really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

If the banks are running you’d better go catch them

As a former scientist who had to compete for grants, I find it shocking that people would think that the NIH would just fund random research. You've got to justify the heck out of your grant to get funding.

That's inherently unsustainable, though. Even if America survives this nightmare presidency, there's only so many cycles this can go on before Dems are trying to play centrist while standing to the right of Hitler while the GOP are running a platform of using AI to make Hell real.

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

This is not a thought and prayers post,,, this is heartfelt hurt for the families and friends and US Figure Skating and DC School District and everyone who is affected.

This is bout politicians who need to stfu bout trying to blame women and black people for this absolute tragedy,,, Not the time!!!

I would like to see the media regularly using the phrase, "Trump's segregationist agenda." Sort of like "Radical Islamic terrorism" used to be. The public is just not getting it.

"The Trump Administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis...in countries supported by USAID."

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has specifically exempted only emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt"

I have just enough audacity and delusion to think I can make anything. It might not look great but it’s definitely something that didn’t exist before.

Give me your strong white males, your rich,Your huddled billionaires yearning for more tax cuts. The wretched refuse of the deep state shore. Send these, the enemy of the people locked up to me, I lift my lid beside my golden toilet. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island, revised 1 /20/2025.

Liberal punditry smoothly pivoting to "working w/ the Nazis is actually smrt [sic[" is both disappointing and predictable.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

car ownership is hubris, snow and ice are punishment from the divine

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.”

#CarDependency

I used to be an athlete

Last night I pulled a muscle in my leg playing the guitar

This diagram never gets old, unfortunately

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