the Dems need to stop treating “political theatre” like a dirty word. it means two separate things. obviously sometimes it’s just a gross empty stunt; but sometimes it also means when you do the thing, and then you do a big song & dance about doing the thing to drive the theme home for the audience

US liberals or leftists realistically could not and would not ever do as much harm to Trump/Republican regions & voters than Trump and Republican politicians continuously seek to do.

they’re calling it the most vandalized sign in street history

I distinctly remember people saying this was finally the week that the straight would open, that a deal would be made which is funny because I also remember that like two weeks ago and then I remember that was also the case like 3 weeks ago and then again like 5 weeks ago and also 8 weeks ago

My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

There were like 2-3 other state dems who were young and feasible as candidates with the right campaign and financial backing, I refuse to believe otherwise. Maybe Platner was always doomed to win but you don’t have to settle for Schumer’s shoddy slop leadership.

Wow they are really stupid

Ya..... you can lie about imaginary immigrant caravans but not this lol

Imagine a doctor acting like this in real life toward you. Just locking eyes and saying "You are the healthiest and smartest person I've ever seen. I truly can't believe it. I've never seen it both in the same person like this before," in the most serious doctor voice imaginable without blinking.

They came to me and they said "Sir it's time for your weekly cognitive test, something we make all healthy presidents do" and I said thank you. That's very nice

Bro women are so fucking beautiful im so happy to be a lesbian aaaughhhh 😩😩

I don't actually think your dislike of a country's actions entitles you to one free ticket to attack someone vaguely linked by ethnicity to that country

And liberals (and especially those on the left-liberal edge who consider the need to align their policy with their morals an important one) have had to recalibrate. Apartheid is illiberal, occupation is illiberal, and most importantly annihilation and genocide are illiberal. This can't be dismissed.

Palestine is a regional problem and also a global problem, and not in the moralistic sense of "nobody is free until all of us are free" but in the literal political sense that the Israelis have proven that they definitively cannot handle the issue, they can neither solve it nor suppress it.

The Wachowskis built 1.5 miles of highway for their Reloaded set piece, got 300 some cars from GM that were not deemed to be road safe for consumers, and after filming one of the five best car chases in cinematic history, recycled all that material into affordable housing in Mexico

I will never forgive AI for destroying one of my favorite emoji/symbols the humble sparkle

The unmitigated perverse gall of deciding that the one kind of gerrymandering that has a clear constitutional pedigree— the VRA being clearly authorized by 15(2)— is the *one kind* that the US Supreme Court thinks the judiciary has the authority to *reject.*

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

This week in P-hacking

Krugman puts his finger on the fundamental obstacle to a negotiated end to the Iran war: The US government as currently constituted is unable make binding commitments. Nothing the US government does or says today will prevent it from resting attacks tomorrow. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

undocumented immigrants get "free" (paid for by taxes) healthcare only in emergency hospital visits and are SOL wrt preventive care or check-ups. We should all have free at the point of use healthcare, we are the richest country on Earth

LAST DAY OF THE DISCOUNT!!!

The Extreme Court isn't exactly saying there's no racism. They're saying that any law that promotes the interests of racially disadvantaged groups is racist, and therefore illegal. In short, not being White and pursuing voting rights is a form of racism.

This decision is one of the most straightforwardly racist in U.S. history. It is in many ways the end of democracy as we know it. How they speak about it and what they plan to do to address it should become the new litmus test for any Democratic candidate seeking higher office.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

One of the points of overturning Chevron, we were told, was to force Congress to write clearer statutes. The VRA is pretty clear. And that still didn't stop the Court's conservatives from substituting its preferred reading.

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

An “era of extreme gerrymandering” just began out of nowhere.

This didn’t happen

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

You a soft and weak plastic vs me a hard and strong plastic

HOW LONG SHALL GOP KICK US BEFORE WE SHALL ALL BE WIDE-AWAKES?

Gas is going up to $7/gallon in actual California but off in the hyperreal simulacrum the Hormuz Crisis is already solved and is a widely celebrated victory for Trump

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

After years of rampant Republican corruption that keeps accelerating and includes Trump demanding $10 billion from taxpayers, the DOJ is pretending to have finally found a bribery case in the form of "two bottles of wine and a promise of a future meal at a Michelin starred restaurant." Sorry, no.

EXCLUSIVE: New records provide a clear paper trail of DOGE staffers engaging with an outside political group seeking to challenge election results. Though large portions are blacked out, the documents show that government officials advanced plans to exchange sensitive data for election purposes.

Very very telling. It’s been a big question how the govt was able to get a grand jury to sign off on this particular conspiracy charge. Seems pretty clear the govt had dirty hands on that front.

Evergreen skeet

I realize it's way down the list on the Items of National Disgrace and Humiliation Project that the admin's working on but it's impressive how zero cabinet secretaries testifying before congress can behave like a fucking adult for two seconds