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I guess we’re going to do that whole thing again we did with the grocery stores and the Elizabeth Warren price gouging where we showed the charts of insurance industry margins being 2-6%. Americans are getting old and fat*** (paying for GLP1s) and we do not have adequate cost controls. The end.

❤️ Vietnam, great street food, great urbanism.

def/acc Pope let's goooo

56 states + the moon or bust.

Respect: sfexaminer.com/news/politics…

Meanwhile, while Vance is arguing that the president should ignore and appeal two court orders to send Congressionally-allocated funds to feed the hungry and poor, Mike Moritz is personally backfilling the SNAP gap in San Francisco.

People are always astounded when I tell them NYC has a larger homeless population than Los Angeles County. There are such fewer tents in New York because New York mandates sufficient shelter spaces

The median age of US homebuyers last year was FIFTY NINE YEARS OLD. Exclusionary zoning has a cost. This is that cost.

BREAKING: The FAA will require airlines to begin cutting flights from these 40 airports starting as early as tomorrow. Airlines will starts cutting 4% of flights per day until they reach 10% per day early next week.

A few things to know about the ATC reduction in flights: 1) This will be a nightmare for airline scheduling. We have reductions at some airports regularly through Ground Delay Programs (GDPs). Maybe 6 or 7 airports some days. 40 is WILD. 2) The airlines can’t “just cancel” 10% of flights. That leaves jets & crews out of place for the next flight, or getting home, etc.. 3) These kind of things tend to cascade into delays & cancelations even at airports not among the 40. Pilots, FAs, jets all get out of position to operate the next scheduled flight. 4) The airlines have mechanisms to change the crew’s schedule, but labor contracts often make doing so prohibitively expensive by design; if it didn’t, schedulers would solve all their problems this way & there would be no point to having a schedule at all. There are some exceptions, but it’s limited. 5) You could argue airlines need to put more flexibility in the schedule, but this comes with a cost. For example, having two hours between flights instead of one. That seems helpful, but in reality, it means jets arrive and have no gates to park at because the gate that should be open isn’t. Putting more flexibility in the schedule eventually means reducing the total number of flights that can operate from an airport. Reduced supply in the face of increased (& in this case, now out of reach) demand equals higher ticket prices. 6) Airlines can only blame the FAA for the first event in a sequence of delays & cancelations, or a later event if the same type of delay is ordered. Everything that comes after – even when it’s obviously a result of the original FAA delay – gets reported in a category that absolves the FAA from blame (that’s a complicated one to explain…the rule changed in 2003. You’ll have to trust me). Which means the cascade effects all get dumped in the laps of the airlines. 7) This affects the way the DOT collects delay & cancelation data, and guarantees that no matter how bad the FAA gets, the airlines look worse. It’s a clever trick. 8) The airlines collect their own, separate data so they can see the real reasons & try to fix problems. This is why the FAA will claim one thing & the airlines will claim another. I’d go with the airlines numbers. Anyway, hope those help add some context as this unfolds. More importantly, I hope this doesn’t happen at all. It will be a mess.

Deeply sad but not surprising that political violence is now pushing young, rising star members to retire from Congress

Today’s Supreme Court arguments about the legality of the tariffs did not go well for the Trump administration.

"This is a tariff. This is a tax" "So Biden could've declared a national emergency for global warming..." OOOF

You can't expect younger people (at this point <40 or so) to be "conservative" if they have nothing to conserve. Widespread ownership and reasonable expectations for improving standards of living are preconditions of moderation.

I think blaming tariffs doesn’t capture the real dynamic trap Republicans are walking into. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon not a product of taxes. Like the Tory party, the GOP are becoming dependent on housing inflation to boost the paper wealth of those who have assets, but which ends up delaying or excluding the young from acquiring those badges of middle class life. nationalreview.com/2025/09/l…

California may not ever get better, but every other state is hell bent on copying its dumbest decisions

The voters are just gonna keep hitting the big red button labeled “eject incumbents” until the system of government changes in some pretty fundamental ways

I literally think about California’s geography permanently. You don’t know how privileged you are. It’s a perfect Olympia with a giant bay, a massive agricultural valley, diverse climates, southern niches for cities, a Mediterranean climate, and a wine region. Absolutely goated.

Wow, okay.