This whole thread is damning. KCRHA is funded by more than $200 million taxpayer dollars annually and seems to not have an accounting process at all. As Barnett says, the board needs to decide if they want to spend more to fix these issues and fish... or cut bait.

he is losing he is flailing and doing untold amounts of damage that we are all going to be cleaning up for years to come, but he is losing

Truck like that should require a CDL, if they're allowed to exist at all. Just wildly, pointlessly dangerous to everybody around them.

In case you thought Republican pundits and leaders had values beyond serving themselves:

I would LOVE to see the grant proposal for this one. www.wired.com/story/cocain...

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Iran having absolutely zero reason to trust us is going to drag this conflict on for an extremely long time. The US being perceived as generally untrustworthy is going to make conflicts like this one a lot more common.

I took a look at how redistricting changed Inside Elections House ratings, assigning partial credit for incremental shifts. (E.g., Tossup➡️Solid Republican is a GOP gain of half a seat.) By this method, redistricting has netted Democrats about 3.5 seats. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

Virginia is for haters

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

Republicans right now:

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Straight into my veins

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Glad to see 70+ year olds feel they are personally indispensable on both sides on the aisle.

Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal:

I've watched this three times now and I'm still laughing

“Trump’s enablers will be remembered for hiding the dementia, crimes and treason of the worst parasite in US history.”

Wow. 800 passengers. Way to go Gary, Indiana.

This is what the post-Trump era needs to look like.

Beyond pathetic

The trend seems to be about 50% of followers are fake for the typical account.

The pope is weak on crime

Biden set us up as a leading producer of green tech, including EVs, but voters preferred nostalgia and it is going to cost the US literally tens of millions of jobs.

Another beautiful day in Seattle, Washington

I'd be curious to try Claude out. I just asked Copilot to create an engineering drawing for work that did the old fashioned way last week. It spit out a blank AutoCAD drawing, and gives nonsense explanations as to what happened. I gave it three tries with simplified asks but got nothing useful.

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

7 months out from the midterms, here it comes - scare the fuck out of the GOP base by blaming brown & black immigrants for everything. It’s their major go-to.

"Ceasefire"

There does not appear to be a formal written document for the ceasefire agreement.-CNN

In Memorium of the Iran Ceasefire: April 7, 2026 - April 8, 2026

Israel has been continuously violating ceasefires for months now. It's far from a sure thing that the ceasefire with Iran will hold.

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

This. But also, has anything materially changed with each "escalation?" Trump is screaming impotently into the void.

Our war aim is to kill all the Iranians, and the Iranians are being extremely unreasonable by not agreeing to those terms.

Liberals generally and blue state/city dwellers in particular aren't Real Americans and they haven't been since at least the Bush era. It's okay to talk about them in a way that it's absolutely not acceptable to talk about Republican voters.

I’ve been saying this for a while, but Trump won because he quite literally speaks a (variant of the English) language that non-morons cannot actually pull off

Madness. The war crimes, the deranged profanity, the casual Islamophobia. He has no idea how to solve the problem he created and he’s going to spin out about it until he nukes Tehran. He needs to removed and frankly, if he were any other world leader, we’d understand he needs to hang for his crimes

There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.

I think part of that is that for most of us being an atheist is like being a non-chess-player or a non-bluegrass-fan: It’s not something you feel compelled to talk about a whole lot. So loudly public atheists tend to be unrepresentatively dickish.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Over the past year the US economy has added 680,000 healthcare and social assistance jobs and lost 420,000 jobs in all other industries.

“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”

This is the kind of message I want to see more of from sitting senators. This is what Dem electeds need to be saying NOW if we want have any hope of trials actually happening.