it's the 23 year anniversary of when bill clinton got a haircut

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

I love the framing of that opening question. it's a fork: either they admit the price of gas is bad so they can defend Trump, or they deny the gas price reality so they can defend Trump

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Good. Mifepristone is safe and effective, and access to it is rightfully preserved while this case continues. But this fight isn't over. We'll keep fighting to ensure medication abortion and all reproductive healthcare are readily available to all who need it.

NEW — The Handbasket presents FASCIST VACATION by Chrisitian Dawson www.thehandbasket.co/p/sean-duffy...

if you meet the Buddha on the feed, block him

gyoji threads go sicko mode

New sumo heads may wonder why the ‘refs’ are so SWAGGED OUT. They’re called Gyōji. They’re bound by & carry on Shinto traditions. They are monitored & ranked like rikishi. Judges can overrule them. The scrutiny they face would kill an NBA official. Clothes get better with rank. I’ll post gyōjis ⬇️

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

The fuckin 51% megajoint, anointed with THC-infused oil blessed by a.Catholic bishop, an Orthodox monk, a Tibetan lama, and a Hindu yogini who is regarded as an avatar of the goddess Durga herself (must be smoked in a single sitting or you are going to all religions' hells simultaneously)

How can you actually know your value as a man if you're the primary breadwinner, you have no evidence she keeps you around for your other qualities. Be a kept man, that is how you prove your value.

Donald Trump thinks the U.S. Treasury is his personal piggy bank. Let's be clear: the President is trying to steal $10 BILLION of taxpayer money - before a court rules. This is a massive, unprecedented scandal. Congress must stop him. I have a bill for that.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is once again able to walk out of court and return to his family. Federal Judge Xinis’ protections remain in place for Kilmar. This victory is thanks to the power of community organizing and all of you who have stood up for justice. #Fight4Kilmar

In the dead of night, Republican state senators in Louisiana voted to advance a congressional map that destroys a majority-Black district. These are their names: Blake Miguez Michael Fesi Gregory Miller Glen Womack Shameful.

it's good to play ttrpgs with women for many reasons, one of which is then *they* make illusions of giant sexy kaiju and you can laugh and post sexy kaiju art without a whiff of being problematic

just a brutal time to be textually and quantitatively literate. 6d20 psychic damage rolls everywhere

Since 2000, the Democrats have in a have tried to govern as grown-ass-people and the Republican’s response has been to play hardball and call them pussies, and tank the American project and the American economy to play racism and misogyny.

It's extremely counterproductive that we have an informal prohibition in America against treating Republican voters with contempt. Tagging them as the dummies who broke everything would do wonders for suppressing their turn out in the next election.

WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN

“While having some legitimate utility in separating dirty, dangerous industrial areas from residents, zoning restrictions have historically been a tool of racial and class exclusion.” www.liberalcurrents.com/rent-a-new-f...

He's so embarrassed

"I'M WALKIN HERE!!"

one of the things about the Republican Party is its ideological solipsism. it genuinely does not believe in the existence of any substantial ideology other than its own; insofar as anything else has ever been believed in, it is because of cheating or brainwashing.

If this tweet just said "landlords" instead of "developers" it would make perfect sense, but for some reason a whole lot of leftists see productive capitalists rather than rentier parasites as the leading villain of the housing crisis for some reason.

even if it didn't lead to an odious result, Alito's writing of the majority opinion in Callais is so shit. Kagan's dissent lays out the relevant cases (Bolden, White, Allen) and questions around the VRA in a simple, chronological way. Alito instead is frenetic and obviously cherry-picking

that's right.

Operating under a new theory of law that holds that the ex-Confederate states never truly satisfied their criteria for re-admission to the Union, and therefore that Reconstruction could not have been legally ended in the Corrupt Bargain, and that we get to re-federalize these states and do it right.

1. By Presidential nomination, Senate confirmation: Nominate all sitting federal judges to the post of Associate Justice of SCOTUS 2. By act of Congress: SCOTUS will no longer sit en banc. Randomly selected panels of nine will hear cases, after other randomly selected panels of nine determine cert

Sumo lovers if you wanna whet your appetite for the basho sounds like MidnightSumo on Twitch has already got you covered!

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

It has been a few years since I did a daily commute on a train but it will astonish no one that I am offended (laudatory) by the train experience here why do we not do something as simple as numbering stops, Boston someone must answer for this, what the shit even IS an alewife, I ask you

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on the VA redistricting decision

It's honestly remarkable how striking the similarities are between Roberts and Taney, both are partisans of a dead faction (Taney the last Jacksonian Democrat, and Roberts the last Country Club Republican) who thought One Decisive Judicial Writ that would settle a fundamentally political question

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The Massachusetts Senate passed the PROTECT Act yesterday. I'm hoping the House will work quickly to address any differences with the Senate bill so Governor Healey can sign it.

"I just assume all comments are made by LLM" no, mr manager, I have always seen code comments as part of the quality of my code, even if no one else here does. that's a skill issue, apparently

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

I think it's awful this young man was killed while responding to a wrong-way driver. I just wish the little girl killed by a speeding driver on her residential street in Webster got as much coverage. Because that is emblematic of the real danger on our streets.

sometimes I remember how a previous boss with a kid who got an elephant plush that they'd call "Mr. Elephante" but DIDN'T know ball enough to call it Harry Elephante smdh

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

so woke i can't even sleep when i want to

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

it is genuinely very important that we wipe this guy’s name off everything he’s slapped it on and tear down his ballroom and his arch he wants to be mythologized and the answer has to be no, he is a loser and a failure which should be remembered as one

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