Two things can be true:
Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and
Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.
The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.
These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.
this is entirely correct
Why has, while letting Claude do 99% of his job, become entirely unable to deal with normal human interactions.
It's flensed his skin to the thickness of any billionaire freak's, completely unable to handle stuff like "this person is disagreeing with me" or "they aren't praising me"
A thing about the heaviest users of chatbots is that they acclimate to cloying obsequiousness. Like a billionaire and their entourage of viziers, it becomes normal to them.
Any interaction that is *not* abject simpering they'll now perceive as a slap to the face, an aggressively violent outburst.
yiiiikes
associating with a known predator? Raping children? Holding other leaders hostage? Threatening to start WW3?
It was gas.
All he had to do was slightly inconvenience you, and NOW you hate him.
Congratulations, you did less than the bare minimum. Its not like you could’ve saved millions of lives.
Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.
It's unclear why a few thousands people stuck in a ship like this for several weeks or months would benefit from being vaccinated against “communicable diseases”
MJ's @maxgrobinson.bsky.social says, "@benmckenzie.bsky.social is a gifted storyteller and he does an incredible job explaining the complex scam at hand in a way that’s breezy, informative and enraging."
Now playing in select theaters, see it Tuesday at Princeton Garden Theatre
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
State governments need to crack down on this blatant effort to expand misclassification.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If this were truly a party of AOCs and Zohran Mamdanis and Ilhan Omars and Rashida Tlaibs, this wouldn’t be an issue.
But it’s a party mostly of folks like Booker, who like to be seen as opposition but don’t have the stomach for actually being it.
Elon Musk spent billions of dollars to push white supremacy and has a compound where he’s keeping the children he’s trying to breed into little supermen and he’s never described as a fanatic for white supremacy.
It’s also worth reading all 22 bullet points and asking yourself “would any of these be out of place in Mussolini’s Italy?”
I’m not saying Alex Karp is a fascist. I’m just saying he’s giving voice to a business-model-with-a-political-philosophy that just so happens to fit comfortably into fascism.
unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can
Most true thing that can be said of almost all Trump voters
Once control has been established, we can create fair rules. We should not be negotiating terms of engagement with the enemy during the battle they started.
I have negative patience for "it's not fair" what is fair about the nearly impenetrable supermajorities republicans built in the NC or WI state legislatures and their current president thinks it is illegal for him to lose elections
fuck outta here
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it’s everywhere, and a new book by @arindube.bsky.social argues it’s key to understanding today’s inequality. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america
we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior
apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail
BUT
BUT
the amount of power needed to produce that effect will almost never happen in nature.
It will not happen with a data center; it hasn't happened via far more physically powerful sources.
The only such verifiable effects have been deliberately produced, in a lab.
Exactly. Inaudible doesn't mean imperceptible.
At sufficiently high power, infrasound at 2-3Hz makes your brain vibrate in your skull. It is visceral terror + ataxia, vertigo, nausea.
The effect isn't "scary sound."
The effect is "something huge is doing terrible things to me & I'm going to die".
Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
“From agency chiefs like Marty Makary & Jay Bhattacharya to higher-ups like RFK Jr & Russell Vought, to low-level insiders like Matthew Memoli & Jon Lorsch at NIH, whose familiarity with the workings of their agency helped to bring it down from within, all of these men need to be held accountable”👏
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
I really wonder why Rubio wasn't sent
He's the only one in the admin with anywhere near the smarts necessary
Agreed
I never kept track of the MCU but RDJ's a terrific actor
Want to see him sink his teeth into a villain role & destroy all surrounding scenery
And possibly leave a few toothmarks on his costars if they can't keep up
You no longer see Israel’s defenders claiming self-defense or even trying to justify its conduct anymore.
That’s why they’ve pivoted to shooting messengers like Hasan Piker and Zohran and just broadly claiming antisemitism.
