When I saw that 18 Dems voted for this nonsense MAGA bill, I said to myself, 'I bet Jared Moskowitz was one of the 18.' And I was right! He and Cuellar may be the two worst members of the caucus.

In their adverbial senses:

'as regards X' > 'in regard to X' > 'with regard to X' > 'regarding X'

if Abe Lincoln was a coke dealer at the U of Miami

Harrison Butker grew up wealthy because his mother, Elizabeth Keller Butker, is a medical physicist at the Emory University Department of Radiation Oncology.

She had excellent taste in headphones. #TheDeparted

Don’t let social media fool y’all. This is the legendary Rodney Scott’s Barbeque, a Black-owned restaurant located in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Owner, Rodney Scott is an award-winning master barbecuer who appeared on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown in 2015

Where do I sign up? Because this is great!

“A recent survey of 1,000 U.S. drivers found that on average, drivers spend 20% of their monthly post-tax income on cars.”

That is utterly insane. finance.yahoo.com/news/4-reasons…

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

texastribune.org/2024/05/15/tex…

Here's the problem.

The act: 'The state may not limit the right of any city, county, or city and county to maintain, enact or expand residential rent control.'

Exclusionary cities: 'ok, so our new housing element requires all new housing to be rented for $1.'

city planning is so bizarre to me. its like the industry absolutely couldn't stand cities and took them over to disable them entirely.

Said it before, will say it again: in the current political/media climate, *any* Dem presidential candidate would face a fusillade of shit & quickly come to be seen among VSPs as 'flawed.' It is structural.

Guess who's pushing a law in Minnesota to amend state environmental law & end endless idiot NIMBY delays of urban density?

The Sierra Club. Adjust your priors accordingly.

sierraclub.org/minnesota/blog…

This thread documenting a planning commission hearing about subsidized farmworker housing is a good example of why local control over land use is bad policy that prioritizes parochial concerns about inconsequential bullshit over the need for subsidized affordable housing.

This is the way.

Something to recall about when gas was cheap is that oil companies lost a ton of money. More recently they got caught colluding to raise prices and now have some mystery “deal” to put a bought-and-paid-for Trump back in the White House.

JOURNALISTS: If you are writing about a study or a research paper, then please, for the love of God, include a link to the source documents.

Reporter: Trump says China has been eating our lunch. What’s your response?

Biden: He’s been feeding them a long time

Protests and civil disobedience designed to raise more public awareness of how Republicans are “leaving it up to the states” would be very helpful in the current context.

axios.com/2024/05/13/abo…

This is a great quote.