Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

The national GOP tomorrow could easily pass a bill that bans gerrymandering and mandates competitive maps, but they won't. Instead they'll just lean into grievance and self-victimhood.

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Nothing emotional about it. A more-diverse leadership would have been vastly more likely to recognize and avoid the mistakes before they happened, which would have been a net positive to the company's bottom line.

DEI isn't just ethical... it's economical.

I feel like this should be the basis of a "This is why you need DEI" ad campaign.

Right, but the establishment dems like Schumer who are deciding the legislative direction of the party are still against most, if not all, of those things.

Dem *voters* have moved left. I'm not sure the party has.

Sure, but the Ivy League bills itself as a place for the best-of-the-best, for future leaders, for future titans of industry and world relations.

So, to find out that they let in just as many layabouts and talentless hacks as any community college would actually be a revelation to most Americans.

At #snf26 today, after watching military & civilian planes fly all day, they had a truly epic finale with fireworks & napalm.

Which was sadly ruined by the introduction of Christian Nationalism into the drone show (a cross literally morphed into an American flag saluted by a soldier).

At least with offshoring, you can have skilled immigrant visas and import the skilled workers. Can't do that if AI prevents *anyone* from being able to enter the industry at the ground floor.

Right, but how do you renew your supply of skilled people when all the entry-level jobs are gone?

Also, framing it as a question of "need" is really missing a lot of the point.

Trump lost a case against WSJ because of the actual malice standard two days ago, but sure Kash. Please do us a favor and sue in a state with a strong anti-SLAPP law for the added funs.

At this point, Iran is literally just saying the opposite of whatever Trump says to undermine him. And they know he won't ever shut up, so their strategy will keep working.

Wait, is it a $900 crate or a 900lb crate? It doesn't make sense with two different units.

We all have days like this

Yeah, but you don't need hand-eye coordination or quick reflexes to land a government. You need wisdom and experience.

Right, but isn't his point to prove on the record that they won't use 25 *no matter what*, which is actually pretty good ammo for Dems to pursue another avenue for removal?

We're getting very close to a world where the Pope quotes Rage At The Machine to the President.

There is no monster in this world more persistently cruel and gleefully evil than a morning person.

Or it could have something to do with the publications themselves abandoning their principles and racing to the lowest common denominator.

I used to click their links (and follow their accounts directly) a lot more on social media back when I still respected the institutions.

I really hate that we can't have hard-hitting investigative journalism without also being subjected to "bread is yummy amirite?" articles.

That, if anything, is a sign that journalism as an industry needs to die.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Is this a @theonion.com headline?

Feuding with the Pope is really not helping them beat the whole "They're 12 and running the country like a Crusader Kings game" theory.

most insane payment structure i've ever seen. the app is mean to you unless you pay them.

I think it should be illegal to say "the security of your personal information is our utmost priority" immediately after notifying a customer that you let a third party access their personal information.

I never knew that Saturn's son had a front-ass.

One of my favorite shows... that I can no longer watch because apparently I need HBO and I refuse to pay for that crap.