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There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

SPECIAL ALERT: In preparation for the day, everyone should make sure they have a pot and spoon ready to hand, so we can really make the cacophony in the moment!

Coined a new phrase for this AI slop world… “Is it worth the kilowatts?” The answer is, more often than not, no. See ya, Suno!

Not sure why they’re not putting their efforts behind LibreOffice, but also Europe needs to establish its own shared code repository. GitHub is yet another vulnerability. It’s owned by Microsoft after all…

Looks like F1 in the Middle East might be dodging missile attacks… I mean, the racing needed a bit of shaking up, but this is probably going a bit far! #Formula1

Wow.

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

Every American needs to watch this:

“AGI, a theoretical state of AI where systems gain human levels of intelligence across an array of tasks and are able to replace humans in white-collar jobs such as accountancy and law, is a keystone of this financial promise.” lol!

One has to wonder when California decides it’s time to call it quits from this sinking ship! US population has started its decline about 50 years earlier than expected! Trump is about to explode the debt and start a war with Europe!

At some point we have to stop giving respect to disgusting people. We are being told to deny reality to protect terrible people. Enough is enough. I’m utterly sick of it.

Blocking that noise.

Absolutely, it is well known that drivers proceed at the perceived safe speed, not the posted speed limit. Our stroads look fast enough for 60 not 30.

Despite the SCOTUS displaying blatant partisanship and casual disregard of precedent, the Democrats, if/when they regain power, will do nothing about it and will allow the SCOTUS to hamstring them at any and every opportunity. #SCOTUS

This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...

I can think of at least seven ways fossil fuel producers could wiggle out of this, but still: holy shit this is huge.

If it’s New York, Staten Island!

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels. #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

Let’s see how the military branches are doing on war crimes? US Army? Tortured people at Abu Ghraib and shot innocent people for fun in Iraq. US Air Force? Slaughtered wedding parties and others via indiscriminate drone attacks. US Navy? Now murdering people in the Caribbean. Fucking hell.

Here’s what Disney should have done: Told its affiliates to hold off on the merger during this period of political chaos. There is no urgency and it opens them up for manipulation. Everyone should business plans on pause until this chaos ends.

Apple News link for full article: apple.news/AcTkBL6DvQvy...

I really don’t think anyone outside of the USA understands how absolutely sick of gun violence so many of us are. And how absolutely exhausted we are knowing that *nothing* will be done to curtail it. All this lamentation over a monster and nothing will change for the innocents killed today and on

My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

Twat who played with fire by dry humping the 2nd Amendment, and stirring up a race war, was shot and killed today. Americas politicians feigned outrage but will do nothing meaningful to reign in the insane gun culture that is literally killing citizens every, single, day.

It’s a bit much to feel degraded by the actions of at least one branch of the US Government every day. Are there really no Republicans left that have any loyalty to their flag and the ideals for which it stands? A couple of defections to independence in the Senate could change everything.

“conservative southern wing” has to be the understatement of the fucking year!

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

Lol

Just had what I hope is an insane thought… 1/ So we’ve been wondering what happens to harvests when the undocumented workers now providing a large share of that workforce have gone?

My pet theory: it comes from Don Quixote. It features a donkey.

Talk about a parasite killing off its host!

Today (much too late!) I realized that our democracies are really thought experiments. In that, we actually have to believe in them for them to be real. As soon as we stop standing up for their rules and principles, we lose them. They are not a given fact.

This tracks

Some clear headed analysis of the potential of the new left party in the UK: youtu.be/vcTnoGpALKU?...

Makes one wonder who the intelligencia *do* have acres of time for if not someone genuine and popular with her constituents like Zarah f’ing Sultana?! She’s one of the few people willing to actually speak truth to power.

You know Tillis could actually do something important to make a real difference and that would be to leave the Republicans declare himself independent and caucus with the Democrats. But that would require honor. #tillis

Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek).

Me, flirting

When did this change happen?! #gulfofmexico

This article caused me to have some thoughts… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

We’re going to see the Stand Your Ground laws get a lot more use when people start protecting themselves from these vigilante masked gangs running around abducting people from their homes and workplaces…

This is absolutely brilliant. Paging @bencollins.bsky.social as The Onion gets a mention. youtube.com/shorts/YAeki...

I dunno, one of the great joys of west coast living is not having a front row seat to the day’s news.

1/ Love Ash Sarkar, but today's Cortado has a bit of fiction that keeps making the rounds: "But the simple truth is that if you’re losing or retaining seats by tight margins less than a year after winning a landslide parliamentary majority, it’s not looking good for 2029. "

This guy should watch this, these AIs are not reliable friends. youtu.be/JZg1FHT9gA0?...

America built itself out into suburban isolation and then wonders why everyone is lonely!