stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

The fact that none of these guys have been assassinated by cartels or human traffickers demonstrates the extent to which immigration enforcement does not actually threaten their activities

Over the last two weeks the NY Times has swung from wildly hyping the isolated protest violence in LA as if it was the 1992 riots all over again, to “here’s a diagram of a really cool bomb for killing people!”

We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it.

The vibes mayor strikes again.

This city is too densely populated and complex to be led by someone so immune to data.

He can always easily do great deals that never seem to happen. Maybe in two weeks.

As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

notable that this times piece casts a story with conventional wisdom abt protests, immigration etc. and cites various polling data but doesn't cite the one poll since this started which shows the militarization is distinctly UNpopular 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Tesla was bailed out by the Department of Energy during the Great Recession in 2010 and Tesla wasn’t even profitable without the revenue from receiving emissions credits that the government created, until 2021.

Slide with text “TRUTH: The “War on the Car” is a lie.

Maybe the MOST IMPORTANT truth for better transportation in cities:

The “War on Cars” narrative fuelled by populist politicians, click bait media and such, IS A LIE.

Cars have almost all the space, budget etc, and ANY effort to add even a bit more CHOICE is attacked this way. #TheTruthAboutTraffic

Note - Both the LAPD and LASD agree with the former and characterized this as peaceful protests against a sloppy LEO operation.

Fellow white liberals - ICE isn’t coming into our neighborhoods - I’m going to trust the people of Paramount, CA over some prestige journalist’s take.

One of the largest problems of the internet today is that you have entire generations of humans who never experienced the consequence of being punched in the face for saying or doing something awful, and so they continue unabated

Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.

Scientists and researchers understand that sex is a multidimensional category. Donald Trump’s rigid definitions undermine their ability to do their jobs.

NIMBYs love striving toward ever more absurd arguments against housing.

In this email against our bill to allow more homes near transit, they argue it’s “unconstitutional” & “discriminates against those who cannot rely on transit,” including “families with young children & disabled people.” 🙄
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Trying to appeal to “Hidden knowledge”. Common propaganda technique in the modern misinformation age

the future is a slop app sending you a push notification written by its billionaire owners on how your future treats are at risk because of the feckless demand for big government boondoggles like funding your child’s public school or building a public park

American journalists having a hard time grasping that foreigners are people too and that they react in entirely predictable ways when you treat them like garbage.

Inflation was 22% in 1982! The curve looked quite similar to Biden’s. It went up, it came down. Reagan pulled it off largely because he knew how to communicate. Voters think in terms of narratives, not in terms of issue positions. It sucks, but ads work.

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

California environmental law nearly killed a childcare facility in our community. Enough is enough Why does CEQA give a few individuals de facto veto power over a project that a majority of the community wants and needs? SB607 would finally change that.

Napa County Supervisors Anne Cottrell and Liz Alessio lay out the case for SB 607 and CEQA reform by telling the story of a much-needed childcare facility that opponents nearly killed by abusing CEQA

I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.

Extremely impressive! Would be really exciting technology if not for the possibly breaking society part.

jesus h christ

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them.

They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.

Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.

NASA, in surprise shift, may launch rockets to Mars next year The move could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, which has announced plans to land a rocket on the planet.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to spend $1 billion on travel to Mars on Musk's rocket ships while they close Social Security offices and fire Social Security workers.

That's not efficiency—that's theft.

haus is infamous for this

every single online forum in history has discovered this: either you mete out bans for consistent bad-faith trolls, or you watch the community devolve into endless toxicity and harassment

RFK claims “70% of pharmaceutical products in the world are sold to our country” but this is a false misrepresentation.

His 70% number is exaggerated and is based on sale $ not number of products sold, which ignores the fact that USA pays more for prescriptions than other places in the world

Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters As a perfect storm of Trump policies is set to hit rural America, a veteran Democratic organizer reflects on whether his party can capitalize to peel off some of Trump’s lockstep rural support.

"Trump won over 90% of news deserts across the country. These are communities that don’t have a local source of news...that’s where Trump is really succeeding."

On the pod, a rural Dem organizer is illuminating on how Trump's rural support thrives in info vacuums:
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