this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news and politics from youtube and tiktok

vance making his bid for the groypers

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

also you should straight up be ashamed to lend your name and face too “poor parents with infants have it too good”

are they like, selecting for people who lack any and all on-screen charisma?

Phoenix Sgt. Dusten Mullen told a Chandler police officer that his goal was to get kids in jail if they wanted to break the law. “My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all…so my goal would be to get all these kids in jail if they want to break the law.”

Well, well, well.

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

DeSantis' partisan redistricting won't deter me from representing my community. That's why I'm running in FL-25. I grew up in this district, I live here now, and most of my current FL-23 neighbors do too. It's also a district we can win.

good thing tomorrow is whiskey friday

total failure of lib billionaires that there isn't a cable news channel talking constantly about this guy and semi-spuriously connecting him to jd vance

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

wow a district court judge reversed US sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese. @wyattprivilege.bsky.social and I talked about this, and ICC sanctions the Trump administration was throwing around on @alabseries.bsky.social last year. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

It should be pointed out over and over that besides Bari Weiss being completely obsessed with turning CBS into a television version of her anti-woke, pro-Israel blog, she is also extremely incompetent at the nuts and bolts of running a network. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

This is why the left is so furious at the Dem party. SNAP OUT OF IT!

The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

I'm going to vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social but if you're not a Republican, you need to either vote for him or Becerra. Keep Republicans mad and unemployed as God intended for them to be.

I think there's this view among the Elite Political Classes that the system held because Trump's efforts to use armed force against his enemies fell flat, but if anything the corruption of the rest of the government seems to be accelerating.

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

What has me worried — what we all need to focus on — is that something important in our democracy broke last week, and we are only beginning to see the fallout. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Hey California! Jane Kim is a very good choice for insurance commissioner. I've known and admired her for a long time; she's a brilliant policy wonk, ardent progressive, and unstoppable force.

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

I think we should hold Scutari to his word. as a constituent I certainly intend to.

Tom Takubo, a Republican state senator in West Virginia, faced attacks for—well, I can't summarize it, you can see the image. Takubo won tonight.

What is it like being on the frontlines of the gerrymandering wars? Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones knows firsthand. I spoke with him about his state's new gerrymander — and what's next for democracy in the South. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEANThP_k6Q

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You say "operational minimum," I say "minimum viable scale," but the point is: 1) I hate being right 2) the point that a smooth, linear transition away from fossil fuels isn't possible is well known by the industry folks and analysts

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

would anyone be interested in either something written or podcast about the great transgender migration that's going on right now that no one is really talking about. i feel like no one outside of the trans community knows about this at all

RESULT: GOP’s effort to install an ally as Dem’s Senate nominee in Nebraska fails. An anti-abortion pastor has lost big to Cindy Burbank, who has signaled she’s likely to drop out to help independent Dan Osborn defeat the GOP Senator. GOP tried to kick Burbank off ballot but courts stepped in.

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

hey that's white supremacist fascism

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Translating: The Trump administration is considering settling a lawsuit that Trump filed against the Trump administration (to get a huge payout straight out o from US coffers).

no you dipshits college is killing college. Getting a degree costs way too fucking much and the odds your field gets eliminated upon graduation look way too high rn

Say what you will, Joe Rogan spent decades learning how to host and entertain large numbers of people. His show has a set design and a look that sets it apart. And he himself has a personality. None of these Washington Post hacks have put even a fraction as much effort into their own show.

The president is your vile uncle sharing racist memes on Facebook

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

In the same way Biden depressed center and left media engagement Trump is depressing conservative media engagement because tons of media is just outrage bait.

I got hella radicalized on this researching the YWA Iran-Contra episode. A worse-than-watergate scandal that no one disputed on the merits, it just never got framed as a scandal so the public assumed it was a nothingburger.

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.