busillis
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I love this every time it comes up, and it makes me sad that Minneapolis - St Paul will never have the opportunity to do something similar.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I love this every time it comes up, and it makes me sad that Minneapolis - St Paul will never have the opportunity to do something similar.
One thing that's fascinating to me is which Republicans, long after it's clear that this will be far more damaging to the Republican party than the Democrats, are still pushing to release the Epstein information.
I don't know if it's from principle, or a principle I would respect, but it's wild.
I don't know if it's from principle, or a principle I would respect, but it's wild.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
One thing that's fascinating to me is which Republicans, long after it's clear that this will be far more damaging to the Republican party than the Democrats, are still pushing to release the Epstein information.
I don't know if it's from principle, or a principle I would respect, but it's wild.
I don't know if it's from principle, or a principle I would respect, but it's wild.
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
A genuinely impressive amount of my job is dealing with people who got a (very clear) letter and don't know understand what it says, but who would be shocked if someone described them as having low literacy.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A genuinely impressive amount of my job is dealing with people who got a (very clear) letter and don't know understand what it says, but who would be shocked if someone described them as having low literacy.
Junji Ito warned us about this.
This was a really interesting detail: left to their own devices, AI chatbots will start inventing "spiralism" all by themselves. Something in their training seems to make them susceptible to this strain of mysticism.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Junji Ito warned us about this.
A lot of people, not unreasonably, are suggesting that Democrats caved because it finally affected wealthy donors and they got angry. But it's worth remembering that Senators are (mostly) extremely wealthy people too, and this was the point where it threatened to affect them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A lot of people, not unreasonably, are suggesting that Democrats caved because it finally affected wealthy donors and they got angry. But it's worth remembering that Senators are (mostly) extremely wealthy people too, and this was the point where it threatened to affect them.
The story of American politics my entire life has been people who do not understand the idea of iterative games acting condescending to their critics, who do.
And each time they do this the next one gets longer and more painful.
And each time they do this the next one gets longer and more painful.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The story of American politics my entire life has been people who do not understand the idea of iterative games acting condescending to their critics, who do.
And each time they do this the next one gets longer and more painful.
And each time they do this the next one gets longer and more painful.
One of the things people defending the Democrats show is that a lot of people in the Democratic party do not actually understand what fighting is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
One of the things people defending the Democrats show is that a lot of people in the Democratic party do not actually understand what fighting is.
It says something about the contempt for their voters that the leadership of the Democratic Party thinks that the threat of removing ACA subsidies is a way to sell themselves, but that actually stopping them from being removed isn't one.
Ezra Klein, having spoken to a "dozen or so House and Senate Democrats" over the weekend, says at least some of them worried extending the ACA subsidies would take them off the table as a political issue and wanted Republicans to keep the filibuster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It says something about the contempt for their voters that the leadership of the Democratic Party thinks that the threat of removing ACA subsidies is a way to sell themselves, but that actually stopping them from being removed isn't one.
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Damn in retrospect all Mamdani had to do to get Schumer to endorse him was say he'll schedule a vote on becoming a centrist corporate shill at some point in the future
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Damn in retrospect all Mamdani had to do to get Schumer to endorse him was say he'll schedule a vote on becoming a centrist corporate shill at some point in the future
This would be a characteristically bad time for the Democrats in the Senate to cave, uselessly, but until that happens we should all be optimistic. It would also be a magnificent time for them to play a very mean practical joke on Axios.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This would be a characteristically bad time for the Democrats in the Senate to cave, uselessly, but until that happens we should all be optimistic. It would also be a magnificent time for them to play a very mean practical joke on Axios.
Turning a corner at the end of the aisle at Target, I run into four employees talking to each other. All four, together, swivel to face me, and smile. "How are you doing today?" they say, in unison, "Do you need help?"
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Turning a corner at the end of the aisle at Target, I run into four employees talking to each other. All four, together, swivel to face me, and smile. "How are you doing today?" they say, in unison, "Do you need help?"
PRECEDENT!
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
PRECEDENT!
People are so happy about Dick Cheney finally being dead, but all I can think about is how satisfying it would have been if he'd waited long enough to see Mamdani elected.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
People are so happy about Dick Cheney finally being dead, but all I can think about is how satisfying it would have been if he'd waited long enough to see Mamdani elected.
Long lines to vote in Ward 10 tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Long lines to vote in Ward 10 tonight.
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It'll give Frey the opportunity to spend more time with his owners.
Good morning to everyone except Jacob Frey.
I hope you have a really bad day, Jacob. I hope after midnight you start making plans to move out of the city.
I hope you have a really bad day, Jacob. I hope after midnight you start making plans to move out of the city.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It'll give Frey the opportunity to spend more time with his owners.
Prohibition in the United States is usually treated like a mistake, but if you look at the sheer amount of drinking, it really did work out well in the long run.
This really is getting to that point, and adding in some economic bad times is really going to go badly.
This really is getting to that point, and adding in some economic bad times is really going to go badly.
This is Bad (source: network.fintechtakes.com/library/3d38...)
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Prohibition in the United States is usually treated like a mistake, but if you look at the sheer amount of drinking, it really did work out well in the long run.
This really is getting to that point, and adding in some economic bad times is really going to go badly.
This really is getting to that point, and adding in some economic bad times is really going to go badly.
The follow up article, however, where she goes on dates with bears, is surprisingly heartwarming.
A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The follow up article, however, where she goes on dates with bears, is surprisingly heartwarming.
This post is being unfairly dunked on.
Claiming leftists demanding perfect candidates they can fall in love with instead of being pragmatic, and then immediately defending the candidate in exactly the same way someone would defend a bad boyfriend to their friends is hilarious.
Claiming leftists demanding perfect candidates they can fall in love with instead of being pragmatic, and then immediately defending the candidate in exactly the same way someone would defend a bad boyfriend to their friends is hilarious.
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This post is being unfairly dunked on.
Claiming leftists demanding perfect candidates they can fall in love with instead of being pragmatic, and then immediately defending the candidate in exactly the same way someone would defend a bad boyfriend to their friends is hilarious.
Claiming leftists demanding perfect candidates they can fall in love with instead of being pragmatic, and then immediately defending the candidate in exactly the same way someone would defend a bad boyfriend to their friends is hilarious.
We'd get no more billionaires, though, which would be a hell of an investment in the future of the country.
Heck, expropriate it, delete the spreadsheets the financial assets are on, and spend extra money launching all the megayachts into the sun. We still come out ahead.
Heck, expropriate it, delete the spreadsheets the financial assets are on, and spend extra money launching all the megayachts into the sun. We still come out ahead.
If you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the United States, you would pay for all federal services for... one year.
That's it. You'd get a one-year federal tax holiday, and then everything has to be paid for by other taxes again.
That's it. You'd get a one-year federal tax holiday, and then everything has to be paid for by other taxes again.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We'd get no more billionaires, though, which would be a hell of an investment in the future of the country.
Heck, expropriate it, delete the spreadsheets the financial assets are on, and spend extra money launching all the megayachts into the sun. We still come out ahead.
Heck, expropriate it, delete the spreadsheets the financial assets are on, and spend extra money launching all the megayachts into the sun. We still come out ahead.