I live in a state where the most powerful politician in the Senate comes from a town of less than 10k people. I do not want rural voters deciding how I get to live. I’ve had to deal with that for the past decade of adulthood.
"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?"
Unfavorable: 15%
Favorable: 7%
Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79%
Echelon / April 2026
They have discovered a planet. It is a planet before sorrow or distress. A mountain rises, strapping and faithful, amidst the fields. I want to see beauty there.
This is also not a wrong answer.
Come, here is the map. Shall we divide our right
According to our threefold order ta’en?
if you own a farm you are not the working class, the undocumented workers you exploit are
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.
The Dems have offered national non-partisan redistricting legislation. The Republicans have rejected it every time.
if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.
We’ve now reached the part of the referendum where everyone lines up, mutters “goodgamegoodgamegoodgamegoodgame“ a bunch of times with a series of low fives - the winning Yes side slightly more enthusiastic about it- and then they bring out baggies of oranges and Capri Suns for the campaign workers.
as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:
you brought this on yourselves
you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster
you earned this
DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.
the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats
I root for both these teams. 🙃🙃🙃
Hang in there!
Update: just got it. And you can too!
That last word is killing me.
Worth repeating today:
I'm watching the game! But it is only 7 pm where I am.
THANK YOU DARTH.
First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.
Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.
The Jewish students I’ve talked to all agree Jews as a group are not at the greatest risk from Trump, but they experience being forcibly turned into symbols without their consent as a form of antisemitism in its own right. And I don’t think they’re wrong about this.
I've never said the ppl in the Philly suburbs shouldn't vote. Hell, I think it should close to impossible to deny any citizen the ability to vote.
I just want the suburbs to vote for suburban DAs, who can do whatever they want to suburbanites. But Winetka doesn't need any say in Chicago cases.
Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
I'm a 'get there very early' gal and I don't understand being mad at people who do things differently, unless they are running through the airport knocking into others or trying to skip lines or something.
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
FFS can they leave the pets alone?
22 mutts found forever homes last week! Goat now has a young pug sister, Party On was adopted by her former fosters, six long-termers (including two hospice dogs) found love, and Blessing won the heart of a Muttville volunteer! Congrats to all!
