Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans.
Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties).
The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.
Californian here. I most certainly did weigh in. I voted for our proposition to temporarily redistrict in response to the undemocratic actions in Texas.
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
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
More than 70% of displaced Palestinian households in the occupied West Bank identified threats to women & children — particularly sexualised violence — as the decisive reason for leaving their communities.
Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon to force Palestinians from their homes
bit.ly/4cL01m2
2/2 ... providing members of the public with an opportunity to comment on the substance of the 2024 final rule and any changes proposed by the Department.”
1/2 I’m frustrated by the last-minute delay but my real concern is “the Department plans to engage in future rulemaking processes related to the substantive requirements of the 2024 final rule. During the extension period, the Department will consider issuing an NPRM ...
2/2 K-12 “advocacy associations” asked for more time or different rules for school districts. The interim final rule tries to spin this extension as a win for people with disabilities, arguing that they’ll get better compliance in a year.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07663.pdf
1/2 Setting aside the question of the current administration, and also how this was handled ... They got a lot of pushback on the amount of effort, the cost, and the timeframe. The American Council on Education and Educause asked for this! An unnamed “Congressman” weighed in.
And believe me I know this was already required (it’s what I do) but tying the ADA to WCAG, enforceable by private litigation, with a deadline, had everyone’s attention in a way that the ongoing requirements did not.
I know there is SO MUCH pulling at our attention — but we were a week away from the ADA requiring all large public agencies, including all public colleges and universities, to make digital content fully accessible. Instead, one week out, everybody got an extra year.
Off topic but The Six Triple Eight is a great movie.
Woman apologizes over man’s mistake. So, a day ending in ‘y.’
It’s me. I’m nobody.
Even before yesterday’s news, I was trying to figure out what to do with the crowd of Democratic candidates — and accidentally, quietly, talked myself back in to seriously considering Xavier Becerra.
This is why these forms of sexual harassment and abuse at scale work to reinforce men’s dominance. If the woman’s “best” option is to quit, then this pattern of behavior can and IS used to keep women out of certain industries and positions of power and spheres of influence.
Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.
23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.
20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.
They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.
I think the opposition party widely expected to make historic gains in the next election(s) has an obligation to explain how they'll stop this and prevent it from happening again or it's reasonable to conclude they don't plan on doing those things, which raises more uncomfortable questions
there it is, all 7 continents
Hand-painted banner featuring portraits of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Liam Ramos.
Hand-painted banner featuring portraits of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Liam Ramos.
Burbank, CA #NoKings
That’s fair, I mean, everyone knows trans people were invented in 2016. 🙄
Men do not have to take these invasive tests. They don't have to pay for them. It's inherently discriminatory to female athletes, and especially intersex athletes who for all other purposes remain legally female.
There are going to be a lot of intersex cis women, especially from the global south, who will be ruled ineligible and then subjected to terrible discrimination or worse in their home countries. Prior sex testing regimes have resulted in suicides and ruined lives.
A Section 504 plan doesn’t change (lower) the academic standards. Sounds more like an Individualized Education Program?
NEW from me: Last week a bill hoping to close a legal loophole that allows California State University to not honor their contractual obligations has cleared another hurdle on its way back to the Assembly floor. CSU Teamsters staged a ULP strike over this exact issue last month.
graph showing wealth concentration
Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent.
Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
I will counter — I don’t have a right to buy beer or guns but I have a right to vote.
The passport office accepts a marriage certificate as proof of the name change. Ask me how I know.