When I said I wanted a fairy tale ending, I should’ve specified not one of the German ones.

it makes me sad when i see trans people talk about how they hate being trans. while it's been tough and made my life harder in ways, it's also been one of the biggest blessings in my life. the perspective on life i have, people i know, and who i am are informed by me being trans

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

"This song sucks, this song sucks..." "WE'LL GET THERE FAST AND THEN WE'LL TAKE IT SLOW"

reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Speaking of which — when AI chatbots make mistakes, call them that: mistakes, errors, inaccuracies. “Hallucinations” is an unnecessarily jargony term that anthropomorphizes the chatbots. (5/x)

Speaking of which: Consider referring to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and so on, as ”products” or “apps” rather than “tools”; the latter tends to obscure their relationship to the companies behind them and makes it sound like they exist just to help us. (3/x)

stop telling people to wait for elections that are being actively compromised

At least in cases where the politics matter, the supreme court does politics, not law. A lot of smart people will dispute that. Mostly because they are paid to.

The UK is experimenting with a new kind of Red-Brown coalition (Keir Starmer has shit himself)

It really can't be overstated how nakedly partisan the Supreme Court's order from today is. Two weeks after saying "the LA case doesn't affect what we already said in the AL case", they now say "the AL case is vacated because of what we said in the LA case". Rule of law requires court reform.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

They can't have your despair without your consent even if they can take everything else, that's why they want it so bad

ok I know everyone is saying exactly the same thing at once but christ on cracker this is the president of the United States bragging that a fellow crook 'kept me out of jail for years.'

The task before us now is first to justify that optimism at the ballot box. The heroes of the civil rights era didn’t bow before men in white robes and none of us are under any obligation to bow to their successors in black ones. AND THEN…

Today marks 4 years since Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot & killed by the IDF while reporting in the West Bank. Both the Trump & Biden admins have failed to get justice for her killing. [1/2]

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

It's not enough just to elect more Democrats. We must elect better Democrats — and make the Democratic Party better, from Brooklyn to NYS to the DNC. @newkingsdems.bsky.social has been fighting for a better, more accountable Democratic Party for nearly two decades. (1/2)

Roger Taney’s first name is pronounced Roberts.

Roberts Taney

Also I cannot be the only person who resents being told to vote again in a different election as the solution to the thing I already successfully voted for and didn't get

Roberts majority, citing Callais, throws out lower court’s 571-page finding that AL’s 2023 maps intentionally discriminated against Black voters. Sotomayor, with Kagan and Jackson, dissents bc Alito et al said intentional discrimination claims survive Callais www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Purcell is a magical window that can grow to let in republicans and shrink to keep out democrats.

When Republicans and Democrats come to bat before the Supreme Court, they have very different strike zones

No American has done more to legalize corruption in the 21st century than John Roberts.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

“The reason our Torment Nexus from the story Don’t Build The Torment Nexus is evil is because we trained it using the story Don’t Build The Torment Nexus.”

2026 is the 50th anniversary of this song. youtu.be/JDkvNo_sM-o?...

I will buy any of their homes for one thousand dollars and rid them of this terrible burden.

imo Labour should not have gone all-out to convince the UK electorate that Reform had the best policies and that it was actually Reform

Happy birthday, John Brown!

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Iconic French singer Charles Aznavour, birth name Shahnur Vaghinak Aznavourian

Moscow's parade lasted just 45 minutes and showed videos of equipment instead of the real thing.

So long as the Wizards In Robes from the far right authoritarian party are going to completely dispense with even the pretense of complying with the law, the Constitution, & the results of elections, this sort of hardball is going to be necessary to restore democracy & the rule of law.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

tell them the ruling of the surpreme court of virginia is illegitimate and VA Dems should convene a special session to overrule them and pass the maps bsky.app/profile/what...

The NYS Budget is nearly 40 DAYS LATE! Governor Hochul’s budget doesn’t tax the rich, includes no plans to protect our neighbors from I.C.E., and puts the residents of Lower Manhattan at risk. It’s time to send your fighter back to Albany! Yuhlineforsenate.com

I think the point to be made is that we will likely lose. But we ought to make the bastards work for it Heck, this was half the point of the Civil Rights Movement. It's not that the protests will persuade, it's that they'll make clear the evil of what we are facing.

developing a parasocial relationship with the void

The use of “czar” for a government executive really reached an absurd peak the other day when I read someone’s position was the appointed “anti-semitism czar” which well yeah he usually was

I genuinely think that MAGA would rather dominate pop culture than the federal government. A lot of their incoherent anger is driven by the fact that they control what is basically a consolation prize for them.

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

The defining factor for the Reform vote and the Brexit vote is very low educational attainment. Same with MAGA, same with AfD, same with Rassemblement National. Should be enough for all serious parties to put education at the heart of their agenda.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook