Multi-member districts with proportional representation would mean effectively every voter has a seat in the balance, near the competitive tipping point, in the general election.

Damn, they got Donahue?! The man had quite the career ahead of him. Literally one of the country’s best

[taps earpiece] I'm told that if you listen closely you can hear, beneath the sound of monsters and the old world dying, signs of a new world struggling to be born

David Foster Wallace ass country

The Problem here, of course, is that every party to this conflict is cross pressured AND not a single one is rational about it.

As someone who was on tumblr in 2014, I clocked this immediately. Absolutely HILARIOUS to hear the VP say this, for well, a variety of reasons

At this point, I MUST assume these guys’ analogies are intentional, right? Like, Trump is literally Hitler in this comparison.

Finally got the Gretsch set up

Silly as I find anarchism today, lads, when the anthropologists say that the emergence of the early states of human history was a mostly bad thing they really do have a point. Ancient Sumer did not meaningfully provide anyone any public services unless you were very very very rich.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

There are as many years between us and the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) as between the film and the year (1936) it’s set in.

again whatever the merits of this or that criticism of ai - some are glonzos, some are not - these shitheads in tech all deserve everything they get and everything coming to them

Command climate surveys (my bread and butter) and data will only take you so far. At some point, you need to have actually effective and empathic leadership to stem the tide of service member suicides. These types of deaths are FAR too common. thewarhorse.org/secret-recor...

The thing is, not having Fincher direct the “social network” sequel is its basically fatal. I don’t care if it’a Sorkin script or not, the color grading will be off and the vibe won’t work. Not really sure how you’d improve upon a perfect movie anyway.

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

The fact that Joey Merlino has a podcast and is successfully attempting to be a social media star is a phenomena of the modern era that deserves a Scorsese treatment but will sadly never get one.

Inshallah

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

"I deserve to never be uncomfortable" is just an anxiety disorder dressed up in social justice language

A common misconception. I nor anyone else desires to touch the stove, it is that we understand it to both necessary and inevitable, so the mind should be trained on contemplation of the Holy Rings until you are steeled enough of mind to feel nothing but patriotic love

Israel already invaded Lebanon twice, in 1978 and 1982, before Hezbollah was founded. Israel had already been continuously occupying the Gaza Strip for 21 years before Hamas was founded. And putting these things aside, not a single thing Hezb does justifies Israel destroying 80+ Lebanese villages.

one of the old union lawyers i worked for used to lament that protest and action in this country had been reduced to "walking in a circle in a fenced off designated area holding signs" and said it was a bad sign for our society and you know what

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Canned Clams, pasta, parsley, garlic, lemon - 100% guaranteed

Not a big football guy but looked up “Jaxson Dart” and like, with that ole miss pedigree, name and face, yea he was going to be a Trump supporter, obviously.

Sort of assume this is flatly non enforceable in a dem controlled DOJ right? Like, this is just a random memo, saying “no take backs” with DOJ letterhead

the answer to declining fertility rates is immigration and a more equitable world for women and if your solutions to the "problem" dont have those listed as 1a and 1b then you might be racist and/or sexist tbh

"They have removed the struggle to find anything. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone." - Tom Waits

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Mentioning increasing the House, proportional representation, and fusion voting, as he often has: aside from all the other reasons to be a fan, @jamellebouie.net is one of the few prominent commentators who is genuinely well-versed in the ideas about structural electoral reforms.

The main problem with America is that there are too many jobs that should pay $100K a year that pay $1 million a year and too many jobs that should pay $100k a year and pay $30K

i believe a better world is possible but god times are rough

John Roberts tonight:

Homeless people deserve to die

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

It’s wild to me that Beethoven died only a few decades shy of the US civil war, I was out here thinking he was basically a contemporary of Mozart or some shit.

"As our constitutions are superior to our legislatures, so the people are superior to our constitutions."

Someone’s gotta sample this and put an 808 to it

I know it’s cliche at this point, but if Obama, or really any democrat said anything REMOTELY like this, impeachment articles would be drawn up immediately.

Ya know, you don’t really hear much about “the deficit” anymore so ya?

Oregon anti fascist things

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

Claiming that Placating the male ego is society’s problem is a crazy take in 2026

hey look at these morons and the idiocy they got tricked into believing, too bad no one did a better job informing them” - the worlds largest media organizations

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.