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 ended up on it and I am a nobody! I think if you use a blocklist for AI asshats (which I do), that gets you flagged? That's how I assumed it worked, anyway, it could be manual.
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it. Image 8:04 PM · Nov 2, 2025 · 444.4K Views https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1985151099527942517
”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026
This is valid! I think souped-up power chairs combined with retrofitting the capitol building to be more accessible (which we should do anyway) would be a good start for accommodations?
I also think they should be allowed to install cowcatchers on the front, like trains.
make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent
Please read the whole thread. I cannot exactly recommend reading the book, but if any of my followers do, please please please tag me in any live-skeeting you do.
Original tweet from Ted Cruz: "a brazen abuse of power and an insult to democracy", 47% of VA voted trump. They will now get just 9% of seats. 52% of VA votes voted for Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats..." Quote Tweet from L.Louise Lucas: "You all started it and we fucking finished it."
This one?
I FORGOT THAT PART
Those books were *wild*. Like, I can't say the creative decisions were more good than bad, but they sure were creative, and there is something to be said for that.
if there’s one thing i expect a CIA officer to know, it’s whether or not a given election is gonna be fair #voteyes
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.
California: We have leveled the playing field after the Texas GOP besmirched our electoral system!
Virginia: BLOOD IN THE WATER WE FEED ON THE DEATHS OF OUR REPUBLICAN ENEMIES FUCK YOUR CARTOON DOG
If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
My hot take is that disco hate came from it being super Black & queer.
Process of the Artemis II Earthset Plate
Thanks for following this body of work, it was an inspiring project for me!
#sciart
And it wasn't just essential workers (or "essential workers" whose bosses just didn't want to lose money) getting the short end of the stick. I heartily wish that the understanding about outdoor masked socialization being quite low risk had come sooner, too.
I didn't struggle too badly (had a partner at home, no kids to e-school, wfh saved me commute time) and I have immense respect for everyone who struggled with the lack of human interaction and isolated/masked/etc anyway. The burden of the pandemic did not fall equally...
this is important to get your head around the basic shape of water use out West. farmers get the overwhelming majority of it--far more than all industry and cities put together--and pay almost nothing for it
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
I know the agencies that regulate consumer goods, drugs, food, etc have been gutted. It's just very disheartening to have to slog through "is this a scam? a phishing scheme? Trying to get me to gamble? fraudulent product?" every single day.
The times something does come out is actually what it says it is, I wonder how it's going to degrade. Will private equity buy them out? Will the pharma company that makes this amazing drug stop making it because insurance companies won't pay for it?
Scams and frauds are everywhere, I look at ads and wonder how the company is trying to screw me. Not just in the unfortunately normal "we marked up the price but don't pay the worker more" kind of way, but in the "is this company lying about the product?"
I am hardly the first person to say this, but I feel like everything has become harder and more complicated. Insurance companies add on more prior approvals, have even more arcane systems, and basically practice medicine without a license.
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
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Every AI commercial gaslights you into thinking you're an idiot. Before you had access to AI you were too stupid to find your girlfriend's makeup, or boil an egg, or pick a shirt. Every commercial starts from the premise of "Hey, so you know how you're the dumbest fucking fuck to ever do it?"
