Genuinely, D+11 is potentially to the left of three of the proposed districts in South Carolina, which were D+10 or under in 2020.

I don’t think friendship is dying, nobody teaches you that friendships have to be maintained until it’s too late. They’re just like any other relationship, you get out what you put into them. There’s no puzzle there unless you don’t realize when someone else is putting in the work when you aren’t.

If you're not on Threads, you're missing people yelling at new parents for trying to responsibly rehome their dog when it turns out their newborn baby is severely allergic.

Also, both people's hard drives should be seized by the FBI

Normie lib is normie.

Earth's economy is a dynamic system, and those work best with the fewest barriers to migration. Open borders solves most of the world's problems. #Libertarian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Bo...

The civil war within the Idaho GOP continues on Tuesday: All members of the legislature’s ultraconservative “Gang of Eight” face challengers. We’re following these and many other key races:

"Because Congress isn't functional, you should never call on Congress to pass anything" is just braindead commentary.

US cities take note: Austin is prospering despite not letting Big Sports team owners extort billions from taxpayers by constantly threatening to leave town. You can have just as much fun and civic pride rooting for minor leagues, and the tickets are cheaper!

This is only true for Congress and state legislatures. It doesn't address the “neutral” practice of county commissions and city councils returning to at-large races to weaken minority representation.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Cassidy will have indirectly killed several magnitudes more of people because of his Senate votes than the people he helped as a physician

I can't get over how their discourse is just completely stuck in the late 2010s.

Daughter woke me up this morning saying, “Daddy, play ‘Walking on, walking on,” by which she means this specific performance of Annie Lennox doing “Walking on Broken Glass” on Jools Holland. I guess I’m doing something right.

For all it mattered, he could have stopped RFK and Hegseth and ended up with the same result but a better government

And the thing is this isn't even that unreasonable. 75 is a spring chicken compared to many of our federal judges and members of Congress.

RESULT: Louisianans was voting on a constitutional amendment today that’d have made it easier to “reclassify” civil servants in a way that made them fireable. Voters just rejected that amendment (the AP has called).

This was baked in the moment he voted to convict Trump in 2021. Knowing this, Cassidy had the freedom to be a much more principled senator in the years after that. But he voted for RFK Jr., anyway.

It’ll be like Alabama, Arkansas, and West Virginia Democrats in the 2010s watching the floor giving way from under them.

Not gonna dunk on this small account but this is such loser talk. No I don’t think the current Democrats are likely to take radical action, but we’re never going to stop informing people what the options are, and we have to keep doing the work get Dems there www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-120t...

What are the Six Genders? Wrong answers only. My standard answer to anything...the cast of the excellent rom-com horror, The Mummy (1999)

Still holding out hope for Jonathan Bailey.

The profit motive, but even more importantly the democratic promise that every government will eventually lose, which is an excellent incentive to maintain social peace and make compromises with minority factions and groups.

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

Hope her role is big enough for an Oscar nomination so they can crash out harder. Also it’s weird that Lupita Nyong’o hasn’t been nominated/won more. Needs correcting.

Really hard hitting and clear message from Rep McGarvey

Honestly yeah this absolutely sucks.

my core political belief at this point is that there is a population of people - I don't know how large, but I know it exists in every group and subset of society, in pretty even numbers - that wants to dominate and control others & can wrap their desire in whatever rhetoric they need to gain power

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

I’m not sure how or even if this type of mass stupidity can be combated - but we must repeat the truth. MAGA influencers falsely claim Officer Fanone’s body cam footage hasn’t been released when: a) it’s easy to find online & b) it shows him being assaulted by violent extremists loyal to Trump.

The whole dumb conversation about "woke" was a precursor to this absolutely sinister anti black institutionalized racism and so many people gave that segregationist logic credibility.

"Oh yeah it's kind of dehumanizing to call unhoused and mentally ill human beings zombies but they're a real problem." Jesus Christ.

Even most leftists spend all of the Biden years complaining about the price of their burrito taxis and not talking about how great it was for low end wages were rising. Sadly elected Dems got the message.

"He was a vegan" is sending me.

what republicans don’t understand is that by not allowing atlanta to have a proper subway like a real city, it will continue sprawling until it eats everything. atlantans don’t care, they’ll drive in from los angeles

During his floor speech against the attempted 7-0 gerrymander, Massey pulled the "South Carolina needs a strong Democratic Party" line, and you can imagine how well that went on MAGA Facebook. (I get a lot of South Carolina content thanks to friends in the suburbs.)

Honestly I would love a deep dive into how bad local MAGA politicians in the U.S. are at the nuts and bolts of their jobs, too. Do you think all those Moms for Liberty school board members realized they still had to go to the boring meetings about budgets and facilities after banning the gay books?

One thing somewhat interesting about the South Carolina state house is that its Democratic districts are predominantly rural while Republicans have a lot of relatively compact urban and suburban seats.

If you think this hasn't happened to you, besties, it has.

It sucks that the Times does this. Support Bolts.

It’s time to stop lumping Hakeem and Schumer together. This fight on redistricting is the singular fight of the next 4 years in a lot of ways and Hakeem is seemingly up for the knife fight.

Well for starters all of those republicans supported the aid programs (or even created them) that Trump gutted, which has already led to thousands upon thousands of deaths.

The science fiction trope that a world-renowned expert in some arcane, plot-required bit of knowledge might be some professor at some no-name university in a small Midwest town is not a plot contrivance. That's just basically true.

also, rather notably, the internet did in fact destroy entire industries, including socially useful ones! the death of local media is a direct result of the destruction of the small ad business, for instance.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

And right on cue, DOJ is suing Yale for using racial proxies like income. Huh!

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

I don't know *why* his neurotic museum curator character had to be this jacked but I'm not exactly complaining that he was.