Tim Fehr

Pennsylvania Native. Southbay Resident. Frequent Reader. Runner. Drinker of Gin.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@raqisright I wonder who could be responsible for these inconveniences to immigrants?

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@drussellmrichie All good points - here I might be “intersectional” and say the car sectarianism is mostly about suburbs versus urban preferences. That said, parking mandates (and set backs!) are an absolute stain on American society. Land wants to be free!

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

Thanks, as always, for your thoughtful response. I need to do some more digging, but passenger rail in the U.S. often strikes me as one of the many gentry preferences imposed at great cost on society - à la historical preservation and “conservation”. I think in nearly all places, returns are higher to more bus routes /ore frequent stops / RTD lanes etc

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Quick reminder to the Kremlin:

No Russian has ever walked on the moon.

America supplied the Soviet Union with thousands of tanks and aircraft and hundreds of thousands of vehicles during WWII. Funny how that gets left out of the chest-thumping. Have you said “thank you?”

Your invasion of Ukraine has cost you 1.5 MILLION men. MILLION

You cars and planes are awful

A gas station with nukes, and the gas is even low quality garbage. Your nukes probably don’t even work.

Sucks to suck.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

For years, the abolish-the-Senate crowd has called it an engine of minority rule that Democrats could never win under. Yesterday, against a president who pulled every lever he could find, Democrats won it in Texas, Kansas, and both Carolinas, and they may yet take Mississippi.

The deeper lesson is about the constitutional order itself. Elections are the vehicle for policy; rewriting the rules is not. Abolish the Senate, pack the Court, govern by emergency decree: the order has outlasted every one of these temptations, and voters punish whoever reaches for them.

Contest elections vigorously, everywhere, and you can win them.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

In 1830, Daniel Webster, answering a senator from South Carolina, declared: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

196 years later, we've been reminded of the durable American consensus: constitutional government over strongman rule, lawful immigration over mass deportations, trade over tariffs, and deterrence over reckless wars.

Trump was an aberration from this consensus, and yesterday's rebuke of him was a first step back toward it. Whether that return endures depends on both parties learning the right lesson: the American voter punishes overreach, swiftly and severely.

No North, no South. The Union forever.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

behold, the political genius of our age

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

If you asked Claude to create a maximally incoherent position on housing policy delivered in the voice of Selena Meyer from Veep - I'm not sure it would outdo this quote.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@drussellmrichie Can we have them add ALPRs an end to pretextual NEPA litigtiation, and enough patrol officers that deterrence comes from certainty rather than severity? Then ministerial approval and no parking minimums

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@ArmandDoma Voter ID in exchange for federal pre-emption on land use?

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@raqisright what data are you basing this on? targeting single urban women seems like an odd strategy? that's one of the most left leaning groups in the country?

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

@grok Create an image of what the world would look like if I were in charge, based on my tweets.”

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

There are reasons to be skeptical of nuclear - but Oklo is a pre-revenue startup that’s currently trading at a $7.5B valuation. I would not call that a lack of market enthusiasm

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A very happy ending would be if Trump regulatory reforms + data center demand launch a revolutionary era of next generation nuclear power but the stock market doesn’t seem to be buying it.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

Actually existing socialism did not think fitness was fascist. It put a barbell on the poster. China, 1975: ‘Widely carry out rural sports activities.’ The USSR tested every citizen against national fitness standards from 1931 and handed out 220 million badges. East Germany’s head of state issued a slogan ordering weekly exercise. The most body-optimizing political tradition of the twentieth century was this one.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”

At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”

She says the left should not try to beat fascists “at their own game” by becoming “fitter, more eugenic.”

“In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.”

She closes by arguing that revolution is not “a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies” and that the very idea is itself fascist.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

I’m a free market enthusiast and I post against socialism constantly. But socialism was a serious intellectual tradition. Marx was a genius. Engels, Luxemburg, and Gramsci did real work you have to actually argue with. Orwell, a democratic socialist, wrote the definitive essay on why empty jargon is a symptom of dishonest thinking. What’s on stage at Socialism 2026 is not that tradition. It’s phrases that assume their own conclusions and big words standing in for causation. It should offend actual socialists as much as it offends anyone who cares about ideas

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 At Socialism 2026’s “Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation” panel, Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain warns that even left-wing spaces can accidentally reproduce “health fascism” through the language of healing.

She says organizers need to be careful about what “healing” means, because sometimes people are not looking to “get better” or “move past” trauma at all.

Instead, she argues, what people may need is collective support while “sitting with the cracks,” “sitting with the bones,” and “sitting in the horror together.”

I’m not especially sold on the whole “Woke 1.0 vs. Woke 2.0” framework, but if even “healing” can now be ideologically objectionable, then we have entered some truly rarefied territory.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

When your entire worldview is exclusively and maximally reductive to racial and class oppression - this kind of nonsense is the end state. Enlightenment humanism is the best approach here (and everywhere).

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I truly struggle to understand the mind of someone who can say something like "GLP-1 drugs are genocidal fascism" with a straight face. What is their experience like? What goes through their head? I feel like I could understand uncontacted Amazonian tribes easier than this.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

Then we agree, compelled speech is evil, full stop. My position all thread: Google is free to follow the rename or ignore it, and nobody should be coerced either way. Not by leftists waving antitrust at a map label, and not by an administration leaning on Apple to fall in line and banning the AP from the pool over a noun. One principle, both directions. Show me the leftist threat and I’ll condemn it in the same sentence.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

@TimothyFehr nobody is arguing for compelled speech but the leftists arguing google must ignore the president's renaming or be dismantled. my opinions on compelled speech — evil — have not changed. yours clearly have.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

No one here is acting as the government except the government. The president commands the executive branch, not the country. The renaming binds federal paperwork and nothing else. Google labeling its own map is not resistance, because you cannot resist a preference. Calling it resistance requires believing the president’s word governs private speech. It does not.

That belief is the dangerous thing. A president whose pronouncements bind society is not a president. And the office changes hands: whatever you normalize for this one, you hand to the next.

Compelled speech is the exact power you correctly spent a decade refusing. Pronoun mandates. Misinformation labels. Government leaning on platforms over what they published. The Twitter Files were one long argument that state pressure on private speech is illegitimate. You were right. The principle does not rotate with the White House.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

tech companies should remain tech companies rather than assume the role of permanent left-wing shadow state, imo. this is a safer position for both the companies and the notion of our representative government.

[Tim Fehr @TimothyFehr]

Is this your first time reading the news since 2015?

[Raq @raqisright]

MAGA freaks, Trump worshipers, and groypers are pushing normal republicans out of the party fyi