I mean, 2 decades of sanctions were also economically devastating to average Iranians.

Cc @democrats.org.

Guy in a Saint Paul jacket standing up

Me, when people are quoting my story to highlight all of the good work people in Minneapolis are doing

I discussed this very thing last night.

California and Virginia had the voters decide.

NOT Texas.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

One could argue that redistricting is a component of practical governance in 2026.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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We can call it "accountability" if centrists get too squeamish about the term "punishment" when it's applied to the rich and powerful.

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

My wife loves Ardbeg and similar super-peaty scotches. She’s had to give at least one bartender a “I know what I’m doing” lecture when she’s ordered it. Almost certain I would not have gotten the same warning from the same bartender.

“The Boys From Hasselt”

Also, "this tech kills the market for entry level jobs but doesn't make the need for people who were trained through the entry level jobs go away" is a clusterfuck for the industry.

Well now hey hold on just a second dher.

There's a dozen of them, and you'll be reading their names for the next decade as they appear in this paper as "college student" or "concerned citizen" without ever mentioning that they're members of local Republican chapters.

Besides the fact that he’s obviously wrong, 20-30% unemployment would effectively kill Verizon as a company. People aren’t paying $100/month for a phone plan or $1,000 for a phone when they’re unemployed.

I’ll be joining Patrick in the Damnatio Memoriae campaign.

Dems need to say right now, “we will be destroying any ballroom, arch, currency, stamp, and any other Kingly marker this guy tries to build.“

Bonus points if they add, “And we’ll be blacklisting any contractor who works on the project.”

Jesus, top right. Posting thirst traps right on main.

HR1: The Damnatio Memoriae Act of 2029

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

U of I is my Alma Mater (‘10), and my biggest regret is that I never made it to Ebertfest when I was there.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

More than anything else this reveals just how impulsive the major questions doctrine revamp is. It all ultimately stemmed from Roberts's personal antipathy to a regulation, and everything since has been a dishonest attempt to dress it up so that he doesn't look like he's just shooting from the hip.

This would be embarrassing if it weren’t so craven.

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

Incredible satellite imagery of the tornado outbreak underway across the central United States.

RETVRN to adverts clearly made by the boss's 10 year old kid.