Legendary. First ballot hall of famer right there

Partisan gerrymandering in principle is broadly unpopular among voters.

State legislatures doing it without consent of the voters and in violation of constitutions is transgressive, aggressive, male.

Doing it with consent of the voters through referendums is collaborative, consensual, female.

It's particularly annoying given that we are drawing our districts *exactly* the same way they are, we just have more Democrats in the cities we're radially sharding and stretching over the hinterland.

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

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

The fact of the matter is the Republican Party, at the direction and in service of Donald Trump, have loudly announced that they won’t play by the rules of the game. Those who don’t play by the rules should be removed from the game. Only once they agree to play by the rules can they be forgiven.*

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.

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.

It is binary

Agreed. We should not gerrymander as revenge. That implies that we wouldn’t gerrymander if they voluntarily didn’t. We should gerrymander because it’s good when Democrats win elections, and if there’s a danger of revenge, we can just congressionally ban gerrymandering nationwide. With our majority.

Does she have a Nazi tattoo? Like your boy Platner?

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

It's almost like they don't want people working against hate groups

There was a big synergy between he and big law, and many who imagine themselves to be among the elite legal thinkers, in trying to cast their mutual project (destroying corporate oversight, congressional oversight, and executive branch function) as a noble one.

I would contend that the people proactively deceived themselves

We need to make cowardice a firing offense for police officers again.

1) he's not, 2) its about the Jooooos, 3) reminder that Johnny Favs and the pod save boys and him are tight

I will just add that this is is no way a unique or novel problem, it was one of the central political questions of the 20th century, and it's weird that we treat it as completely incomprehensible when it comes to Israel and Israel alone.

i have noticed that a lot of the pro-union people (often leftists) in the discourse do not understand unions, have never participated in any kind of union, and think that being in a union just means people get whatever they want and any concession whatsoever means a bad politician did a mean thing.

Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The people asking “Does Israel have a right to exist?” are usually asking, “Does Israel have the right to prioritize maintaining a Jewish voting majority above enfranchising every person living in the territory they are governing?” And I wish they would be honest enough to ask that question.

Who?

It will be important to prosecute Tim Cook for bribery, and it's achievable. Juries don't like gold bars.

Voters really don't like partisan gerrymandering, even R voters. They voted to ban it in FL and OH.

The difference is that Ds have been giving voters a choice. But voters don't like doing it themselves. They're more comfortable letting their legislatures and courts do it for them illegally.

Murc's law strikes again

Online idiots chanting "Biden had one job -- to stop a second Trump term."

No, that was the voters' job. Amazes me how any citizen of a democracy can deny the whole premise of democracy. Opportunists exploit this rejection of responsibility. Hence the market for authoritarians on left and right.

It's also been weird to see adult human beings say "they didn't convince me hard enough to care about the potential loss of democracy, or basic human rights of our neighbors or the threats a second Trump term meant" and not have them understand its them telling on themselves.