FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT happy bruno mars being surprised to see pete wentz day

Why are the Mets?

From the conclusion of my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

As far as I can tell, a map-drawer can now say, "I am going to split this community of black voters into separate districts, not because I intend to dilute the votes of black Americans, but rather because black Americans vote Dem and I want to dilute the power of Dem voters," and it's just fine

When the Court upheld legislaures' ability to do *partisan* gerrymanders in 2019, Roberts went on and on about how partisan gerrymandering was unfortunate, but not illegal. Today's decision turns partisan gerrymandering into a complete defense of racial gerrymandering. It's really gross.

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This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Now that the worst has come and Section 2 of the VRA is gutted, Dem trifectas in safe blue states need to start fighting back and push these maps immediately

Just explained about @bardtoys.bsky.social to @jacobsberg.bsky.social. Explained about the minotaur models, especially. Jake's response?

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

Melody A.M. is a perfectly cromulent chill out album, but I think I’d like it more if it had more Øye. Zero 7 works better in this genre because of Sia. Also, too many of these songs sound like I’m shopping for pants at the mall. (I still voted for it.)

The former director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, went on a tour of the West Bank to examine settler violence. He said it made him "ashamed to be Jewish" and that "it reminded me of the events that happened in the last century against Jews." 13tv.co.il/item/news/po...

what does this guy think that Trump thinks his mistakes are

'Disappointed, "Surprised," 'Betrayed': 12 Toddlers on Where Did Mom Go Peekaboo Oh There She Is

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Oh?

How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

Reading old issues of Library Journal again

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Favourite Library of Congress Subject Heading of the day (and not one you routinely expect to use as a music librarian) Caribou -- Migration -- Songs and music. I think @loclode.bsky.social will like this!

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

wishing a happy "please don't let 'skeets' stick" day to those who celebrate

This Wall Street Journal headline might be the thing that breaks me

$4.25/hr, NYC Parks n Rec

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

When the green m&m got less sexy

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

Have @mets.com fired anyone yet? Why not???

This move by SCOTUS is deeply insulting. The district court gathered a massive amount of evidence in record time, and District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote a careful 160-page opinion. Now a majority of justices have dispensed with it without even providing a full written opinion.

We could be listening to Neil Hannon’s masterpiece, Regeneration, but no, instead we get to vote on these soggy boys.

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

It’s a bold move for local candidates to canvas right outside a metro station. Ain’t nobody stopping to talk to you!

Who would rather see baby goats playing than talk about this shit anymore?

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

yeah my thought when i hear that is "tell this to the president and his goons"

"violence has no place in our political system" should be normatively true but it's a lot less descriptively true when it requires ignoring who is at the head of our political system

If you’re in or near Arlington VA, come say hi at the Langston Boulevard Alliance Earth Day festival! I’m selling books from 11 am to 5 pm, including copies of my latest, SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8. 🌎 In the Lee Heights shopping center.

A parent at my kids' school was detained on their way to work this week and the family is unsure how they'll pay for living and legal expenses or see their parent. The politicians are causing the violence against us and the media is cheering for them at a lavish dinner.

I’m sorry for everyone who almost got shot at the orphan crushing factory but what were you doing at the orphan crushing factory

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

The two most important things to remember about the WHCA dinner: a jury found Trump raped E. Jean Carroll but because of a flaw in NYS law the legislature later fixed, it could only hold him liable for sexual abuse Trump appears a million times in the Epstein files—which he hasn't fully released

Vamos United!

oh do news reporters know what it's like to be a public school teacher now

Footy!

tfw you loaded up on fuel to fly to pakistan and then the boss tweets that you’re not going anymore

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.