The people who passed the bill were wearing frigging noose lapel pins when they did so! If anything, this is a *tasteful* explanation of the situation by comparison.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Al Gore: Trump administration is the most corrupt in history The former vice president rebukes Trump’s attack on Iran and condemns the administration’s dismantling of climate regulations.

Well worth listening to the full podcast. Gore is as sharp as ever.

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It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”

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I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society.

You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Ok, but that's fucking sexy.

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Ahhh

I'm sorry, whose parents were human trafficking? And people responded to this revelation with sympathy?!?!?

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

Also if this squeezed the margins a bit, squeezing the margins is the point. You don't want to win the referendum 60-40 you want to win the strongest referendum you possibly can

Once again, Reagan was *INSANELY FUCKING EVIL* in so many ways that people don't even realize; this is the first time I've ever come across this specific tidbit in my almost-four-decades on this planet, most of which has been spent being a pretty darned engaged citizen by American standards.

I feel like, in character, AI Chatbots tend to be more of a Wooster: endlessly confident even when they haven't the foggiest idea what they're doing.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Give L. Louise Lucas an armored division

“Why do you support disenfranchising them” because they voted to destroy our livelihoods and those of our friends, that’s why. I don’t need another reason.

The "Ask Dad, he knows" sign from It's a Wonderful Life.

The Norman Rockwell America image of an ideal man is the father who teaches you to do essential life skills and whom you can always turn to for advice; it's a *fundamentally* nurturing role.

And it's an insane inversion of historical gender norms: the successful image of a man in the past was one who not only was professionally successful, but also raised multiple successful, well-behaved children, and that's not something you can get *without* nurturing.

I feel ya; somehow my bluesky schedule seems to cross over with a bunch of New Zealanders, so my timeline regularly is nothing but kiwis griping about their government.

This is what Palestinians call sumud or steadfastness and it is (despite what you've heard) the primary modality of Palestinian resistance: just living your life and refusing to make it easy for the forces trying to smother you.

Stock's assertion here that nobody supporting trans people ever believed what they said, and were just doing it to climb the corporate ladder, is a remarkable admission that people like this don't believe in the possibility of unselfish ideals.

Feminism for them really is "What can I get?"

Then there's the obvious exception of the mostly-obsolete oddity of the AT grenade, but there you either need to have it oriented exactly the right way, or it actually needs to make physical contact with whatever it's gonna boom and, in the former case, you still need it to be *really* close.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

...just one?

Once again, it is *long* past time to go at amazon with the great, big antitrust sledgehammer. The damn thing should be five or six companies rather than just one.

...how do you make a pair of smart glasses that look *worse* than Meta's pathetic entry into the market? This is the kind of dweeb shit that made people a little self-conscious about going to see 3-d movies back in the day.

If you do actually have a prosecutor making an argument in court in front of a jury, the screaming just draws more attention to what the defendants did, and that is *not* good for the public perception of their case.

The reason they were able to get away with screaming like they did with Trump is that Mueller wrote his report like an AG referring someone for prosecution by the local DA, rather than like a prosecutor trying to convince a jury to find someone guilty.

To be perfectly honest, if you have the evidence to arrest and convict a Justice, I think the general tenor of public opinion after the public trial where you secure that conviction will be "how can you allow them to remain on the court?"

And, yes, admittedly my original post was more about holding the court accountable for the content of their decisions rather than their personal conduct, but the central problem of Congress failing in its duty to hold the court accountable is the same in either case.