what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

They think you're stupid.

“But how are we gonna pay for it?” should never be taken seriously ever again when we want to pay for universal healthcare or universal basic income or any governmental service that helps millions of people.

Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer. Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul. Oh well. Good job Virginia!!

Man, what a win for the Blazers. Tom Dundon's going to be waiting at the airport to greet them. Primarily to make sure they all choose the "Wait and Save" option on their Ubers, but still: it'll be nice!

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself. Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

I've ALWAYS thought that gerrymandering is bad, but I still believe the Electoral College can be useful(*). (*) Each state legitimately has its own interests that the EC can account for, but there needs to be many more Reps in Congress. My plan is 1 per 250K or portion thereof per state.

“I cannot tell a lie” - George Washington “I cannot tell the truth” - Donald Trump “I cannot tell the difference” - Republicans

Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.

Just picked up a copy of Blazers' travel itinerary back to Portland. Should be there in plenty of time for Friday night's Game 3.

baseball crank's problem isn't that the process is bad, it is that he doesn't like the result

Exhibit A

Cernovich is under the impression that John Cornyn has been saved.

These people stub their toe or run out of paper towels and immediately write an OpEd bemoaning the collapse of Western Civilization and demanding that the army drown the streets in the blood of degenerates, it is so profoundly tedious.

"Virginia is under hostile occupation from the majority of its residents"

yiiiikes

Half baked idea: End all geographical boundaries for congressional districts. You’re in a deme now, an association of citizens who collectively elect someone to Congress. Move anywhere, the deme follows. Anyone can make a new deme if they can get enough people to join.

24 hours (and lots of ad hominem attacks against me) later, I just thought I'd post this again.

According the AG Blanche, “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” This is some whacked out far-right fantasy. Hard to imagine this theory will hold up in court, but the lives of paid informants who infiltrated hate groups will be at risk. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...

Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.

I hate this man with every fiber of my being.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court says Texas can force public schools to display the Ten Commandments. They said it DOESN'T violate the Establishment Clause and is NOT religious coercion. They're delusional. This fight is heading to the Supreme Court. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-can-...

the @nytimes.com estimate of the eventual margin on the VA redistricting referendum has been remarkably flat as votes have poured in from across the state www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

From Ken Paxton to possibly Chip Roy. OMG Texas 🤦🏽‍♀️ open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know. ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

Stolen from some dude on Threads... Alan Dershowitz: I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party turned 18

Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

⚠️ Iran Foreign Minister: “Blockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire. Striking a commercial vessel and taking its crew hostage is an even greater violation.”

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

'Football twitter' still seems to definitely be a thing What do y'all think would make football (/soccer) Posting better on bsky, and more likely to be tempting to bring more communities over from The Other App?

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

there's been a tendency in some commentary on the World Cup to imply that all the pricing schemes are a specifically American thing, but it's very clear we're seeing identical processes play out in Mexico and Canada it's FIFA

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

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Maybe the Canadians have finally figured #TraitorTrump out....

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists. Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table. FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

the Becerra surge and the DNC $0 are two stories that together really tell the story of the Democratic Party its brand is in the mud and its capacity is limited, and also party aligned validators and various para party groups still have huge capacity to move votes within primaries

Former LULAC president, Dallas City Council member, and state representative Domingo Garcia got a letter last week informing him his voter registration was canceled because he's dead. He is very much alive. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/do...

If only they’d sold him the pierogi.

I'm not sure what qualifies as "my cuisine", but the one thing I remember from growing up that I distinctly hated was boxed mac-and-cheese (or Kraft dinner). It took me until my 30s to realize that real mac-and-cheese could be a delicious delight.

This MAGA girl in your social feeds? She's AI-generated, cooked up by a scammer. @ejdickson.bsky.social has the goods: www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

there's a scenario here where the combined debt from the Paramount and Warner Brothers deal and Larry Ellison's over-extension into AI form a sort of voltron of financial disembowelment. wouldn't that be nice.

My lack of cynicism. This has to be coupled with not knowing how true Mencken's "The cynics are right nine times out of ten" though...

Once Again Mackenzie Scott. Meals on Wheels is so important. An important human consideration. So shines a good deed.

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted” But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian. Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest It’s a symbol of hate.