You can tell I’m an elitist academic shitlib because my primary reaction to reading the transphobic counterterrorism strategy is annoyance at how deeply unimpressive the document discriminating against me is.

Everyone sitting around, watching everyone else fail to react to Trump, and deciding this proves Trump isn’t worth reacting strongly to.

“He’ll never pull the trigger on this stuff. Because if he did, that would be really bad. We’d have to do something really crazy to stop him. And look around, no one is acting crazy. So clearly it won’t happen. YOU don’t want to look crazy by reacting like that, do you? Everyone will judge you.”

the thing is that there are some people who call all criticism of israel antisemitic, and those people also call Hitler antisemitic, and on the easy questions they are right

Labour currently losing over 80% of the seats they are defending. Very long way to go but if that loss rate were maintained they could end up losing more than 2,000 council seats

It's "The Son" from Friday Night Lights

they refuse to support nationwide fair districting, not because it would confer any partisan advantage at this point, but because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation. it's not a means to an end, it is the end in and of itself

the maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans, but they're doing it anyway, because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation

one interesting thing about Media Matters is that its financial woes have been more driven by a giant (rich) donor exodus since 2023 than anything else

imo that we are more likely to see a combination of pen and paper and LLM-proctored orals

As a Democrat I think its unironically great that the guy Trump put in charge of the FBI is an irresponsible drunk who just wants to be a celebrity and doesn't actually give a fuck about persecuting enemies. That's been great for us, actually

okay great an evangelion is riding a robot giraffe in a yes album cover. what does this have to do with the clip i saw of moebius' design for galaga

what is even Warframe. sometimes I see clips of it and it seems like if Mario Party was Destiny as designed by Matthew Barney

I Used To Be The World's Greatest Hacker And Now A Robot God Is Sending Me To Space!?!?

Not everyone can be so lucky as to have seen S2E9 of Lodge 49, "La Reve Impossible"

Review (2014), season 1 episode 3: “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes”

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

What the fuck are you talking about

Setting aside the moral atrocity being committed here: they're burning all of this political capital for one (1) additional Republican seat

The Republican Party has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act because they want to keep a dying pedophile in office for the rest of his life.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

American democracy will cease to exist entirely if we don’t have a Reconstruction 2.0

TBH I think there are absolutely American Jews who respect and are concerned for Black Americans and hate Palestinians. Ethnonationalist psychosis is weird shit.

because it's S1WE1 of either Terriers or Mr. Robot

cc: @jamie.squad51.us

jim-clyburn-ism can best be described as what happens when garveyism has to actually engage with electoral politics

i've been following this trading advice. does anyone have a truck i can use???

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

as a utilitarian i have to consider the lives of the indefinite number (but larger than one) of transporter clones with precisely my preferences who would rather exist than not, and must step into the murder machine in order to actualize their preferences.

jim clyburn has exactly one priority: making sure that 30% of every hard-confederate state legislature represents Black people and that the Democratic Party matches its racial demographics, a laudable goal which is often at odds with the party winning or using large majorities

i am pretty sure that giving the first 2028 primary to the Jim Clyburn machine is going to be as much a disaster as giving the 2021-2024 DNC to the Jim Clyburn machine was

you're thinking about the DCCC/DSCC. in midterm elections, the DNC is more or less a passthrough to state parties which controls who gets access to voter file data.

one interesting thing about jaime harrison is that he has literally never won an election or worked on a winning campaign

it's kind of worse than that. it's centrist staffers inventing ways to make extremely narrow policies seem distressingly radical, so as to polish their progressive bona fides.

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

This reflects a genuinely concerning and worrisome trend, and I really wish the ADL had not so badly torched its credibility in the past few years that anything it puts out is now inherently suspect. We need an actual reliable record of this, and the ADL cannot be the source of that.

we really need to stop putting failed candidates in positions of power

"Accountability matters" yeah man that's why we should put you, personally, into a wicker man.

Democrats have been terrified of norm violations for years. Guess what? The norms are gone. They don't exist anymore. This administration has nuked them from orbit. You either throw them in prison for doing that, or we no longer have a meaningful justice system in America.

It's been said a lot lately, but either Democrats launch a holy crusade against the people doing this stuff, or that's the end of this nation. We will only have a chance of recovering from the Trump era if the people shamelessly abusing the DOJ like this are punished severely.

in effect, the next president will not have functional cabinet agencies

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

i love that i can just go to the beach whenever.

it's got to be like working at Anthropic but worse. coming up through the ranks you occasionally saw evidence of something strange and vast and when you make director they give you indisputable proof that the alien gods who created us thought weird black monster goo was sacred.

really great to see all the big expert lawyers claiming, contrary to the managers of the January 6th team, that you had to climb the ladder from individual rioters to the President. the attorneys themselves have claimed that Garland dicked around and did not want to charge the president.

i mean the fundamental problem for every marxist revolutionary was "marxism is not an accurate theory of history." they made enormous bets on future historical developments that continued to not materialize. it's a problem!

i don't think he was shot. i think he was so full of drugs his head just did that

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,