Eric

locally it's going to take eight years to design and build a new 12 mile long bus rapid transit line by which time china will have completed another 6000 miles of high speed rail. we're so dog shit at doing anything that isn't shooting moms or stealing data

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

A sure sign that a journalist is doing their job!

I can think of a half-dozen jerks in the state leg that would do this.

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.”

$14-17 is probably the going rate for a cocktail in CT, and we’re basically NYC pricing. The original post is far from outrageous. A draft beer of something good probably runs you like $8-10. The original point is valid!

It’s marginally better than The Iron Man, but that ain’t saying much.

It has some moments. If you’re already bathed in the stinky pretensions of Townshend post-1975 or so it’s passable, but still not good.

Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism

Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old

Stiff competition for the dumbest senator, but Ron Johnson always finds a way to remind you that’s he’s in the running.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Happy birthday! Great taste in films, excellent cat and dog.

This type of walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in almost all of Connecticut

no rooting interest personally but I am always happy when billionaire degenerate Robert Kraft takes an L

Hm, I am a Czech BlueSky early adopter and a Mets fan….

Nowhere close to “creative” or “professional”.

call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas

I agree with this. Far smarter people than me have pointed out that most of their current talent is stuck in the 90s/00s. No one is emerging as the real bastard they need.

And the “gerontocracy” thing isn’t inaccurate, if they’re going to fight I don’t care how old they are.

Huh?

fully capable of believing that our president would knowingly post wildly racist content, that he doesn't actually bother or have the attention span to actually watch what he reposts, and, this is the key thing, that he's a racist prick who shouldn't be in office regardless

Some people can’t accept that they’re so out of touch and old, and that not every single thing is for them, and decided to make it everyone’s problem by becoming ethnic cleansing enthusiasts.

I think people look at how Republicans were able to constantly put sand in the gears as a minority and wonder, rightly so, why Democrats don’t appear to be doing that. People are looking for some resistance, and Dems can’t even stop voting for Trump judicial nominees.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

To be fair that’s all Bernie Taupin’s fault. Really weird lyricist! Although Elton has chosen to work with him for fifty something years…so maybe it is his fault.

Sick of this!

I always get Rob Sampson confused with Fishbein in Wallingford and the QAnon psychopath from Watertown, I suspect they’re actually all the same person.

Based on the two others pictured in the article, that validates my suspicion.

Been working on a piece for a while (and he just...tweeted it out) about this as the far-right version of the Cultural Revolution. They have no constructive goal, just a drive to make every "intellectual" suffer. If they could send everyone with a BA to Qinghai (Montana) to dig ditches, they would.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

An aerosol can with Black Ice air freshener spray.

And you can get it in a can!

if you’re not putting General Sherman in charge of the DOJ in your administration we aren’t interested

Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.