California's experiment in trying to build a Nordic-style safety net on a Norquist-style tax system is not working and I don't think it's responsible for gubernatorial candidates to call for taking it to the next level
it is my life’s mission to find the guy who’s pitching “no income taxes below [seemingly upper-middle-class threshold]” to big Dems electeds and hit him with a whiffle bat until he stops doing that
I hate saying things like “a memo went out” because it’s quasi-conspiratorial and unnuanced but something, like, HAD to have happened in the last couple months for several big Dems to suddenly rally around this (bad) idea, right? I truly had not heard it before then
Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.
Oh my god, a dark money group is paying people to attack Tim Onion. But they call me a "CEO of a major media company."
Do not pay influencers to attack Tim Onion and his untold millions (or billions?) of dollars to attack Tim Onion without mentioning the GREAT deal you can on an Onion membership.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
credit where due, Macron is right on this one prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...
Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives
This is what happens when corrupt pols let private-sector sociopaths who are hyper-focused on reactionary social engineering have untrammeled economic power. Gotta regulate the ever-loving fuck outta these shitheads before they make serfs of us all.
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Barber has an amazing eye for parts usage - considering huge variations in the source and destination material - and I would definitely give the gingerbread Enterprise a whirl for next year's Lego winter village.
You probably know that you can't inherently trust the things AI chatbots say, but it seems like a lot of people don't understand that also extends to things the bots say about themselves.
Ten times more than the usual annual Federal spend on walking and bicycling transportation projects
Great news if you don’t think walking and bicycling is transportation stateline.org/2026/03/12/b...
Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.
Trump should have been pushed out of office before we got to this point. Normal people don’t understand malignant narcissists. They will destroy **the entire world** to get what they want. They will ruin their own lives and the lives of everyone else in their sphere of influence.
Helped by years of trying to keep old and "new" (2004+) Lego grays separate?
What's My JND? 0.0049
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Also www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-col...
Me, in 30 years having not gotten the news that the boycott ended
I just keep thinking of Josh Marshall's "dignity wraith" description from his first term.
They were action wizard stories written for seven-year-olds, about the polycrisis collapse of an ostensibly liberal republic due to pervasive institutional rot exploited by honest-to-god bad guys
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
