I have vivid visions of It Happening. I hope I'll be at the bar. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

<grabs the mic> Right wingers loved that they could blame declining test scores on the "closing the schools during pandemic" culture war to cover for their targeted decades long campaign to defund public schools and the media took the ball and ran with it and lots of Ds followed along

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Hi yes I have written documentation for human users of software for over 15 years and the instant you start thinking your userbase is lazy, stupid, or too sensitive, you have lost the Mandate of Heaven.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

Hazel is obsessed with animals (she wants to work at the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research & Conservation Center when she grows up) and the AMNH so I've just pre-ordered both via bookshop.org!

As Stuart Hall reminded us, all the good stuff that is presented as either natural or magnanimous gift was actually wrested from the powers that be through struggle.

I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I texted my mom when the game was going well and then it stopped going well.

It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a huge blow for democracy & the rule of law It's a

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

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

the story of voting rights is not the law prevailing, it’s about how it took nearly a century to get from the 15th to the VRA—laws on top of laws on top of violence

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

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#OnThisDay in 1911, aviator Fred J. Wiseman made the first powered flight in Snohomish County in Snohomish. historylink.org/File/8491

Whomst among us has not been

Mariners give the Atlanta Braves their first series loss of the season Well done M’s 🔱

I could take him. The 13-year-old who’s been doing taekwondo since age 5 is fast and could get enough key kicks in. I draw the line at the feisty 6-year-old. The size difference would be too much.

I just love how much Hazel loves JP

Jose Altuve just took the worst swing I’ve seen from anyone this season. Wow.

Specifically consider what caliber of lawyer decides whether it's worth joining this DoJ based on whether they get $25k.

It’s me. I’m dads.

I met a cute fluffy mutt named Bob, then learned that his person was from the South when she said his name with three syllables

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Most strikeouts in first 4 innings of game vs Royals, Mariners history: 5/27/91 Randy Johnson: 8 9/16/93 Randy Johnson: 8 Emerson Hancock on Randy Johnson number retirement day: 8

Anyway student journalists have been and remain one of the best reasons to have hope for this country

Supplementing shade theory with heat mitigation theory in urban design

Anecdata ($4.95 a gallon after a discount of 50 cents per gallon)

🚨 Absolute unit alert 🚨

Pretend to be a widow and enter a convent? This is assuming I was dropped back there with language skills beyond scraps of Latin & Old English. Without language skills, still try to prove usefulness by applying today’s basic first aid somehow (and try to not get branded as a witch)

Find the Riker in YOU.

There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

For me, the most striking thing about the Supreme Court's opinion killing off the Voting Rights Act is how *casual* it is. Short, dry, uncomplicated, barely bothers engaging with the dissent. Just 37 pages of Sam Alito rewriting the law to say what he wishes it said, and then clocking out.

Blackberry Migraine

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

sometimes my brain just rejects the fact that we gave these people all this power. it’s simply unbelievable

We Should Have Finished (The First) Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026

These companies exist as a means of corporate extraction and municipal deniability of responsibility

American Water should not exist. Jacobs subsidiary Operations and Maintenance International should not exist. Veolia’s O&M contract arm should not exist. Evoqua’s O&M contract arm should not exist.

I called that one but Freya was the only witness

Okay, I am buying a Naylor jersey RIGHT NOW

Now this is going to be stuck in my head (complimentary):

Important update: Cora’s softball coach is fostering a pug puppy named Maple

Nodded vehemently while reading this whole thread

$5.25 an hour bagging groceries at Albertsons in 1998.