John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

This. This. This.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

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You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

What kills me is all those grown ass adults complaining about having to go through an active shooter situation last night & yet none of them give a 2nd thought to teachers & students going through that same exact scenario once or twice a mnth in the form of drills, some of them go through it for…

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

I was not prepared for the glory awaiting me when I returned from travel! @pyracantha.bsky.social this is amazing and with delicious little #fandommarket auxiliary treats as well! @ourfamilyourfight.bsky.social

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I feel like I’m going to say this a lot. Requiring a candidate to stand up for human rights and self determination is not a purity test. Throwing the margins under the bus is a character flaw that should be disqualifying. The primary is not the general and strategy is different for each one.

HNNNGH.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

guys, this is how you lose the time war

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

NO WAY MA'AM YOU DO NOT GET TO PRETEND YOUR TOXIC-ASS CHRISTOFASCISM ISN'T HOW THE ANTICHRIST GOT ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE like sorry he dumped you for Laura Loomer but no one believes you grew a conscience in the last 5 minutes the Lord is still leaving your prayers on read

But here is something small and significant: Follow the global democracy movement like you follow your favorite sport. Or like you follow movies. Or pop culture. Or celebrity gossip. Or the stock market. Be like Jonah – for the era of the autocrat.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

I will say the same thing about Swalwell that I said about Platner: I don’t have a “guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” standard for supporting politicians. I don’t need to; I’m not a criminal court and, bizarrely, I’m not allowed to put people in prison.

That whole thing was cool af. The entire Artemis mission has been cool af. Abolish ICE and give the money to NASA

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That'll preach.

Yes. This is nicely put. One thing I try to get at in this piece is that having Trump threaten genocide and civilizational erasure, and the discovery that we are largely powerless to stop a madman president, takes an immense dispiriting toll on the *American people,* too.

I interviewed David Costello, who is running for Maine Senate in the D primary. He’s got strong progressive views—and he has never had a Nazi tattoo. I think it’s unfortunate the D party has largely ignored him; I hope ME voters give him a look. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/an-intervi...

This is MAJESTIC.

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

We didn't deserve this day.

CHANGE IS POSSIBLE.

It may be that today I have less patience for "this is on all of our heads, no one is exempt".

Surprise, surprise.

Ja.

Oh, this is cogent and clear and gets at a lot of things I worry about a great deal. Recommended enormously.

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I ... whut?

I genuinely haven't seen an argument for creative writers using it that doesn't boil down to "Are you lazy? Are you untalented? Do you want to make a quick buck, hate writing, or just can't be bothered? We have the product for you!"

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race on the heels of north carolina’s 2016 trans bathroom ban to “trans people in idaho caught using the right bathroom twice spend 5 years in the wrong sex prison.” thread in the QP.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Andy Weir saying stupid shit is useful because it easy for me to separate the entertaining books and movies from the man saying stupid shit. Unless he makes saying stupid shit, his whole identity and then uses his wealth to hurt other people.