There was no structural or institutional support to help La'Monica McIver when the Trump admin charged her with federal crimes for confronting an ICE officer -- so the Dem congresswomen built their own network of solidarity. I love love love this story. www.marieclaire.com/politics/con...

nothing wrong with not recognizing / knowing who mrs puff is (if you're over a certain age &/or weren't raising kids during a certain set of years, why would you), but I still had to laugh at all of those posts like "is that an egg?" re: the DoE Mrs Puff MAGA AI slop (sorry for that string of nouns)

The new congressional gerrymander Tennessee Republicans released Wednesday would shatter the state’s only majority-Black district and ensure that Donald Trump would have won every seat by at least 20 points.

It’s absolute horses out there innit, blimey

I keep having dreams about being back in middle/high school. I’m sure there’s nothing in that.

Jay now doing what he did to Asian American identity to higher ed.

giving Euphoria by Lily King cover

It's kind of amazing that Juliana Spahr, who, with her collaborators Claire Grossman and Stephanie Young, has done more than anyone else to gather data on and analyze literary prizes, has won a Pulitzer www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...

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Reupping for this afternoon.

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This is terrible, but when he says “if they have to vote twice,” he means state legislatures doing redraws. It’s not helpful to frame this as “election results be[ing] thrown out.”

From some of the replies and quotes, you would never know that, not long ago at all, Democrats elected the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church as a U.S. Senator (4 times).

the nyt is just newsmax for people who can pronounce prosciutto

The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of Hungarian money.

In 1988 when Dhillon was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review her paper was accused of trafficking in antisemitism when it published an article comparing conservatives on campus to Holocaust victims, and comparing Dartmouth's Jewish president to Hitler.

Real “The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious” hours.

If you're a normal, well-adjusted human being, you would definitely rather be alive in the modern, stable rights-based, rule-of-law liberal democracy, but if you're an insane sadist, you feel constantly frustrated by this form of government's (meager) restrictions on your ability to harm others.

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

it won’t be hard to discern to people in the future that the first black president led to a relentless and hyper-radical effort by conservative elites to destroy not only the voting rights act but reconstruction itself.

The Voting Rights Act was a product of a disruptive social movement.

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

You know, those journalists would not have been traumatised if they hadn't decided to go publicly hobnob with fascists, so...I don't believe people *will* regret these posts, no

anyone who attended that WHCA dinner is an embarrassment, and current events have not changed this

honestly bread lowkey hits when circuses are the vibe

I’m still thinking about this.

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Sadiqa Reynolds: "Fascists refused to confirm me. One little woman with one voice. I have never felt more powerful.”

Know the work rules meme, but it's about Louise Lucas and David Scott being over 80 and still in office after decades (To be clear, I am a gerontocracy hater and not criticizing that perspective, I just think it would be really funny)

Thank you McDonalds for hiring those facing federal job losses. Every family deserves to earn a living and that’s why we raised our minimum wage in Virginia to $15 an hour.

[also whispers] in fact this is why the redistricting wars began

I'm so glad that Jen Kiggans, specifically, is having a terrible day.

if there’s one thing i expect a CIA officer to know, it’s whether or not a given election is gonna be fair #voteyes

Honestly, I have no time for prefatory throat clearing about how of course gerrymandering is bad. All of the residual goo goo in me has been completely eroded over the past year. I feel no compunctions about what we must do to save the Republic from itself.

The image problem is another case in which alt text is helpful, fwiw

This is the crux for me. It’s not about whether Starmer knew about the failed vetting; it’s that Starmer created a situation where the appointment didn’t allow for failed vetting

I never noticed his resemblance to Abbott before

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Chavez-DeRemer was supposed to be the pro-worker face of the Trump administration, according to many post-liberal thought leaders. She was, by all accounts, an abject failure.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

a republican party small enough to drown in a blue wave

In addition to all the other conversations about Justin Fairfax shooting and killing his wife and then himself, I want to center an important part of this story. Their two children were home when the shooting happened. Their teenaged son called 911. 🧵

I just heard a guy on an elevator tell the woman he was with (who had asked) that it was 5. It was 5:11. People really live that way, huh??

I feel like I have to pick someone younger than me, so Rachel Zegler

this seems quite bad and silly, *and* when it crossed my feed the image was cropped so that it looked like this, and my first thought was "Article about Steyer when he finishes in first or second and proceeds to the general"

Q: how does Jeh Johnson sleep at night? A: like a baby.

Abbott and Brandon Herrera seem to be okay leaving Tony Gonzales’ seat vacant for 8 months. We do not. We ask Brandon Herrera to join us in calling on Abbott for a Special Election. Are they asking us to send in checks to the IRS tomorrow without a member in Congress to represent us? #Texas