Came here to say this. Except. It’s not irony. It’s manipulation. They want to pick the repressive laws to match their extremism.

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

Just making sure I’ve got it correctly: Hasan Piker has a history of controversial statements making him a unacceptable risk for the electoral prospects of Democrats whereas Tucker Carlson is a high profile defection and proof that a big tent approach is working?

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

'Unaccompanied': Migrant kids spent months languishing in foster care as their parents fought to get them out Inside a New York Cayuga Centers foster facility, six children who crossed the border to reunite with their families say staff used threats of deportation to discourage them from misbehaving — or comp...

NEW: In a Harlem foster home, migrant kids say staff threatened to deport their parents if they misbehaved.

I talked to a family of six kids, ages 3-15, who say HHS unlawfully kept them in the foster center, refusing to release them to their parents.

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory

The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.

Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam

Watching Fans, Monitoring Kids, Tracking Players: Knicks Surveillance, Revealed | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money.

Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future.

In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...

I vote my principles (destroying the Republican Party by any means necessary and immiserating their voter base for the rest of eternity).

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 ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

So basically the court staff has to follow draconian rules and regulations to keep quiet the blatant ethical deficiencies of the justices. Positively Trumpian in its logic.

The idea that the A-10 gets an extension while several other more modern programs get a haircut is a pleasant reminder that the SECDEF's idea of lethality is out of step with the 21st century.

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told me she saw 1,500 detainees housed in cages at the site, a cage area that smelled like urine, and one cage configuration where detainees appear to have no option but to go to the bathroom in front of everyone."

Kamala Harris was a former prosecutor and Attorney General, she had a Sheriff featured as a convention speaker. Every major police union endorsed Donald Trump.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

Without committing to specific numbers, a federal anti-SLAPP law for high-government officials should clearly be on the agenda of the next sentient Congress.

Also, Zorn v Linton is a brief 5-page per curiam opinion that basically just restates the (preposterously infuriating) rules of qualified immunity (which any future Dem trifecta should abolish in a heartbeat).

It also involves allegedly improper pressure on the wrist, not ... killing someone.

I would invite you to consider, based on your reading of the gospels, which would make Jesus more upset: destroying a statue of him, or killing a bunch of children.

Now think about which one has made evangelicals in America more upset.

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

Put another way, I think the Jewishness of the army and the state is basically incidental. This is simply what happens when you have a racial supremacist state and a racial supremacist army and a racial supremacist law. The soldiers, regardless of the particulars, will act as if they are supreme.

like, this is part of the story of the modern ultrawealthy, too — they have been able to very rapidly and very effectively transform the entire system into one which socializes risk and privatizes gain without, so far, any real penalty

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

I think about writing like sculpting, except first you need to also create the block of stone. A lot of writing is really editing, which means chipping away, but first you need the raw material to work with.

I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.

There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.