Spanberger secures the Mandate of Heaven. Fairfax County hegemony is inevitable.

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

Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

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.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

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

sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire

When I chose this silly name I thought it would make people laugh, I never expected it to confuse a vast subset of slack-jawed MAGA Republicans. I am NOT the actor Liam Neeson. Jesus you people are dumber than fucking landscaping rocks.

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

fewer than 1% of americans alive have ever seen an administration as disliked as this one will be by this time next year

what if they made the entire administration out of katrina response

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

Also, i want to point out that Alex Karp is half fucking Black. Like, we are in fucking la la land at this point.

Screenshot from MS Copilot that reads: What are the most memorable product safety hazard moments in the works of Shakespeare? Copilot said: Shakespeare didn’t write about consumer product recalls—but his plays are full of vivid, often darkly funny “product‑safety hazards” that resonate surprisingly well with modern public‑safety themes. Here are some of the most memorable moments where everyday objects, tools, or environments become dangerous in ways a modern product‑safety specialist (like you!) might appreciate. I’ll keep everything high‑level and not quote copyrighted text.

Memorable “Product Safety Hazards” in Shakespeare. 1. Romeo and Juliet. Hazard: Misbranded or improperly labeled pharmaceuticals. Friar Lawrence’s sleeping potion is essentially a mislabeled, high‑risk drug administered without testing, documentation, or follow‑up. The result? A catastrophic misunderstanding and multiple fatalities. Modern parallel: Hazardous pharmaceuticals lacking clear instructions, proper dosing, or oversight.

Taking one of the AI tools at our disposal for a spin and it's going well.

This is truly an insane thing for a public health person to say.

Outright eugenics.

RFKJR needs to GO ASAP.

This is your fault, Martha’s Vineyard dinner party hosts. If only you had been as nice as the people on Epstein Island, this poor beleaguered man would still be cited on Fox News as “even liberal Alan Dershowitz.” But not anymore. You just had to take it too far.

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Don't threaten us with a good time

The Teletubby Sun Is All Grown Up! And It Thirsts For Blood

Bene Gesserit: please, sit down
Me: [robotically throwing myself into seated position on chair while maintaining eye contact]
BG: I didn't use the voice you don't have to do it like that every time I ask you to do something
Me: but I still can if I want to right

On Twitter InfoWars is posting-thru-it™ and people are confused, thinking @theonion.com has already taken over that account.

Ben Collins before and after taking over InfoWars

The Onion has InfoWars, hopefully for real this time The Onion has InfoWars, hopefully for real this time

The acquisition seeks to open a new, deeper layer of online Hell, which would include Tim Heidecker impersonating Alex Jones.

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love to hear the person in charge of staffing my multi-billion dollar enterprise that he's asking the hallucination machine how to hire