For 10 months, I’ve been working on a 4-part @onthemedia.bsky.social investigation into FEMA, one of America’s least favorite agencies: why MAGA nearly killed it and how we got here. The first episode just dropped. We’re super proud of it. Hope you’ll listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

Trumps only agenda is to attack Democratic Party voters. I don’t see the point of Democrats voting for leaders who are conciliatory.

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Tennessee: a picture says a 1,000 words. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

One of the main functions of MAGA is content generation for right-wing media. Sometimes this actually gets in the way of substantive goals, see backlash to ICE as content generation.

When this was happening I would take time in class to talk about what DOGE was doing and I know I sounded like a crazy woman. VINDICATION!

VA AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections."

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This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

The Trump administration has seized $120M USD owned by the Canadian pension fund earmarked for a wind development — and demanding the pension-backed company invest in fossil fuels instead.

Check out biased WashPost story: Rubio is described as “practicing Catholic” while Kerry is described as “raised Catholic” but had “disagreements with the church on abortion and some other issues.” But Rubio actually has many more disagreements: immigration, Iran, climate, USAID, the poor, etc.

Very disrespectful for Dana White to bash President Donald J. Trump like this

🗃️ Glad to chat with @wgbh.org about Abigail Adams’ words & how to be a revolutionary in 1776 @mhs1791.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Widow’s Bay is hilarious.

The concerted effort to bring back bullying and hazing (as if it ever stopped) fits the right's hierarchical worldview but also prevents the kind of social solidarity necessary to defeat them.

It occasionally bears repeating that under a Dem admin this would be a world historical scandal. With Trump, journalists more or less ignore it, or accept plainly nonsensical explanations (he's shaking hands so much he had to use his off hand I guess)

The way that Republicans gain social capital with other Republicans is attacking Democrats. The way that Democrats gain social capital with other Democrats is attacking Democrats.

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“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

It's uncomfortable to say but true that a core belief that keeps the disparate groups of MAGA together is that they should be able to have sex with 12 year olds.

I am convinced it's Lucas's social media strategy that enraged them. They can't stand being "owned" on the internet.

Douthat continues to be tip of spear in getting far right talking points into MSM. Analogizing Harris to Gomorrah he's working old fav (Second Coming, which conservatives are required to reference in all writing) and new (Dems are party of depravity - NAR).

Dems pay consultants billions of dollars to run communications strategies for them yet somehow this is professors fault?

NEW: While floating a merger to create the largest airline in history, United Airlines quietly became a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump aligned public-private partnership funding celebrations of America's 250th anniversary.

My university will be doing major program elimination next year because of a budget deficit. But the good news is that we were able to create yet another upper admin position and hired someone with experience using AI to evaluate program effectiveness and profitability!

Why join them when you can beat them? I'm 22-3 so far and it's way more fun to punk the Feds than it is to represent Markwayne Dipshit and his ICE goons

i’m sure people who’ve worked with Bryant Rousseau have stories. message me on signal if you’d like to share any :)

But did he quote Charlie Kirk?

The party of manly man individuals punishes anyone who is not abjectly servile.

When Tucker and Youngkin wear vests they are working class.

“My dad is coming home.” He’s captured the MAGA moment.

ok this is a very good headline

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THIS IS EVERYTHING 🔥

“The state is so unlivable they need to use forced birth to maintain their population like North Korea.”

Secret Service shot a kid today

While we're all talking about the Supreme Court and Callais sucking shit, make sure you read this new piece about how the Supreme Court and Callais are even worse than you thought ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Why would SPLC do this?

Brokenwood hasn’t had any absurdist murder episodes this season… until the episode 5 about the ukulele murder.