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.
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
Hahahahaha eat shit republicans
Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.
saying that charlie brown had "hoes" is like saying that temple of aphrodite at corinth had "hoes". what was happening there was within its own cultural context, and we should be careful about describing it in modern language
Later in the 1970s, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan — spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counter attack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on the we allow to go through higher education. If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." The two most menacing institutional sources of the same described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California. Source: Vietnam and Other Fantasies, by H Bruce Franklin
"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"
haven't tapped the sign in a while: "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" when and how you are able
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
MAGA has fantasized about criminalizing the SPLC for a decade—regardless of the org’s many flaws, the MAGA DOJ is corrupt and weaponized.
Me:
open.substack.com/pub/michaele...
LMAO
"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.
The Trump regime doesn’t like the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling hate groups as hate groups, so it’s weaponizing the Justice Department to try to destroy the SPLC. This is DOJ taking the side of the Klan.
Screenshot from MS Copilot that reads: What are the most memorable product safety hazard moments in the works of Shakespeare? Copilot said: Shakespeare didn’t write about consumer product recalls—but his plays are full of vivid, often darkly funny “product‑safety hazards” that resonate surprisingly well with modern public‑safety themes. Here are some of the most memorable moments where everyday objects, tools, or environments become dangerous in ways a modern product‑safety specialist (like you!) might appreciate. I’ll keep everything high‑level and not quote copyrighted text.
Memorable “Product Safety Hazards” in Shakespeare. 1. Romeo and Juliet. Hazard: Misbranded or improperly labeled pharmaceuticals. Friar Lawrence’s sleeping potion is essentially a mislabeled, high‑risk drug administered without testing, documentation, or follow‑up. The result? A catastrophic misunderstanding and multiple fatalities. Modern parallel: Hazardous pharmaceuticals lacking clear instructions, proper dosing, or oversight.
Taking one of the AI tools at our disposal for a spin and it's going well.
For some reason Martin Shkreli’s name popped into my head yesterday (yechh) and I wondered if anyone remembers him, and whatever happened to him. Guess he’s doing whatever this is.
just "cleaning up the risk pool" gentlemen
Yes. A crippling sense of glowing good health is not what we want for our all-white-male, pro-war-crime army. Seeking sickly white boys who like murdering fisherman and children
Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
Trying to dig up some of my Prince threads. Not as many on here, but I did do a short one about him and Joni Mitchell I guess.
If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.
Lord have you ever seen a thing so hideous
Someone go wake Edgar Allan Poe:
“T.M. violated small rules in the lab….T.M. also crossed in front of Mr. Kuroda in the hallway in a manner that broke an unwritten rule of lab etiquette, he said.
Once, T.M. threw a piece of trash into a bin in front of Mr. Kuroda, making a loud noise.”
So much this. Rigid gender roles and narrow allowable gender expressions hurt everyone.
Yes!!
Orange fluffy cat inside my car.
I have to go to work and this is not my cat.
It pains me to see that I must clarify: As one idea that could perhaps be tried in concert with other ingenious ideas that are relevant to people in different situations ay ay ay
Wow. I sympathize with the obvious pain and trauma the author’s eating disorder causes her, but girl. Other people are entirely separate from you. And Wegovy is not a “culture.” It’s a medication that helps some people. Nobody’s forcing you to take it. Gahhhh sorry this makes me angry.
I’ve got an ingenious idea. Here it is: ✨✋telework🤚✨
Yeah. A remote-control car from the toy store can probably go faster than a human too. Wow!
No, Bryce Tetraeder bought the naming rights in 2017, so Tetradactyl (tm) is correct.
It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.