I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
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
In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want
The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.
We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
Waiting to read the 15,000 “how republicans lost women” articles that are sure to follow
Happily Congress is not bound by SCOTUS’ understanding of “bribery” on which nothing qualifies unless you’re caught on video accepting a giant sack covered in dollar signs while hollering “THANK YOU FOR THIS CORRUPT QUID PRO QUO, I AM CURRENTLY DOING A CRIME”
The unforced error of not even calling for Thomas’s impeachment after the propublica articles dropped was political malpractice
Imagine if Democrats had started and maintained a vocal campaign chastising the Supreme Court and calling for reform like ten or so years ago instead of their clearly effective strategy of twiddling their thumbs and hoping two specific people die at the exact right time
And many waited until last year to announce they were abandoning the effort and writing off the losses. So many of these people supported Trump, and they’re getting exactly what they asked for
1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"
I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.
Add "farmers in the American West whose farms are only viable because they are given incredibly scarce water resources for 5 cents on the dollar" to the car dealers and realtors — destructive, unproductive conservative groups that we need to reduce the influence of when we're back in power.
We were constantly told that students objecting to bigots on campus was the greatest threat to free speech and now those same people have instituted a ideological minder program on college campuses that would make the Soviets blush.
Bleak
can this be a solution?
Caught the Nine Inch Noize set from Coachella weekend 2 just before it got taken off the livestream and holy shit what a show
The polling against Israel is so generationally bad that this is going to continue to be a crisis for democrats until some people are forcibly ejected from any decision making.
A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.
Love to read something optimistic for a change! Donald Trump may end up being more responsible for accelerating the green revolution than any other person on earth.
He could so easily buy happiness too by giving it all away
The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards.
Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.
Democrats have been scolding their base and playing to swing voters for so long their brand is in the toilet. How are you supposed to convince people to join your coalition when you are this unpopular with your own base?
If Democrats in power are not using every lever they have to obstruct Trump now, why would you believe they would do it later?
There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.
Forget about the substance, the reveal that “most of” the justices talked to Mollie Hemingway for her book is bananas. Hemingway is a right-wing freak who runs a conspiracy theory blog. If literally any of the justices are taking this person seriously, the Supreme Court is GONE gone.
JK Rowling’s support of transphobia has been absolutely catastrophic for the entire world. She funded a far right movement, tested, weaponized it—and it is a cancer eating away at multiple societies. She normalized a lying narrative about people that will plague future generations. She is a curse.
I feel like I’m losing my mind that they’ve been doing this for years, it doesn’t work, and then they convince themselves that they just didn’t do it hard enough last time and need to double down.
key democratic politicians absolutely have a political consultant problem, but it's shor not the one that andy beshear thinks it is
It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.
the most basic trait of a good politician is being able to see where the ball is going and this ain't that