/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.

It's very important, yet difficult, to separate old despicable shit from new despicable shit. "It's totally fine for gerrymandering to be overly political to disenfranchise a political minority" is relatively old despicable shit. /1

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

I’d like the opportunity to again say a hearty F U to the people who shamed us for worrying about the Supreme Court. Hysterical, my ass.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.

Also, most importantly: It was an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.

The system failed, & it failed because individuals who swore oaths to uphold the Constitution are absolute cowards.

Again, we knew this 10 months ago. If a legislative confirmation process can't screen out the Hegseths & Bondis, we should simply abolish it. It's worse than useless, because it provides the shabby veneer of the separation of powers & legislative oversight. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

a visibly ailing president alternates between funneling billions to cronies and his children, dozing off during paeans to his own genius, going on shocking white supremacist tirades about the need to expel ethnic groups from the us, and building monuments to himself US media: next, the jobs report

i don’t think we need to do discourse in dc about the boat strikes and frame it as worthy of discussion. “secretary kegstand, with trump’s support, murdered people on a boat in the caribbean” should suffice

It makes more sense when you realize that RFK Jr. isn't an anti-vaxxer. He's a eugenicist. He thinks that people die of disease because they are genetically inferior and vaccines dirty the gene pool by allowing inferior children who should have died of their illnesses to breed.

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

YOU HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH. That's really got to be the starting point of any liberal politics that has any chance. It's the only way to fight on a battlefield where we can win.

JFC

When people talk about Trump more as a symptom of Republican culture, I think this is one area in which this is correct. They built a political cultural in which a open pathological liar could thrive. Perhaps it's pollyannish of me, but I think it's a grave mistake for Dems to follow suit.

I think the thing that made the GOP go completely off the rails more than anything else was the adoption of instrumental lying as a matter of course. This happened as evangelical leadership took over GOP party machinery and brought with them their "lying for the Lord" apologetic culture.

Hell yes, Queen!

Their orange Jesus is perfect and without sin. Everything is a noun, a verb and Joe Biden

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Chicago PD with the help of the FBI murdered Chairman Fred Hampton 56 years ago today. His ability to galvanize people and build cross-cultural coalitions had J Edgar shook. This book is a great primer for anyone who wants to start learning more about Mr. Hampton. Rest in eternal power.

Ever mindful of the visuals, he gathers a giant group of old white people to surround him and support him while he spews his vile racist rants.

“.. what did the group of a little more than a dozen people around Trump do when he made these comments? .. Pretty much nothing. .. Just crickets and frozen smiles ..” @mediaite.com @rumpfshaker.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

8/ A public service reminder: This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts. That's because the truth is: It's not an armed conflict. The laws of war thus don't apply. The more restrictive rules of human rights apply. It's extrajudicial killing under that law.

hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.

also "stands in direct opposition to many observers outside the industry who have expressed frustration with the blurring of ethical lines in the Trump White House" is perhaps the longest, most overwritten way of saying "crooked as fuck" I've ever seen

If you cancel out all the overwritten BS these three paragraphs reduce down to "tech oligarchs want gobs of government money and no government regulation," which is presented as some kind of novel new kind of "thinking" about regulation but it's just ... what robber barons have always wanted.

Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.

This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.

A good illustration of the Trump administration's autocratic ambitions. What constitutional or legal authority does Trump have to "remake higher education" or to demand the universities pay "fines."? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

I don't recall any stories about how the appointment of the next Fed Chair might affect the mood of previous presidents.

Here's yet another story elevating Trump's emotions--in this case the danger of incurring Trump's "wrath"--as the essence of the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

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Are we great yet

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Trump is advancing fentanyl deaths in the US as the sole rationale for a land invasion of Venezuela. Total volume of fentanyl entering the US from Venezuela: zero (0). Total volume of fentanyl equivalent opioids manufactured and disseminated in US markets by GOP donors: roughly 55% of the total.

just what every american wants: cars that burn more gas, less efficiently

this is a completely unserious, bullshit plan, and everyone should say so

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

This is racist and dangerous. Last I checked, Somalians are Black and Rep. Omar is a colleague. Where are the @housedemocrats.bsky.social? The @blackcaucus.bsky.social ? Do not allow these insults to go unanswered.

Bombing random boats in the ocean without attempting to prove origin and the propriety of target is such an obvious war crime everyone involved should be fired just on pure stupidity, but violation of their oath will, as usual, suffice

Its black comedy that its only now that the media seems to well and truly know that Donald Trump Is Old

I'm just glad that the electorate looked at the two candidates, one of sound mind and prime age and the other a rapidly deteriorating old man with oatmeal for brains and made the right call

Walking around like 'oh wow but who would have told us' and its like 'literally Kamala Harris told you everything htat has happened under Trump in her debates. If you watched the debates, you were explicitly told.'

In LESS THAN A CALENDAR YEAR these absolute cretins figured out, oh yeah, Donald Trump is old and maybe not a magical send-it-back-to-2019 switch we can flip and I personally loathe the shit out of them for it. Thermostatic public idiocy more like

Don't get me wrong I lost a lot of respect for a lot of people in 2024 but the people who I lost the most respect for is The People, and I gotta say, seeing the special election results makes me madder at them