Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐

The vast majority of the left are socially liberal and anti auth The vast majority of libs accept the need for govt intervention to address systemic problems like poverty and pollution We're natural allies people Don't let a vocal minority of clowns on here make you doubt it

There are too many dogs in American cities. Not just in parks, but in grocery stores, restaurants, and strollers. The urban dog has gone from companion to cultural force—and it’s reshaping how cities work. 🧵

the like core lesson of the trump era is that appeasement doesn’t work!

American Hasbara to Right-wing Israelis: Please be normal Right-wing Israelis: No

A Trader Joe’s employee once told me they can’t really do anything but whenever one of those dogs barks she liked to rush over and asks if they need her to call 911 because their service dog is alerting, and I think that’s a very funny way to make these people feel bad.

And, I was only 17 at the time, but I never forgave him for saying Obama’s 2008 primary campaign was “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen” and basically dismissing his huge win in the SC primary as a purely racial thing (comparing his win to Jesse Jackson’s 1984 & 1988 wins).

There is simply no excuse for any Democrat, or really any decent human being, to be giving support to a government with leadership like this

Really hate that the last two big developments in comedy were * The 2016-22 era "stand up comedy is when you lecture people about woke politics without telling jokes", and * The current trend of "comedy is when you host a podcast that's 10% bro jokes and 90% alt-right politics"

I am sickened by what we’re seeing in Gaza right now. The IDF has blocked aid while shooting people waiting in food lines for what little aid is actually coming from the sham Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Israel needs to lift its blockade and the U.S. needs to stop sending bombs.

The last of the nations to hold off on recognizing Palestine are starting to fold We will soon be isolated on this and demonstrably insincere in what’s left of our nominal commitment to the two state solution if we do not follow

This right here is why the CA GOP will never get anywhere They support maintaining big govt over regulation of land use even when it comes to simply legalizing apartment construction within walking distance of transit Bad as the CA Dems are on housing, these guys are even worse

what really grinds my gears are dogs in grocery stores, restaurants, and coffee shops. it's disgusting. everyone knows it's not allowed, but there's complete impunity, with staff either not wanting the hassle of enforcing the posted rules or even giving the dogs treats

Zohran Mamdani won Dan Goldman's Congressional District (NY10) by thirty-seven percent (68.2% to 31.8%). Goldman won a split primary in 2022, earning only 18.5K votes (26%); whereas Mamdani won 95K votes in NY10. Notably, Goldman has not endorsed Mamdani.

Probably because irresponsible people keep describing good and popular things like government services and taxing rich people as “communism”

Has anyone asked this poor girl how she feels about becoming a nazi meme? They post this exact same thing with the exact same clip all the time and it is weird weird weird

I'm just pleased as punch the Mayor rides the bus and will repeat my iron law of urban politics: Not every elected city official who rides transit will be a good elected official. But every good elected city official will ride transit. Only vote for transit riders.

Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”

"Moderation" is tricky. For example, not all revenue sources hurt competitiveness 🟢Land taxes 🟢Pigou/Vickrey taxes 🟢Shoup street parking reform (>$3B/yr for childcare) It's possible to be both responsible & revolutionary. "Moderate" is an imperfect, incomplete word for this

Don’t think I’ll be considering a vote for this guy in the primary

This is what’s so insane to me about this iteration of the Trump admin: they only hired like one guy who is actually aware that Trump is a bad person and it’s dumbass JD! You need a bunch of Bill Barrs if you’re going to do this, not idiots like Kash and Dan who BELIEVED TRUMP!

Same