Enten: "Donald Trump, 65% disapproval on healthcare. That is the highest for any president this century."

When my father arrived as a stateless refugee in 1979 Vienna he was placed in a boarding house that turned out to be a brothel. It took him two days to discover this because he said he tried to have an open mind and not make rude assumptions about Austrian women and culture.

We all do realize that marginalization inevitably positively correlates with platform rule violations right - internet more likely to be only community - wider variety of things more draining to see - 1 and 2 strain friendships with "passive bystanders" - which moderators wish everybody were

I straight up refuse to believe that any politician in Virginia doesn’t mean it when they say “cotton-picking hands”

Many such cases

A Lesbian Fortuneteller Brainwashes Female Customers to Do Filthy Things

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

* Stop Everything * Kris Get The Banana

Senator Oysterfuhrer here we come

Hey, that’s cool about art and stuff, but what about posting on the internet www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Please take my phone away from me

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.

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For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

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Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

Why does the UK keep inventing these impenetrable and arcane processes for selecting a leader when "Bake Off" already exists.

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We should ask why it has ever been made even slightly controversial to state that people who vote for the racist far right are likely racist themselves. Of course they are! What kind of PC Gone Mad bullshit is this, if you can’t state obvious reality.

From now on, I'm going to write papers where I take an arbitrary performance metric, restrict the sample to top performers on that metric, and then hunt for negative correlations with everything else in the truncated sample. I'm at a business school, so this should be extremely lucrative.

Mensa Reddit is amazing

7 months to go

Perhaps the Court can declare in advance what election results they want to see and by what margin in order for it to be a valid election.

The democratic theory of the Virginia Supreme Court

i will post this every chance i get

Trying out riffs that probably wouldn’t work elsewhere

Bret’s thread is great, but also, “you fools!! you can’t play with the 2800-year tragically flawed figure of myth!! you’ll subvert the entire canon of great men!!” is just such loser dweeb nonsense Like imagine going through life terrified that someone might rework a character older than Rome

I run a comic piracy service but we don’t get taken down because it’s all just London newspaper cartoons from the 1800s. readership is limited to “Mrs. Brown” obsessives, guys who like old-timey fi/ff/fl ligatures, and EMF sensitives who avoid even *reading* about electricity.

This is partly harris's fault for opening the door by embracing trump's No Tax on Tips bribe to the culinary union and partly their stupid fault for not realizing that she fucking still lost. We're never gonna beat republicans at the stupid tax cut game! Wtf are you doing!

it was included in the housing proposals section of the debate!

One thing I would add to this is that a lot of people will tell you "Russian public opinion polling is unreliable because Russians think those are monitored" and this argument is conceptually the same

Part of the problem: there are no Dem-aligned media organizations that can run a story into the ground the way Fox News could back in the day, and force everyone else to run second-order stories on how politicians/etc are reacting.

i, too, am primarily judging consciousness by how much people claim to like to read my writing

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

Stephen A Smith: Skip, I absolutely believe the attempts on his life were real. I've been very clear on that from the jump Skip: You have SAS: HOWEVER. When you lie to the people every day about obvious things they can see aren't true, the only people who still buy your shit work in the press

Owen Hunt is so terrible that whenever he had storylines about advocating for military service members or veterans' healthcare, I as an active duty soldier at the time would think "you know what, fuck the troops".

I’m no big city lawyer but this is also what I was wondering

It is crazy that before Nixon the last impeachment attempt had occurred more than a century prior

i think we should internalize the cost of negative externalities

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

Judging by the merits of his proposal, Graham Platner is helping Big Oil commit climate arson. America's gas and diesel taxes are already an order of magnitude smaller than every single developed country not named Russia or Canada. That's why there is no urgency in this country to decarbonize!

This is a core part of human art-production depicting a core part of human activity. Its absurd that we are somehow becoming more prudish about this than in the past!

this attempt to drive erotica off the internet wholesale is so bizarre to me. Like even practicalities aside, it makes zero normative sense.

Social Media in 2035