Correct If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP

the king of scientific racism is dead, long live the king of scientific racism

not review. Immediate termination. The govt as sovereign can terminate contracts at will (this isn’t some crazy constitutional theory, it’s how government contracting works)

I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

he did call desantis a desperate eunuch. got to hand it him there

Talarico's response is so cool though. "Jesus followed strippers, and are we not commanded to live like Him?" beastmode lmao

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

SO important.

she's so cool

This is fun: even if Republicans nuked the filibuster tomorrow, they would immediately have to turn around and negotiate another CR, which would mean calling the House back into session...which would mean swearing in Adelita Grijalva...which would mean facing the Epstein discharge petition.

Folks need to decide if they want maximum stove-touching or if they want Democrats to save the public from Republican policies. You can't have both.

Seattle's mayoral race will end up quite close; that could make 'challenged' ballots that had some issue key to resolving the race. WA allows voters to "cure" their ballot, i.e. come in and explain or fix issues like forgetting a signature. (Not all states allow this.) Info from the county:

JUST IN: Katie Wilson cuts Bruce Harrell's lead by more than half with today's ballot drop, cutting her deficit from 9908 votes to 4300 votes. She won today's batch of 55,952 ballots by 10%; that's *more* than she needed to win the outstanding ballots by. Over 50K ballots left to count in Seattle.

The professional and managerial classes, AKA the mass intelligentsia, are always the social base of radical political movements.

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge rules Trump’s Portland military takeover unconstitutional. Judge Immergut permanently blocked Trump’s order to federalize Oregon’s National Guard — calling it a violation of the Tenth Amendment and a power grab beyond lawful authority.

AHAHA SUPREME COURT SAYS TOUCH THE STOVE

If a professional did this they would be arrested and I don't really understand why the answer box gets a break

it is extremely funny that Greenwald was absolutely wrong to claim that the Democrats were the Woke CIA Party, but this is absolutely the direction pure chance is pulling us in

bill is the equivalent of the monarchists who came to really despise Hitler. We have a fundamentally different view of the world, but our views converge here.

how much in state funding does Cornell receive from New York and why should it not be $0

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

I think in his mind his principles are fully consistent and that's what makes him so fascinating.

man this could have been The End

what a wondrous few weeks when it looked like it would be

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

anyone who assumes the Epstein Files would be as consequential as the Mueller Report, myself still mostly included, has good reason, but man they don't seem confident they can just weather whatever's there

okay that's the hardest i've laughed at onion content in a while

Because it's true! California constantly gets told fuck you by red state politicians because it's seen as an avatar of left-liberalism and gets paid dust bc not a swing state despite this state generating so much of the wealth and cultural power this stupid country depends on! Well, fuck THEM

In the last 24 hours, Sean Duffy has proudly proclaimed he's willing to ruin Thanksgiving, Trump has said all of the money you pay for groceries is a lie, and now they are actively fighting to keep people hungry. It's amazing how notable the lack of adults in the room is this time around.

Lotta good back and forth in the various strains of this thread about Jay Jacobs, but I really just want to focus on Brian's last line here. Nassau County Dems - Suozzi, Gillen, Jacobs - all spent more time melting down over Mamdani than boosting their own candidates. It's a huge failure.

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

High salaries, ban on owning stocks, strong pension, and high punishment for corruption.

high salaries and robust public funding for elections

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

If this govt cared about waste and abuse, it would not have fired every inspector general to replace them with flunkies

We're putting Bill Kristol in a key position in Woke HUAC, more and more are saying it

All evidence points to Trump being possibly the greatest conman our species has ever produced and you could have made that argument well before he even entered politics. Just because it didn't work on you doesn't mean it's not true.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

After the Civil War, the “Lost Cause” mythology centered the battle of Gettysburg. They obsessed over command decisions. Their scapegoat was Longstreet because he went scalawag. Someone asked him “why did we lose at Gettysburg?” and he said “I think the federal army had something to do with it.”

The opposition to solar farms from rural communities is entirely cultural, not economic and certainly not ecological.

jury nullification in cases of prosecutorial abuse is also a thing juries are for

someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral i will not share the video but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

The escalation of violence favors reactionaries, until democratic society has no choice but self-defense. And then it flips, and flips hard.

oh hey i was just writing about this

Zohran’s successful campaign is an antidote to the aggressively regressive politics of our current moment.