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For a couple years, I delivered pizza in an exurb not too far away from Whitestown. There were so many signs on peoples' doors vaguely threatening they'd shoot before you could see them
A cleaning woman showed up at the wrong house with her husband. Someone inside shot through the door, striking 32-year-old María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez in the head, killing her.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For a couple years, I delivered pizza in an exurb not too far away from Whitestown. There were so many signs on peoples' doors vaguely threatening they'd shoot before you could see them
Thinking about how the longest time between extraordinary presidential transitions is from Washington assuming the presidency to WHH dying, which is the same amount of days between Nixon resigning and July ~13 2026
I don’t think he serves a full term. He is visibly deteriorating, the Epstein shit isn’t going away, the economy is in the shitter *before* the AI bubble bursts, he’s surrounded by schemers and incompetents, and the best card he’s got is “ain’t it weird the starfish owns a few modest skirts?“
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thinking about how the longest time between extraordinary presidential transitions is from Washington assuming the presidency to WHH dying, which is the same amount of days between Nixon resigning and July ~13 2026
Imagine doing the same thing to the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, making us constitutionally obligated to a 9000 member House of Representatives
One funny thing about reforming SCOTUS is that once we do it, we can get the NuCourt to say "Yeah, the Equal Rights Amendment is actually law, thanks President Biden"
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Imagine doing the same thing to the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, making us constitutionally obligated to a 9000 member House of Representatives
Reposted
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
New: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr warned. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
People believed that Trump not accomplishing all be campaigned on his first term was because of something inherent to him and not the fact that multiple members of the Republican party sacrificed their careers to stop him and they're not around to do it again
fundamental part of 2024 is that people didn't believe that trump was going to do the things he was explicitly saying he was going to do
Ana Kasparian: "I supported what Trump CLAIMED he was gonna do with immigration when he was campaigning. But what we have seen is violations of people's human rights, heavy-handed ICE raids, talk about de-naturalizing citizens..."
Trump campaigned on deporting immigrants and called them rapists.
Trump campaigned on deporting immigrants and called them rapists.
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
People believed that Trump not accomplishing all be campaigned on his first term was because of something inherent to him and not the fact that multiple members of the Republican party sacrificed their careers to stop him and they're not around to do it again
I have the same feeling as when SB 8 was allowed on the shadow docket. Dumb procedural thing to allow for something SCOTUS can't quite justify on the merits (yet at least)
First #SCOTUS ruling today is birthright citizenship.
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I have the same feeling as when SB 8 was allowed on the shadow docket. Dumb procedural thing to allow for something SCOTUS can't quite justify on the merits (yet at least)
Ranked choice voting is good and clearly better than first past the post, but doesn't create a landscape where more than 2 candidates can compete without strategic voting
learning American politics discourse can't handle ranked choice voting given how many "erm why do you have Mamdami ranked below Adrienne Adams in your hypothetical NYC ballot, do you want Cuomo to win [even though you didn't rank Cuomo]" replies I have gotten
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ranked choice voting is good and clearly better than first past the post, but doesn't create a landscape where more than 2 candidates can compete without strategic voting
Xkcd has done political comics before, but this is another step (and justified)
April 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Xkcd has done political comics before, but this is another step (and justified)
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Alt caption: Wow I knew he was a musical guy but I didn’t know he liked Starkid’s “Twisted”
April 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Alt caption: Wow I knew he was a musical guy but I didn’t know he liked Starkid’s “Twisted”
Trump will not be able to escape the political fallout of pressing the "break economy" button, so it's good if it's a little bit harder for Vance to escape it
Trump is preparing to make JD Vance the “tariff czar” to deal with the rising prices and other problems that are about to arise because of their tariffs on China.
🔗: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
🔗: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump will not be able to escape the political fallout of pressing the "break economy" button, so it's good if it's a little bit harder for Vance to escape it
This is why I think this way of crashing the economy is preferable to the mass deportation way of crashing the economy
honestly the upshot of this is everyone who voted for the guy or didn't think it was worth voting get to suffer as badly as the rest of us. that's rare!
April 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is why I think this way of crashing the economy is preferable to the mass deportation way of crashing the economy
The legal basis for the president having the power to do this is that it's an emergency. I don't know what hypothetical emergency would be responded to with 10% across the board tariffs
🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US to impose 10% across-the-board tariff on all imports - WSJ.
April 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The legal basis for the president having the power to do this is that it's an emergency. I don't know what hypothetical emergency would be responded to with 10% across the board tariffs
Thinking about how Jack Smith didn't try to get the documents case reassigned from Aileen Cannon
!! NEW: DOJ demands that the DC Circuit immediately reassign the case from Judge Boasberg, calling his questions "flagrantly improper" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thinking about how Jack Smith didn't try to get the documents case reassigned from Aileen Cannon
I don't like that he's the best shot Maine Dems have at knocking off Susan Collins next year. At least there are other options
🧵It was never going to be easy or painless to overturn decades of free-trade policies that have failed working people, but we have to think in years, not days.
March 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I don't like that he's the best shot Maine Dems have at knocking off Susan Collins next year. At least there are other options
Buzz Aldrin endorsed Trump because he thought he was pro space funding
There are whispers going around that the presidential budget request for various science agencies will be at the level that would completely destroy them and American science. I'm talking 30-50% cuts at NASA, NOAA, NSF. There's a long way between requests and actual budgets, but
February 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Buzz Aldrin endorsed Trump because he thought he was pro space funding
Show this to someone from 2015 and ask them what they think is happening
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.
DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
February 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Show this to someone from 2015 and ask them what they think is happening
The Tariff of Abominations was in 1828. Smoot-Hawley was in 1929. Every ~100 years, the American people need reminding that tariffs aren't a magic money machine
The theory that once everyone from a generation that witnessed horrors dies off we are all bound to repeat it is seeming better and better.
"the US president is threatening expansionism while his car tycoon oligarch friend is allying with the German far right"
January 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Tariff of Abominations was in 1828. Smoot-Hawley was in 1929. Every ~100 years, the American people need reminding that tariffs aren't a magic money machine
A stable governing coalition is hard to imagine, and it definitely isn't the incoming coalition
definitely very bad that we’re headed for a totally unnecessary shutdown but “fail to pay the army for no reason” is somewhat inconsistent with “authoritarian takeover master plan”
December 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
A stable governing coalition is hard to imagine, and it definitely isn't the incoming coalition
Tangible consequences of Barnes losing to Johnson
Nvm Manchin came in and voted no bsky.app/profile/burg...
Manchin votes NO on NLRB nominee McFerran. Looks like it will fail
Vote is now 49-50
Vote is now 49-50
December 11, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Tangible consequences of Barnes losing to Johnson
The rocks, notably, don't live forever either
Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
The rocks, notably, don't live forever either
I think she's the leader in "chance at being the Democratic nominee for president at some point in their lives"
Not 100% certainly, and not necessarily 2028, but I can't think of anyone else
Not 100% certainly, and not necessarily 2028, but I can't think of anyone else
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I think she's the leader in "chance at being the Democratic nominee for president at some point in their lives"
Not 100% certainly, and not necessarily 2028, but I can't think of anyone else
Not 100% certainly, and not necessarily 2028, but I can't think of anyone else
Who knows where this train goes, but this is definitely something now
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
November 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Who knows where this train goes, but this is definitely something now