A plurality of Californians have chosen the morphine of suburban comfort before the purifying hardship of progress and compassion for the homeless. I've said it many times before: if you're not poor and you vote based on what's good for you instead of on moral principles, you are a bad citizen.

right. they are trying to end American democracy before they are ended by it

Being a Californian is so depressing because all our problems are our own fault.

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

Almost like the Virginia Dems should have deleted the Court and gone for it anyway

"This country will now have to rediscover the energies that animated Freedom Summer and the March on Washington. If we don’t, the Jim Crow Southernization of America will continue apace." (from April) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

they are neo confederates and deserve to be treated as such

Moving all my QQQ positions into SOXX

its honestly impressive how blatantly they have ignored purcell

pack the court or lose the republic

Callais killed the voting rights act. This opinion is the equivalent of digging up the grave and shooting the body again just to be sure.

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, issues a 17-page dissent to the 4-page order: "[J]ust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos."

The civil rights movement has been set back to at least the status quo pre-1965. The Selma march was earlier that year. One day Calláis will join Plessy as anti-canon, but it will take hard, maybe bloody, work.

The Constitution does not provide the judiciary with this authority.

In which the SCOTUS majority exchanges their black robes for white ones, and adds white hoods into the bargain.

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

So many people on this website are worried about what's cool and none of you are cool! None of you are cool! You will never be cool! We are not cool people! Get over it

Fortunately Bluesky here is the retirement home for old shitposters.

His ability to commit new crimes is unparalleled

Sigh.

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio says the quiet part out loud: Even if Trump scraps the Anti-Weaponization Fund, the DOJ could still settle separate lawsuits brought by Jan. 6 Capitol attackers —potentially handing out millions in taxpayer dollars to people who participated in the attack.

This is like stolen valor for gym bros. You did not earn those gains.

I'm not sophisticated enough to be a justice. I'd unimaginatively rely on the record & the district judges factual findings. I lack the craft to invent a different reality & manifest it into existence. I also lack the arrogance to think I know everything. I'm not sure where my parents went wrong.

I don’t think we are prepared for how batshit they’re all gonna get by the time the clock really starts ticking, like if they lose in 2028, even if they don’t try to do Jan 6 again, that finally set of months gonna be…. something. Esp if this is the shit we’re seeing not even at the halfway mark

If you want to see what happens when you call out a killer who works at A16Z, this is an email from a guy who *I used to work with* many years ago, CCing Penny. These dudes do not quit!

said this in a work email last week and, uh, shared my views with one of my groupchats.

of course, since it takes 3-6wks for a tanker to even get to where it needs to go from the gulf, uh, we're basically locked in to some of the "sorry no salad because they didn't have a bag to put it in" kind of outcomes. like, we're over the cliff, imo. question is just when we hit the bottom.

Samsung SSD 39% off a.co/d/06Na4lFb

Speed running the "PMF -> end of price subsidy" flow chart

As a reminder, Pulte is the guy who goes through the mortgages of Trump’s enemies, looking for mistakes, which he then uses as a basis to refer them for criminal prosecution. See, e.g.: Letitia James

Terrifying tbh

"I understand the problem now. I'm the son of working-class immigrants." Becerra said. "You're a billionaire hedge fund founder. We have nothing in common." "Perhaps we do." "What?" "We are," responded Steyer, "both traitors to our class."

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Not exactly the point of this post but if the Dem bench is shaped like this in '28, pack it in, American democracy is over

Border collies are especially fascinating to me, because it’s a dog playing a wolf that *knows* it’s a dog playing a wolf. That level of intelligence can accomplish a lot.

it remains amazing to me how sophisticated dogs are as technology

I think there's going to be lots of stories like this. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

If you want a barometer of American political concerns you could do worse than checking what spam accounts are turning into AI-generated slop on Facebook. There are now hundreds of pages churning out dozens of AI-generated images playing into anti-data center sentiment across the country.

Trying to tell myself that daring to say what I’m bad at out loud is modeling senior dev behavior.

this is something we've known how to build secure mcps around for years. maybe before there were any mcps! a competent senior dev can tell you how to do it within a few minutes of noodling. this is an _absurd_ mistake to make. meta is not hiring the best and brightest.

NYPD should be brought to heel, and be forced to serve under civilian control. Their insubordination is so rampant, and so routine, that it doesn’t even get commented on anymore. That would be actual law and order.

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

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