Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker’s Invite

Billionaire funded TPUSA's goal is to police public discourse such that anyone to their left who speaks truthfully about what Charlie Kirk said or did, using his own words as evidence, will not be allowed to speak those truths to college students in red states. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

And in fact Republican states like Utah and Ohio have retained their gerrymanders in open defiance of successful referendums demanding non-partisan redistricting

I think the gerrymandering race to the bottom is genuinely bad and undemocratic and unfortunately what the dems are doing is the least bad of the bad options available.

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Gouache and colored pencil illustration of a rainy bus stop with pink hydrangeas behind it. A cute cartoony frog in a yellow raincoat, yellow rain boots and holding a red umbrella is standing in front of the bus stop, smiling. A snail is also waiting on top of the bench.

A rainy bus stop with two friends excited to go on a little trip to the town!! ☔️🐸🐌

#art #gouache #cuteart

I like to remind my students that Jackie Robinson RE-broke the color barrier because >50 yrs previously there were Black players in the Majors, but the teams actively chose to segregate.

Segregation & acts of racism are affirmative choices made by & for the benefit of White people & institutions.

johan lange is quietly building the best wide receiver program in europe and if spurs can find a good QB i could see them competing for bowls next year

cover art is a muscle-y dude in purplish super hero tights, silver helmet, gloves and boots, on a pogo stick. this super hero does absolutely nothing for society except to pogo over animals, cars and unicyclists in a big city.

pogoman, atari 8-bit (1982) archive.org/details/Pogo...

The most vindicated man on the internet was the guy that tried, in vain, to make people understand you do actually need some decent firepower to deal with the Wild Hawg problem.

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

I missed this story from last October, about how Yale Law previously considered legacy status in admissions but—apparently recently—phased it out. I don't know what other law schools do on this front, but I hope they don't consider legacy status. yaledailynews.com/articles/law...

Yes, the Grink was there. I'm getting to that. He was on that island with me. And I wouldn't be alive to tell my story without him.

i heard it too! has that happened before this season?

I am deeply concerned about the fact that Iran is really good at propaganda, they’re antisemitic as fuck, and they’re aiming they’re incredibly good antisemitic propaganda at us at the exact time the American populace is most primed to receive antisemitic messages.

Before we run with the headline that consumer sentiment is the lowest in history--that is NOT the case in the Conference Board survey that has a much larger sample and stable methodology. Michigan increasingly strains credibility

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...

Landry and the Louisiana GOP are re-running (elite white power plays of) Reconstruction

Like so, SO many things in our greedy, selfish, stupid, pretentious, entitled society, this is case of something meant for the disabled being so grossly abused by everyone for personal convenience that the inevitable backlash will ultimately result in life being harder for disabled people

Thinking having a dog lets you be a psychopath is a pandemic-era thing that went unchecked for too long but it seems like the poop situation after the winter storms may be a turning point.

This isn't bad because it's like Russia it's bad because the President of the United States is threatening a means-agnostic destruction of a civilization as he upends trade & kills civilians. It requires an answer in the US, one unlikely but institutionally possible. Putin comparisons offer nothing.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it"

both parts are important!

and both the libs and the mods are 100 percent correct

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy

corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor

that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Also IF IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH IRAN, it is ALSO FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK US TO IRAN ARE TALKING LIKE THIS.

The war does not exist in a separate, more serious universe than its leaders! This is the guy who decides if it happens and how many people die!

Nobody ever wants to admit that it’s cheaper in the end, too. Means testing costs a fuckload of money!!!

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

I don't respect megachurches. the greed and corruption are issues but even worse they don't have anything like a massive emerald in a vault with esoteric wisdom etched into it, no bones encased in jewels and gold, no scroll containing the true face of the devil, things of this nature

Could be using AI to polish / improve grammar etc