My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

It is still likelier than not Dems will win by enough to take the House. But if they come up short by some single-digit number of seats and it was... all this... that made the difference, that's a pretty huge leap towards full-blown legitimacy crisis territory.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Gerrymandering is legal when republican politicians do it gleefully to disenfranchise black people. Gerrymandering is illegal when voters ask for it.

This is a good piece, and it's important to talk about how harmful traditional Christian views around sex can be (ask me how I know!) but also "sex cannot be handed off" will have me laughing for the rest of the day.

guess what time it is ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

The bigger issue here is what it says about the decision-making process in college sports against the backdrop of significant, existential issues. sports.yahoo.com/mens-college...

this is the part i hate most. make the shitty at large teams have the bum fight. the low majors that won their conference tournaments should get to experience thursday or friday games.

The people who voted to do this are listed by name in the article, and you can find email addresses for most of them pretty quickly on Google, in case you want to blow off some steam

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

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So like if someone asks you if what’s happened in Gaza is a genocide,

Extremely telling that nobody who says some version of this ever seems to have any examples to point out

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Given *gestures at the state of the world* I've not been as angry about this as I would otherwise be. But every time I think about it, it's just so profoundly stupid. Nobody wants 17-16 Auburn in the dance. Nobody wants to fill out a bracket with 12 fucking TBD spots. Fuck everyone responsible.

holy shit learn how to be journalists again, i beg you

he had one overriding job, Get Trump, and he essentially refused to do it

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

This remains a bonkers stat

Houston will NOT take any of the Redbird capital infusion via their Big 12 deal. UCF has said the same thing. I thought Houston (the lowest revenue public school in the league) might be a candidate for that money. I was wrong! www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/colle...

Couple of recent updates, TCU got Luke Bamgboye out of the portal, an intra-conference transfer from Tech. Really like that addition for them, an elite shot blocker at the 5 is exactly what they needed to complete their starting lineup. I'm officially buying TCU stock.

Couldn't help myself, with transfer portal action slowing down, I took a look at where every Big 12 men's hoops team's roster stands at the moment. Let's dive in. (Thread, obviously)

Feels like this would actually be a very appropriate color scheme for a building named after Dr. Seuss and his wife

I haven’t given any $ to a Democratic campaign in years. Haven’t felt they’d know what to do with it. I could however see giving to candidates who explicitly map out how they’d destroy the Supreme Court.

This is an old story, I know this one. The beavers built the Kibbie Dome.

this is the thing that's most interesting to me about that Big 12 private capital / cash infusion thing www.extrapointsmb.com/p/so-what-s-...

Think you gotta slot Raegan McCowan in and make Hamilton or Enriquez your 6th player. Starting to like this team's potential.

BIG portal get for Cougar women's hoops! 6-foot guard Raegan McCowan commits after playing the last 3 yrs @ W Illinois (2x 1st team All-OVC selection before missing most of 25-26 injured) & averaged 20.4 pts and 7.7 rebs per game in her career. Sounds like she'll have 2 yrs of eligibility left.

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

Huge dc Talk and Newsboys fan growing up, this was a gut-wrenching read, holy shit

it won’t be hard to discern to people in the future that the first black president led to a relentless and hyper-radical effort by conservative elites to destroy not only the voting rights act but reconstruction itself.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

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Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has announced that he is cancer-free after five years of battling blood cancer

Impeach the bribe-takers and pack this fucking Court

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Every Trump rally in 2016, 2020, and 2024:

I get that it's a foundational principle of US democracy that every adult can vote, and that voting literacy tests have been used to disenfranchise minorities, but it makes me feel some kinda way that people this fucking stupid are allowed to vote and plunge the US and the world into such chaos.

Best of luck to Kat. But this definitely hurts, as she had the program heading in the right direction, and UH will likely be looking at a roster rebuild the way these things go these days.

Watch this. I've never seen John Oliver this angry in all the years I've watched him. The same money you're paying for the agents to do your vibe coding is going to companies that are destroying families and building data centers. But not in your backyard, so who cares, right?

Will admit I’m salty BYU got an NCAA nod over UH. 1 game worse in B12 play (both teams got an OSU forfeit), negligible differences in non-conf resume and UH won the regular season h2h 4-0 but BYU ranks higher in the nebulous ITA rankings & got the postseason nod.

Jamal Shead, you defensive genius.

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I'm supportive of the cause but this is scary as hell. Even assuming a 100% effective AI (unlikely), if my wife has a medical emergency in the middle of the night and I'm shaking off drowsiness but feel okay to drive her to the hospital, my car just goes nah man, you look fatigued, and won't start?

I FUCKING LOVE TOMAS SOUCEK

Good morning, it would be a great day for UH women's golf to win Houston's first non-men's-hoops Big 12 championship

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.