Wally Nowinski

Dear Democrats: Please internalize the fact you don’t benefit from high voter turnout anymore. noahpinion.blog/p/dont-rock-th…

A thread on the 50 best fortifications to go and visit in the world according to me. They are all fun for at least one in the family. They are listed in reverse rank order as determined by how much fun, unique and awesome they are.

Texas finally catches California, introduces their own La Sombrita.

Is there a way to short small liberal arts schools?

Why does @Rinse send me an automatic text message when the courier parks. That is not useful!

Yes, Prigozhin’s rebellion.

It’s a shame so much of it was demolished at behest of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation for “development sites” that largely sit empty decades later.

@SukritGanesh Yep. Giving it to a non profit blows up parts of the city budget. Among other things, that parcel paid %25 percent of the EMS tax, apparently. It’s obviously been there forever too, so reselling to private entities or building new structures would reset prop 13 rate.

@Nowooski Won't they be exempt from property taxes? This is an unforced error - you could build a Jersey City here, and still have tons of room left for parks (which will now have visitors from the new housing), but now it'll be a huge tax liability (and I doubt it'll see many visitors).

Redeveloping this into housing or housing + green space would be a huge win for Albany. Handing it over to a non profit to rot for decades in the hope a park might one day be built will kneecap the city’s finances.

What happened to cause this?

@jakedecker This is anti PNC bias! Starbucks is great. The chipotle of coffee.

@Nowooski Just not a Starbucks please!

Unironically yes.

@White_Shadow81 And cold beers.

@Nowooski Ice cream trucks but coffee instead

@JHWeissmann The nations tree pollen allergy sufferers disagree. We should put bounties on cherry trees.

Cutting down cherry trees to build a fancier golf course should actually be a federal crime

This looks like it keeps the public biking/running path, but I'd love it if a reporter confirmed. Still a gross waste of money.

When I took office as Mayor, I said I should be judged one standard: Is Detroit's population going up or down? Well, after 65 straight years of population decline, Detroit put up three straight years of population growth. In 2025 alone, we grew by 5,000 residents, leading the entire state of Michigan in population increases. Some people make promises. I make plans. And then, I deliver.

@marcjoffe Everything is relative. It could be Berkeley or Oakland!

@Nowooski Wait. El Cerrito has a somewhat less crazy government?

Come be my neighbor. - 2 BART stations. ~30 minute rides to downtown SF. - Panoramic Bay views because unlike Berkeley and Oakland, you can cut down trees. - Somewhat less crazy government than other Bay Area cities.

The water those camels are drinking is black with their own dung, and four crocodiles are watching them from the back of the pool. This is Guelta d'Archei in Chad's Ennedi Plateau. The closest other crocodile population is 700 kilometers north in the Tibesti, too far for any crocodile to walk, which means the four still living here have been genetically isolated since the Sahara was green, somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 years ago. DNA from a specimen pulled from this pool in 1997 confirmed them as Crocodylus suchus, the smaller West African cousin of the Nile crocodile. The lineage split from the Nile species 8 to 13 million years ago. Four females, all that's left here. The food web is wild. Hundreds of camels water here every day. The dung and urine load fertilizes algae in the still water, which is why it's black. Algae feeds the fish. Fish feed the crocodiles. The apex predators at the top of this canyon survive on the waste of the camels that come in to drink. Without the herders, the crocodiles starve. The water itself is a fossil. Ennedi sits on the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the largest fossil aquifer ever found. 150,000 cubic kilometers of groundwater, roughly 500 years of Nile River discharge stored underground. Carbon-14 dating puts most of it at 4,000 to 30,000 years old, deposited during Pleistocene pluvials when this entire region was savanna. You're looking at camels drinking 20,000-year-old water in a canyon where four prehistoric reptiles are waiting for an algae bloom fed by the camels' own waste. Crocodiles used to live across the entire Sahara. They went extinct guelta by guelta through the 20th century. This pool is the most isolated relict population left on the planet.

@Jlrube It was one of the more interesting ones I’ve received in a while. Lots of issue questions, no specific candidates.

@Nowooski I got that poll this morning, as did at least one other person I know

First favorability question in this poll is “data center industry.”

portugal colonised the world yet failed to build any permanent human settlements on their own land 🥀

It’s objectively pretty funny that Trump is doing the Green New Deal and AIPAC has accomplished more to keep it in the ground than the Sierra Club. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/bus…