Live shot of the 2026 election night map if Democrats embrace the Abundance strategy of telling Americans that price-gouging landlords and real estate investment tycoons are actually the good guys.

Every decade of my life has ushered in a new and improved economic collapse. Every. Fucking. Decade.

Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

the “but her emails” libs are going nuts today and to be honest they deserve it

Instead of cutting the defense budget they’re doing this.

It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.

Trump, Musk, c’mon - start talking shit about Kendrick. I know you want to. DO IT, cowards.

Two personal favorites I keep thinking about were the Obama-era "The IRS is targeting right-wing orgs" scandal (which was fake, and anyway the federal bureaucracy is now the president's personal political retribution squad) and "Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch on the tarmac" (wow such abuse of power)

Didn't realize until NYTimes real-estate profile today that city of Yonkers, 30 mins by train from Grand Central, has been removing parking lots for upwards of a decade now to reveal the Sawmill River flowing through downtown. 1/

Trump isn't into Tariffs because he thinks they accomplish some economic goal. He likes Tariffs because they're what his autocrat idols use to shake industry down for bribes. Everyone has to come and bend the knee to negotiate an Exemption in exchange for the boss getting a cut. That's all this is.

the idealistic view is that this will resolve into a more just moral global order, one that more closely reflects the postwar ideal. the other option is that the pretenses get dropped entirely, and there's a full embrace of a violent western supremacy.

Two things are true: our institutions are not going to protect us or save us from Trump, but fear of provoking the far right cannot be the guiding principle for our institutions. www.patreon.com/posts/95481748

"there’s been no equivalent interest in whether defenses of Israel’s offensive, which has been promoted with eliminationist language and allegations of collective Palestinian responsibility from Israeli officials...might be undermining the safety or comfort of Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims"

College bowl game "payouts" are fake, they don't include each school's obligation to buy half of the game tickets and resell them on to fans and alumni, but since nobody wants to go see two 7-win teams play in the Beef O-Brady's Bowl they end up eating the cost. "Payout" vs "Payout minus expenses."

A judge has ordered that Starbucks rehire a Colorado Starbucks worker who was illegally fired for organizing a union and issue back pay and write an apology letter

you: please act normal Ed you need these people to like you

me: ok!

people: hi Ed nice to meet you

me: Roman bathhouse graffiti attests to the existence of a guy whose dong was so big people applauded when he entered the bath

All of this could have been avoided if we had gouged his eyes out like the byzantines did to outgoing emperors.

Ah the ritual “are you ok” text. The confirmation that your people are ok, the acknowledgment that someone’s, somewhere, are not.

What speaks to GOP dysfunction most clearly is that there's no gaggle of opportunists who are agreeing to vote for Jeffries in exchange for basically anything they could think to ask for from the Dems. The adverse incentives are too strong. They can't even be properly cynical anymore.