“Racial discrimination in redistricting is illegal under the Voting Rights Act, but acting purely for partisan reasons is not. As a result, lawyers for Texas are at pains to show that, despite Abbott’s past statements, race played no role in the map’s creation.”

For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine. Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)

I love playing the Jewish holiday drinking game, because you gotta take a shot every time a gentile thinks menorahs are associated with literally every Jewish holiday

In this episode, Connor and @scottfree.bsky.social disrespect their elders with Quentin Quire, the cavalier Kid Omega! Created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Quentin is one of the most iconic figures from Morrison's then-polarizing and now-legendary run on New X-Men.

Well looks like they met for this — Ed Martin sent a letter to the FBI agent who testified during Alex Jones trial about seeing the Sandy Hook children dead. Martin asked if the agent had a financial incentive. The rest is hard to parse. Martin wrote asking to keep the letter private.

I can't make fun of dogs for always checking spots where they found food once bc I found a loose $20 in my grocery store's ATM a couple months ago and guess what I do every time I go to the grocery store

after a few glorious weeks of temperate weather it is suddenly 78% humidity again even though it’s only 24C and it turns out that what destroys me and makes me drip sweat is not the heat it is definitely the humidity.

Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man in Atlanta, was killed when the city tried to clear his encampment. His death epitomizes the country's approach to homelessness: criminalize it and push it out of sight. Here's who he was and what he meant to those who loved him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US President is at the UN bragging about murdering foreign civilians in international waters.

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

anyway, שנה טובה ומתוקה

Yes, because the story we’re critiquing is a story that Christians tell *about Jews*, which specifically demonizes and falsely blames Jews for murdering the Christian god, and was used to incite mass violence against Jews for centuries.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

She’s a Florida insurance lawyer. She has absolutely zero experience as a prosecutor. The only reason she was appointed US Attorney for Eastern Virginia is because she’s a lackey and loyalist who will eagerly do whatever Trump asks and prosecute his political opponents no matter how weak the case is

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Is he... y'know... a fan of Hades?

Marmalade Update: Marmo is having Sink Time

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

The memorial service for the assassinated Speaker of the Minnesota House got four minutes of CNN coverage. The memorial for a podcaster who was friends with the President and his Cabinet gets a full day of constant coverage.

To clarify, because reading comprehension is not Bluesky’s strong suit: I am not the person who was arrested. I am not Black. My posts were quoting the article he wrote, which was linked in the first post, which is why there were quotation marks around all of his first-person statements.

Tucker Carlson tells a story that appears to blame Jews for killing Jesus (they didn’t) and also killing Charlie Kirk.

trump is spewing nasty anti-trans hate right now at a memorial that’s being televised everywhere, this is deeply fucked up

After speech after speech full of rhetoric about launching a war in America for Charlie Kirk and Jesus in Kirk’s name, Trump absurdly claims that Kirk didn’t hate people, but then insists that Trump *does* hate people who disagree with him (e.g. over half of the entire country) and the crowd cheers.

sending armed US military forces into Chicago to honour the memory of a podcaster.

…such mournful and somber fireworks

“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train. The police told me to leave the train.”

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

The US cabinet spent all afternoon giving speeches calling a murdered podcaster the equivalent of Jesus & martyred Christian saints & also a soldier for G-d for whom voters must win a war to defeat those who don’t accept Jesus in order to make all of America accept his religious beliefs.

Vance calls the memorial a „revival“, claims that Kirk brought „the light of truth to dark places“ - dark places meaning universities. Praises his anti-abortion stance. Most important truth according to Vance: „that Jesus is the king of kings“

Hegseth goes full spiritual warfare: „Charlie Kirk was a citizen who had the biblical heart of a soldier. A warrior for Christ“. Up next: RFK Jr.

Tucker Carlson compares Kirk and Jesus. Jesus he said, was killed because „some guys eating hummus“ suggested it to shut him up. Just like with Jesus, killing him only advanced his cause, is Carlson‘s message. (The livestream has now been going on for 6 hours)

Martyrdom, spiritual warfare, Kirk as a 13th disciple - the sacralisation of Kirk is being pushed extremely hard. calls for TPUSA to exist for „eternity“ make this memorial into an eerie mix of a propaganda event, MAGA rally, religious revival and memorial. Now, Stephen Miller goes on stage.

Now talking: antisemitic White Nationalist Jack Posobiec (who gave a Hitler salute at CPAC) who compares Kirk to Moses and talks about the survival of „Western civilisation“, claims Kirk‘s sacrifice will be the „turning point“- „are you ready to put on the full armour of god“ in „spiritual warfare“

The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display

No need to pretend that this is about immigration anymore.

We have gathered here to mourn the murder of one of our own and to encourage the murder of many others

"Some administration officials, the sources say, determined that even though it was likely this was another instance of the president accidentally posting a private message publicly, it was best to just carry on, and act like it was a written demand that was always meant for public consumption."

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This isn’t a memorial service. It’s a political rally.

The New York Times is the most influential source of right wing propaganda in the entire world. This shit is just absolutely absurd. We’re going to see our rights gone and be killed because of this newspaper.

like how do you look back at this in hindsight and conclude that no one, in fact, really gave a shit about this guy, after you also see everything that's happened

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

I very rarely use twitter these days--I read it the way a Soviet citizen would read Pravda--but my last tweet did attract people calling me a Nazi or a fag communist with a butt plug up my ass for suggesting that the destruction of Gaza's Christians is a bigger Christian new story than Charlie Kirk.

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

2025: when the news is so crazy that you check your phone at the end of the night and question how strong the weed you smoked after the show was.

sorry what? I go watch a little stand up comedy for a few hours and when I come back Trump might be replacing important DOJ leaders with the Florida insurance lawyer currently assigned to ideologically purify the Smithsonian?