the fact that the most popular housing policy is “Nationwide Proposition 13” is such a blackpill

“For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs & trucks, pushing automakers & American buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting car bloat through regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies, but…

This is key. As I tweeted 3 weeks ago, Hamas will survive no matter what—either as the defiant withstanders of a massive military assault that was catastrophic for the Palestinian people or, alternatively, as the increasingly irrelevant bystanders in a diplomatic process from...

unions are just groups of workers bargaining collectively, they're good more often than not due to this, but they aren't like an ontological good, sometimes specific workers are gonna have interests not aligned with a broader public good! but don't lie about what you're doing.

empirically, netanyahu

BBC Eye has obtained leaked documents that show that Nika Shakarami, 16, who vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022, was molested and beaten before she was killed by IRGC's undercover 'Team 12' members Arash Kalhor, Sadegh Monjazy & Behrooz Sadeghy.
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Let’s just also take a moment to reflect on how genuinely bizarrely aggressive Russian policy is. Trying to undermine support for Ukraine makes some sense. Spreading disinformation about - and this is a real example (economist.com/europe/2024/04…) - French bedbugs is not normal.

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Hmm?

My absolute favorite type of Twitter personality:

“We have very serious issues facing this country.

Now kindly excuse me while I log on to Twitter to do something about it.”

Impossible to ignore that the Israeli strike in Damascus has completely distracted from Israel’s failing war in Gaza, recruited the West in an escalation with Iran, and all while the man in the driver seat in Israel is not trusted by anyone and fighting for his political survival

the existence of california is kind of insane

You can never tell when folks like these say ‘China is great because I didn’t see any homeless people’ that they like the country because they think it treats the homeless well, or because… well.

this shit is why I don't even want to talk about Eupho jesus christ it's unbearable

JP euphotwitter is talking about all the cool tiny details they noticed in the first episode and everyone overseas is busy arguing about yuribait for the 9th year running genuinely touch grass

In these sensitive hours, please do some due diligence and make sure you are not amplifying fake news of which there will be plenty and, when amplified enough, will make a real difference in the real world for real people

bidens unconditional support to israel gave all the confidence to a corrupt fascist madman like bibi to broaden the conflict in an effort to draw the us in. israel struck beirut and then the iranian consulate compound in damascus. we shouldve put an end to this a long time ago.

Crazy how we have a bunch of famous, successful, happy trans people that transitioned as kids and they're never part of the conversation about how gender affirming care helps trans kids. Hunter Schafer, Kim Petras, Nicole Maines, Elliot Fletcher, Ian Alexander etc.

A major benefit of just being a random dipshit moron is that when someone is like 'Oh my, you MUST read Professor JewKiller's brilliant new essay on degeneracy in Western Civilization!' you can just say no.

Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 I call this 'Old boy syndrome' - belief that you must not criticise a person if he is from 'your circle'. And I wouldn't say it is contemporary, it's actually pretty old.

yuvgel we absolutely do. i do not understand why israelis expect that foreigners ignore the fact that there have been vocal calls for the extirpation of every living palestinian from inside netanyahu's government, including (in the case of tzipi navon) people who work in his home.