Just like the Taney Court before the Civil War, the Republican Roberts Court has completely delegitimized itself through its rulings, in addition to its illegitimacy as a minority-rule institution.

MAGA can be understood as a neo-segregationist project.

End of the month is in two days and I'm still $1200 away from my goal—if you can at least help me get close then please do!

Yeah, this shit sucks for Congress. It effectively kills democracy at a state and local level. The old Wisconsin Legislative map is gonna look fair. And that's before the bastards kill Sims, Carr, and Sanders.

If gerrymandering is fine across the board, there’s no real argument against courtpacking, which is essentially temporal gerrymandering

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

There's no Constitutional Referee who comes down and makes a determination on this. Ultimately if the Supreme Court says Congress cannot pack the Court despite ample precedent and the Constitution saying that they can, it's just a matter of raw power? bsky.app/profile/elig...

They hold no actual power to do anything besides issue rulings! Your regular reminder that the Supreme Court's power to overturn legislation via judicial review is in fact not even specified anywhere in the US Constitution.

Plenty more totally legal hardball stuff they can do if they want to. Judges serve for life, but you can empanel a new federal circuit whose jurisdiction only covers Little Diomede Island, Alaska and transfer every federalist society judge (including hte SCOTUS justices) in the country into it.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

I do believe that SCOTUS as it currently exists just signed its death warrant in 2029. it's existential now.

I say this a lot, but Democrats need to get comfortable literally ignoring the Supreme Court. Treat their rulings like crank op-eds, not binding law, because *they* clearly don't feel bound by the law

it is amazing that people freak out about Republicans freaking-out and the promised all-out war that follows is always just trying to cancel Jimmy Kimmel

just a heads up I'm experiencing the madness

contextless Darth Maul show spoilers

Literally everyone with a brain and ability to create a rational thought knew this already… but for those who didn’t~ Cis folks really don’t know anything about how HRT works even though a lot of them also take it, for various reasons, they just don’t think of it as HRT.

Hannah Spencer, a woman who had an ordinary job, becoming an MP and immediately noticing and talking about how, for example, our MPs drink at work, is one of the reasons why the establishment doesn’t like it when normal people get elected.

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

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It's one week until the end of the month and I've still got a ways to go—I'm about $1600 off from my goal of covering rent, please help if you can!

my main symptom from the little menopause seems to be that I've been overthinking every social interaction I have so I just keep having to yell "LEAVE IT!" at my brain like it's a dog

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I better see The Onion hiring every trans woman, trans man, and nonbinary writer, editor, cinematographer, etc~ Because the behind the scenes stuff matters just as much as the on camera stuff. That said... uh... y'all hiring? Tim? Can I call you Tim? Timmy? Timmothy? Timama? Tim-bou-rine? :D

forgive me if my behavior has been erratic this week I was out of the potion that keeps me normal (did my estrogen injection five days late because I was waiting on my refill to come in)

Listen. Never ever ever ever ever work for YouTubers.

really one of the best parts of getting older is becoming more of a sicko and reevaluating stuff you bounced off in the past

Tbh I think it's actually kind of obvious that if you think gerrymandering in a two party system is bad, and one of the parties is actively doing that and rejecting legislative efforts to curtail it, the correct move is to counter-gerrymander until you can restore equilibrium and force negotiation.

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DC statehood yesterday

I'm always bemused by those people who spend a bunch of time posting about star wars while acting like they are too cool for star wars. And this applies to other stuff but that one is the most widespread. It's like, you know you can go do something else if you're not having fun anymore, right?

Growing up, I remember people here and there grousing about the "teddy bears" in Jedi. I couldn't articulate it until well into adulthood, but I think even then I'd resolved to never be the guy who complains about the teddy bears in Star Wars, both literal and figurative.

good morning this is a real texture in Marathon

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The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

everything is gender and we are being held back by the widely held belief that being a woman is bourgeoisie

one of the worst fates that can befall the discussion around a character is a situation where straight men make trap jokes over her 24/7 and queer people insist she is nothing more than gnc male and that reading her as trans is regressive

one thing about me is that when a story I'm following presents me with the possibility of characters making themselves and each other worse and everyone being miserable I just descend into a blood frenzy rooting for it. like fully ripping apart a rotisserie chicken with my bare hands.

oh that's. the numbers aren't supposed to be able to do that.

I can tell we're right about what thing that'll be in the finale is the narrative keystone of this season because I'm starting to see other people spot the threads now that we're approaching it

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

Alexis and I cold read the general plot sequencing of Maul: Shadow Lord before the show even premiered and every new episode is moving more towards our predicted ending and we are just like

idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

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