Partisan gerrymandering is a good example of how hardball and the maintenance of beneficial norms can be complimentary.
You maintain the ultimate goal of good governance, which is to say, an end to partisan gerrymandering. But you also recognize that unilateral disarmament is counterproductive.
When will MAGA women realize they can never be awful enough to make it in anything more than a helpmeet role with these guys?
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.
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.
What’s that acronym? FAFO? Lucy got beaned by her own football and Ted Cruz R *TEXAS* is indignant. What a whiny-ass baby.
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
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Look at Laramie WY. Such a bright light.
This is so beautiful ...
Doesn't this temporary appointment expire after 120 days or something?
#OTD in 1914, the Ludlow Massacre: state troops and private guards opened fire on striking miners in Colorado, killing 25 people, including 11 children.
It would take decades before the National Labor Relations Act guaranteed workers the right to organize.
theconversation.com/1914-ludlow-...
I wouldn't say I've got my finger on the pulse of the latest in popular culture but these are going to be an epic, spectacular, they're-all-going-to-laugh-at-you failure. 😂
Honestly, the only response to this is 😂.
Suspect he’ll dismiss after the first deposition is noticed.
I’m still angry & disappointed with the Biden administration & most Congressional Democrats for trying to “move on” from Trump’s corruption & maladministration during the pandemic, instead of a commission & enacting reforms to close the transparency & accountability voids his illiberalism revealed.
Deep inside I hold on the perhaps delusional belief that after this debacle we will reclaim things of deep importance to us.
We’ll put the Kennedy Center back on track. We’ll redo the WH to make the people’s house again. We’ll bring back the federal workers, scientists and experts. We’ll
Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:
If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?
But it's all about enforcement. And authoritarians neutralize anyone who'd enforce laws against them. So right now it doesn't matter it totally outside the law/Constitution.
If it's DJT the "President" who's purporting to sue the IRS in his official capacity, that's not a thing, and if DJT in his capacity as the chief Executive officer of the article II agency he controls is agreeing to "settle" such a lawsuit, well, that's just plunder.
The old federal law clerk in me knows individuals don't have private rights of action against federal agencies absent statutory authority waiving sovereign immunity, so I wonder how DJT the taxpayer has a viable cause of action.
Such a good point
I want to see happy cute things again!
Ya, I'm always glad in the height of the season that many Americans seem to think thin, spindly asparagus is "better" so I get all the fat ones!
In Germany they grow for white asparagus in raised mounds & harvest when the tips just reach the surface. Would that work here? It doesn't seem like anyone does it and any white asparagus I see comes from Peru!
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One of the sound tracks to this 1964 girl’s life.
Asparagus is on my bucket list! Especially a April white asparagus, which Americans just don’t seem to understand…
Yesyesyesyesyes
Holding your tender heart from Denver ...🐾
