I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Did you know that THE PHOTONIC EFFECT launches on Tuesday with TWO starred reviews? "Chen shows off his worldbuilding chops in this ingenious 24th-century space opera." Publishers Weekly "A superb sci-fi story about 21st-century issues set in a futuristic space environment" Library Journal

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

We gotta impeach and remove these guys.

"An army marches on its stomach." - Frederick the Great "No it doesn't. That's stupid. It marches on its feet." - The Modern Geniuses in Control

NEW: Associated Press projects Democrat wins special election for New Jersey 11th district U.S. House seat.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

it’s still possible to feel patriotic in this country

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

hey guys I was thinking about calling a press conference about how I’m not close with any human traffickers just so you know that I’m not close with any human traffickers but not for any specific human trafficking related reason

never been happier about a TACO in my life now get him the fuck out of there

BREAKING: The AP has called the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race. Liberal candidate Chris Taylor cruised to an easy victory over her conservative opponent — expanding a liberal majority to 5-2.

How many people would be alive today if SCOTUS hadn’t nullified the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause? How many families would be whole? How many lives would be prosperous and happy?

I don't think the 25th amendment will be invoked and there will not be an emergency impeachment. Do with that information what you will.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

Happy Easter.

Nails it. Reading so many of the details in one place… devastating. And damning. Child in Chief.

Happy Easter!

I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.

Confirmed, there is a tentative WGA agreement.

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

give pbs their money

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Well, anyone left in DOJ who wants to talk, I’m on Signal at crg.32 Seriously, reach out. Would love to know what’s actually happening inside today. And at U.S. Attorney’s Offices. WSJ:

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

Good for Dan Fogelman, who made the studio & network a bazillion dollars with THIS IS US, and when given a blank check for his next thing, looked them dead in the eye and said "I'm making my weird fucking sci-fi show. No. No. Shhhh. No. Weirder than that. Hat on a hat? It's five hats high, fuckers."

Rule 5 “Everyone can be conned” writ large.

Holy shit, that is an incredibly preserved hadrosaur hoof

Good afternoon. Speaker Johnson was sent a bill to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA that passed the Senate 100-0. If he had simply called it for a vote it would passed easily. But he chose chaos. Because that’s what Trump wants. Only Johnson can clean up this mess.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Holy New York.

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

Holy moly! Philly is showing up to march for No Kings!

My local No Kings protests is a 6-mile stretch of end-to-end protestors across one of California's biggest streets. They asked people to either stand or drive/honk across the loop. I'll be doing the latter, which means I'm PAYING stupid post-Iran gas costs to be there. #UnpaidProtestor

Huge turnout in St Augustine, Florida. #Nokings #staugustine

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

If you haven’t seen it, go this weekend. Give this thing legs. Rocky legs. All the legs. Getting a movie made is a miracle. Getting a perfect movie made? Amaze. #projecthailmary

Project Hail Mary is everything I hoped for.

well but have you considered that one time people on bluesky were very rude about a journalist who is my friend?

I will 100% support your weird cursive fixation if you spend the same amount of money and time getting American children to understand progressive taxation well enough that they carry that knowledge into adulthood. So you don't have to explain it like this (although this is a very good explainer!).

Trump on TSA funding: "I'm suggesting to the Republican Party do not make any deal on anything" Congress leaves town tomorrow for 2 weeks. They aren't going to have TSA money before they go. Blame the GOP and Donald Trump for all of this.

Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity"

Psssst, if you wanted to snag my forthcoming poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods, from @clashbooks.bsky.social at Barnes & Noble with a discount, you CAN. **jazz hands**

These are the cracks in the wall we’ve been looking for. When Republicans in Congress realize that they, not Trump, will be jobless after the midterms. Time for them to start making decisions in their own self-interest.

Hawaii is facing its worst flooding in 20 years—5,500 evacuations, a 120-year-old dam at risk, homes and roads destroyed. In Nebraska, historic wildfires have burned over 800,000 acres, killed one, and are still threatening ranches. Trump hasn’t said a word about either.