she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

oh hey look another nyt piece telling us the only ways democrats can win is by being republicans what a shocker

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Look, if Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to fight against Trump, great. Do that. Absolutely. Good luck. Cause chaos. Whatever. But absolutely no one on the left should be teaming up with her for anything.

A-fucking-men to @jamellebouie.net:

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Sarah Isgur is the worst Supreme Court commentator that gets treated seriously. This is reductive to the point of being plain daft.

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I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Meanwhile zero of the women have tapped out because of bears. And I think it’s because they’ve NEVER been able to cosplay as apex predators, so they’ve always known the deal is living in harmony with nature, and dealing with the fact that there are predators out there. /fin

BTW, this is how vouchers have ALWAYS worked when implemented. (1) Almost all the vouchers go to families already privately schooling their kids. (2) Once the vouchers are a thing, the private schools hike their tuition so that the few poors who get vouchers still can't afford them. #Segregation

Perhaps my biggest pet cause, and the ONE SIMPLE TRICK that I believe could singlehandedly save democracy is getting rid of algorithmically generated content feeds, and taking power from the people who tune them at the expense of shared reality, in favor of ad revenue. badfaithtimes.com/untitled-7/

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

pope tweets good

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

Rick Scott says the only way to solve deficits is to eliminate the filibuster. But the deficits he voted for, which of course also had historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, were filibuster proof. The big issue is folks like Senator Scott keep making deficits larger with tax cuts.

A person who genuinely believed that a population collapse threatened their country's existence would favor dramatically increased immigration to offset declining birth rates. That the Millers favor the opposite is because of racism: a whiter America is more important than a thriving one.

Just as a very general rule, when a Supreme Court pundit writes the sort of book about the Supreme Court that a sitting Supreme Court justice feels comfortable promoting in public, you should be skeptical of everything else that Supreme Court pundit says about the Supreme Court, forever

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.

Obviously not necessarily true about any given person, but I think there is a lot of people who represent themselves as speaking for low income Americans while not being low income Americans.

The touchpad tipping thing is very funny to me, it is (1) the absolute definition of a thing you can just solve by yourself, (2) it essentially only occurs in situations involving non-essential spending, you can just make yourself a sandwich!

how much money does the marine corps lose

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

it doesn't matter that they're liars and bluffers, it doesn't matter that they're pussies, it doesn't matter that they (probably) won't do what they're threatening to do. its enough that they are saying it. its enough that it's possible. this is not acceptable to any living creature on the planet

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

They cared a lot about what Europe was supposedly doing when it came to trans people in Skrmetti.

these are exactly the stakes! embracing trump’s view would be embracing the cramped vision of freedom and belonging that we fought a civil war to banish to the ash heap of history

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Not mine- but love it so much!

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Gosh, perhaps there are fewer campus protests because schools, as The Atlantic urged them to do, aggressively went after protestors. Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge.

Hear, hear. In so many cases, folks who claim they "aren't political" are just saying they're satisfied with the way the status quo is working out for them.

I think this could go either way, and it's profoundly alarming that it may come down to a single vote. The legal arguments against late-arriving ballots make no sense; the policy arguments are rooted in concern about voter fraud that does not exist. I fear for the midterms. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.

Wild what you can get away with in articles about cycling. This is objectively false! A city with less driving and more biking is far safer for pedestrians. Hate cyclists all you want but that’s an empirical fact

People make mistakes. People change. They can be forgiven personally or before their higher power. All of that is a different thing than being elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country. We should have standards for that. This isn't even a high or complicated bar.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted, and 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Keep going with this, Paris.