One of the worst headlines I’ve ever read

Casseroles get a bad rap. They are delicious and should be respected.

The illiberal left is at it again

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

Somebody please tell me it’s Friday

2 black and white dogs lying on a wood floor

One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.

My farmer wife might never forgive the Bear for pronouncing Allium wrong

the extraction class whining about Mamdani act as if the U.S. playing field isn't violently tilted, in about a thousand different ways, to ensure actual reformers have to work tirelessly to make even a modest dent

just genuinely the biggest fucking entitled babies you could possibly imagine

Honestly that would be great for my town too

This is extraordinarily corrupt. But I still think he’s far more malevolent and sociopathic than merely corrupt.

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

I just learned in real time that some people use F/U in email subject lines to mean Follow Up

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF

That sinking feeling in New Hampshire is brought to you by the grand illusion • New Hampshire Bulletin The thousands in debt wasn’t the result of vacations; we never took any. It wasn’t for nights on the town or Amazon splurges. It is just how much extra it cost, added up over the first 15 years of our...

A new one from me for @newhampshirebulletin.com : Hard times in a hard state in a hard nation. #NHPolitics

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”

She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

Nobody likes waste. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that, in many ways, government is *designed* to be inefficient. It’s structured with redundancy and complexity both for audit and control purposes and because it tries to satisfy multiple competing societal goals. 1/2

I’m probably not going to take their word for it

meme of two people talking where one labeled "cyclist" says "i love riding my bike" and the other labeled "average driver" says "i just fantasized about killing you"

every single transportation conversation ever

Luigi Mangione in a bullet proof vest at today’s court appearance

Luigi Mangione STUNS in bulletproof vest!

black poster with white text: COMMUNITY: CAN WE HAVE A SAFE ROUTE FOR OUR KIDS TO WALK/BIKE/ROLL TO SCHOOL? CITY: NO, A DRIVER MIGHT GET MAD. THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF THE DISCUSSION

if interested, can download the poster here: www.creativebyrovelo.com/product-page...

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.

This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

Translation: We never got the buy-in from other countries to expel these people.

And dear media, the term you're looking for is "concentration camp" not "migrant detention center"

Have you ever counted how many times a day you tell your dog how pretty or handsome they are? And then counted how many times you tell your spouse that?

Does anybody else have an older dog who acts like a middle aged man who doesn’t know they shouldn’t dive for the ball anymore? So stressful!