So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
He's confessing to planning war crimes on live television
In 1993 I remember a public school teacher telling 8 year olds to lobby their parents to secede. I guess they thought they'd somehow make more despite a smaller tax base? I guess the free ferry is a good result
If we're losing AWACS on the ground now we're absolutely going to lose a ship trying to force the strait www.airandspaceforces.com/us-forces-sa...
I haven’t seen the movie or read the book and wasn’t aware of this spasm of online anger til now but it is also funny the idea of getting mad at a movie directed by Chris miller and Phil lord for not being Woke lol
Get a comment like this every time. It's actuallygood to go out and feel a little solidarity and meet your people
Several states, including Georgia, Tennessee and Californias, have passed or considered bills to prevent large investors from owning more than a few hundred single-family houses. In his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump called on Congress to permanently ban investment firms from buying up single-family homes.
"We want homes for people, not for corporations," the president said. This is a rare point of commonality between the president and Senator Warren. On CNBC, Ms. Warren said that investors could build "as many apartment houses, as many condo complexes, as many triplexes as they want" but that "homes should be for families, not giant corporations."
The thing about apartment houses, condo complexes, and triplexes, is that they’re all full of homes inside. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
In case you think I am fucking exaggerating bsky.app/profile/donm...
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
Very good to see this from Senator Reed.
"If these reports are accurate, Secretary Hegseth’s decision to remove four decorated officers from a promotion list after having been selected by their peers for their merit and performance is not only outrageous, it would be illegal."
The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.
Inventing new and novel violations of the equal protection clause
Also worth noting the climate imposes real incentives to act sooner rather than later. Already pretty warm but you'd rather do a ground assault at 80F than 100F
Really not a fan of the implication that people who are like "Hey, maybe a freakin' 90-year-old shouldn't run the house financial services committee" are being motivated by sexism and/or racism? But fine, let's review.
This is the dumbest trend in media. Some line of the business is working? Well better sell it off.
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
“Trump is openly threatening a war crime,” said Ken Roth, a former executive director of @hrw.org. “And people aren’t saying anything because they’re numb to it.” Story w/ @tmgneff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. Petitioner Priscilla Villarreal is a reporter who was arrested for doing something journalists do every day: posing questions to a public official. Specifically, Villarreal twice texted with a police officer to corroborate information Villarreal already knew about events that had occurred within her community. That officer voluntarily provided the information Villarreal sought, and Villarreal published those facts, consistent with her role as a journalist. Six months later, Villarreal was arrested for asking those questions. Making matters worse, Villarreal alleges that the arrest followed a months-long effort by a police department and district attorney’s office to retaliate against her because they disliked much of her reporting on their activities. Of course, that reporting was often critical of them. It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment. Yet the Fifth Circuit held that the officials were entitled to qualified immunity, and now Villarreal is left without a remedy. The Court today makes a grave error by declining to hear this case.
The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Bezos’ ostensibly data-driven strategy for the Post is like he bought an orchard, discovered all of the money is in selling fruit, and ordered that the dead weight of the roots be dug up and burned.
ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
i have no inside knowledge but this has the vibe of the villain in a thriller executing one of the hostages just to discipline the rest
meanwhile, a lot of teenagers think Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, and Helen Keller were hoaxes
literally a constitutive part of douglass' entire ideology was the belief that one must assert ones personhood, which he illustrates through his violent struggle with an overseer!
this book apparently presents douglass as passively waiting for providence to end slavery, which is so fucking backwards and obviously wrong that it feels straight up racist
despite being concentrated in ameria’s
largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained
