Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

we’re all stuck in biff’s hotel and casino

“The court is currently ruled by a brutal Christofascist majority; it sees itself as an all-powerful legislature. And as an all-powerful, Christofascist legislature, the court is determined to prevent any & all efforts to restore democracy and end Christian authoritarianism.” You gotta face facts.

his colleagues grew suspicious when a third customized F150 Raptor appeared in his driveway

gerrymandering to dilute the voting power of right-wingers is good because their ideas are poisonous and evil. in this respect it is better than other uses of gerrymandering. thank you for attending my political science course

god i miss the deadspin name of the year bracket

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If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

temu versailles

Matcha.

Not to spoil the plot of the book @jtomlin.bsky.social and I are writing but Protestants absolutely do crusading and talk about it in similar language and just spit at the Pope and call crusades Romish bullshit while proclaiming theirs the true holy war--Hegseth and Johnson aren't special.

merely a few years after the plague conflict arises between the king's worm of an advisor and the pope. a preacher whose doctrine advises strange uses of the flesh hath also near died before the public eye. woe upon us for we are under an evil star

viola davis

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

A disconsolate Rod Dreher ordering one exorcism after another at his local in Budapest. A manager discreetly tells him that he's cut off and Dreher howls "just gimme the fucking rites" at the barback.

jd vance has the energy of someone who has cried to an evanescence song

oh that’s why Smoky the Bear changed his slogan to “Eat Shit, Treehuggers!”

Just got news that my book is going into its fourth printing. It has been out for three days

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The people who can survive the snake pit of Vatican politics long enough to rise to the top tend to be pretty sharp; Leo was effectively Francis’s internal hatchet-man before election. Only way this ends for the crew of dipshits picking fights with them is humiliation on increasingly grand stages.

delivery guy had a shirt with a cartoon dinosaur that said “don’t be a cuntasaurus” and i feel that is a message more folks need to hear

i hate being in that asshole’s shitty reality show

Maybe it's my Ivy degree in political science talking, but people who threw "fascist" around incorrectly according to my checklist are going to be pret-ty embarrassed to discover he's simply a family annihilator.

Seems like it should be bigger news that Sam Altman is being sued for raping his own sister when she was a child

it’s a tactical ballroom!

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

They should make Forrest Gump an honorary Universal monster

this might be the only platform that isn’t a Superfund site and if you can’t deal with comments on here you should probably leave social media full stop

incredible

Green Dennis gets me every single time

nobody hates the success of black people in america more than clarence thomas. he is the living embodiment of uncle ruckus from the boondocks. worst day in that man's life was having to stand there in the cold and watch obama sworn in as potus.

/4. Fourth: Advocacy does have a moral component. Lying about law and history in an effort to make millions of people stateless is not “doing law the right way.” The notion that advocacy is morally neutral or even inherently good if performed according to cultural ritual remains vapid and harmful.

If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.

i put two bullets into every sweetgreen order as a display of pointless aggression

it’s fine they’ll just respawn in diego garcia with max health and ammo

“man what if they had the infinity gauntlet from the marvel movies and vaporized everyone at the Grove? what then??”

If I ever had a DNA editing robot I’d probably name it Gene Hackman as a little joke.

sure ice looks tough now but wait until they run afoul of a white lady with platinum medallion status and ten minutes to get to her gate for a flight to palm beach

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said. (Published Nov. 2025)

this is somehow worse than the time Bush 1 puked on the japanese PM

yeah this is how like 30% of the electorate works

the face of a guy who has stepped on so many rakes he has CTE

easy bucket

When you're 11 beers deep and someone asks who your favorite character from The Wire is