Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences

Close! Confederate traitors played the long game, won the Civil War, and took over the USA.

It would be helpful I think to revisit the history of how the KKK and fascists like Henry Ford actually provided intellectual and strategic guidance to Hitler and the Nazis.

That color scheme. This looks like a screenshot from that alternate history Wolfenstein game where Nazis win WW2 and take over the USA.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

While it's true that Chuck Schumer is the worst possible leader of Senate Democrats, it's important to remember the United States Senate is an abomination, and so there is no such thing as a great leader of Senate Democrats because, great leaders don't aspire to sit atop a burning pile of trash.

We're going to miss independent journalism so much more than we know, but one story we'll never, ever see:

Why would both Russia AND Iran want Republicans to win the White House, and run psy-ops to try to influence the election?

The 4-D geopolitical answer is kind of epic.

Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

e.g. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

The discourse is over-indexed on techno-fascists like Alex Karp and David Sachs, IMO. The reality is more like the below post.

For every Elon Musk wanna-be there are 1,000 deca-millionaire coders/founders you've never heard of who'd be right at home in any lefty/progressive circle.

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Adam Savage Rebuilds His Stolen Bicycle!

Highly recommend Adam Savage’s latest video!

He spent years using a bike as his primary transit in NYC and understands the freedom it brings. Nice to see a prominent voice validating that we don't need 4,000lb boxes just to navigate a city.

When homes are built in extreme hazard zones, and local jurisdictions gave them the building permits, and so electric utilities are required *by law* to build power lines to serve those newly-permitted high-risk homes (which is most new homes in the US) ...

Who's gonna pay?

All of us. That's who.

From California to Texas, electric utilities are struggling to manage mounting fire risk in a warming climate. They are spending more than ever before on lawsuits and settlements, as well as on preventative measures, such as undergrounding lines. 1/5

We're entering a situation where most of the largest media outlets (by audience) in the United States are going to be owned by fascists.

I am utterly, crushingly disappointed by the failure of left-leaning donors to fund journalism at the scale needed. There's no return to democracy without it.

Cars are essential in most of the U.S. They're also increasingly unaffordable The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.

I know there's little chance of getting normal people to think about how ubiquitous government regulations mandating car ownership and driving are one of two leading cause of financial struggles in the US.

But at least the data is there. We really don't want to see it. www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

In ~ 2015, US carmakers started telling investors/analysts about plans to stop making smaller, affordable cars in favor of larger, far more expensive trucks and SUVs.

The plan: Sell fewer new trucks/SUVs, drive up profitability AND ALSO increase the cost of used cars (by reducing supply).

Welp.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

I'm still befuddled by lack of general acknowledgement that Confederate traitors who control the GOP are in end stages of terminating the USA, but oh well, guess that's where we are.

Anyway, Confederate operatives are working with White House to end voting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

i love this

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

"state regulations" which state actually enforces regulations on passenger vehicles

I can’t believe this is real

[stares in 30 minute BART headways]

wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess

hold on i gotta take this

When asked to do their jobs of using taxpayer dollars to build infrastructure duly funded and approved by voters, our transportation departments instead say, "GFY."

We need a total turnover of all staff in all DOTs, everywhere.

Why isn’t LA repaving streets? — LA Public Press With the city’s budget issues and new paving practices, the potholes and cracks on Los Angeles streets are only expected to worsen.

Why isn’t L.A. repaving streets? - LA Public Press

How shitty is this? We aren’t paving our streets because LA doesn’t want to have to put in ADA compliant curbs and bike lanes. WTF.

apple.news/A15pftfwsSL2...

regional transit connections map, lots of transit on it across the whole Bay

The Bay Area's new transit map is out and it comes with one incredibly exciting change: parks accessible by transit services!

Let's talk regional wayfinding to parks and destinations 🧵