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I just don't think democracy is formally compatible with an apex court that views itself as unanswerable to its coordinate branches and which exercises its docket control so to hand down unreasoned judgments that reshape congressional elections in favor, consistently, of one party over the other.

Short version: Everyone on earth has to press a button. If a majority presses the blue button, everyone lives. If a majority presses the red button, everyone who presses the blue button dies.

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i’ve been accused of being AI for, i think, writing in complete and moderately coherent sentences. and i’ve been using em dashes—probably often incorrectly—since long before this shit started.

Anyone out there unclear how well the United States would be doing economically without California and New York?

There were never any real prospects for a U.S.-Iran deal to fizzle. That was just a media narrative, one driven by prioritizing words from a serially lying White House over the consistent facts of the war. In a month of uninterrupted rain, you ran multiple headlines of “Sun Comes Out, Trump Says.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

His bed was stolen

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

I parked my car on some pavement you own. I came back and it was still there. Now you want me to fill out a five minute survey about my “parking experience???” I fear that the invention of email was a dreadful mistake.

Not to victim blame but this balloon does feel like it's asking for trouble

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

SCOTUS is in the business of cutting the wires that hold up society and use "society is being held up, do we really need the wires?" as some sort of bizarre, reverse engineered explanation that completely ignores why things like the VRA were necessary in the first place. It's madness.

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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.

Absolutely brilliant intervention in Paramount Warner deal. @freedom.press & @rsf.org taking shareholder action to scrutinize documentation on whether David Ellison plans to degrade journalism at CNN, reviewing his destruction of CBS. www.status.news/p/paramount-...

thank you in advance to the 300 people who will reply to this with "yes I can" i feed your identical posts about the article you didn't read into a special generator that offsets my entire electrical bill

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Not the main point, but the dipshit in charge of the FBI thinks polygraphs are Real.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Shower thought: the transporter in Star Trek 100 per cent, no question, kills the person who uses it and replaces then with a copy. I would never use one.

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

i hope it happens today.

thinking about my cousin with the big T banner on his farm every time i see something like this. i'm sure he's figured out how it's someone else's fault.

Okay, this is obviously very stupid and dumb and an indication of the decline of American public discourse BUT... The fact that only 33% of Republicans think they could win a fist fight with a SEVENTY NINE YEAR OLD MAN is proof that these people are in a FUCKING CULT.

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

Low Libido Beef Burrito

Marco Rubio explains that the Trump administration's goal now is merely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- the prevailing state of affairs before Trump launched his pointless war

I wish I could convey the charming mental image this gave me of all the depressed people getting a chance to help wind the ropes; people smiling for the 1st time in ages as they see some semi obscure ass who caused them harm is on the schedule; everyone hitting the oversized trigger together

They should film ten year olds doing his cognitive tests. Since they’re designed to see if you have dementia, not whether you’re intelligent, they’d almost certainly ace them. Be interesting to see how that affected his rhetoric.

Wow. Artemis II image ART002-E-12613; credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

i hope it happens today.

Let me be blunt: Democrats should gerrymander the ever living shit out of every state where we have unified control of government. If we need to gerrymander our way to electing a Congress that will ban gerrymandering, then we should fucking do it. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

I personally think 'how bad can grandpa get before anyone close to him does anything' is a fun national past time we've developed

this is my favorite tiktok genre.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

I have yet to regret my @theonion.com subscription

Senators and congressmen pointedly asking Judas Priest and ozzy osbourne if their music had hypnotic backwards demon messages was the first time I realized that some adults were really, really stupid. I was like 12 at the time

If russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine. The fact that this still needs repeating says everything.

But I was told we needed to tone down the rhetoric