This is an incoherent vision of politics and political economy, the Louvre is a public institution, you are literally stealing from The People

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

I mean what’s incredible here is that it isn’t just them who started it in the general sense of the last decades but they quite literally started this specific round last year and bragged about how many seats it would net them!! They literally just did not imagine that anyone would fight back

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

I love that The Guardian has done this - it is the ultimate middle class intellectual shitpost

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One institution after another in the US capitulated immediately to Trump so I can see why he thought he had this power.

The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond.

He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.

You don’t fight fascism by endorsing Nazis

Throughout it all, Trump received little-to-no pushback, effectively being handed a live microphone to riff at length as the CNBC hosts stood idly by. They allowed him to deliver most of his claims uninterrupted, at times bizarrely opting not to interject as the president jumped from one topic to the next with little coherence. If such an interview took place on a network like CNN, its hosts would unquestionably be roasted for letting the president steamroll them. In any case, perhaps the most interesting moment came some 10 minutes into the interview, when Trump revealed how he was coaxed into agreeing to the appearance in the first place. Trump said that Kernen had tried to get him on the CNBC program the prior week, assuring him that co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin—who is far more skeptical of Trump’s often fictitious claims—would not be on the show. “You can even put Andrew on the phone,” Trump told Kernen, who up until then had been the sole anchor to conduct the interview. “You know, you told me Andrew would not be there.” Trump continued: “Joe made a comment to me. When he tried to get me on, he said, ‘I promise I’ll have Andrew Ross Sorkin—he will not be there.’”

CNBC's reputation is built on it's credibility. That took a huge hit when host Joe Kernen agreed to ice out co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin -the show's only journalist- to get a live interview with Trump. Wow. Incredible read from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
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They think you're stupid.

whips ass seeing chuds posting on X: The Everything App becoming a precise mirror image of Bluesky politics discourse. da feckless republicans didn’t even try to win

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

This is the kind of concern-trolling, truth-twisting piece that the New York Times loves publishing because they fucking hate Democrats with the fury of a thousand suns and want them to lose.

"Gold bars"

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

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1) he's not, 2) its about the Jooooos, 3) reminder that Johnny Favs and the pod save boys and him are tight

Does Kernen ever question his own life choices when faced with the batshit reality of Trump?

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.

"In America today we have a party of ordinary governance and a personality cult party. Those are the two options we are now offered every general election, and it really is that simple." www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

Did you ask Platner to respond to concerns about his Nazism?

Does she disagree with that? If so why hasn't she resigned?

If you’re an organizer who affirms feelings over facts you should just fucking stay home & watch TV instead of contributing to the problem

Also if you believe AI is going to take both white collar and manual jobs then what is the point of education and reskilling? Reskilled as what exactly?

Douthat has been one of Trump’s most consistent and vigorous defenders the last decade. His smug insistence that he doesn’t actually support Trump is a lie.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

I can’t believe our leftist betters are actually saying out loud “the base loves him so we have no choice but to go along with a little light Nazism” like they are Establishment Republicans circa 2016.

They tagged me to make I know they think I shouldn't be concerned about a guy who had a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo on his chest for 18 years w/out ever bothering to run a quick Google search to see if it might be problematic before running for one of the most powerful offices in the nation.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Cultural chauvinism isn't the opposite of moral relativism - and it presages some really dark stuff.

Pretty tired of this mindset that it is us, the normal people that don’t fall in love with awful candidates, that are even *partially* responsible for people falling in love with awful candidates

i will give the press corpse this — going to the trouble of printing a couple of lines of the first amendment out on a sheet of fabric to express your fears about encroachment, then folding it up and putting it away in your suit pocket *does* send a message. it’s just not the message they think.

The dirty secret is that dipshits like this are wreckers and liars, who deliberately ignore the massive investments liberals make in rural aeras and deliberately ignore the massive cuts conservatives make in them.