The WaPo Opinions Video team looks like they dressed up to mock me

Is this their panel debating whether DEI is a bad thing or a terrible thing?

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

Trump: "What a job our military is doing with respect to drugs coming in by sea. Meaning, drugs coming in by water. A lot of people know what I mean by 'sea.' They think I'm taking about vision."

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

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

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

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As Justice Sotomayor's dissent notes, the district court's finding of unconstitutional discrimination is unaffected by Callais. But if the dist. ct. now reinstates that finding on remand, the state will run to SCOTUS and say Purcell forbids the court to do so. You can guess what happens next.

The office microwave plays a jaunty little tune when it finishes and I find this deeply appropriate when I have microwaved a hot pocket. I think a minor rendition of the first bars of “Is That All There Is” or possibly “What Have I Done To Deserve This” would suit.

“Trump simply does not like reality; that is why he keeps losing to Iran,” an informed source told Iran's semi-official news agency. I hate it when reactionary theocrats have a point.

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

pretty wild that this baldly antisemitic ad also calls Singer a "pro-trans billionaire" even though the guy was a Manhattan Institute trustee and chair for decades

i can't believe this is really what they're going with lmao

Congrats to @clmazin.bsky.social for the Sheep Detective doing well and getting quite good reviews and especially for my wife liking it which can be tricky

This is what Trump means when he says "we're the hottest country around!"

Wasn't this exactly what they were supposed to avoid saying out loud, and yet they still can't help themselves?

This is Lily. She’s been accused of drinking her mom’s slushie. Will not be taking any questions at this time. 14/10 (IG: iceedoglilly)

A proposed new U.S. House map was distributed Thursday on the South Carolina House floor, where members huddled around desks to review it. The proposal would take Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn out of the 6th District he has represented since 1992.

Mensa Reddit is amazing

Actually I couldn't give less of a shit about this.

When you accidentally hit “free roam mode” on your Roomba.

New med DID cause a nighttime headache which my brain turned into a dream about going to a party and getting blackout drunk and wife telling me she had to pick me up and I barfed in her car twice and me trying to convince her I had been roofied. Wife’s response to dream: “unusually plausible.”

Double amputee Rodney Taylor revealed the horrific conditions he endured in ICE detention: “They refused to feed me for 3 weeks because they expected me to walk the length of a football field to get some food." https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/double-amputee-rodney-taylor-released-from-ice-custody/

At this point Josh just sends me screenshots of snippets of complaints establishing “aesthetic standing” because he knows I hate it so much

Trump: "I was hunted by some very bad people. Now I'm the hunter. It's much better when you're the hunter…We call them the dumbocrats, because they're dumb."

oh my god

its funny to think how pathetic it would look for clinton/obama/biden to be retweeting people saying theyre the greatest president ever. and with trump its just another day.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

Please think about blocking, or at least unfollowing, @cwebbonline.com until he addresses and remedies this.

OK, this is kind of amazing?

AI people are too dim to grasp how much they are despised.

🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

In 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Democratic majority banned partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution. Republicans then won control of the court and spontaneously reversed that decision, re-legalizing gerrymandering. I suspect this is the model Virginia Democrats will follow.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

Trump in the middle of his batshit, unending rant about Supreme Court justices: "They have to do the right thing, but it’s really OK for them to be loyal to the person that appointed them to ‘almost’ the highest position in the land, that is, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court."

Then he bragged about bypassing the normal process because he knew “a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools.” This is a historic national monument, not Mar-a-Lago’s lazy river. 2/4

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled states are aiming to give the GOP an unfair edge in the 2026 midterm by gerrymandering their congressional maps. See where redistricting stands in your state:

Now and then I think about what would happen if I ran for office or threw my hat in the ring for a judicial position and it’s hilarious.

Lots of Americans like this. Why would we want to “reconcile” with them?

Was trying to power up Beaudry today and flagging from the climb and pushed hard and felt a twinge or pop in my hip and holy shit that hurts. Hobbled back down. Walking up or down hurts but walking flat with exaggerated long strides feels like it stretches it and eases the pain a bit. Icing it now.

both sides!

Of course, the message the Iranians are trying to sell Americans on is "It's all the fault of THE JEWS"--but notice how they manage it much better than the typical groyper antisemite does, because the groyper, in their use of antisemitism, is trying to cut themselves off from mainstream US culture.

Because they put more effort into American cultural competency than groyper MAGA staffers do. Like, the whole point of being a groyper is to repel normies and edgily assert superiority over them. The Iranian regime is actually trying to persuade American voters.

This guy’s the chief economic advisor to the president.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

Trump Ratchets Up Rhetoric Against Snoopy