a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

the old anarchist quote about how “if voting mattered they’d make it illegal” actually is true! And they are trying!

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

its funny both left wing reporters like chad loder and far right terrorists like tarrio agree that the slush fund is designed to buy arms for right wing terror orgs. the media is still framing the objections as "rewarding people who assaulted our beloved cops." like its actually much worse!

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

Gregory Schneck, a Democrat from Mesa County, chokes up as he asks the party to censure Gov Polis for giving clemency to Tina Peters. "It's personal," Schneck said, choking back tears. Peters' crimes cost Mesa County $1M to replace voting systems and led to national embarassment

Republican primary voters, boy. the shambling compost heap president goes "vote this guy out, on account of how he publicized documents proving I was best buds with Jeffrey Epstein" and they say "yes sir"

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

YOU DONT SAY

it’s absolutely wild. she’s vetoed recreational marijuana, municipal collective bargaining, and we expect her to veto state level class actions. just a goddamn disaster.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

This is homeowners’ reaction to funding public schools

Since 2022, the Burbank, CA City Council has supported mixed-flow lanes on Olive Ave. for the Metro North Hollywood–Pasadena BRT corridor over side-running dedicated lanes. We’ll know who to blame if the BRT ends up being watered down into just another limited-stop bus service stuck in traffic.😪

The Physicians for Measles Caucus in the US Senate is losing its most prominent member, as Republican Bill Cassidy, MD and RFK Jr. confirmer, has lost the primary. Many Republican Senators have violated their oath of office. Bill Cassidy was one of the few to violate the Hippocratic oath as well.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

it will stop buying Iranian oil—keeping Chinese crude purchases the lifeline to the very economy Washington’s sanctions regime is designed to choke. US negotiators appear not to understand the extent to which China has diversified away from fossil fuels.

All the initial reports point to a complete failure of Trump's commercial agenda in the meetings with Xi. You won't see anything reported on Rupert Murdoch TV, but it's all there in Murdoch's WSJ. For instance, even though it humored Trump by offering to buy US oil, China made no indication that

According to witnesses, a growing crowd of disoriented commuters were milling anxiously in front of the sign, with one woman sobbing quietly into her hands and saying, “But this is the sidewalk,” while several others began drifting aimlessly into yards, bushes, and even the street.

More than 29 million gallons of unbilled water flowed to Quality Technology Services’ data center campus under development in Fayetteville, Georgia, after two industrial-scale hookups went unaccounted for. ground.news/article/data...

This happened thanks to Attorney General Rob Bonta finally saying "enough is enough" with retailers selling illegal e-motos at odds with the California Vehicle Code.

The most embarrassing part of this correction is the reporter’s reliance on AI to do her job… But the second-most embarrassing part is that this corrrection ran more than two weeks after the story was published. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

One of the busiest places in MN needs more nightlife, so instead of safer streets for biking and walking or increasing bus/transit accessibility or opening streets for people to party, the mayor is making parking free in some spots. Cool. Inspiring. 🙄

“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”

So long as the Wizards In Robes from the far right authoritarian party are going to completely dispense with even the pretense of complying with the law, the Constitution, & the results of elections, this sort of hardball is going to be necessary to restore democracy & the rule of law.

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.

The govt is paying farmers $9M to destroy hundreds of thousands of peach trees that took 20 years to cultivate because a Del Monte factory closed.. Del Monte claims people are shifting to fresh fruit vs sugar-laden canned fruit. Why don't they just sell the f**king fruit? Free markets my @$$.

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

this goes for city, county and state workers at basically every level below director

there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

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

“So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.” — Art Blakey #jazz

If John Roberts is "just calling balls and strikes" couldn't he be replaced by the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System?

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

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

😡

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

NIMBY group California Cities for Local Control is doing endorsements and sent a questionnaire to gubernatorial candidates. NONE of the major candidates have responded and Tom Steyer declined. Love that candidates see that NIMBYism will not win elections. localcontrolca.com/endorsements...

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

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

VERY IMPORTANT NON-VRA RELATED NEWS: Bob Caro says "I have written 983 pages" of the final LBJ book. www.c-span.org/program/qa/a...

mercantilism: failed capitalist free market: failed planned economies: failed we are not repeating the mistakes of the past, no we are instead moving in a bold new direction with the Centrally Unplanned economy. all decisions will be made by a guy who has no idea what's going on.

[putting my ER bill, expensive groceries and $5/gallon gas on a 35% APR credit card] I think we can all agree I'm doing well financially