Jake Gotta

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

"The exact same war, with worse consequences. Maybe Obama was not so much a breath of fresh air as he was a prolonged wheeze between two racking coughs."

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Yes in this particular moment the blame is 99.9% on Republicans. A dozen R’s in Congress could together end this presidency now

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

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"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

Disgusting.

The ultra rich are peculiarly obsessed with solving the problem of that one scene from Batman where Bane puts his hand on Ben Mendlesohn's shoulder. Until a couple years ago their solutions were like "BATTLE ROYALE-style explosive collars" but killbots suddenly seem tantalizingly practical

An important thing to realize is that our oligarch class's vision of autonomous killbots isn't really using them as soldiers, but them as slave drivers and prison guards.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

Yea I mean who’s to say if the rapid suburbanization of primarily white Americans from 1968-1988 created every problem we now face in the modern USA

American planning in a nutshell: building apartments in a wealthy neighborhood? You need special permission and must rent 20% of them at a loss to poor people.

Combining 10 apartments into a mansion for one extremely rich family? By-right process, no subsidized housing requirement, and a tax break.

The 5,000 is a reference to cm Sean Elo-Rivera’s calculation of homes that sit empty and are not being rented, listed for sale, or otherwise occupied for more than 6 months out of the year

Right like the math isn’t mathing here

“This proposal affects fewer than 1% of properties citywide and could generate up to $30 million annually…”

100% a “ok cool next” type of policy that will have minimal impact so, yea, good! Now that that’s out of the way let’s get back to solving the housing crisis

yeah these guys were drug dealers

Is that better or worse than the rest of the beach towns de jure ban on apartments that keep locals or anybody else from moving in?

Taxing/limiting Airbnbs is not likely to move the needle on affordability. Building thousands of new homes (and maybe some hotels!) in those places probably would

Legitimately insane development

They are running that back though

No this is from @ alliance SD on IG

An overhead view of a tram gliding along a grass right of way next to a cyclist using a red asphalt protected bike lane along a river in Bilbao, Spain.

Trams on grass: Bilbao edition.

Chris is delighted to be back in beautiful Basque Country to speak at the ‘Metropolis of the Future’ International Seminar on behalf of the @dutchcycling.nl Embassy.

Expect plenty of dispatches over the next few days; exploring the region on two feet and two wheels.

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Classic

$31 million each year helps thousands of homeless students not be homeless

Imagine what $310 million could do

1 in 10 Cal State students face homelessness. This emergency housing program helps California spent $31 million last year helping students facing homelessness with emergency housing and other services through Rapid Rehousing. The program operates at most public universities and abou...

The answer to homelessness is housing part 3,546

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No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post”

please help make it happen

from figurative blood libel to *literal* blood libel