Be ungovernable.

This is obvious horseshit, but I think it's useful to put numbers to this stuff sometimes. The Warren wealth tax would raise $16.5b from Bezos alone in the first year, which amounts to $4k for every teacher in the US, roughly a 6% pay raise on average. Bet that *would* help that teacher in Queens!

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

More and more people are saying it

I don’t care what imaginary people think

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

I’m sensing a disconnect

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

there is no comity to be had or desired with antidemocratic white supremacists

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

Fountains of Wax

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

She’s even got an account on here: @nicolehester.bsky.social

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Watching a really old episode of ER. Unconscious sick kid comes in. DR 1: looks like measles. DR 2: have you ever seen measles? DR 1: no. Who sees measles? The mother says she gave her son no vaccines. Dramatic music. Shocked look on the DRs faces. Man. Old episode…

I think people, including Obama here, are mixing rhetorical clarity and moral clarity. People need to know a politician is on their side. The reason people prefer to hear Justin Pearson and Justin Jones over Schumer and Jeffries is that the TN state reps speak morally.

love a bureaucratic thriller. You show me a Guy with Nothing Left to Lose working for an Organization and I start hooting and hollering

Ours is a deeply broken society, with wildly unserious & misplaced priorities when it comes to public institutions of higher education. Also, again, marginal wealth & income taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to American democracy & society.

Hey @ibogost.com

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

i feel like my job as an engineer has always been asking questions like "how" and "why". it wasn't really "write code". sure, the latter was the "how" very often, but that was simply because at one point that _was_ the only "how" that was available

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

It’s interesting what some people consider social problems that we must solve collectively (men being sad) and ones we consider not worth solving at all (anyone else’s problems) bsky.app/profile/volt...

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Ok I should not be laughing but this one did get me

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KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

This old white man complaining that no one is knocking up 14- and 15-year-olds is certainly a vibe

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

No way that's wild could you imagine ever doing the same for voting no that's impossible

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

Enhance!

But enough obfuscating! HERE is the dope as heck truth about the ARTEMIS typeface specifically:

Oh yeah definitely the one thing sci fi and fantasy has been missing is the male gaze

hospital and municipal IT are going to get fucking wrecked whenever someone releases Mythos-class models to the wild and I hope someone in a position to do something about that is on top of it

Grammar xkcd.com/3229/

Behold the Orientale Basin, in its entirety, for the first time

So, yes, in my haste to post & in my lack of characters per post, there should be clarity: this is the first ship-to-ship call between two wholly separate missions. There have of course been tons of comms between ships and vehicles and ships in the same mission. That's the context of my statement.