The simple solution is to preferentially provide funding directly to black belt or otherwise blue counties and municipalities while denying it to rural red states. We need more ways to bypass red state governments anyway.

Congress should give the Court all the security funds they want because public servants doing their job should not fear for their lives. Congress should not give the Court money for any of the other shit they want because they’re doing their job fucking horribly and need to shape up.

It’s also not government’s job to stem brain drain from rural communities. We have better things to spend money on, like improving conditions in places people already want to move to.

people condemning this take are making it pretty clear they are ignorant about the medicaid expansion or drew incredibly naive conclusions from it. we are in a cold civil war, placing conditions on enjoying the fruits of the union is one of the more peaceful ways to resolve it

It took until Musk fed USAID into the woodchipper and the AIDS deaths started back up again for the Trumpists to finally outdo the Bushists in geopolitical death toll and chaos. The Iraq War was and is capital E Evil, its effects are if anything understated.

Brad Lander is very good

It would be really funny if Carney did it

Most of the posts on threads are the same formula of [baffling or functionally illiterate opinion] followed by (pick 1) “I said what I said,” “I’ll wait,” “Ask me how I know. I fucking DARE you.” Oh and the classic: (brazen lies) WE ALL SAW IT

It’s honestly sad to see other lawyers who can’t to terms with the reality that our highest court does not care about the law or our constitution. Easier I suppose to endlessly repeat “I respect the Court even if I disagree with it” instead of accepting that we are being ruled like peasants.

Hurray! We found the line even the podcastbros won’t cross! It’s a *checks notes* SECOND credible rape allegation!

I think we should round up all of Microsoft’s and Apple’s employees and decimate them and then maybe they’ll figure out a way to make AirPods work with a PC

My wife’s case for taking catechism classes grows stronger

"The baby in the Buick" effect is funny. It reminds me of the concept of "critical velocity" in the NFPA 130 tunnel fire safety, that overly focuses on a specific scenario (a large fire) and somehow omits to say that push/pull smoke extraction might de facto condemns everyone downstream to death.

The blue tea party started the moment they passed the Laken Riley Act. You'd have had to have been a moron to maintain high trust for the party after that. That charismatic candidates can scoop up that dissatisfaction and push it towards technocratic ends is excellent news!

leadership affirmatively bringing the Laken Riley Act to the floor, with Schumer voting on it in committee, was more or less my breaking point.

The US is so far from my preferred ideal of how a good polity should work I'm seriously not sure where to begin. Like the US doesn't even have parties in the sense that most of the world thinks of them.

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.

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

On Ezra Klein:

Thomas is such a prick. Writes a two page concurrence just to be a transphobe. No real legal analysis. Just bigotry.

Judgeship audition: FAILED

Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.

Oh I can answer that one: conservative Presidents can just direct the administrative state not to do anything, and if a Democrat is elected any new attempt at regulatory enforcement can get tied up in litigation until a Republican gets elected to undo it. It's essentially the end of regulations.

Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society

Well, it works both ways. Imagine a Democratic president and Congress being able to remove all the unqualified appointees that Trump put in place during his first term. Then shutting the door with actual legislation for oversight

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

shop stewards are CHUDs. "shop steward" is an oppressive class, like polyamorous people or podcaster people.

>looking at a new leftist foreign policy >ask the author whether it’s liberation or surrender >they don’t understand | pull out a diagram explaining what is liberation and what is surrender >they laugh and say “it’s a good policy sir” >read the policy >it’s surrender

I am listening to the most recent episode of Advisory Opinions (David French/Sarah Isgur) - do I have to disclose this as an act of self harm at the doctor’s office later?

If you rounded up basically every bluecheck conservative from X, along with every Fed Soc member and CPAC attendee, and stuck them in prison where such traitors belong, you’d fix the bulk of America’s most-pressing problems and save millions of lives. I am not saying do this, but it’d work.

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

SCOTUS is all-in on ethnic cleansing for a white America. Gutter racists.

Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani do not hate the Democratic Party. They are proud Democrats who want the the party to be better, and the Dem base is responding. If the coalitions have shifted, well, turnabout is fair play. Vote blue no matter who, even if it's not entirely your cup of tea. /1

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I’m not thrilled Chevalier won even though I ended up voting for her. The explicit anti-Haitian racism from some of Espaillat’s surrogates - Chevalier is not even Haitian - was unconscionable and he did not do nearly enough to get that under control. Good riddance to a corrupt machine pol

Fully expect this book to basically be “you have no idea how weird, rich, and racist Ladue is” but I wonder if it’ll also talk about the antisemitism.

I hate Espaillat so much, god damn it. I don’t want to vote for Chevalier, but god damn. I’ve been flip flopping the whole primary but if your closest advisors are this racist, that seals the deal for me. We can replace Chevalier with someone better in 2028, but this guy has gotta go.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

512GB will not get you far these days when seemingly half of big budget titles are like 100GB on their own

I would encourage my friends in the urban policy space to think twice before signal boosting anything from the Manhattan Institute or its house publication City Journal.

Sotomayor's dissent: "The court’s decision today is yet another notch in its belt, unabashedly remaking the law in its preferred image. The majority jettisons two decades of settled precedent and breathes new life into two decades of rejected legal theories." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Long run the only way to kill the hawk blob is to point out when it loses wars. If you let it pretend every war is a win we’ll never stop fighting them

The greatest threat to a country’s security is its conservative factions who start wars they cannot win. Basically every national humiliation has its genesis in the natural incompetence of conservative government.

These days it’s basically impossible to tell the difference between Republicans incompetence and Republican treason.

Watching the Espaillat-Chevalier debate and I might just stay home. It should be Carmen de la Rosa up there.