Screenshot of a tweet by Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) pointing out that George Washington prioritized smallpox vaccination for his troops as key to winning the Revolutionary War, concluding that "a founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth." He quote-tweets a Washington Post breaking news report that Hegseth has ended the military's annual flu vaccine requirement.

Victory favors those who follow the science.

the two sides of the dysfunction coins, it should be done by the private sector for no profit or it should be done by the public sector but without building any state capacity

Highly recommend the article "Hardball as Anti-Hardball" by David Pozen, on constitutional hardball as a means of deescalation nyujlpp.org/wp-content/u...

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.

These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

wait. wait. you're telling me that the equality of citizens *works?*

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Two things can be true:

Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and

Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

still not over how we have confirmed proof via leaked documents that the SCOTUS shadow docket is a complete farce where the FedSoc justices get to unleash their unbridled political opinions and remake the American legal & economic system however they & their rich friends like

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

When we look back at this era, the internet collapsing the traditional funding model for news media will be seen as a major milestone upstream of so many more effects than we could have possibly foreseen.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges Todd Blanche announces 11-count indictment over payments to informants in extremist groups including Ku Klux Klan

So, first the Trump DOJ diverts law enforcement resources away from monitoring white supremacist extremism. And then targets one of the organizations most committed to monitoring the white extremist threat. Message received. Loud and clear.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

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.

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social hey look finally a Dem you can support

This Looming Tennessee Execution Would Be One of the Most Abhorrent in History. There’s Still Time to Stop It. Tennessee plans to put Tony Carruthers to death on May 21. He would be the 17th execution in the Volunteer State in the last half-century.

"Tony Carruthers’ case is a perfect storm of capital punishment’s familiar failures: paid informants, information withheld from the jury, untested physical evidence."

If he is put to death, it would be a serious miscarriage of justice.

The worst human beings in the country should not be running the country.

This is shameful

One more time - because why not:

I wrote a few years ago that Trump has a fascist.

I continue to deny that you are living under fascism in America.

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Trump, McConnell, Roberts. That’s Not Rule of Law. It’s Rule by Law The constitutional skids for Project 2025 have been greased by a Trumpian federal judiciary that is carrying out its own

The judges Trump appointed have been reliable rubber stamps, ruling for him in nearly 70 percent of cases.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

On housing, Mayor Matt was the first councilmember to host a press conference opposing the proposal to eliminate single family residential zoning in San Jose

For everyone that thinks the Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, would be a YIMBY governor, this is from his official mayor website bragging about opposing the elimination of single family zoning.
www.sjmayormatt.com/meet-matt

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.