"enlightened centrism" is just capitulation to fascists at best; nobody would have given 2 shits about Tina peters in a month, and justice would have been exacted.

So...Spanberger vetoes of collective bargaining, prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) and legalized marijuana marketplace legislation? bluevirginia.us/2026/05/vide...

all these features are going to suck shit

primary every centrist democrat

man I hate being right all the time

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.

The absurd SCOTUS immunity decision must be ignored. Legislation or amendments must be passed to codify that blatant corruption like this is (obviously) illegal. These are crimes against us all.

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

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When you can lose HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS without any meaningful effect on your life you have too much money.

Here's a graph showing interest payments from 1792 to present. The US has a problem, stemming from historically high primary deficits coupled w/ interest rates that have somewhat rebounded. But if we hadn't done the Bush and Trump tax cuts, we wouldn't: the high primary deficits come from tax cuts

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

This is a calamity. You can’t out-vote a gerrymander. We’ve seen this time and again. The end result here will be that elections are no longer capable of changing the makeup of our government. We’ll have minoritarian rule by the oligarchs, and change becomes impossible through peaceful means.

Gerrymandering for me but not for thee, the Republican way.

We are watching literally the free power revolution materialize in front of us, and we can't wait to drill another hole in the ground to extract dinosaur juice that kills the planet.

Yes, you still need to build the frames these sit on and someone still needs to connect them up and blah blah blah The robot isn't really the point The point is that China has scaled solar installation into a production line activity here Ford Model T solar instead of handbuilt artisanal solar

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

"Civility favors the oppressor, never the oppressed," is the most true statement I ever read on the internet

Boston sports since February

dudes rock

No joke, this is my work computer background.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

@nflgimpy.bsky.social But we can just solve this if we say gerrymandering is bad harder and unilaterally disarm!!!

It’s the “ill will.”

Each week's challenge is just a contest to score the most cocaine for Don Jr.

King Charles' to Congress: “Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.” It's pretty telling when the KING OF FUCKING ENGLAND needs to remind our legislature of this.

The Supreme Court's Republicans just gutted the Voting Rights Act, severely weakening democracy. By 2028, Republicans could erase many VRA congressional seats and entrench state legislative supermajorities across the South—and oust Black, Latino, & Native officials from local governments nationwide

My quick read of Callais decision is that the majority says if a racial community votes consistently with a party, then it is okay to deny them representation because that's just partisan gerrymandering

This:is 💯 correct. The vast majority of Section 2 litigation (and settlements made under the threat of litigation) have been at the local level. Callais will gut minority representation in city councils, county supervisors, and school boards across the county.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Congresswoman @scanlon.house.gov warns of federal government "labeling people who disagree with the president's policies as 'domestic terrorists' under NSPM-7, putting their names on secret government lists..."

I don't want a motherfucking ballroom, especially since I'll never be invited to use it, and neither will 98% of US citizens. I want USAID. And NIH. And NSB. And NASA. I want free breakfast and lunch for school kids. I want healthcare for all.

It can’t be repeated enough that *the security cordon worked* and the venue was, in fact, capable of safely accommodating everyone there. Security at the WH would work exactly the same way with someone attempting to sprint through the outside perimeter.

I'm going to guess this will be used as an argument for Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom...

the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide

Via ABC: "Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a special forces soldier who was involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for allegedly pocketing more than $400,000 by betting on his removal from office" abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

The FCC is soliciting feedback on whether to push the TV ratings system to ban trans and nonbinary characters from children's TV shows. www.imdb.com/it/news/ni65...

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

So they are using the indictment to out informants, right?

SPLC used paid informants within extremist circles to infiltrate the system of hate & investigate w help if law enforcement DOJ saying SPLC "funded extremist groups" & "money laundered" Is just upside down world This lawsuit is probably to uncover the informants www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/p...

Stop me if you've heard this, but I feel strongly that suburban cities that want tax dollars for transit but don't want the housing that makes transit fiscally sustainable should get zero tax dollars. Not just for transit, but in general. Bankrupt moochers, IMO cal.streetsblog.org/2026/04/20/b...

I have confirmation the SAVE Act died because Senate Republicans knew it would disenfranchise their own voters at much higher rates than Democrats. I wasn’t going crazy.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.