As gunshots ring out once again at the White House, it’s past time to admit America‘s unique gun violence problem arises from uniquely American legal circumstances: it’s too hard to build ballrooms

If the AI/ML models haven’t been trained on extreme events they won’t be able to predict extreme events. We don’t know precise impacts of altered balloon schedules, ⬇️ staffing, ⬇️ research funding, ⬇️ $$ for radar maintenance, ⬇️ satellite capabilities, model cuts, etc. but it’s probably not good.

"...with her hairdresser’s help, Katie began ordering freeze-dried retatrutide online, mixing the white powder with sterile water, calculating dosages, and injecting herself with needles. She paid only a fraction of what Ozempic had cost her." Aaaack!! Good article, but holy crap I would never.

there's clearly a massive scandal in these GJ transcripts. And the public deserves to know what it is.

Wow. So gop intellectual diversity is we will make you pay to take classes in conservative thought to graduate? The free speech crowd, everyone. shorturl.at/XxrII

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

Her hips really didn't lie!

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Good god

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

ah, there's that Democratic cowardice we all know and love

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

The party of local control has decided that "local" means wherever they have control www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/a...

The fact that the Republican Party always has legislation to make it harder to vote or to disenfranchise Black people ready to go whenever the Supreme Court takes another whack at the Voting Rights Act tells you...a lot.

"if Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP. If they won’t take easy shots across the bow like this, would they really do bigger more important things that need to be done?"

Anyone who wants to end birthright citizenship wants to bring back slavery. Those same people also claim non-citizens have no rights—not the right to protest against deportation, nor the right to not have police break down their doors, nor the right to defend themselves in a proceeding.

looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

(teeth starting to audibly crack because i'm clenching my jaw so hard) i believe... in the principles of universal suffrage... and one person, one vote... with no... no exceptions

democrats: if we win this fall we wont do the single most obvious thing to hold this administration accountable also democrats: we dont understand why its so hard for us to get our voters to show up

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

Liberals want us to care about government abuses of power, overt racism by our leaders, and lawless wars. But how can we be expected to focus on that when a professional streamer says shoplifting is ok?

watching the constant gop weaponization of govt and reconciling it with how democrats said they can't do good stuff because the unelected senate parliamentarian said no

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.

This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

John Cornyn has been in office longer than I’ve been alive. He’s had 40 years to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, utilities, and gas. What’s the hold up?

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Gerrymandering sucks. But I've been a hyper-gerrymandered Texas voter all my adulthood, and I am tired of Democrats tying an arm behind their backs. Every Blue state should gerrymander, until we finally get a national anti-gerrymandering law that ends the practice entirely.

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire

remember when they were big mad about obamacare death panels

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes] Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious] Some Academics:

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

I get to the airport at the exact right time every time. Anyone arriving any earlier than me is a sap, anyone arriving any later is a reckless nut.

This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are