation.
Here's the link: when homes near jobs are too expensive, people drive farther—maximizing both costs.
Solution? Build more housing near transit and jobs.
I’ve always thought I’m not smart enough to write a best-selling book, but after a couple years listening to @ifbookspod.bsky.social I realized the truth is that I’m not dumb enough
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
They cannot abide independent sources of truth.
This is why they see universities and research institutes as the enemy, and no amount of lost knowledge, lives saved or future GDP outweighs the elimination of that threat to power.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
I signed an agreement in July to get panels on my townhouse in CA. By December, permits were still pending, and I was informed that they couldn't complete the project before the end of the year. Without the $9k federal rebate, I had to cancel.
So, my question is: wtf?
Looking forward to this pod!
