"POLIO IS NOT 'SITMAXXING'"

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

My redistricting take is that we have an incredibly narrow path back towards something like a constitutional republic, and it runs through Dems fighting pretty dirty in the short term.

I think war is a pretty good metaphor. All options are bad, we can't win and keep our hands completely clean.

One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic

A drum I keep banging is that full training of an academic worker (from undergrad through tenure) is about 16 years. We may JUST NOW be beginning to feel the full first wave effects of the 2008 austerity. The ability of our fields to reproduce themselves has not been addressed as any point.

It seems urgent to find out how many NDAs have been signed by public officials related to this deal. If electeds or public employees have signed NDAs that prevent them from disclosing things to either the public or to city council in its oversight role then this is a crisis.

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.

"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

I doubt that, jerry. most people don't put nearly enough JB Weld in their gumbo to fix you.

My position is pretty simple: if you want the public to support using public money to remodel a stadium, then you need to make the case to them in public about why using those funds is better than some alternative. The tradeoffs associated with use those funds should be honest, clear and thorough.

Update on the Moda Center process: I was recently asked to join a small group of councilors to stay close to the talks as the admin enters negotiation. It was conveyed to me that a condition of being in this group would be a commitment to honor an NDA between the city and the team. I refused. 🧵

And BTW folks, we don't ever have to apologize for our wins. We're punching fascists in the mouth, so no "well they did it first, blah blah blah." The response is "Fuck You, you're fascists, don't fucking talk to me."

Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are Crashing Out on X the Everything App

Did you know that Congress could defund the Executive Office of the President if it continues to violate the Impoundment Control Act?

City planners know perfectly well that physical infrastructure can change behavior...they're just reluctant to apply that approach to cars. Ever seen the big rocks they put in places they don't want people to camp? Turns out the same thing works with drivers!

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

In completed counties so far, NO is only over-performing Trump by 1.2. He lost the state by almost 6 points.

Virginia Redistricting Referendum

Norfolk City (70% Reporting):
🔵 YES – 46,057 (72.2%)
🔴 NO – 17,459 (27.4%)

Absentee votes are outstanding so YES should gain.

Loudoun County is now up to YES+23. This is running 8 points ahead of our goal for YES in the county.

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

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

Susan Collins openly working to shovel $70,000,000,000 to the masked crew who went on a campaign of threats and menace in Maine in Jan/Feb.

Among other things, $70B could fix up quite a few fire houses. #MEpolitics

an excellent read, highly recommended

the cover of the book "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" which features a black and white photo of an elderly Black woman sitting in a rocking chair, clearly in her sitting room, holding the barrel of her long gun while it's propped up beside her on the left. she is wearing a long plaid skirt and a short sleeved white shirt.

:slides this across the table without comment:

Emacs (PID 78574) is pegging the CPU at ~98.3% and has been running since April 11. Let me dig deeper.

Emacs is WHATing the CPU?

reposting for awareness (sincerely)

ICE charter lands in Congo carrying 15 Latin American migrants The Democratic Republic of Congo becomes the eighth African nation known to have taken third-country nationals from the Trump administration.

Trump’s ICE started DRC third-country removals last week with 15 people from Latin American countries.

And we sent an Iraqi interpreter who had helped US military to Rwanda last year.

There is no bottom.
gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

(orthodontia was very big in the delta)

ah yes the subject of the blues standard "Overbite Blues" (author unknown)