To be fair, "strange nightmares afoot in Florida" hardly counts as news.

Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.

Same, brother. Same.

"Men would rather die in civil war than go to therapy." 😜

Oh yeah! That book is great. The instigators are painted in a very unflattering light. Truly the worst people in America.

The slave-owning elite of then has much overlap with the right-wing elites of now: "I'm the specialist boy and I will destroy anyone who says otherwise."

"They drew their membership mainly from young men in white-collar and skilled blue-collar occupations. A good many of them were new voters. One analysis showed that men in their twenties were twice as likely to vote Know Nothing as men over thirty..."

Madden 2025 numbers.

By that I mean: not everyone needs a soapbox, and consolidation is a net negative.

Yes, I hate to admit it, but the media is not something that should ever have been democratized. It also shouldn't have been consolidated by like 5 people who are all members of the same country club, but that's another (related) issue.

Parents who want to fix things with their kids don't go on social media to blast their lack of gratitude. It's childish.

imo the total paralysis of Congress is a major contributor in The Problems. any society requires governance, but almost the only thing Congress does is pass massive handouts to whatever industry bribed them up to their back teeth most recently

California's leaders are deeply unserious people who want all of the glory with none of the effort. Infuriating.

Newsom all the way down to Bass, just a bunch of do nothing posers.

He's the kid on the group project who does none of the work but wants all of the credit.