I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I feel like I’m going to say this a lot. Requiring a candidate to stand up for human rights and self determination is not a purity test.

Throwing the margins under the bus is a character flaw that should be disqualifying.

The primary is not the general and strategy is different for each one.

HNNNGH.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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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.

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

guys, this is how you lose the time war

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

NO WAY MA'AM YOU DO NOT GET TO PRETEND YOUR TOXIC-ASS CHRISTOFASCISM ISN'T HOW THE ANTICHRIST GOT ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE

like sorry he dumped you for Laura Loomer but no one believes you grew a conscience in the last 5 minutes

the Lord is still leaving your prayers on read

But here is something small and significant: Follow the global democracy movement like you follow your favorite sport. Or like you follow movies. Or pop culture. Or celebrity gossip. Or the stock market. Be like Jonah – for the era of the autocrat.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

I will say the same thing about Swalwell that I said about Platner:

I don’t have a “guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” standard for supporting politicians. I don’t need to; I’m not a criminal court and, bizarrely, I’m not allowed to put people in prison.

That whole thing was cool af.

The entire Artemis mission has been cool af.

Abolish ICE and give the money to NASA

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

That'll preach.

Yes. This is nicely put. One thing I try to get at in this piece is that having Trump threaten genocide and civilizational erasure, and the discovery that we are largely powerless to stop a madman president, takes an immense dispiriting toll on the *American people,* too.

An interview with ME SEN Candidate David Costello “We’ve never been as democratic as we should be.”

I interviewed David Costello, who is running for Maine Senate in the D primary. He’s got strong progressive views—and he has never had a Nazi tattoo. I think it’s unfortunate the D party has largely ignored him; I hope ME voters give him a look. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/an-intervi...

This is MAJESTIC.

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

We didn't deserve this day.

CHANGE IS POSSIBLE.

It may be that today I have less patience for "this is on all of our heads, no one is exempt".

You're joking. It's a joke, right?

PLEASE. IT'S A JOKE RIGHT? Oh wait - that's you.

Surprise, surprise.