Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court. The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used. The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.

"The province of Limburg has asked the American ambassador to the Netherlands to [re-install] the information panels about Black soldiers in the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten."

Conservative school board members lost throughout Ohio on Tuesday: signalohio.org/culture-warr...

How close is this to needing Virginia's infamous Bowl of Fate?

JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race. Stay tuned for details on today's count.

Can we just rename the Democratic Party to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and call it a day? That way, we can formally separate from the old Dixiecrats in name as much as we have in ideology. Make that a part of the takeover idea. #uspol

"Schumer out or shut da fuck up" is all you need to respond to senators' posts with until at least Jan 30 (next CR) or it happens

Shaheen's own daughter disavows the deal her mom struck lol

Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people. Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.

Not over yet?

never want to hear about the PRC being better than the west from queer people waving red flags again

OH MY FUCKING GOD First of all, why trust Thune at all? Second, WHO THE FUCK CARES IF THERE'S A VOTE THAT WILL FAIL AND NEVER GET TAKEN UP BY THE HOUSE EVEN IF IT DOES? SOMEONE FUCKING ASK DURBIN HOW HE EXPECTS THIS VOTE TO GO

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interesting

Nurse a progressive grudge against your political enemies like Kim Davis against queer families, like John Roberts against the VRA, like the last four generations of Brent Bozells against the New Deal. Real hater energy doesn’t give a shit if you hit the occasional wall or 10.

SoCal Democrat in Congress:

Brings that one proposal to unilaterally “redistrict” all UOCAVA voters to DC, no matter their formal state of citizen residence, into focus.

The solution: Move to and Vote in #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #NorthCarolina #Georgia and help turnout the "non-engaged" No Democratic Party turnout will help #Texas or #Florida www.post-gazette.com/news/electio...

We have some shutdown stuff coming, but I want to turn your attention to this great piece from Chris Hughes, who has really done the best analysis on what Trump economics is: not industrial policy or right populism or America First. It's rule by deal. prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...

ADF taking a rare L here

Country of workaholics

The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system. The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hi Bluesky 👋 While our primary social media presence is still the old bird app, we wanted to share here what we’ve been posting there. This past week, we created detailed interactive maps that populated in real time for elections in NJ, VA, NYC, CA, and GA.

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly) light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is perhaps the foremost organization in the “building a new progressive civic religion” department. Their “lynching memorials in every county” project is one of the best responses to the Confederate monuments which litter so many Southern main streets.

One of the few upsides to the CR:

There was some downside for Rs, but 2010 was also the height of when the Dems got BTFO out of legislatures (Arkansas for one) or switched parties to continue their careers. 2010-2017 was a never ending shitshow downballot across interior states.

Berkeley City Council will vote tomorrow on an important landmarking law. To discourage the use of landmarks used whenever housing projects are proposed, the required number of signatures is being raised to 200 people, or 400 if the property owner does not consent. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

I'm sure the airlines lobbied behind the scenes. I'm sure heavy hitters in the food industry lobbied behind the scenes. I'm sure big box store owners panicking about Black Friday lobbied behind the scenes.

Plausible if airlines lobbied behind the scenes. ATC is crumbling, half of flights are delayed or cancelled, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. 🧐

Who to chop (primary) next year (including Jack Reed):

This. Keep those receipts for 2028-2030. We may be back to this fight in January.

Let there be House (in Ukraine)

Also like, the Dem leadership can't make a big show of making it about healthcare because it's the only issue that polls well enough for them to risk taking a stand on, blow out the Republicans in state and local elections in apparent vindication of that strategy, and then cave on healthcare anyway.

Move aside muscular liberalism, we're bringing back Esoteric Liberalism

Libs, nurse your grudges closely, frequently and accordingly:

so currently defectors are: Kaine (2030) Shaheen (Retiring) Hasan (2028) Fetterman (2028) Durbin (Retiring) CCM (2028) Rosen (2030) King (2030)

Trump’s net approval reached a new low this week, hovering near -11 in our average. Two-week change: 🔻 -2.2 Last two months: 🔻 -3.6

A post that summarizes a lot of the problems Virginia Republicans had this election

Ever think about how there will a come a time when they're posting Sora or whatever AI Trump videos because they can't Weekend at Bernie's him anymore.

ICE may think the masks protect their identities but payroll data lasts forever.

Good thread but I think the main thing is if you've never understood deal 2, you've probably never been really *really* poisonously spiteful and angry. I've been there, it's NOT a good place to be, but I understand the underlying thought process: "from hell's heart, I stab at thee"

Just don’t let her get on any subways

Wish that ChoViva can come to North America. The idea of using precision-fermented yeast to make an alternative to cocoa butter sounds insane.

Mods are distracted by Zohran memes, post your favourite trams or streetcars

Insane