Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

This is a mood booster

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Maine had a burgeoning, nation-leading community solar boom going ... but the legislature just basically killed it. *Democrats* killed it. *In the name of affordability.* JESUS FUCKING CHRIST this party loves shooting itself in the dick.

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

It’s the freakin weekend

just a small town girl // livin’ in a pornhub world

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Among the recently released DOW “UFO files” is a picture that was first published in a german comedy magazine in the 1950s as an April Fool’s joke. Very good stuff

Thou shalt not go to a store without showing ID.

Ah, ok. So the Court is saying the Virginia redistricting measure did not win by *enough* to go into effect. Interesting and not at all wildly corrupt and unfair.

I’m going to be the pout pout fish today.

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

here’s a PSA that if you’ve ever gotten medical imaging done you can request a copy of the data from the hospital and extract a model of your own body parts to look at, or even 3D print. pretty useful if you’re in the market for contemplating your own mortality

"Some of us were too quick to believe in a final cultural/political victory, confident that even as Republicans used their power to preserve emblems of the Confederacy and banish discussion of slavery and racism from schools, they were fighting a doomed rear-guard action." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

They passed a law to break a law. Then they passed a racist map. And they don’t have to tell anyone what happened 👇🏽 It’s all so dark. Watch fascism work. 🇺🇸 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Nice diluted margins y’all just handed us, sure would be a shame if anything happened to them

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

One of the defining hallmarks of our modern age is that people in charge of good things are willing to make them incrementally worse for a chance to make more money, knowing most people are powerless to stop it.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Also, most of us here sucked it up & voted for Harris anyway when there was no other choice. Some liberals just need to have this imaginary leftist voter villain because they never want to have to reflect on Democrat failures and why they should perhaps discourage yet another repeat of said failures

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

its not that the wapo oped section was great before but its turned into a pathetic "leave the billionaires aloneeeeeeee" rag under bezos

Seconded

New in PN: The Confederacy rises again "But this is more than a tragedy for voting rights. It’s a kind of revival of the Confederacy, in a way that few liberals thought was possible. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem so lost anymore."

WALTER BAILEY: “Dr. King took a bullet in the neck. They were shot. Killed. Murdered. Advancing voting rights… it’s an insult to their legacy. To their deaths.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn SenJohnson BrentTaylorTN #Memphis

The state legislature tried to make a 63 percent black city live with a statue honoring a slave trader, KKK leader, and convict lessor. Now they’re going to make sure Memphians are represented in Congress by someone who hates them, and is terrified to step foot in the city. (Or any city.)

This is the history many people don't want you to know occurred even as it's happening again all around you.

I worked on the Captain Planet cartoon early in my career and I remember it stemmed from Turner wanting to do something environmentally conscious for kids. I also remember him visiting the studio and hitting on the receptionist. He contained multitudes.

The FBI’s reported investigation focusing on an Atlantic journalist would represent a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s war against press freedom, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Jesus. The fact that they tipped off Fox News seems like a red flag that this is bullshit.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

gosh if only we had a word for when people are spending more on everything

Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"

Add him to the Philly news interview pantheon

Okay Dobber.

Pregnancy is the most dangerous time in your life for, like, every reason you can think of.