We didn't hate hipsters enough

I feel like the President of the American Federation of Teachers should perhaps be able to point out that the tax code is supposed to fund schools

Anti-tax mind virus has taken the teachers union

Because you don't want your dumb jocks being promoted to coaching positions once their bodies start breaking down. Neither side wants that.

The former special forces podcast industrial complex seems to have been a pretty negative force in the culture. Should probably hike pay for people in those units in exchange for tightening security clearance restrictions to the extent that they can’t do that shit anymore.

Well, what do you expect as a woke leftist hippie scholar working at (checks bio) the American Enterprise Institute and serving as (looks again) the Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress?

I don't think this will work. The voters have determined your service literally does not count if you are a Democrat. Kerry getting three purple hearts and Walz retiring after 24 years were seen as proof of cowardice compared to ANG cowboy and cadet bone spurs.

If you want to identify religious institutions culpable for the Iran War and for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Republican evangelical churches are guiltier than one Reform shul that flies an Israeli flag out of some vestigial cultural affiliation, but where everyone probably hates Trump and Netanyahu.

Turns out a lot of people are just excited to rationalize violence against Jews and are looking to back project reasons why this is actually good and progressive.

The spike in US #gasprices has been extremely close to the 2022 Russia/Ukraine spike. Through 12 days, the national average in 2022 rose ~75c/gal, while this time in 2026, prices are up an average ~70c/gal over the same time frame.

Kevin Erdmann (@kevinerdmann) The blue line here is the official homeownership rate. The red line is what the homeownership rate would be if adult children moved into their own homes following the same trends that they had followe...

substack.com/@kevinerdman...

Another synagogue attack.

We simply cannot survive as a society or a democratic polity with ~40% of the population not paying taxes.

We certainly can't have a Scandinavian-style welfare state, as Bernie Sanders pretends he wants, as he co-sponsors bills like these.

Per @socio-steve.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/soci...

My country is committing suicide, example #58273272945927

god this pisses me off so much. i can’t get over it.

what do these people think happens when a government is exclusively paid for by the rich? not campaigns, but the government itself. what happens when the people in need you govern are explicitly removed from the tax base? how does that work out?

intellectual and moral bankruptcy from the entire left-leaning infrastructure of this far right country

The recent @contrapoints.bsky.social video, ostensibly about the Saw movies, was really about the human lust for cruelty and violence. Its thesis, as I understood it, was that zealous morality often functions as a rationalization of bloodlust, not a solution to it.

Case in point: this squirrel

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

most of what you need for pro-natalist policy (strong social welfare net, affordable housing, affordable health care) is good for *everyone*, not just people who want to have children, even if i have to chain and gag the inner reactionary inside me who grumbles about portland's PFA tax

i'm someone who will never have children, my partner and i are firm on that, but pro-natalist policy will have downstream benefits for us childless people as we get older, too, even though i very genuinely find the entire conversation around pro-natalist policy unpleasant

Love this for them

it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is

a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute

b) not actually true, math-wise

the DOD is the second-largest employer on planet earth, and while i don't really care about reducing *their* budget, i'd like to see other cabinet-level departments move their way into the top ten, and that's going to be extremely expensive. it'll also be extremely worth it.

what i want to see out of future democratic party leaders is a recognition that federal spending is legitimately good, that we should do more of it, and that doing so will require collective contribution that many, many people are going to scream absolute bloody murder about

Yeah I think one way to divide the two is that honest populism is a simplification of the boring nerd policy white paper stuff down to a level digestible to the public, slopulism *starts* with the crowd pleasing claim and then policy is backfilled from that later, if ever.

There are a half dozen firms with thousands of employees who work every day to provide good homes for families, to address their needs, to fix and maintain their homes, whose customers who are generally grateful.

And, 90% of the Senate just decided to put them out of business.

“Haha don’t you get what I said was just a joke based on my comical ignorance about what healthcare and defense spending actually looks like, which I will then repeat again because it’s definitely true and I am so funny”

Media Matters Brain, Just Not Even Once

which group of democratic consultant ghouls circulated data about this no tax on the middle-class coordinated policy campaign launch shit

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. YOU HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO OTHER PEOPLE IN A SOCIETY. YOU SHOULD BE GETTING MORE FOR YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

losing my mind

a tangentially related thing here that i find funny is the number of SV pricks who idolize "real work" (labor, industrial work, etc.) and are profoundly contemptuous of, like, "HR" or "DEI" or "training" or whatever, because they have no idea of how much the latter is involved in that kind of work