Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.

It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

free speech but only if it doesnt huwt my feewies 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Oklahoma is also demonstrating that it’s nice to have a QB run game…

Got jussst a little help to get there :(

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

The Republican budget plan will clearly increase homelessness and public misery, which will then be blamed on the leaders of big cities. This is an old game.

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

Holy shit

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

something to be said about how these people view americans as inputs to be used up by capital

"I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for, it would seem, the crime of speech."

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage

the only real discrimination period, for these folks, is against hard-right conservative christians, whose religious beliefs give them a kind of super-citizenship that allows them to either discriminate, opt out of common obligations or dictate to others

weird, what could explain this

Disgrace to Maine

Hi, my name is Brandon Dimcheff and I live in Larrytown in the fourth ward. I'm here today to speak about DC-5. I'm going to speak about it generally in a second but I want to get my most important request out first: please amend this to convert the height limit to stories instead of feet. 35 feet may limit creative uses of three-story buildings, such as first floor retail, that we want to encourage. Stories is a more flexible measure, and is more appropriate for a comprehensive planning document. Please leave feet for the UDC. I still think that three stories is too short for my preference, and so if I were in your seats I would vote no, but I can understand that there is a reasonable policy disagreement here. Look at this lovely row of four-story brownstones in the South End in Boston. I honestly think these should be legal to build anywhere in the city. I don't see any reason to direct planning commission to discourage this sort of construction.

All of that being said, the reason we're having this discussion tonight is because anti-housing activists have been spreading fear and misinformation about the comprehensive land use plan and the process around it, which has caused confusion in the community. These anti-housing activists have falsely claimed that there has been insufficient notice and insufficient resident feedback, but these same activists have been publicly encouraging their fellow residents to voice their opposition to increasing housing supply via the comprehensive planning process since at least 2023. These activists have been fully aware of the long overdue planning process, which has been going on for years. The city has sent out mailers, built websites, put up signs, had thousands of survey participants, and has had dozens of meetings, most of them open to the public. There has been ample engagement. The results are that Ann Arborites broadly support adding more housing in all neighborhoods to solve the housing crisis. I understand that there is a very vocal minority with an extraordinary amount of free time on their hands that is opposed to any positive change to our comprehensive plan and zoning codes that could possibly increase density. These same out-of-touch activists recently lost their seats on council, and lost misinformation-laden campaigns to amend the city charter by a 3:1 margin. Their ideas our unpopular, and you should not be afraid to do what is right. The majority of us who understand that we have to solve the housing crisis will have your backs. And as Tim Walz said about political capital: you win elections to burn capital and improve lives. Sure, don't burn it unnecessarily, but let's make Ann Arbor a better and more welcoming place for ourselves and our neighbors. Future Ann Arborites will thank you for your vision. Thank you for listening.

I said some stuff at #a2council

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Really disappointed to see John U. Bacon amplify this on Facebook

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Terrifying, abhorrent, infuriating. What an evil and incompetent administration all the way down.

“Paid protesters” has been a reliable excuse for the right since the civil rights era.

Segregationists claimed the high schoolers who desegregated Central High in Little Rock were paid to do so.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

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