It's also worth repeating that Florida just explicitly violated a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering in passing its Democrat-annihilating map, & it's only because the Republicans have totally captured that state's supreme court that the map will move ahead regardless.

The election of Donald Trump is going to go down as one of the most disastrous, calamitous own goals by a nation in the history of humanity. We’re really speedrunning through the consequences at this point.

Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.

State statutes permitting early voting are dependent on the specific definition of "election." Four Virginia Supreme Court justices absolutely decided to engage in partisan hackery in a way I've never seen before in the Commonwealth.

It is still likelier than not Dems will win by enough to take the House. But if they come up short by some single-digit number of seats and it was... all this... that made the difference, that's a pretty huge leap towards full-blown legitimacy crisis territory.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

“We’ll just have to turn out en masse in November and beat them at the ballot box.” Sure, until the courts rule we’re not allowed to do that either.

My only quibble here: We're already in Orban territory. The questions are how far in, and how long will it take to get out?

The only plausible state where Dems could rush a new map through now is Illinois, and it'd require canceling the primary results and scheduling a new one. Maryland is unlikely to budge and likely to lose in state court even if they did. That's it for Dem trifectas that wouldn't need a referendum.

Republicans get to do whatever they want, and Dems have to fight in leg irons with both hands tied behind their back and a sack tied over their heads. It’s unbelievable. What are we supposed to do when there isn’t even a legal recourse open to us?

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

This is Iran-Contra times a billion

Having this man be the leader of our country is humiliating on every conceivable level.

A former colleague of mine at a federal agency related that he had to spend the weekend yelling at people in DC because whatever process they’d set up to scrub DEI from the intranet included “privilege” as a keyword so was going to wipe the FOIA guidance

He hasn’t suggested that everyone shine UV light up our assholes yet, so there’s that at least.

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

The United States has no strategy whatsoever in this conflict except Trump continuously making up new lies every 24-48 hours to try to juice the stock market.

The boundless disgust for this reeking charlatan from the career g-men quoted here is something. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

People shocked Moderna explored a mRNA #hantavirus vaccine don’t understand infectious disease preparedness. Hantaan & Seoul viruses are endemic in South Korea & cause Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome. Vaccines for priority pathogens are developed long before the public hears about them.

A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.

Basically, the U.S. spent ~40-50% of its stockpile of high-end munitions (each is effectively irreplaceable given how long it takes to make) to destroy ~25-30% of Iran’s stockpile of low-end easily replaced munitions. Masterful gambit, Mr. Trump.

Conservatives have always wanted to undo the 1960s. But now they're taking aim at the 1860s as well. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-conf...

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.

Of course he did, he literally doesn’t believe in the existence of germs.

Back in March when this started, experts speculated that the worst case scenario was if the war dragged into April. So I guess what I’m saying is cheer up, we’re probably already screwed.

The Roberts Court Republicans will absolutely do this for him. No question. They’ll do it and then feed us more bullshit about how it’s mean to call them corrupt liars. There is zero percent chance they don’t do this. I’m not going to even pretend I have faith left.

The degree to which these people always tell on themselves is amazing. What kind of moral black hole have they fallen into to legitimately think these arguments are reasonable and not completely insane?

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.

While obviously this is false, I think probably Roberts and some of the others sincerely believe it. There’s a certain kind of doublethink that kicks in with certain spheres of ideological work where people understand the partisan assignment at one level, but conceal their motives from themselves.

Oh, interesting

God I love The Atlantic.

I genuinely can’t think of another example of a couple that’s this bad at having an affair. How are they this bad?

This is outrageous. More evidence that the courts were never going to save us. Man, this hasn’t been a particularly banner week on multiple fronts.

Dersh is such an out of control narcissist that he can’t even comprehend why everyone hates him. He’s the human personification of the Principal Skinner “Am I out of touch” meme. Trump is the biggest crybaby on the planet, but Dersh is a microscopically close second.

One of the things the US was apparently trying to hide by asking commercial satellite companies to withhold imagery is that Whiskey Pete retreated from Bahrain. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

My ex gf is a Braves fan, despite being from State College, precisely because the Braves were always on TBS and she watched all the games growing up.

Is Kash Patel drunk right now? Is that why he thinks he can criminally investigate a journalist for reporting information that isn’t classified?

Yep. And I guarantee you Bibi is absolutely flipping out. Israel is headed into election season *right now*, Netanyahu does not want to end the war either in Iran or in Lebanon. Could easily see Ben-Gvir and Smotrich threaten to leave the government too. Bibi did not count on this.

Thing is, Trump is desperate to avoid resuming bombing. Despite his bluster, it’s the last thing he wants because he wants out of this situation immediately. He will take anything and call it a win. And Iran knows that. It’s what happens when you keep drawing red lines and then not enforcing them.

I thought Elon Musk puffing his chest out, challenging Mark Zuckerberg to an MMA fight, talking a big game, then backing out because his mom said he shouldn't fight was pretty pathetic. But the possibility Musk was pretending to be his own mother saying he shouldn't fight makes it even more so.

It’s going to be incredible when Trump announces he has a deal with Iran and then we find out it doesn’t force Iran to hand over its enriched uranium and only does lip service on proxies. That’s my prediction anyway.

Yeah, this is where this was always going to end up. Like NAFTA/USTR. Like everything Trump does.

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

HAH!! Also @jeffmacishere.bsky.social

Oh hey check it out, more anti-federalism from the party of States’ Rights!

This is correct Elon Musk’s legacy is >500,000 tiny coffins*—these are coffins of kids in low-income places of the world, so his actions were very fitting with the MAGA/MAHA Administration’s world view (*Brooke Nichols at BU estimates 750,000 deaths by Jan 2026, of which >500k were in kids)

These jobs used to be hard to get!

I’m uninstalling Chrome as soon as I get home tonight. Downloading and installing *anything* without permission is unacceptable—let alone something that takes up 4GB. This is magnitudes worse than when Apple forced everyone to download the new U2 album no one wanted.