Nathan McDermott

A chart showing traffic tickets issued in San Francisco, with a sharp drop that began in 2014, hit bottom in 2022 when just a few tickets were issued, and has now rebounded almost to 2014 levels.

We’re back, baby!

Woke 1.0 is dead

incredible thread!

I LOVE her!!

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Alysa Liu Explains How She Got Her "Smiley" Frenulum Piercing: "I Did It Myself" Here's everything to know about Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu's mouth piercing that's been on display when she smiles at the Winter Games.

I’ve known of Alysa Lou for an hour and love her.

She quit figuring skating a couple years back because the completion aspect sucked. She died her hair zebra striped, pierced her own Frenulum, came back to the Olympics dancing to MacArthur Park Suite, and won gold
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Before 1986, affordable housing had accelerated depreciation schedules, which was a much faster way of getting things built than the current system of tax credits.

I felt my back snap seeing that flip!

But it’d help a lot with the “let’s turn the page and move on, America” message she was sending

His ego wouldn’t have allowed that, especially after the humiliation of dropping out, and I think she was reluctant to separate herself too much from him on the trail out of personal respect and the tradition of VPs running to replace their outgoing president.

I’m wishcasting, but the best thing Biden could’ve done after dropping out was have a one-on-one with Harris and give her his blessing to trash him on the campaign trail.

She could’ve waived away criticism of the Biden Administration by saying she was just a powerless VP

Honored to have my Zeteo podcast 'We're Not Kidding' nominated for an Ambie podcast award, for Best Interview, but - growing up in the 1980s and 1990s - I never thought I'd ever be competing with Oprah (!) for anything. Lol. Wish us luck!

this is really great

Past Lives | Patreon History Content

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Can’t recommend Past Lives enough if you’re looking for a history podcast, especially if you appreciate the perspective of the “common man” in history and want something different than the usual “great man” perspective

I have to tell a story about this. My great uncle, Jimmy Perrone, fought Hitler in WWII and then came back to our hometown and married Adeline Liguori, my grandfather’s sister. Adeline died of cancer in the early 1980s and Uncle Jim went through a depression. 1/x

'Watchmen' Creator Alan Moore Says Adults Who Enjoy Super Hero Media Are Engaging In A "Kind Of Infantilisation That Can Very Often Be A Precursor To Fascism" 'Watchmen' creator Alan Moore believes the enjoyment of super hero media by adults is a societal "precursor to fascism".

Has Alan Moore been wrong about anything?

"Yes, but for different reasons."

Is Sean McElwee a joke to you people?!

I just found out that Indonesi'a high speed train system is called "Whoosh"

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.

Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

“But teams of hundreds whittled down to dozens as the site most recently operated at 18% of its full capacity.” Printing moves to Des Moines, which is a long long way away from Minneapolis. Can’t imagine what this does to daily deadlines. It’s just sad. — www.startribune.com/star-tribune...

Any theories on why young men in the US are lonelier than their international counterparts?

It's just engagement bait to get those hot pottery shots

A family member was dumbfounded that I could live in New York, and leave my clothes in a public laundromat dryer unattended for an hour and come back without them being stolen.

Woot! That’s awesome, congrats Tess!

Some news: today is my first day at @wsj.com as a senior video correspondent! I’m so excited about joining this incredible team and I can’t wait to dive in

A surge of history on TV reflects race to define collective memory A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we were, who we are and who we're going to be,' explains presidential historian...

The singular delight of being one's nerdiest, most ardent self on @NPR: www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...

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