When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse
The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.
Anyone else watching the CA gubernatorial debate? Xavier Becerra is doing really well.
this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you should not give adult hippos ketamine
Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.
He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.
And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.
He’s a danger to our planet and our health.
This kind of antifeminism is a socialism of fools, wherein working class resentment at exploitative elites is diverted into anger at feminized phantasms, like “HR.”
EVERYONE who believes that men and women are significantly different really believes that women are in every possible characteristic inferior to all men. #PatriarchyIsAbuse
And full disclosure: he’s a good friend of an acquaintance of mine and Antonio adores him.
All of your episodes are amazing but I really enjoyed this one, especially how you described Fieri’s ostentation pleasure at pretty much all forms of food. Yeah, he’s doing Surfer Dude but also he has such contagious FUN everywhere!
::Stares in math::
No, it's objectively good for democracy that both parties are doing it, for many reasons:
1) As you mentioned, it is the only path to get from "some gerrymandering" to "no gerrymandering."
2) Without it, the party that has leadership whose *stated goal* is ethnic cleansing and world war, would win
Trump still has these massive PACs that have continued to raise obscene amounts of money every day since the 2024 election and he spent none of it on the Virginia redistricting referendum.
Beautiful piece of writing by one of my favorite journalists laying bare the rank hypocrisy and embarrassing absurdity of Blanche’s attack on SPLC.
The only reason the VA redistricting measure passed is because Dems took the state governor seat in the 2025 election. Spanberger signed the enabling legislation, where Youngkin never would have.
Local elections matter.
Really good read....
The one, single, vital task of every decent person on Earth is to destroy every last trace of Trump and Trumpism. I want to live in a world where supporting Trump results in expulsion from all of society.
Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.
We don't want to piss off Convicted Felon Donald Trump or the MAGA base with actually facts now, do we?
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
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Making him and the author of the Holocaust look better is quite an achievement!
Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it
I know I'm always harping on about this but it really is corrosive to public life that our major media institutions are run by people who do not know how evidence works and cannot distinguish between a real social trend and something their algorithm feeds them on tiktok.
It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.
TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
If we work hard enough we can push those numbers into single digits.
They covered both Lavrenty Beria and Heinrich Himmler last year and this one is much worse.
@iwriteok.bsky.social the Behind The Bastards on Jimmy Saville is absolutely harrowing. Possibly the grimmest I've heard.
Dear god
The requirement that women–not men–have their sex monitored, tested &proven legitimizes the distorted fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women’s sports competitions(why would they when women athletes are paid much less?) @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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"The requirement that women have their sex invasively monitored legitimizes the fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women's sports & validates interrogation against women whose bodies/lives aren't gender-conforming." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nbc decision desk calling yes as the winner on the redistricting vote in Virginia
"Yes" on Virginia Congressional redistricting has been called by NBC News.
A huge step for Democrats in their path to take power back in the mid-terms.
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