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

1-Open the strait or we bomb you into the Stone Age. 2-Okay, so we will open the strait ourselves. 3-Seems we can’t. 4-Actually, we’ll blockade it. 5-Well that wasn’t great. 6-We don’t need the strait. Never did. 7-return to 1

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

did the Virginia Supreme Court stop Republicans from gerrymandering the piss out of VA state and congressional districts in 2012 without asking the voters at all? they did not

Emma raises a hand. “So if everyone believes in the stickers, they’re valuable.” “Yes.” “And if people stop believing?” Ms. Delgado pauses. “Then they might not be.” Oliver raises his hand. “My dad bought a sticker once.” The class gasps. “What kind?” asks Liam. “A monkey.”

Honestly more Republicans should face the wrath of our black and brown neighbors (spiders).

Yes. We call that “inflation”. I’d say you’ve probably heard of it, but that feels like an unfounded assumption given the qualifications (or lack thereof) required to be a Trump administration official.

Live shot from Hell right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ZA...

Info Wars, Episode V: The Friggin' Gay Frogs Strike Back.

Just imagine him being asked if it was true that he wet himself, to which he’d say: “Why would you ask me such a nasty question? You’re a horrible person, and the Secret Service told me to pee on myself because it deters predators, who will think you’re sick and go looking for healthier prey.

I’m not even bothering to read past the headline: he has never once in his life been conciliatory or contemplative, never mind somber. He has exactly 3 moods: Sleepy, hangry, or horngry.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

The alt text probably covers it, but the kid came in to pitch in relief and threw 3.2 scoreless innings which ended with this strikeout and the well-deserved celebration that followed. It was a good week.

Semi-annual reminder to not sit on your ass if you'd like to save your ass. Go to the doctor:

Just what every Thanksgiving needs: a sloppy drunk uncle about to say something exceedingly racist.

Not great news for the world, given Trump's history with casinos.

If Pope not in favor of war, why drop bombs on Trump?

Truly our bravest president. Remember after the Parkland shooting, when he claimed he’d have run into the building unarmed? But now he won’t even stay for the end of a meal, just to avoid the *chance* that people he insulted might respond. Loser shit of the highest order.

Can confirm.

Truly, the Uniter-in-Chief.

"I don't want a pope who..." Imma stop you right there, chief. You're not Catholic. No one gives a shit what kind of pope you want.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is peak Trump foreign policy.

The Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Trump ripped up (and whose terms he would love right now!) took at least 20 months of negotiation. Months. Not hours.

Absolutely this.

Rarely has a people had such an *opportunity* to stop the evils of their government as we do right now. If we impeach and remove Trump, we will avert additional crimes against humanity. If we do not, history will judge us harshly. All of us. Yes, even me and you. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

"When should we schedule this pointless primetime presidential speech that offers no new developments and no news? The calendar is wide open." "Uh, how about April Fool's Day?" "Perfection." (finger guns)

Well we accomplished none of our goals and made everything worse, but at least it was also so expensive we're going to cut healthcare funding to pay for part of it.

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

Excellent article! Speaking as a breast cancer survivor, every fuckbrained idiot in town will turn up and try to tell you crap like eating a frozen lemon every day will cure you. Cut these assholes off. Get to a cancer center and do what they tell you. Science works.

And I'm proud to be an American Where TSA takes six hours to screen, And the ICE agents wait around To kill me if I intervene. But I'll gladly stand up Next to you to defend you from ICE today Cause there ain't no doubt they'd kill us all God we're fucked in the USA.

You, yes; the Cava bag, probably not.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Continuing my one-man push to make Bluesky the default high school sports site, rather than The Bad Place.

Incidentally, now that Bluesky is the official app of live sports, can we make it so it’s also the official app of high school athletes? Every kid trying to get recruited right now is still being told to wade through a sea of Nazis to catch a coach’s eye, and we just can’t allow that to continue.

Incidentally, now that Bluesky is the official app of live sports, can we make it so it’s also the official app of high school athletes? Every kid trying to get recruited right now is still being told to wade through a sea of Nazis to catch a coach’s eye, and we just can’t allow that to continue.

We’ve blown past the “No editor would ever accept this level of cartoonish evil in even the most juvenile of fictional works” to “I genuinely can’t tell if they are deliberately trying to unite the entire world against us, or if that’s just an unintended consequence of this, the dumbest timeline”.

Honestly, this is at least as funny to me as @bencollins.bsky.social buying it.

My 16yo is unimpressed, but he was named to the all tournament team and was the overall tournament MVP for the 2026 Sandlot Tournament in Cape Hatteras, after coming 1 error away from a no-hitter shutout (next batter up hit a single to drive in a run) - still got the W with a final score of 11-1.

FUCK. Herd immunity, so fucking important, and we're vaporizing it

Truly a perfect news alert

On the plus side, we could make bank by reselling them with a little spray paint enchantment.

He’s nothing if not incapable of meeting the moment.

On one hand, anyone paying attention is aware of this risk. On the other hand, a whole lot of people aren't paying attention & Trump is going to have even more blood on his tiny hands bc he's worried about his already shitty poll numbers rather than the lives of the people of this (or any) country.

No one knew how complicated geopolitical conflict could be.