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.
oops forgot to change the paperwork to say battleseas and now we fired the guy who's in charge smh
where else will we store our boom trucks and tenants' unused third cars???
also a ton of *existing* traffic in that area of town is driven by people who already live outside the city (coming into Bayers Lake)
a successful left-wing project should keep Matt Stoller far away from power as possible, if only because of his pro-small-holder brain
also, like... it's Clayton Park West. spare me your complaints about cars and how "crowded" you think it is
I feel like even some of these quotable NIMBYs see the writing on the wall, because the complaints foregrounded in the article are about more cars being bad. and directionally, that's not incorrect, but it's an insane thing to say about this development in particular given the timeline and location
"that will add over 8,000 people to busy neighbourhood" is insidious framing posing as a neutral dek for this story, and I think these things are part of the reason there's a lot of ambient NIMBYism among people who otherwise know nothing about housing or economic policy
The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press
just need him to stay barely sentient long enough to see the jackhammers hit the ballroom exterior, so he can experience a psychic death first
Padme told him if he's paying into a plan it needs to include pre-*and* post-natal care, and well...
I know that Julian’s not a smart guy but I really wish that people could understand that when conservatives say they want to take on billionaires, they mean Jews. They’ll tell you this if you ask!
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.
a real, uh, sperm bankshot
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Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.
These people stub their toe or run out of paper towels and immediately write an OpEd bemoaning the collapse of Western Civilization and demanding that the army drown the streets in the blood of degenerates, it is so profoundly tedious.
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
tonight's trending topics — the third item is "Habs"
hockeysky has the juice
it rules that some people are so disturbed they will form parasocial relationships with people who live inside their phone and spend hours a day harassing them, and also that Bluesky allows them virtually unfettered access to interact with the much larger, less disturbed, portion of its user base
maybe Maine is different given how it's mostly white and voters an affinity for King/Collins types, but I think this is just another example of how stupid Manchin is: that he doesn't realize this is a dumb move given a looming D+8 (or worse) midterm and how much the D base hates him, specifically
it's not even annoying in the typical "dumb guy on social media" way... it's like, anthropologically fascinating to watch
there are some wild things going on in the replies to this skeet that amount to basically one guy telling every interlocutor he's too intelligent and discerning to be lied to and constructing an increasingly elaborate series of mottes and baileys to not have his delusion collapse
Ngl it's real annoying that the death cult running the country is like "yeah we're all about burgers and fries and eliminating vaccines, it's called being HEALTHY. do you have a problem with HEALTH????" like god please shut the fuck up
Honestly it is kinda funny in a cosmic sort of way that they’re trying so hard to censor trans people transing due to culture war bullshit but just let enemy propaganda in the actual war they started fly right on by.
Tim Apple (Cook!)
If I got a letter of recommendation like this I would look into moving to a different planet
plus, six-year senate terms can also shield some vulnerable incumbents depending on which party controls the White House. (looking for no particular reason in Ron Johnson's direction)
