Modern Moloch
@modernmoloch.bsky.social
Consumer of pedestrians and cyclists, worshipped and fed by reckless and vicious drivers.
Uhh….
Generic Ballot Polling:
🔵 Democrats: 54%
🔴 Republicans: 38%
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
🔵 Democrats: 54%
🔴 Republicans: 38%
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Uhh….
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Has any other president in American history gone around naming institutions after himself? I don't think there's any precedent for what Trump is doing.
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Has any other president in American history gone around naming institutions after himself? I don't think there's any precedent for what Trump is doing.
C’mon, “freenis” is good
“Freenis”
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
C’mon, “freenis” is good
Further evidence the Trump II administration is like 20 people in a trench coat
Wow, look at these totally independent and respected people who wanted to name it after the president.
The president himself! The president's chief of staff! The president's advisors! The attorney general! The vice president's wife! The president's favorite Fox News hosts! ... Uh, Lee Greenwood!
The president himself! The president's chief of staff! The president's advisors! The attorney general! The vice president's wife! The president's favorite Fox News hosts! ... Uh, Lee Greenwood!
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Further evidence the Trump II administration is like 20 people in a trench coat
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I honestly can't put into words how pathetic it is to act like this is an honor being given to Trump when Trump is the chairman of the board and the rest of the board is made up of his stooges.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I honestly can't put into words how pathetic it is to act like this is an honor being given to Trump when Trump is the chairman of the board and the rest of the board is made up of his stooges.
Baby needs his binky
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Baby needs his binky
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The way they keep turning everything to shit in incredible.
He’s going to go down as the least popular President in US history and his name is going to be on everything
He’s going to go down as the least popular President in US history and his name is going to be on everything
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The way they keep turning everything to shit in incredible.
He’s going to go down as the least popular President in US history and his name is going to be on everything
He’s going to go down as the least popular President in US history and his name is going to be on everything
I don’t live there anymore, but from afar Milwaukee seems like it’s in some sorta of slow rolling crisis. I can’t tell if it’s my news diet that’s making it seem that way, or if something is genuinely amiss.
December 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I don’t live there anymore, but from afar Milwaukee seems like it’s in some sorta of slow rolling crisis. I can’t tell if it’s my news diet that’s making it seem that way, or if something is genuinely amiss.
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Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
Baby needs his binky
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Baby needs his binky
Unmarked but legal crosswalks should be illegal nationwide
SUV driver struck and killed a 15-year-old boy who was attempting to cross Camino Ruiz in Mira Mesa. The intersection is a lawful crossing but has no marked crosswalk. #VisionZero
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Unmarked but legal crosswalks should be illegal nationwide
You too can be celebrated by the president if you go an murder people who don’t like him
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You too can be celebrated by the president if you go an murder people who don’t like him
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Today is a bad day to be a presidential ballwasher attempting a hostile takeover of Hollywood.
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today is a bad day to be a presidential ballwasher attempting a hostile takeover of Hollywood.
Basically every urbanism I know prefers a street design-based solution to car centric it’s and dangerous driving. But Balko refuses to acknowledge that that project is likely a century long one, and he believes children dying is an acceptable trade off in the meantime.
Unfortunately, Balko (who I respect in many other regards) just doesn’t think people should be dissuaded from/punished for using their vehicles as lethal weapons.
The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.
December 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Basically every urbanism I know prefers a street design-based solution to car centric it’s and dangerous driving. But Balko refuses to acknowledge that that project is likely a century long one, and he believes children dying is an acceptable trade off in the meantime.
Unfortunately, Balko (who I respect in many other regards) just doesn’t think people should be dissuaded from/punished for using their vehicles as lethal weapons.
The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Unfortunately, Balko (who I respect in many other regards) just doesn’t think people should be dissuaded from/punished for using their vehicles as lethal weapons.
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Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
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The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.
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if you are going to plead on behalf of black and brown people to oppose efforts to place restrictions on people convicted of driving under the influence, you should also acknowledge that black and brown people are more likely than others to be killed in traffic accidents, especially as pedestrians
what even is this argument Jamelle
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
if you are going to plead on behalf of black and brown people to oppose efforts to place restrictions on people convicted of driving under the influence, you should also acknowledge that black and brown people are more likely than others to be killed in traffic accidents, especially as pedestrians
I want Lindsey Graham to choke on his own prophesy
the most important people in this administration — including trump — do not give a single shit about the republican party, and some republicans are starting to notice
“…And yet there are Republican lawmakers who eagerly facilitate the disinheritance of their own children.”
That right there is some dark, disturbing shit.
That right there is some dark, disturbing shit.
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I want Lindsey Graham to choke on his own prophesy
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I remember when the Supreme Court said the ACA's Medicaid expansion was illegal because it was coercive to the states.
Trump threatening to pull all federal funding in Indiana if they don't pass the new map
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I remember when the Supreme Court said the ACA's Medicaid expansion was illegal because it was coercive to the states.
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Once again, I am pointing out the "it was bad that the Democrats prevented harm by averting a government shutdown" and "it is bad that the Democrats are not preventing harm by averting ACA expiration" are difficult to square. It's an awful situation with no particularly good options
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Once again, I am pointing out the "it was bad that the Democrats prevented harm by averting a government shutdown" and "it is bad that the Democrats are not preventing harm by averting ACA expiration" are difficult to square. It's an awful situation with no particularly good options
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so uh, the ending to NO COUNTRY isn’t ambiguous?
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
so uh, the ending to NO COUNTRY isn’t ambiguous?
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one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.