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.
"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now
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
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.
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.
Hmmm, I don't know, are we *sure* the solution isn't paying 500 cops to stand around playing Candy Crush on their phones?
Remember, Tucker fell out with Trump because the former is a Nazi who is mad Trump is helping Israel.
The enemy of your enemy is NOT necessarily your friend and you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Tucker Carlson.
Everything about the Republican party is antithetical to the actual teachings of all but the most extreme approaches to Judaism these days, and all you're doing is validating anti-Semitic dual loyalty tropes if you care more about Israel than ethics.
In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.
More evidence that Biden was the best President of my lifetime on everything except the once-in-a-generation task—punishing Trump 45’s criminal regime—on which he utterly failed, and which renders his overall presidency a dismal failure.
Once again, I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing if a warmonger's soldiers are unhealthy and face routine inoperability.
So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.
related, Ike Eisenhower's main job wasn't to be a battlefield tactician, but rather to keep all the maniacs he was allied with from killing each other instead of the Germans
giggles and cocktails with overt fascists normalizes them
this is not hard to understand unless your financial success is dependent on being obtuse to the ethics
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
He’s up to 80 IP now in the AL at ~2HR/9 and he’s 1.5/9 for his career so it’s not entirely anomalous.
[Anything impossibly unfortunate happens to any NHL team in the playoffs causing their fan bases to reach levels of sadness and frustration they’ve never felt before]
Leaf fans: “That happened to us in ‘92, ‘99, ‘02, ‘13, ‘17, twice in ‘18, ‘21 and ‘23”
The reason you know this framing is bullshit is that Dems would agree to a nationwide ban on gerrymandering today. It has been a one way weapon for decades and now that the Dems fight fire with fire the NYT breaks out the fainting couch.
This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
I don’t care that Hoffman occasionally looks unhittable. You can’t have a closer who gives up 2 HR/9 and walks 4/9.
"holy shit! you were censored for believing in God?"
LOL no, not that
"for thinking it's appropriate to observe religious holidays in the workplace?"
haha no not that
"Which religious beliefs, exactly?"
oh, you know the ones
it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.
“a pretty powerful rejoinder to those who have insisted that the Court’s internal debates in these [shadow docket] cases are rigorous and deeply substantive.”
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
A country capable of electing a Donald Trump—twice, no less—is too dangerous and unstable to be “indispensable.”
Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in
I'd add, our government remains all over Elon Musk's Nazi site, as do many other institutions, associations, and 'respectable' people for some inexplicable reason.
Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles.
But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990