I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

"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

the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

here's one of those insane, horrible connections of the contemporary era

the primary liaison between the UAE and the genocidaires in the RSF over this time has been Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan

the owner of Manchester City football club

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

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.

"The real effect [of AI] was not the eradication of millions of jobs, but a more subtle and pernicious transformation of work and workplaces to reduce the leverage of workers and shift that power even further to their bosses."

the wild thing is most of us arent demanding insane stuff from the democrats. "just do stuff that democrats around america like" shouldn't be this hard of an ask.

Big Oil And Big Plastic Are One And The Same Plastic is in many ways a vital technology, but did we really need to use it everywhere?

This week on Organized Money we talked to the author of a new book on the plastic industry about the looming supply shock from the war, the history of how plastics became simultaneously indispensible & disposable, and how the negative impacts can be managed.
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

70 Minnesota children.

Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

There is no moral metric here - people killed, vulnerable populations killed, children killed, displacement, method of killing, treatment of hostages, etc. - where the IDF doesn't come out orders of magnitude worse

Dana Fash forgets to give the "context" that Netanyahu has an ICC warrant, but also I would love for somebody to give a consistent moral argument as to why Hamas is worse than the IDF. The only argument for this is if you inherently believe state actors are morally superior to nonstate actors.

"ICE is determined to expand its capacity to detain people to more than 100,000 people at any given time, which is really a shocking number and parallel to the number of Japanese Americans that were incarcerated during World War II."

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

I don't think non-Black people understand how much Black people calculating spaces as to whether they'd be hostile to Black people.

It's the same way I think men don't understand that women navigate spaces thinking about whether or not they'd be safe

It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.

People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Tucker doesn't have a conscience. He does have ambitions.

Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

Break Up the Big Court The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

“The Roberts Court, supine and submissive as it is to its Caesar of choice, will suddenly rediscover its constitutional role again the moment the White House changes the color of the drapes.” www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

Real estate investors are buying up long-term care facilities. Residents can suffer Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch but deny blame for bad care.

A 100-year-old woman died of hypothermia after being found outside her assisted living facility. A jury was asked whether the landlord — a publicly traded real estate company — deserved blame.

Remember when Stanford asked Peter Thiel to teach a class where he encouraged students to drop out of Stanford and then he helped crash a bank with his group chat and now his company is doing Mein Kampf while scoring government contract after contract