My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

just ignore the courts. republicans do it all the time.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

John Roberts is one of the most successful proponents of white supremacist power in US history. It's every decent person's job to destroy his legacy.

the end to this entire fucking mess that I am going to manifest is that they all draw their little Slightly Less Red Districts and then furious people crash over them in a wave. folks are mad now, and we're not even REALLY feeling the full impact of Iran yet. they are flirting with chaos.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

The dumbest thing about this "we need to teach kids A.I. in school to prepare them for the future" shit is that, even if you believe that is necessary or good (it's not), the whole interface of LLMs is natural language. The only way to be "good" at using AI is to be good at... reading & writing.

I'm developing a pavlovian rage response to the word "disappointed" that implies you had high expectations which weren't met, and it conveys resigned acceptance. if you are a Dem still using "disappointed" to talk about Republicans in 2026, you have lost the plot entirely

Turns out college drop out DOGE bros put in charge of cancelling humanities grants violated both the law and the First Amendment by asking ChatGPT to tell them why it was okay to cancel grants for being "DEI"

Thin Blue Line bumper stickers, the de facto disenfranchisement of southern black voters, and the president calling any black/PoC female politician who opposes him "low IQ" are diverse expressions of the exact same political force. (Some of the sticker sporters may be expressing it unconsciously.)

WATCH: Sen. John Stevens LAUGHED AT by the gallery when he blatantly lies to Sen. london lamar that he doesn’t know MEMPHIS, where he went to school, is majority Black. Sacrificing his integrity at the altar of Trump as they strip Memphis of representation. Aren’t there Bible verses about lying?🤥

I am begging a democrat to run for president saying word for word “these people are fucking freaks and my cabinet will be made up of normal fucking people”

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch all offering public assurances about how 'the Court is really not partisan at all actually!!' in the span of a week..... did a memo go around? was it titled "RE: Avoiding Court Reform" ? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Our web site has recalls going all the way back to 1973. It's never too late to find a recalled product and get it out of your home.

labour's anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies will never win them any votes, because "the UK's problems are caused by immigrants" is both a fundamentally incorrect idea and trivial to outflank on the right. "well, we'll be twice as tough on immigrants then. vote reform"

one more arbitrary crackdown on immigration ought to do it lads

'Credible' here means throwing red meat to the worst people in our society, who will absolutely never be satisfied. My wife and son are the red meat btw.

I do not really understand politics because why is a Prime Minister seeking to appeal to Conservative voters who switched to Reform when the voters for his Labour party switched to Green and it makes no sense.

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

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The people "credible" on migration are the experts, people who provide services for migrants, economists who understand labour markets and migrants themselves. All ignored regularly by politicians/media, 0 funding, 0 resource, death threats and hostility. Gee whizz if only there was a solution.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

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

I love Innerspace, but I never knew these two were played by the same guy!

these “AI hallucination or advanced dementia” tests are getting increasingly difficult tbh

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Think about how when Dobbs leaked, dem leadership had *months* to plan and instead were caught totally unprepared, thumbs up their asses, when Roe was struck down. And how Republicans literally started resurrecting Jim Crow *within a day* of the VRA getting gutted.

The biggest reason there’s no chance that The Attempts were staged is because he would have long since admitted it from a podium to raucous applause.

This is how every other country imagines life in America

Trump has apparently been gluing challenge coins to the doors of the West Wing. Fascinating how the challenge coin thing has been embraced by right-wingers with no military or law enforcement experience as a sort of currency of valor. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is like one of the worst security vulnerabilities I've ever seen, they hard coded the root password identically in every single mower and the firmware resets it back every single time you update it. It can shows you the wi-fi credentials, address and email of every user. Great piece by Sean.

It's the right attitude. But, prosecute with what cops? State security forces, at least as currently constituted and on a deep institutional-cultural level, are a political entity that will not truly enforce any laws with enough teeth to actually dismantle their own power. This is a deep problem.

If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you.

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we're putting together a very special Avengers squad, and it's this guy, the kid who punched the nazi at school, and several other sloppy fucks who are loud right (i'm nick fury for sloppy fucks)

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

If I were Barack Obama, I’d wish for a strong COMMUNIST party instead

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.

The phenomenon you are describing is what I call "promotion-driven development" and it's endemic to most tech companies. You can draw a direct line from this kind of behavior to some of your favorite products getting shelved: someone takes over product development with a singular & stupid focus 1/

he thinks you 🫵 are stupid

I just attended a community meeting at a Black church about efforts to oppose illegal redistricting and fight for our democracy. My goodness was that the encouragement I needed this week. The speakers delivered a WORD about love, fearlessness, and doing what it's right in these dark days.

Yknow what since they're remaking star fox let's see what weird video game watches and watch like objects are on ebay right now

whoops we apolitically installed an unaccountable christofascist autocracy, as one does