David Gotwald

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

Rebecca Luker somehow seems to find the camera while singing "My White Knight" (perhaps the finest rendition we've ever known) during a performance of The Music Man.

That final ethereal A-flat was a formative moment for me (I saw the show on March 15, 2001, as an early HS graduation gift)

We Made a Memecoin Diving into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.

So, uh, yesterday the market cap of our stunt memecoin, Bwainwuhm, was $3700. Today it spiked to $1.2 million, and seems to be around $400k now. I need to go lie down. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Opinion | The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied those same rights.

I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.

Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this

Also, vehicle speeds: up

In the context of congestion pricing, this is not just good; it's the stated rationale for the tax & the one that appeals to the self interest of motorists, who *self-promo klaxon* I argue should be understood as major beneficiaries of CP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Et tu Brute

Schumer and Gillibrand are abdicating Dems' last point of leverage hoping that Trump/Musk will self-implode and voters will punish the GOP in the midterms.

They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

They look like they accidentally wore each others’ suits

Public shaming is a form of violence & violation of human rights. In the coming months (& years), the threat of public shaming will increase. We must decide how we will respond when this type of thing happens to us, our colleagues & our neighbours—beyond the context of likes, hashtags & reposts.

Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.

Meanwhile, the world’s richest dipshit is swinging a chainsaw at CPAC and laughing at the lives he’s destroying.

if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

A good, workhorse building we should build more of: Either 12 units for singles or 6 family-sized units. Everyone gets a balcony. Easily fits on a standard 5,000 square-foot lot. Fits around six parking spaces in the back. And yet, illegal to build in the typical US residential neighborhood.

the right seized on a small group of people they thought couldn’t fight back, who they could scapegoat for any and everything, and then likened those people’s freedom to the collapse of the nation—and those in power who said they opposed such things failed to stop them

Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.

Look at these people, sitting in a church pew, hearing about the notions of grace and compassion, and pouting.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Next time, buy a #bike.

a large truck parked half on the sidewalk and road.

My holiday wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.

When your relatives start arguing at Thanksgiving, calmly grab your favorite serving bowl of food like you're going to the kitchen to refill it, and just don't come back. Quietly escape with your favorite food.

This has been survival tips with Jen.

It's disheartening that in an age where knowledge has never been more accessible - the United States is about to be governed by an administration so primitive and ignorant as to believe that tariffs are good and that vaccines are bad.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like