In Europe we have this thing called free market competition, where European bus makers compete with the Chinese and as a result we get a wide range of BEBs that get better all the time, also cheaper I presume. You should try it in the US!
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Urban/environmental policy guy, YIMBY, sci-fi/fantasy writer, liberal, atheist. Californian in the DC area. All posts represent my views, not those of my employer. where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
the differences in burrito price discourse between left and right are fascinating
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
You can sweeten the bitter medicine with a revenge campaign against the criminal element within MAGA, which after all is responsible for this wastage. You need to give DoJ a huge budget and whenever a new indictment drops the White House media flacks (w/ no DoJ interaction) need to media blitz it.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h agoI fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.
prestige magazines just don’t want you to be happy. I made this meme about it a while back
Eli Kahn 🏳️🌈@elikahn.bsky.social · 21h agoa 10th-percentile pop song has a healthier attitude on life than a 90th-percentile essay in a prestige publication
trade is a social issue (read: Gender) and the illiberal left (who are actually centrists) are a purely elite phenomenon with no popular support
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterdayDSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
a sign of aging, but a very weird one: hearing a song playing ambiently and recognizing it exclusively from a podcaster’s impression of it, which was part of a clip compilation you’ve listened to on YouTube more than is healthy
it’s such a blessing to be able to travel alone and make decisions about your own comfort and how you manage challenges without having to also manage other people’s feelings about it
I will say the piece itself is not as bad as the headline, but if you want to argue for aesthetic restrictions, you should make more of a case that they don’t cost much than Arieff bothers to do here.
S.F. is rushing to build new housing, but we shouldn’t settle for mediocre design
OPINION: If City Hall wants its residents to get behind the “Family Zoning” plan, it needs to work a lot harder to build architecture that is well-designed, columnist Allison Arieff writes.
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in 1790 saying what Mizelle is saying here would have gotten you accused of popery and prompted a nationwide freakout over whether Rome was pulling the strings of the United States government
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoIs there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues and the "opulence of the epicenter of once-great civilizations," without a shred of self-awareness.
theres a million things like this, the caribbean boat murders for example. these ghouls need to be punished but it needs to be immediate, public and to the fullest extent or else it will all happen again
Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
the relationship and gender norms in early Katy Perry songs really have not aged well which on one hand is not surprising, but on the other hand, compare to ABBA, where “Waterloo” is the most questionable one I can think of, and even then only arguably
The people they want to call "farmers" are just landowners. The actual farmers are living 16 people to a bedroom and hiding from the government kidnapping squads.
you know, when someone says something unintentionally antisemitic or homophobic or whatever, all i really want is for them to go “on second thought that was dumb, i don’t believe [trope suggested by what they said], need to think more before i post, sorry about that everyone!”
the thing about Haley Stevens is I think she’s like an entirely unprecedented type of Guy the voice, the affect, being a moderate while also being like nebulously eccentric Kyrsten Sinema was also a weird type of Guy but her eccentricity was extremely recognizable; Stevens is just ?????
fwiw, as someone who is on gay dating apps in the DC area, I have never encountered anyone on there who I thought could plausibly be a Republican politician I imagine they wouldn’t post face pics in their account, but still 🤷♂️
the new hand soap in my office bathroom has what I can only describe as a grandparent-scented fragrance, and it lingers on my hands all day I will max out donations to any candidate that pledges to make this illegal
I don’t want one more dime spent on the war with Iran, or on farmers. If there were any justice, the war would be paid for with a *tax* on farmers, since they’re the ones who caused it by electing Trump
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last wk.WH/Rs plan to increase spending on war & farmers w/o offsets. No serious efforts underway to shrink deficits of ~$2T a year and worsening as population ages and Congress keeps piling on red ink. Social Security Trust Fund runs dry in 2032, leading to big cuts under current law.
the fact that no one is surprised by the Jared Leto allegations is a good reason to rethink the concept of “method acting” as it’s become understood staying in-character when you’re off the clock, as Leto has sometimes done, is dumb and pointless, and comes at your colleagues’ expense
there is vanishingly little daylight between "economics is made-up bullshit" and "gender studies is woke nonsense"
“young children being exposed to age inappropriate concepts” is a fake problem. there is *maybe* such a thing as an “age inappropriate concept” but children being exposed to them is not in the top 1000 dangers to children in the world, and I’m tired of humoring people’s delusion to the contrary.
julia 🦂@hypv.bsky.social · last wk.getting a new job and a state legislator singles you out to propose legislation targeting you directly
douthat was lowkey an above average NYT columnist, just because he gave liberals the courtesy of fearing us instead of treating us as children to be scolded
i will watch Cameron’s Moby-Dick provided he has the whale talk
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.I think James Cameron is definitely the guy to do “whales: cool AF” and “the sea will kill you if you have hubris”
Yglesias is right in an Oracle-at-Delphi sense: what highly engaged, educated progressives want to hear, by revealed preference, is that we are sinners who need to repent of having email jobs and living in cities and not being religious enough, and that advocacy in our own interest is forbidden.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:
it’s very suspicious how quickly I switch from feeling bad about my stomach to feeling bad about my arms within like a week of switching from bulking to cutting almost as if… my perception of my own appearance… is somehow unreliable? no, that’s absurd
doing translatio imperii analysis for the Roman Empire is kid stuff. I want to hear who’s the successor state to the empire of Timur
Theo Landsman@ordinalandsman.bsky.social · last wk.Just in terms of discursive balance I feel like for every annoying 'empires collapse after 250 years guy' there should be someone who thinks no empire has ever died. It's not a meaningfully more wrong position.
The thing Philadelphians fear is discovering that they live in a type of Baltimore and thus the thing they seek above all else is evidence that they are living in a type of New York
the fight/don't fight axis remains the most important fault line in democratic politics, and that the moderates have mostly failed to find any way to take the 'fight' side is why they are getting their asses handed to them in primaries right now
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last wk.This is why DSA candidates are really taking off now instead of eg in 2020 or 2018 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...