theoretical vibe physicist

“So she handcuffed herself to the door, but it was only one handle of a double door, so people could get around her. Oh, & she was wearing a shirt with her face on it—though it might have been a different face than the one she had at the time. Certainly it was different from the current edition…”

It does not seem like a good sign of where we are that mainstream media institutions are having to explain Laura Loomer to their audiences.

But one commuter town outside New York City is slicing through red tape and building thousands of new apartments. New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 new housing units over the past decade. Another 6,500 units are either in the pipeline or the planning stages for the next several years. Those 11,000 new units would represent a 37% increase in the number of New Rochelle apartments compared with 10 years ago. About a 40-minute train ride to Midtown Manhattan, this suburb of more than 85,000 remains one of the few places offering relative affordability in the notoriously expensive New York City metro area. New Rochelle median rents are only 1.6% higher than in 2020, well below the 25% or higher increases in New York City and outer markets like New Jersey's Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City, according to Apartment List. New Rochelle's median rent actually declined 2% from 2020 to 2023, while median rent nationally was surging at a double-digit rate.

Begging you to just build more housing

…the fuck?

oh nooo.

to be fair, I think they’re saying that the American anti-European sentiment isn’t as polarized as it was after 9/11 (I think their overall point is wrong, though).

mods asleep, post rare Mackenzie Kings.

Where to even start? There are no legally binding deals. Nobody has handed over any cash. Tariffs are primarily a tax faced by Americans, not exporters.

Sweeney can take care of herself here, but it’s still wild for a President to establish her as some avatar for MAGA conservatism like this.

they should make a very black comedy about Maori leader Hongi Hika's visit to the UK and Australia in 1820, where he was hailed as an exotic prince and also made a bunch of very smart arms purchases that he used to brutally slaughter his enemies while wearing a suit of armor King George gave him.

*incredible* arc.

Hoover Makes Available The Newly Processed Papers Of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

Huge archive news: The Hoover Institution has opened access to the most powerful figure in the Reagan White House: Astrologer Joan Quigley. 🗃️

wildly tangential to the quoted video.

I want to have a vague sense that actors are socially liberal, for lack of a better term—& nothing else.

The number of comedians & actors who have anything worthwhile to say on practical politics is vanishingly low.

what does that even mean in this context? oppose California Democrats redrawing the congressional map because it might make Gavin Newsom look good in a Democratic primary?

using AI to simulate the speech of a dead person in this manner is totally obscene & in my view impermissible, but also…what it said was pure banality! this is rubbish! worthless tripe!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

everyone involved in this should go into the wilderness & repent.

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oh my god.

impossibly cursed political alignment.

Progressive discourse takes place frozen in amber, as it were, in a perpetual Obama era, in which people rhetorically joust with so-called fiscal conservatives. The focus is winning these discursive wars & “moving the Overton window” instead of actually seeking beneficial & lasting policies.

retvrn to tradition.

My parents spanked me and I turned out fine and if you don’t think so then we can step outside and handle this shit right now

it’s not far-fetched to suspect that the admin. literally sees this as a way of making money.

a lot of wealthy people lie about what they will consider “too high,” but the dynamic is not fake.

I regret to inform some of you that people can & do move when the taxes are too high.

wait, what? *that* Aaron Bastani?

You need to at least not be actively crashing the economy to pull this one off

goddd it’s always the same moves, the same meaningless lines with them.