this used to be a proper country

so internet poisoned i found myself checking this ring for a ring

This gets right to the heart of the logic of the Roberts Court re-writing the Voting Rights Act into a statute that permits the consideration of race only if it is used to disenfranchise people of color:

Every state advancing racially discriminatory redistricting plans under Callais should lose its congressional representation, per the 14th Amendment's apportionment clause.

this thought entered my mind and won't leave until I post it: "Black Reconstruction in the Hour of Chaos" by Chuck E. B. D.

my kingdom for an intra-caucus senate leadership campaign along the lines of "i just love when chuck schumer brings his whole crew / just a thicker piece of cake for me to chew a hole through"

I picked a hell of a week to start "Stony the Road" by Henry Louis Gates

Daydreaming of a congressional body refusing to seat members from states violating sec 2 of the VRA on the basis of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

pitching Meryl Streep on your hot new script 20 years ago

The Windsors? We're letting a Windsor score on us?

fuck Boston but that was a sick move by Pastrnak

why are the Sabres playing Kurt Angle's music

I was going to make a dumb joke riffing on this, based around "the people united will never be defeated", when I thought "wait that doesn't sound right, doesn't even rhyme" anyway turns out it works a lot better in the original Spanish: "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!"

of all the extremely wholesome aspects of going to small venues to see death metal bands you've never heard of, perhaps the most wholesome is seeing how excited kids are to play somewhere other than their garage, and encouraging them to continue

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel C-3PO Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when Luke took him to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Maxine Waters has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

the only strawberries worth buying are the ones sold by a scowling woman in a headscarf right outside a bus station

ketchup interfered with mustard, ensuring that relish won the hot dog race go figure, ketchup and relish each have 7 wins and mustard has zero I demand a criminal investigation into this collusion

please tell me I'm not the only one who imagines Sean Astin preceding every line of dialogue with "Mr Frodo"

an even bleaker "Harrison Bergeron"

hell yeah Ingram hell yeah Zion

he’s the mayor of a city with a population larger than that of many countries. it’s not an unlikely duo and they would never say that if the king laid a wreath with Bloomberg when he was mayor

it is legit awesome that one of Vega Ioane's highlights was him pushing an equipment cart up a ramp

I'm just here for the people booing Goodell

It’s pretty fucked up that they overdubbed Frakes playing trombone on Star Trek because if you imagine Riker as a character doing it really shitty it makes all those scenes much funnier

when I have to pee at 3am

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

lmao TB spent a minute and a half setting up the perfect delayed penalty play and couldn't even get it in the offensive zone without committing a penalty right back

and if you ARE in a hurry, you should take a deep breath, remind yourself that life is short, and watch the famous french movie, Le Samouraï

Area warlord fails to understand what the number one killer of soldiers has been in history

Him: What would be your dream job Me: Oh that's easy. Sitting on the back of a motorbike on the Tour de France pushing idiots into the ditch Him: Oh come off it there's no such job Me:

they call him the iron tulip

two thoughts about THE DEAL (2005): 1) this image of Robert Loggia is delightful 2) why the fuck was Dem politician Jay Inslee doing playing a senator who pulled strings to help the Russian mafia sell sanctioned Middle East oil in the US?? 3) the "romance" subplot was skeevy as fuuuuuuuuuck

Haze Mage went out in style, great final show last night at Ottobar @hazemage.bsky.social

as @jamellebouie.net will tell you. Michael Mann's THIEF (1981) is a movie about how even exceptionally skilled criminals suffer because they don't control the means of production

RIP Haze Mage, you will be missed

just saw a similar interaction when the dude decided to start a mosh pit during a decidedly inappropriate song

my conspiracy theory is wall street is doing everything it can to keep everything from collapsing until dems take the house and senate so they can blame the implosion on them

of all the stuff Biden did wrong, his little "let's have a scotus commission but make sure it doesn't ruffle any feathers" gambit was one of the most significant

You know there's actually a very well defined legal standard for this kind of emergency relief from appellate courts, and as far as I can tell, the way the shadow docket works is to just pretend it doesn't exist