Declan Andrews

there should be no citizenship or age restrictions on voting. you live somewhere? you get a vote on what happens there

jeffrey epstein thinks donald trump is the worst person he has ever met. he's right.

Seattle Times notification: Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle’s next mayor

the Seattle Times just called it for Wilson!

Eric Adams standing behind a podium with two small turkish flags

Mar-a-Lago is the Little Saint James of America

i flew Dublin to Heathrow on sunday, and they practically hit you over the head with signs for flight connections. unfortunately for noah there’s nothing there to hit

he tried to with the boring company but he’s too carbrained to consider the possibility that trains are actually effective modes of transportation

thank god i didn’t waste my time listening to Noah Smith talk. I flew DUB-LHR the day before he did and let me tell you folks those purple Flight Connections markings are pretty damn obvious. what a moron

when people don’t make enough joke posts on bluesky, its users have to scour other twitter clones for jokes to argue with

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

a poster advertising the World’s First Festival of Economics and Comedy, November 7-9th in Kilkenny

in Kilkenny this afternoon and i’m horrified to find out i’m in such close proximity to Noah Smith

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.

a pint of guinness, with the beer just touching the top of the G

i missed

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Go NEW YORK CITY ZOHRAN FOR THE PEOPLE!!🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

like thank god my grandparents wanted the american dream for their kids, so i was able to move back as a british citizen through my dad when the american dream became escaping

man i hate it so much… i thought i had a bright career in offshore wind ahead of me. now i live in england and design heat pumps, because even though the british economy is going nowhere they at least arent gutting every industry i could ever see myself working in

If Democrats brush off a Nazi tattoo as an innocent mistake, they're abandoning the ability to make effective arguments against Nazis across the aisle. It'd be an unforced error that would taint the party for generations, and rightly so.

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From the NAHB proceedings, 1913: MR. LAWRENCE VEILLER, Secretary, National Housing As- sociation, New York City: The question is "How can we keep apartment houses and tenement houses and flats out of our city?" Before 212 NATIONAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION we can answer that we must be sure that we want to keep them out. If we put it to a vote in any one of your cities, I think we would find it very difficult to get a vote against an apartment house. I am not for it —don't misunderstand me — but I do recognize that it provides a very convenient way of living, and because of the servant question, which Mr. Davis alluded to, a great many people prefer it. Per-sonally, I think it indicates a very bad tendency and will have a very bad effect on American life and upon our political and social conditions. I don't think you can have proper homes in an apartment house of the highest type. The question is, " How are we going to stop it?" I think there is a way; at least, I have tried it and I think it is going to work. In framing our laws to regulate the construction of dwellings of all kinds, do everything possible in our laws to encourage the construction of private dwellings and even two-family dwellings, because the two-family house is the next least objectionable type, and penalize so far as we can in our statute, the multiple dwelling of any kind, whether it is flat, apartment house or tenement house. It

If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even where there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things, all dealing with fire protection, we are on safe grounds, because that can be justified as a legitimate exercise of the police power. We can show the necessity of these extra precautions where many families live in a dwelling, and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment houses. I recommend that method to the conference. In our laws let most of our fire provisions relate solely to multiple dwellings, CITIES OF HOMES 218 and allow our private houses and two-family houses to be built with almost no fire protection whatever.

The “residential” building code exists in the first place for very bad reasons. Don’t ever forget that. Lawrence Veiller, addressing the NAHB in 1913:

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

NYT notification: President Trump is said to be demanding $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him

he is stealing your tax dollars

josh naylor is the only good defender in the mariners infield

if the mariners lose this game i’m gonna look back on that interference call like super bowl 40

he turned because he was trying to not get hit in the face! he had to jump because clement was aiming straight for him

they shouldn’t have called interference, he scrunched up!

Louis Varland after being pulled with Cal Raleigh coming up

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

He’s stealing money from the federal government. If he just wanted to make sure the military and law enforcement got paid, he could have passed the Democrats’ bill that did exactly that. He wants to do it this way because he’s stealing your tax dollars for himself

Screenshot of the Forest Service website for Salmon Falls Interperetive Site, with a banner above the main page reading “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”

I just wanted to learn about salmon spawning grounds but ok

dom canzone

jp didn’t hit a grand slam because i dropped chocolate on my jersey and haven’t gotten a chance to wash it yet. my bad everyone