Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

asking sam alito to save you because you're too fucking useless to save yourselves. this is really a new low in Democratic capitulation.

gonna have an essay in the reconstruction papers about this exactly: the idea that courts are the sole interpreters of constitutions is a doctrine fundamentally lethal to democracy. we all--and legislatures especially--are equally allowed to interpret and execute constitutions.

Gonna buy me a

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

I don't think liberals have reckoned with the fact that we badly overestimated the pro-Roe backlash against Trump, because we badly overestimated solidarity between white women.

Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.

the resentment against the Biden white house for not leaking or generating scandals was *intense*

This is the most bluesky shit I've seen all day, but it's early I guess.

Social Media in 2035

the only reason this is in the New York Times, and not on the kind of daytime TV show people who read the New York Times' "Vows" section go out of their way to inform you they would never debase themselves by watching, is that these people are rich

Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform

“When you were 10 years old, did you like films that were made 30 years ago” is a crazy question to pose to Millennials and Gen Z parents who grew up on freaking Star Wars

If AOC is on one side & Cenk & Ryan Grim & Marge are on the other side it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out who’s speaking the truth & who’s a fucking Russian stooge asshole.

Yeah ok she's running and I think she's gonna win it all

AOC coming for South Carolina

This boomer meme is actually pretty fire

They’ll never vote to restart it.

If we are serious about holding and wielding power, every car dealership and MLM scheme needs to be bankrupted. The Uihleins and Mercers and Adelsons of this world need to be stripped of their assets and exiled or imprisoned. The think tanks and churches need to be destroyed by the IRS.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Somewhat less tongue in cheek than the rest of this thread, greater Boston is a fascinating illustration of the principle of "just stick a bunch of big universities in it" can overcome an amazing amount of civic dysfunction. It's practically a One Weird Trick although a hard to replicate one.

my parents live in a Boston suburb and their house was built with chickenwire in the siding for some reason, so it is functionally a faraday cage

is the weather good? no. is the housing stock nice? oh god, no. Is the food good? well, no

want to hear something encouraging? i see more men riding the bus with their children to and from school than i can ever remember seeing, and i have commuted by transit for most of my adult life

I know it's been said a million times but honestly, honestly, the US-Israeli war on Iran is genuinely one of the most fucked up things I have seen in international affairs in my life. It is genuinely shocking to me, in a way I think it would be bad to lose sight of, just how bad this has been.

keir starmer, from what i gather

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though

a black small business owner who makes $100,000 a year is a member of the petit bourgeois. a white second year corporate attorney who earns $200,000 a year but is forced to work 75 hours a week is a member of the oppressed proletariat. these statements are objectively true under marxist theory.

Mind you the paroxysms of rage the progressive left drives conservatives into are triggered by such phenomena as Sinners receiving critical and financial success.

He tried to do this last November in CA & NJ. Total bust in NJ and CAs answer was "ok great we'll send state monitors to watch your thugs." This is desperation, pure and simple, not strength.

Incredible subtweet.

me joining in a dogpile: PERISH IN FLAMES, UNRIGHTEOUS me when the dogpile target quote-skeets me: how dare you direct harassment my way??

the new wave of slopulist tax cut proposals from dems--trying to outflank trump on "no taxes on tips"--this pursuit of ever more specific and ever stupider tax cuts--isn't an expression of the liberal belief that we're all in this together. it's "fuck you got mine" masquerading as policy

As long as swing voters rank the economy as their number one issue and maintain that the economy is the worst it's ever been it's hard to see anything other than incumbent party bloodbaths at the first opportunity

It is actually REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT to know why people are perpetually incensed with the economy starting very specifically in 2021, because it has PITCHED OUR COUNTRY INTO FASCISM.

I also want to point out that if, to you (not you you, generalized you) MTG has better “vibes” than Liz Cheney or even AOC, your brain has been cooked.

HEY.

From what I understand Hantavirus is not very communicable and the risk is mostly where people are in overcrowded, poorly maintained, unsanitary surroundings like America’s VA facilities, prisons, detention centers, and schools.

There are only 2 kinds of users on bluesky

Of course, the message the Iranians are trying to sell Americans on is "It's all the fault of THE JEWS"--but notice how they manage it much better than the typical groyper antisemite does, because the groyper, in their use of antisemitism, is trying to cut themselves off from mainstream US culture.

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

“Alexa, show us an interview you couldn’t pay us any amount of money to watch”

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

Since America doesn’t have a Secretary of State or diplomatic corps anymore, just two guys—the president’s corrupt son-in-law and real estate buddy—any time spent trying to end the Ukraine war on terms favorable to Russia is time not spent on trying to end the Iran war on terms favorable to the US.

"By any sane definition" is the best part because no one ever says that if their definition is actually sane. Lots of questions already answered by their t-shirt.

"Gay liberals tend to be right wing by any sane definition of the term" fucking what