John Roberts has spent more than four decades trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act and the Callais decision and its disastrous aftermath shows how nakedly political and partisan the Roberts Court has always been www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Dr. Oz is just Creed Bratton from the office but without any moral code or ethics

Analog tech just keeps winning!

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

www.latimes.com/california/s... This was a really well done history of the struggle for mass transit in Los Angeles I cannot be more excited that there’s a stop so close to my house

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.

Capitalism really is like "the mass layoffs will continue until the economy improves"

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

the fact that this is how a 7% *decrease* in home price is reported is a reminder that most of our policy environment is oriented towards enriching homeowners

BRING MATT DAMON HOME!

Wow. It's like they really do want The Stranger to be Seattle's only newspaper

My next book is gonna have trans characters in it. So will my next short story. I'm gonna read trans authors. I'm gonna hug trans readers. Do not back down. It is the world that should move.

it makes textual sense that Padme doesn't bat an eye when Anakin massacres the sand people, because she comes from an apartheid society

When you realize the Padme is the main character of Attack of the Clones it actually becomes a good movie about toxic heterosexuality

I think a lot of people don't grok the difference between farmers and farm workers. Unless the farm is very tiny like ours, a farmer doesn't actually do a whole lot of farm work.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

I'd go further. This SCOTUS isn't democratically legitimate, but there are other sources of legitimacy: legal/rational legitimacy is also available to courts that abide by the rule of law. But the Roberts Court doesn't even have that. It is *categorically illegitimate.*

Every day I think about what the world would look like if the Supreme Court had allowed Al Gore to be the president instead of giving it to the Republican puppet de jour

Love seeing climate actions with multiple benefits! In addition to generating clean energy and reducing emissions, solar canals conserve water by reducing evaporation, can potentially reduce growth of costly aquatic weeds, and help redirect solar development from farmland and valuable habitat.

"Don't call them camps we prefer the term plantation"

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

Who needs Sheev Palpatine when you have a real life John Roberts

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Reupping my video showing that conversion therapy in the UK is mainly caused by about 40 people who simply will not piss off and are ruining the NHS for the rest of us youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

The Gender-Conservative movement managed to push policy proposals worldwide based on the pretense that youth transition is common and easy to access, obscuring the extant reality of obstruction and hostility towards trans patients. They're doing it again because they got away with it.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

you can't powerwash an x-wing, it's supposed to look like that! they haven't had powerwashing since amidala's time

About 20 years ago, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. But energy-efficient lightbulbs has shrunk the category to sixth place! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

If you've asked "where are the old school forums," ask no more!

Time eventually makes running late fuckups of us all

Seattle area friends our CSA is officially open! get 15 weeks of fresh local veggies all summer. You'll be supporting local queer farmers and getting some of the best produce available (if we do say so ourselves) www.artemisfarmswa.com/csa/p/csa-sh...

There are more high speed trains and solar panels now than at any point in human history

Exhibit A in the problems with age verification.

An egg salad sandwiche ys the perfecte foode for when you are feelinge downe. An egg salad sandwiche wil not make you feele bettir, but synce it ys a sandwiche that doth looke a litel depressed itself it wil be goode companye and be able to sympathyze.

SHAME! Dems @golden.house.gov, Josh Gottheimer & @gluesenkampperez.house.gov voted for Speaker Johnson’s scheme to make it easier for Trump to use FISA data to prosecute Americans. And all of them, plus @tomsuozzi.bsky.social, voted with Republicans to try and ram FISA through w/o any reforms.