The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

I keep thinking about this: Since Trump refuses any transparency on WHOM he would reward for their Jan6 crimes, he is presumptively planning on paying off seditionists like Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes. Maybe @raskin.house.gov should file an update to his motion in this case.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

And in an earlier post, he was described as the inside choice for Tom Homan -- he of the $50K in the Cava bag.

Kavanaugh, 7 weeks before an election, when a lower court prevents Alabama GOP from discriminating against Black voters: 😠 🛑 STOP Kavanaugh, during an election, when the Supreme Court empowers Alabama GOP to discriminate against Black voters: 🥳 🍻 LET'S GO ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Rest in Peace, Yuji Ohno. Your Lupin theme may have been the catalyst that made me a life long Japanese animation fan, but your earlier work opened my ears to so much great Japanese jazz. The mediums you touched will never be the same.

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

The safest the city’s been in its 400-year history. Universal childcare on the way. More public restrooms! And every big business CEO and big-name VC fought against this tooth & nail.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Supreme Court reform is the sine qua non of any progressive reform agenda. Without it, nothing else matters, because this court will use its power to strike down anything meaningful Democrats try to do." @paulwaldman.bsky.social / via @atrupar.com

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Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

This is how I approached my congressional campaign. I am running on a sweeping agenda of what believe we *need* to do. I refuse to negotiate with myself to a place of *what's possible.* The job of a leader is to bring the people along with you so those two merge into achievement.

Gamergate 1.0 never ended. The sexist harassment campaign infected every corner of video game discourse and laid the foundation for MAGA. And the women who were in the crosshairs a decade ago are STILL BEING TARGETED. Gamers will praise a game endlessly until they realize the devs are feminists.

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

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

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.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

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."

even the creme de la creme of the conservative intelligentsia are sleazy liars who misrepresent sources like some gamergate youtuber if a conservative cites a source you can be 100% certain its been cherry-picked, discredited, decontextualized, or embellished

When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists.

But let's talk abt this for a minute. 1) Tom Homan accepts $50K re prison contracts. 2) DOJ kills investigation. 3) Trump puts Homan in a position not requiring confirmation. 4) After ousting Noem, Homan installs a figurehead. 5) And moves to put HIS GEO contracting guy in charge of ICE.

and relative to what similarly situated professionals make, even members of Congress are woefully underpaid. do you want more working class people to serve as federal legislators? you need higher pay. there is no escaping it.

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Anyway, I don't think we need a strong Republican Party. Or even a Republican Party at all. It's okay for parties to die. For new parties to be created. They don't have to last forever. Show me one American Whig.

The explicit position of the Republican Party is that Black Americans should not have representation in Congress.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

I want this nostalgia slop show to fail so fucking bad. HBO deserves to lose a ton of money for doing business with Rowling. screenrant.com/harry-potter...

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

It occasionally bears repeating that under a Dem admin this would be a world historical scandal. With Trump, journalists more or less ignore it, or accept plainly nonsensical explanations (he's shaking hands so much he had to use his off hand I guess)

Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

It seems worth noting that the donor made his fortune via Nvidia. The story does not mention that until three-quarters of the way through. Strikes me as kind of important to know. U.S.C. Will Infuse A.I. Across University With $200 Million Donation

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

The thing about depression is that it's not just sadness. It's your brain constantly lying to you. Telling you terrible things. You're a failure. Nobody is better off for knowing you. And nothing will ever get better because the problem is you. For some, drugs can turn that off. It's life-saving.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

Let me be blunt: Democrats should gerrymander the ever living shit out of every state where we have unified control of government. If we need to gerrymander our way to electing a Congress that will ban gerrymandering, then we should fucking do it. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

When Trump continues to show that he has no intention of leaving office despite the constraints of the Constitution, take this very seriously, especially given that the Supreme Court isn’t just enabling, but actively empowering Republicans (including Trump) to decimate our democracy.

Heya friends, I'm helping out with the Mox Gauntlet of Games this year, and we're raising money for Gamers Engaged! If you want to donate and help our team out, I'll drop a link below:

Families can't afford to fill their tank and put food on the table because of Republican wars and tariffs. Health care is more expensive than ever thanks to Republican cuts and obstruction. Americans simply don't care about a stupid ballroom.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

I’m worried more ICE activity will be like this now—absolute atrocities committed behind closed doors, within the bounds of the system. The convoys throwing tear gas as they snatched our neighbors were galvanizing, but I don’t even know where the nearest detention facility is.

Can't remember which jabroni was talking about it being myopic that people are pushing for SCOTUS reform, but here's a sitting justice showing up on Fox & Friends lmao