Starting to think some of y'all *enjoy* being nervous and thinking of bad situations all the time

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

Kids may not remember this but it was like a months long scandal that the IRS even investigated a bunch of Tea Party PACs that were shamelessly lying on their taxes and were also scamming their donors.

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

Republicans Brought This Upon Themselves The GOP started the Gerrymander Wars, Democrats will finish it Gerrymandering has been a thing in American politics for over a century now. The practice of drawing district lines to favor one politic...

For my newsletter this week, I wrote about the recent history of Republican gerrymandering and how Virginia's new blue map is a deserved taste of their own medicine. www.burnsnotice.com/republicans-...

This is a good refresher of Project Redmap for those too young to remember 2010

One thing NIMBYs have in common with the MAGA crowd — more than they care to admit — is that they can't imagine people volunteering their time and energy to organize for something they believe in. Everyone has to be a paid lobbyist or part of some hidden conspiracy to pull the strings of government.

Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation:

My goodness is red your color, it looks great on you.

Remembering the Weight of Life and Death in a Profane Age Donald Trump is unrelenting in his boastful indulgence in the ugliest facets of the human personality. There is another way.

“It suggests that the annihilation of innocent non-combatants is one of the many reasonable options available to a leader if he wishes to bring about strategic results. It implies that all means can be used to achieve an end” www.liberalcurrents.com/remembering-...

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM

“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…”

This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.

When I think back over my life and how many liberal or centre-left politicians have been undone by faux pas that wouldn't qualify as a subatomic particle in the universe of right-wing misdeeds, it's pretty depressing.

(The 'Dean Scream,' etc.)

Ed Miliband (2015).

Is anti-corruption the Democrats' secret weapon in 2026? Voters are more animated by corruption than almost any other issue heading into the midterms. But Democrats may have a credibility problem.

As recently as last summer, polling by End Citizens United found that voters view Democrats as more corrupt than Republicans by a five-point margin. That's a wild finding, given the daily chaos emanating from the Trump administration and Capitol Hill.

Vote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics as Political Agency Politics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans.

"vote blue no matter who" includes sewer socialists

www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

🧵 The nursing research, the theoretical frameworks, and Tufts's own union all predicted exactly what happened to me. Tufts had 626 unsafe staffing reports and a published report with "Dangerous and Deteriorating" in the title. They kept doing it.

How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.

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

San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism With One Neat Trick The age of the fare-gate society is here.

I wrote about the "architecture of good behavior": fare gates, drugstore plexiglass, speed cameras, leaning benches, code-access toilets, and other mechanical frictions in our shared spaces, nudging us along www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

5 year old brains pick up languages crazy fast. Little fucker is set for life if you leave him alone to play with his friends.

Honestly it is kinda funny in a cosmic sort of way that they’re trying so hard to censor trans people transing due to culture war bullshit but just let enemy propaganda in the actual war they started fly right on by.

we keep finding this but free fares discourse just will not end

“Does ‘mitigation of bias in recruitment and interviews’ training include discussing mitigation of bias toward political-focused hires versus ones with actual management and operations experience“ and other questions that get me a designated seat in the principal’s office

"Real warfighters are scared of needles, not shells" or something of the type could make for some good ironic chud Tshirt designs

'Hard to break the habit': Why free public transport isn't enough to shift from cars Free public transport is a popular policy, but researchers say it's not enough to convince drivers to leave the car at home.

From Australia:

"New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport."

"Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."

the total water usage attributable to computing in the US is about 2/3 of the California almond industry, or 0.5% of all water usage

Trans people haven't done anything, but a bunch of Epstein islanders still collectively lost their absolute shit over us for no reason

honestly this could refer to either Clinton or Harris! Yes, Clinton wrote It Takes a Village, but Harris’s 2016 Senate campaign stump speech was all about how any political outcome you care about, from crime rates to tax rates, is ameliorated by investing in early childhood

This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam