My thing here is there’s nowhere near the push needed to adequately fund and build more education infrastructure and staffing, so we just get this “well actually college is expensive so it’s okay for people to be bigots” type of framing.

Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado on Wednesday fired two members of his clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier Tina Peters.

Imagine if a company was crapping on their most motivated customers while trying to increase their customer base. It doesn’t work! It’s not a strategy unless the plan is to hold onto the past until everything collapses

genuinely curious about the worms in this guy’s brains. seriously beginning to wonder if he is entertaining election denialism.

I've got Buffy on in the background. The episode where she tries to stop Riley before he leaves, but doesn't get there in time. I already know what's going to happen, but I still feel relieved every time. The show frames it as sad, but it most definitely isn't.

This is a less charitable version of what @sharonk.bsky.social was saying earlier, but if you don’t like a Congress where it’s all about vibes and posturing, you should support efforts to make Congress a functional legislative body again.

the case for filibuster reform amounts to "this isn't in the constitution and we shouldn't pretend like it is."

You may be wondering why it's anyone else's problem that these companies gambled themselves into potential bankruptcy. The answer may be stupider than you think

my response to “I’m gay, not queer” is “ok have fun!” but god forbid they just leave it at that, they gotta be like “no you don’t understand, I’m saying you shouldn’t be allowed to be queer”

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

If I lost my heavily Jewish district to a Jew who serenades constituents with Jewish liturgical hymns, I too would blame antisemitism

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

My basic view of primarying house incumbents is that if they are beatable then they have been very shitty at their jobs beyond taking some bad positions. Just didn't try, got caught sleeping. Spend 5 minutes in your district and it won't happen

"Win or lose, Melat built this movement and got people organized, and we have to do that even when there's no chance of winning, or else we're never going to win. And we don't do it places when the odds seem too bad, and then they stay bad." (I'm paraphrasing, I'd had a few.)

While our local leaders are having a moral panic over ebikes, cars remain the main source of danger by orders of magnitude. One huge way they put us in danger, including endangering kids on ebikes is by obstructing bike lanes. I've personally reported over 1000 bike lane obstructions.

Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️

"Is sex a binary" is not a philosophical question, much less a political one. It's a scientific one that can be answered in a completely dispassionate manner... the answer is "no" and anyone who disagrees must contend with their refusal of totally uncontroversial medial science.

Not only is it a skill issue but "You need to work within the system and within the Party" is what the people freaking out about this have explicitly been telling critics to do for decades. I guess they didn't mean it, didn't think anyone would try, or were confident it couldn't work.

If you are a normal human, and you value something, that is something that AI companies are trying to destroy few things are as multidirectionally malignant as these corporations

I want to see a movement rise that actually puts the needs, dignity, and thriving of all human beings first—and you'll know if it does, because the media will treat it as "dangerous" in a way that it never managed for open white supremacist fascism led by an illiterate addled Nazi ragejunky.

Sticking to principles on efforts that lose in the moment doesn't waste political capital. It builds it. Sticking with people convinces people that you'll stick with them—all the more so if you do so when doing so is hard. Its the most persuasive "talk" there is. www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

Thanks, SCOTUS!

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

"If we do unambiguously good, necessary things that could inspire resentment in assholes" sounds to me like a bonus, not a reason against doing it

Text from COMED: "Due to a recent event, we need to make immediate repairs in your neighborhood. For safety reasons your electricity will be temporarily shut off at [address] from 05:00PM to 08:00PM. We understand this is a significant inconvenience"

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

one thing we touch on a bit here is that the argument that racism was essentially solved and therefore required no further intervention was popular among reactionaries as early as the 1870s

im done with nuance. if u won't loudly love the trans women in your life like their life depends on it (bc it fucking DOES) then i don't want you in my life. there is no discussion. it's too late for "trans women are valid!" it has to be "i will fight for u as long as i live because i love you!"

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Well now that the sports issue is settled i am sure all those politicians who said they would support trans rights otherwise are getting to work on that

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

today you get an incredible opportunity to confirm which liberal commenters are worth listening to ever, because ANYONE talking abt birthright as a victory and failing to center court reform/court packing is either dumb or thinks you are too dumb to understand nuance, and you should ignore them

no, ezra klein, we do not need a strong right in this country. we need a humiliated, wrecked right; whose past leaders are in prison, whose ideologues struggle to get messages out. we need them in retreat, we need people embarrassed to associate themselves with conservatism. that’s what we need.

it’s so weird that we’re not all on the same page about minding our business and being normal about sex and gender. it’s so easy to just fucking chill out. just not my business, babe. no problem!!!!

hey there sport, welcome to little league. just gonna need you to take of those pants real quick there slugger. gonna have to give that crotch a close inspection before letting you play a meaningless game with your friends

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Jefferies and Schumer making it very clear that they are very much not up to the challenge, as they view the birthright citizenship ruling as a big win rather than an ominous warning of the future

Second apparently this was a close case for this Court. As it stands the decision is 6-3. In 1898 the Court’s decision protecting birthright citizenship, Won Kim Ark v. U.S., was 6-2. That means this SCOTUS is either on par w/or to the right of the 1898 Court - the same SCOTUS that decided Plessy!

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

The conservative block of six judges has nothing but scorn for the law. If we would honor the law, we must ignore the Supreme Court's rulings, until all Republican appointees who have hijacked it are removed or negated.

"America’s extreme right wing is by far the country’s big problem, and it’s hard to address that problem when powerful elites insist that the trouble is with “both sides.”" newrepublic.com/article/2125...

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

I finally understand how they ended up with a class of aristocratic officers that spent WWI sending wave after wave of guys up and over to run at the machine guns and get cut to pieces before they sent the next group.

pretty sure every basement punk show i’ve ever played has had better attendance, even the ones that were kinda flops