lgbtq+? no thanks i have enough streaming subscriptions

"This issue’s cover, I hope, will serve as a planted flag. A statement of principle in the face of political headwinds blowing from both sides of the aisle. Something small to hold onto as some Democrats—in this election season without end—subject civil rights to political expediency."

good news every one the extremely cheap costume-y sleeveless shirt i ordered online for a last minute renfaire look fits, project buff stable boy remains on track

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It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

on this point: also remember the possibility of dummymanders. some republican maps redrawn for 2026 rely on 2024 demographic trends, which have, shall we say, not seemed to hold up in the year and a half since. i think it's likely that we see at couple of those seats drawn for republicans turn blue

a wider majority is always better but i'm still entirely confident in the win/lose outcome of the house midterms, and there is more to get out of new gerrymanders by 2028. the confederate states that will try the same each have only one or two black representatives to draw out of government

the big thing conservatives pretended to be mad about my entire childhood was "activist judges"

it’s so crazy that Virginia voters amended the constitution to allow redistricting while Florida voters amended the constitution to ban gerrymandering… but the Republican hacks on both state supreme courts overturned the will of the voters to ensure that republicans get their preferred outcome

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

It's also worth repeating that Florida just explicitly violated a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering in passing its Democrat-annihilating map, & it's only because the Republicans have totally captured that state's supreme court that the map will move ahead regardless.

if dolly parton goes before that man i will attack and dethrone god

me but in the absolute vibes-based and poorly informed sense that this cat's expression suggests

i sincerely do not mean anything specific by this, i am sincerely expressing a lack of understanding, feel like i need to clarify this every time because someone will yell at me even with this disclaimer, but i flatly do not understand uk council elections or why they look like this

thinking about the amount of green energy produced in a world where everyone was nice to me

you ever take a shower and Become Sad

do not allow the fact that the fire has not ceased to distract you from the success of the ceasefire

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

the ethnonationalist internationale

My primary thought, as southern Republicans drop all pretense and scramble to grab more power, is that if the rot runs deeper than we thought, so must the needed reforms.

many of the greatest dishes in the world are a) indecipherable bowls of brown stuff functionally impossible to make visually stunning or b) served spooned onto toast and sometimes, if you’re very lucky, they are both

cooking jams

who could have predicted that i'd do the same thing i always do when i make my favorite bowl of brown for dinner: buy the ingredients for the full recipe, decide this is too much veg-slicing, and end up with a chicken-heavy dish and half an onion and package of mushrooms to use up later this week

[slamming hands on table] final fantasy 13's linearity is in service of its themes, the whims of society and the gods, lives run from on high by forces beyond the characters' and player's control, until they see and seize their agency and catapult into a new world, the game's open map

“.. Democratic state representative Justin J. Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson are removed from the gallery after taking part in a silent sit-in protesting redistricting efforts by the state's Republican leadership in Nashville, Tennessee.” @reuters.com #TN09

received my primary ballot. contemplating [redacted]

do not allow the fact that the fire has not ceased to distract you from the success of the ceasefire

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

you win the internet today!! but at what cost? with at long last a quiet moment to think on what you've wrought, what you've become, the pyrrhic victory turns to ash in your mouth

we're back at 'everything is gender'

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

When it’s 24 hours before the D line extension to Wilshire and La Cienega opens up and you’re stuck in traffic on the 10.

i do not want to hear anything about the 2028 presidential primary but i especially do not want to hear anything about the 2028 presidential primary that has to do with maine

this is the first time i can recall an elected republican openly voicing the possibility that the next democratic trifecta will, well, behave like this republican trifecta has

been thinking a lot about the long dance between government doublespeak and american cynicism lately

when you're mean to me online etc

a series of small organizational conveniences for the home could fix me

The Republican Party has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act because they want to keep a dying pedophile in office for the rest of his life.

A still-life drawing of a peach

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

hey everyone can i borrow priceless artifact amount of money real quick. it's important

i don't know if it's an unpopular opinion but it certainly brings out angry naysayers every time: no state should have a part-time legislature

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

this is, of course, a wind project in california, and california is investigating the scheme as potentially illegal. the overall message is that it's not safe to invest in the united states — unless the purpose is to bribe the president

in my natural state (watching a murder mystery b-movie and eating spicy pork rinds at 2am)

today i said that it was possible that in some distant future the most enduring historical legacy of donald trump might be the end of free maritime trade and because i wasn't explicit about the path to getting there was accused of eliding his criminality and white supremacism

I'm really struggling to use social media lately specifically because it feels like people's reading comprehension skills are TANKING 25% of the replies feel like someone responding to a different, vaguely related post. And you can't imply anything or they miss it

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

this is what republicans and the handful of "well what's the harm?" democrats are threatening here in the us. scrambles through bureaucratic offices to access your right to vote. your right to participate in your government. i don't care who it would impact. it's a crime against anyone