Tweet from Alex jones that reads “Yeah, stealing peoples identities so you can misrepresent them is criminal. Just keep laughing like the last time you guys tried this.”
Alex Jones is alternating between being Not Mad Online about The Onion thing and accusing someone I’m not even clear is connected to The Onion of fraud for “stealing peoples identities”
After a solid 20 years of watching rural and exurban voters consistently attempt to illegalise my existence and my career, forgive me if I’m not filled with a deep well of compassion for their oh-so-precious needs.
If Bezos is going to hire a conservative editorial page editor, as is his right, he could at least find one who can make an argument that doesn’t fall apart under the slightest scrutiny
did any of these whiny republicans speak out when trump started this whole redistricting kerfuffle
were they out there protesting the texas legislature
people vote, not land. it really should be that simple.
EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.
Another dark day for DOJ.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
I once had a guy look me in the face and say "One person, one vote is unfair, why should cities get more votes in a democracy?" It genuinely felt like I was having a stroke and the guy had no idea how stupid the shit that just fell out of his mouth was.
unpopular opinion guy
i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas
As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.
Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.
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.
Yes, the rural lifestyles of the very poor outside of highly developed countries are more sustainable, but that ain’t you, rural or exurban American with a pickup truck who drives 40 miles to Wal-Mart.
Living in a dense urbanized city is one of the best choices you can make to protect the planet - a fun fact you can deploy against people who want to get all self-righteous about the supposed evils of cities.
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
What if insisting on focusing on the working class is a just a ruse to prevent PMC consciousness?
This was lightly tongue-in-cheek but something that I do struggle with is that I am told over and over again to prioritize the white working class while that block has voted to make my life and the lives of the people I love worse. Why shouldn’t I advocate for me instead?
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.
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.
Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.
As long as Wilt Chamberlain’s Wario is talking retrocession, it’s worth noting that West Virginia statehood was unconstitutional from the start.
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
(Published Nov. 2025)
would just like to remind everyone that grand jury indictments are so easy to get that there’s a decades-old line about how “a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.”
pointing to an indictment as proof that the accusations of inside it are sound is very misleading.
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
As an NC Democrat, I've seen the the Republicans use their first trifecta in over a century in 2010 to consolidate Republican control of this purple state ever since. I don't live in a democracy anymore, it's about 16 years late for Democrats to fight back but it's not unwelcome
REDISTRICT EVERYTHING
ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE
GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY
CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW
RESTORE DETTERENCE
Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"
Ask everyone in SWVA if they drove across the border into North Carolina to protest the gerrymander by fiat from the GOP legislature there.
If they didn’t, well, this is what happens.
Virginia **voters** have spoken out loud against partisan gerrymandering and now they’re fighting fire with 🔥
Talk to urban voters in Ohio or NC. Think they might be angry at nor being represented fairly?
You should see the anger in the urban areas of red states. We apparently don't matter to your heartstring coverage. 🙄
you can try to defend and rationalize it all you want but all you end up doing is self-neutralizing and insisting it’s a win. and if you follow and support someone leading you toward this, you’re also getting scammed.
