The simplest long-run solution to the gerrymandering wars is a federal law expanding the House and electing members by proportional representation. Alabama has more Democratic voters than Hawaii. Massachusetts has more Trump voters than Mississippi. None of these voters deserve to go unrepresented.

it’s just a way of talking that we need to get comfortable with, soon

Muhammad Ali and Cleveland Williams, Nov. 14, 1966 Photo by Neil Leifer

It would be nice if the Democrats had a different mindset for 2028 and beyond.

silhouette looks like someone trying to get the most out of their toothpaste

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

it makes a slippery ring

it makes a slippery ring

Birds: on the whole, smaller and much less terrifying than dinosaurs.

Amazing piece and great thread:

"unfortunately," mumbles the game theorist, refusing to meet your gaze "our state of the art models for Madman Theory did not anticipate a scenario where the madman was an incredibly stupid giant baby"

"heaven is art history" pictured: ET without skin

Full-on luxury race gay space communism, is I think the correct order of those words that name the thing I now demand.

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) …. WE HAVE OUR LIST. It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Heading for that “Canticle for Leibowitz” zone?

Of course he did, there's that old song "The Holes of Jesus" to help remember them all. How many holes did Jesus have? How many holes had He? One for the Heav'nly Father, From which our Lord did pee. etc. for the rest of the holes

Of course he did, there's that old song "The Holes of Jesus" to help remember them all. How many holes did Jesus have? How many holes had He? One for the Heav'nly Father, From which our Lord did pee. etc. for the rest of the holes

It's still funny that the leader of America's Christian fascist movement is so inept with Christian idioms.

Bizarre headline, deck, and first four paragraphs for an article that's really about Trump's politically toxic rant about not funding childcare, Medicaid, or Medicare. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

In the future, everyone will be a bottom for 15 minutes.

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Never gonna vote for this douchebag who calls people "gay" for the yuks.

UNGA vote map

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

Anyway, let’s hear it for brilliant great men like Marc Andreesen who think an aphorism carved into stone at the Temple of Apollo is ackshually just a bunch of woke crap that originated in Vienna in the 1910s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_th...

DOJ is going to be full of damp home-schooled losers.

moar FBI agents humping each other in spandex

It’s not a podcast if it’s primarily to be consumed as video.

I do wonder how the giant truck MAGA boys are faring.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

This Heated Rivalry knockoff really sucks.

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Fund free public transit and high-speed rail?

when he's right, he's right fuck em up, Grandpa

By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This sure looks like one of the earlier steps in a genocide.

My worst work

Farewell, Milano-Cortino, it's been real slick.

Justice Kagan missed the opportunity to write, “99 actions and a tax ain’t one.” See slip op. at 5.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Government by Coreys is obviously a bad idea.

Gavin Newsom's governing style has been to broker deals among interest groups -- allowing major structural problems in California to persist and worsen because the bold action required to address them would bother somebody or other with money. Not what the US needs atm.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars. Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed! www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...

"This 'Show' is just a 'slap in the face'" - Mahatma Gandhi

"Wuthering Heights" - Albert Einstein

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.