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Not saying this is universally false, but it's very non-NYC-applicable; people who are displaced from central areas sure as hell aren't driving in
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Not saying this is universally false, but it's very non-NYC-applicable; people who are displaced from central areas sure as hell aren't driving in
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I mean they were always "rarely used", that's kind of in the business plan for a nuclear bunker
There are 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity. Crypto giant Tether is hoarding gold there www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard
There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity.
www.bloomberg.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I mean they were always "rarely used", that's kind of in the business plan for a nuclear bunker
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Accuse people you hate of something or other then set the authorities on them. If they find nothing, too bad. If they find more or less anything, that proves all the allegations were true. I suspect reactionaries worldwide looked at the Brazilian right jailing Lula and thought: hmm, interesting.
January 29, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Accuse people you hate of something or other then set the authorities on them. If they find nothing, too bad. If they find more or less anything, that proves all the allegations were true. I suspect reactionaries worldwide looked at the Brazilian right jailing Lula and thought: hmm, interesting.
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Finally dropped the Nuzzi episode
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January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Finally dropped the Nuzzi episode
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www.patreon.com/posts/olivia...
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You’d think the three largest parties relentlessly chasing the approval of the craziest, most unpleasable section of the public, to the huge benefit of the posh National Front, would be recognised as some kind of democratic crisis. Should it not prompt reevaluation of who/what our democracy is for?
Do we not think it’s odd that all of Reform, the Tories and Labour are fighting like badgers for the approval of the very wackiest, most racist and reactionary 30% of the electorate *even though this is clearly disastrous for two of those parties*? Does anyone want to try explaining why that is.
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
You’d think the three largest parties relentlessly chasing the approval of the craziest, most unpleasable section of the public, to the huge benefit of the posh National Front, would be recognised as some kind of democratic crisis. Should it not prompt reevaluation of who/what our democracy is for?
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(It’s because 1) they are all horrible right wing cranks who actively *need* the approval of elderly racists, and 2) because our horrific national press will fucking destroy anyone who makes any headway with anything that is not “the Thatcherite consensus propped up with xenophobia and crackdowns).
January 28, 2026 at 12:15 PM
(It’s because 1) they are all horrible right wing cranks who actively *need* the approval of elderly racists, and 2) because our horrific national press will fucking destroy anyone who makes any headway with anything that is not “the Thatcherite consensus propped up with xenophobia and crackdowns).
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Do we not think it’s odd that all of Reform, the Tories and Labour are fighting like badgers for the approval of the very wackiest, most racist and reactionary 30% of the electorate *even though this is clearly disastrous for two of those parties*? Does anyone want to try explaining why that is.
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Do we not think it’s odd that all of Reform, the Tories and Labour are fighting like badgers for the approval of the very wackiest, most racist and reactionary 30% of the electorate *even though this is clearly disastrous for two of those parties*? Does anyone want to try explaining why that is.
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Even I said it was good, because lots of the policy was! We were the only people who said withdrawing from Afghanistan was the right thing to do, when they were getting battered by everyone else.
January 28, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Even I said it was good, because lots of the policy was! We were the only people who said withdrawing from Afghanistan was the right thing to do, when they were getting battered by everyone else.
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*The Chapo Trap House guys* were saying the Biden admin had unexpectedly good policies, right up until the genocide began. That tells me it was probably the genocide that was the issue, lads.
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 AM
*The Chapo Trap House guys* were saying the Biden admin had unexpectedly good policies, right up until the genocide began. That tells me it was probably the genocide that was the issue, lads.
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Britain absolutely deserves and extremely pissy fight between Sir Keir and Streeting but I straight up don’t believe that would be an actual fight, any more than The Rock vs The Undertaker was an Olympian contest for victory
January 28, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Britain absolutely deserves and extremely pissy fight between Sir Keir and Streeting but I straight up don’t believe that would be an actual fight, any more than The Rock vs The Undertaker was an Olympian contest for victory
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The public are IMO entitled to ask why they were assured the incoming Johnson government would fix stuff like this and why - when that didn’t happen, as it was *very obviously* never going to happen - everyone who told them it would simply moved on to fluffing up the next pack of bullshit artists.
January 28, 2026 at 10:20 AM
The public are IMO entitled to ask why they were assured the incoming Johnson government would fix stuff like this and why - when that didn’t happen, as it was *very obviously* never going to happen - everyone who told them it would simply moved on to fluffing up the next pack of bullshit artists.
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All these people were perfectly acceptable to the lads, back in the day.
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 AM
All these people were perfectly acceptable to the lads, back in the day.
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Mel isn’t saying much today that’s notably crazier than the stuff she was saying five years ago, or fifteen. All of her colleagues have always fully understood she is a crackpot fascist, and you’ll notice this has never harmed her career. Unlike the baleful menace that is, say, Gary Lineker.
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Mel isn’t saying much today that’s notably crazier than the stuff she was saying five years ago, or fifteen. All of her colleagues have always fully understood she is a crackpot fascist, and you’ll notice this has never harmed her career. Unlike the baleful menace that is, say, Gary Lineker.
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You’ll recall Dominic Cummings told that committee that Tory PRs could tell the BBC and ITV basically anything, no matter how plainly absurd it was, and their senior correspondents would read it out live on air as urgent breaking news
Sophy Ridge: "Lord knows where that briefing came from. I think it shows the general chaos.."
I think it shows the culpability of our mass media, which laps up these briefings & reports them & at no stage wonders, even now(!), if they're being used.
I think it shows the culpability of our mass media, which laps up these briefings & reports them & at no stage wonders, even now(!), if they're being used.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 AM
You’ll recall Dominic Cummings told that committee that Tory PRs could tell the BBC and ITV basically anything, no matter how plainly absurd it was, and their senior correspondents would read it out live on air as urgent breaking news
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Best of luck extracting a thank you for arming these people to the teeth and supporting their fascism and genocide to the death, lads. We told you they hated you, and that they wanted the other guy to win. Now it’s time to enjoy the disgrace that you enthusiastically brought upon yourselves.
January 28, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Best of luck extracting a thank you for arming these people to the teeth and supporting their fascism and genocide to the death, lads. We told you they hated you, and that they wanted the other guy to win. Now it’s time to enjoy the disgrace that you enthusiastically brought upon yourselves.
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Isn’t it fun how we always reliably go from “that is a deranged conspiracy that merely proves you are an intolerable extremist, who must be hounded” to “yes, of course this whole thing was an idiotic stitch-up, so what?” without any of the lads ever having been wrong about anything? Rafa, here.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Isn’t it fun how we always reliably go from “that is a deranged conspiracy that merely proves you are an intolerable extremist, who must be hounded” to “yes, of course this whole thing was an idiotic stitch-up, so what?” without any of the lads ever having been wrong about anything? Rafa, here.
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I have left my comfortable liberal bubble in order to consume conservative content dozens of times. It has almost invariably been garbage. Telling me I still need to keep doing it is frankly now coming up against my belief in induction. Bayes' Law has worked, this is no longer a "prior".
January 27, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I have left my comfortable liberal bubble in order to consume conservative content dozens of times. It has almost invariably been garbage. Telling me I still need to keep doing it is frankly now coming up against my belief in induction. Bayes' Law has worked, this is no longer a "prior".
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I feel like a good interview question might be "Is Shirley Bassey Welsh?".
His ideas & public views have shifted significantly even in the last 12 months.
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I feel like a good interview question might be "Is Shirley Bassey Welsh?".
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Obviously correct, and I’ve seen not one speck of evidence that has made me doubt it’s exactly like this.
The Burnham fiasco shows that the right of the Labour party would rather see it burn than lose control | Owen Jones
Starmer’s drones see themselves as characters in The West Wing, full of machiavellian skullduggery but with none of the idealism. No wonder Labour is running out of road, says Guardian columnist Owen ...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Obviously correct, and I’ve seen not one speck of evidence that has made me doubt it’s exactly like this.
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Actually this was a win-win situation because British emigration to the USA raised the average intelligence of both countries.
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Actually this was a win-win situation because British emigration to the USA raised the average intelligence of both countries.
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Just over the past 72 days, two non-white Democratic members of Congress have been attacked, one of them by a Trump supporter who threatened him with deportation.
Does JD Vance have anything to say? After all, the GOP VP is always so keen to attack "left-wing" political violence.
Does JD Vance have anything to say? After all, the GOP VP is always so keen to attack "left-wing" political violence.
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Just over the past 72 days, two non-white Democratic members of Congress have been attacked, one of them by a Trump supporter who threatened him with deportation.
Does JD Vance have anything to say? After all, the GOP VP is always so keen to attack "left-wing" political violence.
Does JD Vance have anything to say? After all, the GOP VP is always so keen to attack "left-wing" political violence.
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Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
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Forcing the sale of a major media platform because there was too much Gaza genocide on it and it was giving the game away, and so now it’s been bought by crackpipe-hitting Trumpers? That’s just the sensational, ingenious #MediaStrategy we’ve come to expect from these guys
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Forcing the sale of a major media platform because there was too much Gaza genocide on it and it was giving the game away, and so now it’s been bought by crackpipe-hitting Trumpers? That’s just the sensational, ingenious #MediaStrategy we’ve come to expect from these guys