Master of Reality
I feel like Not Just Bikes would be a commie if he wasn't such a settler lib. He has all the critiques.
Even though he's a lib, I think these kinds of urbanism youtubers are a useful pipeline towards leftist thinking. If nothing else, they help break up some of the ossified thinking about what is possible, and promote such radical ideas as "communities are good" and "we can take some collective action to improve our daily life"
This shit's seriously dark
He's going to live another 20 years in perfect blissful retirement
Our fallen world is not righteous enough for such a blessed outcome.
NYPD cop turned media talking head. His podcast is #9 on Spotify.
I've asked the Trump voters in my life about "why", and they've all talked about his vision for a better the future. People do have an actual, concrete hope in him to improve their lives in specific ways.
It's definitely possible that there are ulterior motives at play. All these people know I'm a "liberal" from the city, so I don't expect them to just open up to me. But it kinda reminds me of starry-eyed libs voting for Obama: they weren't being cynical, they believed in hope and change. And I think there's a fair amount of earnest hope in Trump voters. Liberals complain a lot about what a fucking vicious asshole Trump is... but I think we've been seeing how vicious libs are too, they just don't let their id hang out in the open all the time like Trump does. It's a perplexing thing, I think all Americans really do want a better future, and are actually willing to believe in someone who promises it. But they're also deeply brain broken, uncurious, and cruel - everyone in the country is just a scratched liberal in the end, especially Trump voters.
I think a good point was made on Hasan's stream during election night: what was the point of picking Walz, if you were then going to force him to do right wing messaging that he wouldn't deliver convincingly? For a second there, it almost seemed like the campaign was about to pivot into a more progressive messaging campaign... but then they just ran as if they had Shapiro as VP.
It was a slow burn for me.
The first major turning point was Obama's assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, and the way that liberals just accepted it and moved on. I had an understanding of liberalism as fundamentally being the good guy protagonists of the story of America, and I could not square the circle in my head. It was the beginning of a major reorientation in my mind about whether the actions of the Obama administration really matched up with the professed values on the liberal movement.
The second major turning point was working in a really heavy industry factory job during the late Obama and early Trump years. I worked with a lot of people from very different backgrounds from me, and it really made me face my own internalized bigotries about people from rural areas, and those with a lot less education than I had. I think it finally helped me exorcise the remnants of shitty techbro libertarianism in my soul and actually try to become a better, more compassionate person.
If you are compassionate, and you are curious, you inevitably end up discovering certain things about the world 
Paul Krugman will bravely continue to do exactly what he's been doing the whole time and being payed handsomely for.
I think what's really striking is how close the "blue wall" states are, we're talking under 400k votes in the states that are winning Trump the EC. Harris could have performed way worse than Biden 2020, and still won a comfortable margin. But instead of performing way worse, she performed catastrophically worse.
Harambe in 2016, peanut in 2024
If Trump wins, they'll be blamed
If Harris wins, liberals will smugly gloat about how they never needed Arab American votes
As unbelievable as it might sound, in the USA justice system, if a lawyer knows their client is guilty as hell, they are not supposed to just pretend otherwise and make up crazy legal theories in court to try to get them off the hook. Lawyers who make such grossly bad-faith arguments like this in front of a judge are supposed to get disbarred.
I hope so, even if just to end the pin-balling between PNP and PPD.
It only takes one faithless elector to completely overturn the result of a 270-268 election!
It would be incredibly funny if the right-wing immigration into Texas and Florida shifted the electoral college towards Democrat's favor.
Other funny possibilities: Harris wins two turns, Thomas, Alito and Roberts retire or die from the supreme court, and the Democrats secure a durable supermajority on the court. Republicans proceed to have a meltdown about how we need to reform all these shitty, undemocratic systems. Democrats already worship institutions, so it's easy to imagine Lin Manuel Miranda writing bars about the wisdom of the founding fathers.
Harris gets to 270, but then Nebraska changes the rules to after the election to change the electoral college allotment to winner takes all, throwing the election to a Republican controlled House of Representatives. Even more chaotic if the Supreme Court intervenes to allow it.
We're 2.5 months out from the first kid. I think we're very well prepared, but I think this is the calm before the storm.
We're going to get a freezer for down in the basement, for breastmilk storage, and then just to have the expanded storage for frozen food. Chest freezer, or regular side door freezer? I'm on team chest freezer, but I understand it's more convenient to store things in a side door freezer... I'm torn.