Gerrymandering

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Can anyone pass on this message to Bright Limm?

The UK really needs proportional representation

Above all, Dems/libs should deal with Trump, the media, SCOTUS, Trump-friendly oligarchs, knee-bending institutions and more with this principle in mind: "We will not submit to being governed by unprincipled actors. We are taking notes, and you will pay a price." www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

Monthly dues payments to DSA (and therefore the number of dues paying members?) have doubled since the 2024 election. Time to do your part:

Ever since I met the senior partner at my new law firm and discovered he looks exactly like Nathan Fielder I've been a little suspicious that all of my new co-workers are actors doing a Rehearsal on me

Okay fine I'll admit it - I DO know who Hasan Piker is

We should stop referring to the potential solutions in Israel-Palestine as "one state" or "two state" and instead say "democratization" or "partition"

Does Palestine have a right to exist?

I just asked my three year old what her favorite dinosaur was, expecting that she would indeed say triceratops (or "topatops" as she calls them) but instead she told me her favorite kind is "rosa" aka pink. Fair enough

NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan. Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend. And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.

The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

Die Republikaner die

Try extending that graph to the left. There's a reason it was truncated there. This is a perfectly normal usage profile. Whenever a user joins a given site, there's a standard falloff curve where a fraction leaves. Since Bluesky's users have mainly come in spikes, that's just the normal curve.

When will the conspiracy theories about Platner being an antisemite or secret Nazi die down?

Even the hawkish Rahm Emmanuel...

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

I hate when politicians politicize science by making scientifically informed policy

Woke NYC court building bathroom door

As Socrates once said, accepting that apparently you are an idiot is the beginning of wisdom

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Real microcosm of the counterproductive "warrior mentality" to decommission these badly needed but not directly violent mine sweepers in favor of more redundant firepower

Screaming

This is literally the Dr. Strangelove situation with Israel in the role of General Ripper going rogue with an attack and demanding that the US follow through or be hit by the retaliation anyway without the advantage of striking first

My neighbor told me that he keeps losing his girlfriends on this mountain so I asked how many girlfriends he has and he said he just goes on the apps and gets a new one afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding girlfriends to the mountain and then his new girlfriend started crying

Highlights from judging the elementary school science fair. An investigation of which household objects conduct electricity. Can cheese conduct electricity? Apparently so. Me: You and cheese both conduct electricity. What do you two have in common? Student: We are both thick Me: Ah yes of course

Best time to join DSA was as one of the first 100,000 members, second best time is right now

You may have noticed our daughter has contracted a new disease

Nobody actively embraces a new dark age of irrationality and superstition like RFK Jr. - feels like he's using the Demon Haunted World as a roadmap

Presidents will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales next to my political strategy, firebombing Somali-owned businesses" and then not firebomb a Walmart

COOPER: Do you believe the Trump administration is still lying? CHRIS MURPHY: Donald Trump lies every single day, so of course you can't take anything he says as the truth

Of all the idiocy in this statement strangely what annoys me most is Jeffries capitalizing "America First"

I get the impression Trump / the neocon crazies running Latin America policy in his administration see Maduro as like a crime boss who has somehow ended up as president and who's regime will disappear when he's out of the picture (ironically applies more to Trump than Maduro)

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

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The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hispanic Republican Addie realizes the other young Republicans in her focus group are racist

What's funny about this is that Cat Almonte Da Costa was a Lander patronage hire - her (Jewish) husband Ricky Da Costa was political director on his Comptroller campaign and is currently his Deputy Comptroller

This is such an important counterpoint to everyone who argues for means tested programs over universal programs - the bureaucracy hoops you have to jump through for the means testing often result in a lot of the neediest people never accessing the benefits they supposedly have a right to

Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show. It’s not the only time Musk has come up in the Epstein files.

I ❤️ sudafed

Huh this is so strange, I find QT responses to be way more aggressive than direct replies. A reply is like quietly continuing a conversation, a QT like going and telling all your friends about it and inviting them to jump in as well

My white "skin tones did not factor into this at all" tshirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt

Well so much for the "Platner is doomed by his scandals" narrative

Jeffries: the one thing I agree with Trump about is that corruption should be legal

@profanity.accountant Okay hit me

Gridlock Sam’s transportation list for Mamdani’s first 100 days