with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

Hungary's next government vows to open communist-era secret police archives Hungary's new government will open up the historical archives of its communist-era secret police, according to the man who will run the office of Peter Magyar, winner ​of this month's parliamentary el...

The next Democratic President must vow to do the same for DHS and ICE

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Giant predatory octopus in the late Cretaceous may be a pretty far reach, but would also be rad as hell.

John of Patmos: In my book I invented the Antichrist as a cautionary tale.

Modern evangelicals: At long last we can worship the Antichrist from the classic book Don't Worship The Antichrist.

super fun having lived thought most of the trump era in the us & now being in the uk because you're always like "oh, i know this, we're at that point of institutional collapse"

when George Bush justified the Iraq invasion by saying that saddam was a tyrant and tyrants should be overthrown, it was all just bullshit mouth noises. Bill kristol, however, was dead fucking serious.

One thing that I just love about this Reform-to-the-bedrock ass Country is that Catholic will always in their minds be one monolithic entity with a coherent ideology and that will never ever stop being funny to me, actual cradle to grave Catholic

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

So guess the ceasefire’s off?

The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina.

They choose not to do this!

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

It is the first 80 degree day this evening. Why do we have to go to work tomorrow?

yes, the party’s response should just be “who tf is that? do you people ever get offline?” bsky.app/profile/garl...

On some level, when we see open rampant lawlessness at the very highest end of our society, a lot of people are going to decide that rules are optional if you can get away with it.

On the other hand, this is absolutely terrible for building a high-trust society.

The funniest thing about this insane statement is that he thinks this being true would be an argument FOR what happened next.

My dudes, you failed to eliminate their ballistic missile capability and then both you and Iron Dome failed a bunch of intercepts!

Can you imagine if they'd had nukes...

It was a blessedly brief exploratory re-election bid...

Kayaking through the Strait of Hormuz with a mason jar of gasoline

I assume markets are green on the news.

Is Apple Iran?

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Can electoral rules be designed to achieve political ideals such as accurate representation of voter preferences and accountable governments? The academic literature commonly divides electoral system...

Even modest-sized 3-8 winner districts elected by proportional representation are largely impossible to gerrymander.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it. Image 8:04 PM · Nov 2, 2025 · 444.4K Views https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1985151099527942517

Republicans when gerrymandering: No more Mr Nice Guy!

Republicans when getting gerrymandered: Why are you guys so mean?

3b. The upper tier shall be chosen by voters from national open lists such that the whole Senate class is proportional to the vote for the upper tier.

3. Each Senate class shall be divided into two equal-sized tiers.
3a. In the lower tier,
voters in each state shall elect a Senator by a pluralitarian/majoritarian method.

Here’s a proposal for a proportional Senate:

1. The Senate shall have a membership equal to four times the number of states.
2. The Senate shall be divided into two classes of equal size. Senators shall serve six-year terms with a staggered Senate class being elected every three years.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire