Turtle Boy

It's really depressing we developed a miracle cure, a true miracle cure, and we're throwing it all way because we let the snake oil salesmen into the health department

Also blackpill bait to be reminded that we're going to have to re-have every discussion we had during Trump 1. Can't wait for January 6th 2

I remember hearing similar thoughts during Trump 1. Wonder if he's convinced himself it's for something else or if he just let the inertia take him

Ooh, Diplomacy: The Nuclear Age, I like it

a lesser discussed reason that trump is so interested in loosing the national guard and federal law enforcement on primarily democratic-led cities is because every bootlicking, toadying, shit-eating, ball-gargling gadfly on tv will say “but trump does have a point about crime”, and he knows it

'No good reason': Washington Sen. Murray, business leaders slam Trump tariffs Murry held a virtual news conference with leaders from a diverse swath of Washington businesses to decry the latest tariffs imposed by Trump.

Trump's tariffs are a tax—they are a tax on just about everything you are purchasing.

You will have less money in your pockets by the end of this year, specifically because of Donald Trump.

But here’s the thing: Republicans could vote with Democrats to stop these tariffs in an instant.

this bothers me so much from a chauvinistic national pride perspective. US cities are *way* richer than all but a few foreign ones, but they don't look like the future because we prioritized boomer property values. the SF Bay Area should be a fucking marvel of the world, should eclipse Singapore.

that Barack Obama did not simply hand the presidency to Mitt Romney - that he had the temerity to run an effective campaign against the man - is one of the most-cited reasons for the turn to Trump

the entire conservative ethos is Look What You Made Me Do

Laura Loomer got asked about one of my tweets in a deposition resulting in a shouting match and demanding an investigation over whether I'm actually Bill Maher

We were told it couldn't happen here, and then we were told when it did happen here there would be a huge outcry, and instead, it's happening here and our institutions and elites are trying their best to downplay it and describe it in their most careful inside-voice tones.

July 2025 ridership hits 306.8K compared to 200,000+ for May and June

Late last week I wrote about how the 2 Line is performing well by exceeding 200,000 boardings for two months in a row...and then Sound Transit released data showing that it jumped to 300,000 in July.

Turns out people do actually want to ride the train between Bellevue and Redmond.

Also if he doesn't, he'll be thrown in jail come 2028

[2029 NYT]: Trump's opponents say he's trying to set new rules to run for a fourth term, but there's no evidence so far in his third term to support that.

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

All the Russiagate stuff was real, Trump just successfully covered it up

Imaging posting this.

Dearest Margaret -

I stepped off the train in the City of Washington and mine eyes set upon a horror that I can barely put to words. A youth on a horseless chariot did what the locals call “pop a wheelie” and it was thunderous and sulfurous and I have retreated to a sanatorium in the green hills.

"derivative art is worthless" is one hell of a take, but I guess fundamental understander of art Pwime Wib is a bit of an elitist

A Deadweight Loss for All Society: Donald Trump's Second Administration

Hell of a book title

one of the way in which 'national conservatism' is bullshit, btw, is the constant decrying of atomization and lack of social cohesion, while also getting furious at even the most tepid attempts to get the Atomizer Social Trust Annihilator machine to be run more responsibly.

dawg they got dudes in pink polos throwing sandwiches on them and these are the *good* times for the admin

critical support for my soulful quirked up white boys in DC who are unafraid to be goated with the sauce

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.

The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

@HHSGov •@NBCNews claims that @SecKennedy's recommendation to fry potatoes in beef tallow - rather than the seed oils used today - "isn't backed by scientific research." Here is a basketful of studies that tell a different story: Quote tweet of: NBC News Health @NBCNewsHealth • 5d A salty twist: Diabetes risk study says french fries are a culprit nbcnews.com/health/health-...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

Congress in 21-22 did so much stuff, and it's like a secret now

1. the House should be much bigger
2. the senate should be a ceremonial body devoid of any real power
3. the electoral college should be abolished
4. pardon power should be curtailed
5. scotus should be disassembled into multiple high courts with diff jurisdictions

ken dilanian: DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro just raised a legitimate issue that has long been debated in DC: Is the legal system tough enough on juveniles who commit serious crimes. A lot of residents believe it is not. But as she said, changing that situation would require a change in the law—it’s not going to be impacted by a federal takeover of the police department.

watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.

this is true, is the thing. like you can angrily sneer all you want, it’s still true.

DC statehood absolutely needs to be a non-negotiable for every Democrat running for office. and senate dems must support abolishing the filibuster to push it through