What if there were one day every year when we all took a break from fighting each other on Twitter, and worked together on repealing the Jones Act to remind ourselves of our shared humanity and common goals?

It's true that Donald Trump's one trick is to blame every problem on immigrants. But I don't think it's a better trick to blame complex problems on nefarious corporations that apparently want you jobless, homeless, and dead. There are real problems with corporate power but "bad

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

Can the majority and minority leader have a monthly meeting to see if they both are aware of a sex criminal in their own party and do more of these 1 for 1 defenestrations?

The emerging American tax logic right now is something like: - we can’t tax the poor because they’re poor - we can’t tax the working class because they work - we can’t tax tips bc that’s just unfair - we can’t tax businesses because they create work - we can’t tax property bc

I want to drive this point home given the debate over tax cuts that is broken out among Democrats. The way to make people feel better about paying taxes isn’t to ask them to pay less, it’s to make the system fair by raising taxes on the wealthy and big corporations AND to give

Jensen here is frustrating and wrong. The man wrote off billions so of course he opposes controls. 1. Mythos is a ~10T parameter model trained on Nvidia Blackwell. Despite Jensen's best efforts, China doesn't have Blackwell chips thanks to export controls. Huawei's best chip

There will be mass school closures in California in the coming years, yet the interest groups theoretically tasked with representing teachers are entirely uninterested in the solutions, i.e. building tons of housing and bring families back into the state.

Counterpoint: the Iran war is absolutely about Trump/Bibi and if it were Harrs/Lapid it wouldn’t be happening.

Dog owners need to uphold the social contract slowboring.com/p/dogs-arent-p…

Sure so then you basically just have to ask yourself who is more likely to hold up well in a state Trump won by 13 points, a doctrinaire liberal who all the lefty groups love or a guy with a compelling personal story and a history of winning red parts of Iowa. Ymmv.

Again, if Republicans want to stop partisan gerrymandering they should vote for Democrats’ proposal for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. If they don’t want to stop it, then stop whining.

Feels like 99% of politics today is proposing cute little tax breaks for niche bullshit instead of actually doing the hard work to make life more affordable

You shouldn’t steal. You shouldn’t murder health insurance executives. You shouldn’t reflexively side with every country that’s hostile to the United States. This is all incredibly stupid.

Over the last ~100 million miles of driving, these are the five most serious crashes that could be plausibly blamed on Waymo, as judged by Kai Williams and me. If you looked at 10,000 miles of driving from 10,000 random human drivers you'd see much worse behavior.

Is he asking for redemption? Isn't that kind of a core issue here

This site can be very negative so let me say today that Kelsey Piper is awesome. Rational , reasonable, and wise while also being benevolent and gracious. An excellent writer. Bravo.

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This is bad and its incumbent upon people with platforms to push back on it. We have rapid fire still photos of Trump grabbing his ear in Butler from the NYT, a man died, Trump was treated by nurses at a hospital. All these people are in on the conspiracy? Lunacy. No