there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

This is their goal but it's not JUST an abortion drug. It's also used to treat stuff like Cushing's I'm pointing this out because the crackdown on reproductive health (they also want to get rid of birth control) doesn't just stop there. It has knock on effects for female health broadly*

The net effect here is to compel women to have more painful abortions.

"Snake Pliskin? I thought you were dead" as a recurring joke in Escaping New York lives in my head rent free. I freaking love Carpenter and this bit in equal measure.

The Heartstone goes well? Strangely? I'm at 4733 so it's not like I'm stupid awesome but I've won the last few games. so I'm pretty happy about that. I really like playing around tavern spells. Just incredibly fun and hits all my nerd instincts.

What has been the impact of the Roberts Court on democracy? Wealthy people have more political power than everyone else. Partisan actors have more power to reduce voter choice. Black people and other minority groups are offered fewer protections and less visible political representation.

Hahahahha Ahahahha Huge fucking hole in the roof of the house we put in an offer for. Chances they are going to pay to fix everything appropriately are basically zero. It's a big fucking hole and the whole roof needs to be worked on. Just... shit.

Who Gutted The Voting rights act ???? Because it was not Black people

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

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once again, it is great that the president is a klan-level racist

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

The real death panel was Mike Johnson's House majority.

The thing I learned from watching Mamdani is that if you did something you have to constantly remind people you did it and not just mention it once and expect everyone to remember it or even notice

I am struggling to understand why for so much of the media, when a sitting president and his goons kill people summarily at home and abroad that that is somehow not categorized as “political violence”

for many americans, increasingly all Ds but not all liberals, the civil rights acts - w/ VRA as crown jewel - was a legitimizing fact of US history. it made it possible to say for all the flaws, in the long view, we were moving forward. our civic faith led to worldly acts. that's decisively gone now

if a candidate is gonna embody this movement it's going to have to be someone who speaks very optimistically but forthrightly in *moralistic* terms. they can be a wonk but only when necessary. the rhetorical register has to be nonstop moralistic about everything, even the cost of living, etc.

Rand reverts to form. The GOP is now pushing on all fronts to ram as much horrible shit through as quickly as possible to capitalize on the destruction of the Voting Rights Act.

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

That’s actually a wonderful analogy for it. There’s social dark matter and we know this because we can see it pulling on public opinion in ways our models don’t predict. What it is, how it works, how it changes - well, that’s a matter of speculation and debate.

This gets right to the heart of the logic of the Roberts Court re-writing the Voting Rights Act into a statute that permits the consideration of race only if it is used to disenfranchise people of color:

I did. With the union busting, Pinkertons, ceo's love for ai, its tough for me to really like working for wotc. The creative team is great, everyone I worked with online, but we need to hold some top-floor feet to the fire here.

I think this, when we retake power, justifies stripping Louisiana of representation in Congress and suspending all federal transfer payments under the Guarantee Clause.

It's worth noting that it's also *only* rotisserie chicken, and they deliberately made the provision narrow to continue excluding all other hot and prepared foods. So, to add onto Maura's point, it doesn't actually expand food access.

Slava Ukraini bay bee.

Good get Rekt, Russia

I support ruthlessly partisan redistricting that makes the need to ban gerrymandering nationally (or better yet ditch individual districts altogether!) as clear to voters as possible. It should be at the top of the party platform & we should demand it in the press daily.

"When men no longer feel honored" THIS IS THE ATTITUDE OF A FUCKING CHILD.

looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

It shows how much their arguments are disingenuous. Less than a day and they're trying to make Jim Crow come roaring back.

the biggest gift of witnessing Minnesotan resistance is the spark of hope you get from the moments that feel like something new another world is possible and we are making it we are tired but we will take turns our hearts grow when we feel collective care we see the possibilities in each other

You love to see it, you really do

It’s interesting what some people consider social problems that we must solve collectively (men being sad) and ones we consider not worth solving at all (anyone else’s problems) bsky.app/profile/volt...

what are some pie in the sky ideas that normies and low-trust/info and bsky nerds would all love but aren’t even thought of as possible because they’re outside the overton window or seen as orthogonal to electoral politics? all i can think of is variations on free stuff — which speaks to the problem

to every man to whom this brickhead dogshit applies: grow the fuck up

the entire anti-DEI push has always been an obvious motte-and-bailey because every time we get even the tiniest glimpse of what the right wants to do in a facially neutral world it's just discrimination against women and minorities they do not want fairness and they never have

Everybody, absolutely everybody, saw Callais coming. It’s the logical outgrowth of a successful effort to gut the Voting Rights Act that spans decades, predicated upon a myopic understanding of racial discrimination and an antebellum conception of federalism. That doesn’t make this any easier.

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

Evergreen skeet

"Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is the thing that proves America is in its decline. It’s Nero’s fiddle. It’s Marie Antionette’s cake."

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

definitely not the most important thing about Callais but it underlines the necessity of DC statehood if we want Black voters to have any representation whatsoever left in this country

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Laughing so I don't cry at this one.

From December: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Amen to this. If they want to act like lawless, unelected despots we get to treat them as such.