Every student in that class has a legal duty to ask the professor if Clarence ever invited him over to show off his porn collection.

It’s genuinely impossible to exaggerate how fucking contemptible those 10 transphobes are.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Eg Hasan Piker isn't really a "socialist" in any practical or robustly ideological sense, he's a solo capitalist entrepreneur with an aesthetic affinity for Communist dictatorships. Guess what the socialism of resentful small-time capitalists tends to look like?

it’s a theory like gravity is a theory

We gotta put a stop to the Davids Brooks until we find out what's going on.

It's very obvious that this is the case. We're all going to have to recognize that Alex Garland is a prophet.

It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

this has got to be the worst time in american history to make the totally sensible and correct argument that we should pay people in congress more than we do

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Don’t waste a penny of political capital on wonky pet issue reforms. Don’t have drawn out debates about healthcare payment systems. Be ruthlessly, singularly focused on power and the building of a new, stronger American republic.

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#GoStros #Astros

Boo this man

So @minakimes.bsky.social did a video for the Charity Bowl and then she won Celebrity Jeopardy, not a coincidence

Fucking shithead. Polis should know no peace

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

You can't have influence on X, The Everything App by design because it was purchased with the explicit goal of keeping you from having influence on there, no matter how much less important you feel here. That's the end of the discussion.

A lot of the complaints about public health officials are people wondering why they weren't treated like adults, and then turning around and demonstrating why they weren't treated like adults by completely misunderstanding and misrepresenting what's going on and blaming someone else for that.

Chief Justice Roberts bemoans the public's view of the Justices as political actors ... and then offers no explanation at all as the Court sprints to vacate a finding of INTENTIONAL discrimination, interfering with an impending election to let Alabama Rs sneak in a touch more partisan gerrymander.

John Roberts will retire someday as one of the worst, most destructive Chief Justices in the nation’s history

And here we were all thinking it’d be the Hormuz crisis or a Chinese invasion of Taiwan that sparks WW3.

Given the revolt against the rise in burrito taxi prices, I’m struggling to imagine the intensity of the civil war this would spark.

I just don't think this equilibrium where Republicans arbitrarily redraw districts every six months and Democrats have to wait a few decades for the possibility of a +10 wave to potentially overcome them is particularly stable.

What I don't get is why Democrats always seem to be caught so flat-footed in these situations. Like they hadn't even discussed amongst themselves how they would respond

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Very plainly what's going on here is that they don't like the decision by the People of Virginia and have therefore found an excuse to say that it didn't really count This is ultra vires, beyond their authority. It is a usurpation of the sovereignty of the People. It is void.

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

They should use it anyway and Spanberger should have the Virginia Supreme Court rounded up.

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The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

I think the biggest problem with Democrats is that when they get on TV or appear in any forum that gives them a big chance to speak directly to voters, they talk about the problem with Democrats and not the problem with Republicans.

Like I don't want to dismiss how life can be hard in 2026, but the past just sucked at a level that almost everyone in this era would find shockingly intolerable

This from @jamellebouie.net is fantastic. Expand SCOTUS, yes, but also strip it of the powers it has accrued to itself. Make it serve the people and the republic as was intended. Also, let me add: the Roberts Court delenda est youtu.be/SRzS61buXkQ?...

If he beats Collins, he'll be a huge fucking headache for the party for six years and I'll hope he gets primaried next time. He'll also be nearly infinitely better for Maine, America, and the fucking world than Susan Collins.

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

My synthesis on this debate is that a lot of discourse assume voters are intelligent adults with object permanence and a basic grasp of things like cause and effect, when in fact voters are stupid toddlers who don’t know anything and can’t remember anything.

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

Every state advancing racially discriminatory redistricting plans under Callais should lose its congressional representation, per the 14th Amendment's apportionment clause.

It’s so funny to use a parade of horribles argument about attacking the court. They’re already doing all the horribles! The cost of attacking them is rapidly approaching zero.

The conservative justices talk all this shit about how they are mere faithful "interpreters" of laws that Congress passes. They are lying, but they are never lying harder than when, as here, their response to Congress passing a law they don't PERSONALLY like is "nah, we know better."

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the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

Its true trump voters didnt vote for this, they believed the purge would be grilling with their estranged kids and low prices and not have to think about The Purge but uh they very much voted for the purge that was a thing they heard, liked, and voted for

Matty getting negatively polarized against YIMBYism the second it started winning the war for the soul of the Democratic Party is both very funny and extremely overdetermined.