Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Didn’t DeSantis get floated as a potential alternative when it briefly looked like Ernst and Tillis were going to kill Hegseth’s nomination?

suboptimal, imo

We were split into two shifts, M-F + T-S. A warehouse worker showed up drunk on a saturday and threatened to shoot up the office after one of my coworkers said he should go home- thankfully he didnt hurt anyone, but there was no security on Sat and management refused to pay for a Sat security shift

It was Williams Sonoma so private sector. We were a call center attached to a warehouse/their biggest distribution center in the northeast. Specifically it was the admins and customer service people who I talked to, so about 20-25 on board, none of them management.

I once convinced my whole office unionizing was necessary after a particular incident involving our safety was handwaved away by management. I reached out to the “interested in unionizing” email for AFL-CIO. Didn’t hear back until 8 months later when I was already long gone from that job lol

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

Honestly it’d be a win even if its just close enough that Republicans have to sink a shitton of money to defend Iowa vs using it in Maine/Michigan/etc

A pun title to an article about how “Republicans are All Shook Up about Pressley’s win” would hit like crack

What a walk down memory lane reading its wiki, I’d totally forgotten there was a bidding war over the rights to adapt it

It was still an insanely dumb take by him, but at least he framed it as “Democratic candidates should run as anti abortion in the deep south like Arkansas”

I think even Klein would say running as anti abortion in Michigan was political malpractice

I should clarify that I think Republicans inclination to cling to him will hurt them mightily 2026-2030. I just think people have short memories

It will be very funny if Schumer puts pressure on Stevens to drop out to help McMorrow win the primary. She seems to be an avowed Schumer hater

By 2032 it could be an asset for them again lol. People having bizarre nostalgia for the terrible past seems to be a feature of the American electorate, I fear, but that’s a problem for 2032 and not for 2026

Just started watching it recently and have loved it so far, i’m 2 episodes into s2. The arc with ed’s son is brutal, especially considering both his and Karen’s last words to Shane

This administration is committed to giving Dems a message against them on every single topic imaginable. Im a little more bullish that the IRS story would have legs with voters just because the corruption is just so obvious, but even if its not it just adds to the deluge of bad stories

It seems like it’s Susie Wiles doing. Axios just had an article about Susie Wiles pushing heavily for DHS not to heavily publicize their immigration efforts anymore.

Too little too late, but interesting to see how panicked some of the “adults” in the WH are

Exactly one year ago today:

What the fuck are you babbling about?

Im deathly allergic to peanuts, and even im tempted

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The US doing a lot of reprehensible shit over the last 100 years doesn’t give the Soviet Union/Russia a pass for their terrible actions (or vice versa!) It should not be hard to say “xyz action was bad” lol

Wow, I didn’t realize they made up a well-documented genocide (and tried to cover it up for 50+ years to uh make the genocide more convincing? I guess) all to help run cover on a genocide that began to occur 90 years later.

I guess Russia apologizing for it in 2003 was just to perpetrate the lie?

Genocide is bad, whether its perpetrated by Israel or by Russia. Genocide is bad, and it doesn’t matter the ideology of the country committing the genocide. Hope this helps

Iran having their own Ayatollbooth will change that quickly lol

It’s incredible that we live in a world where ‘Dick Tips’ wedding was nuts’ is a factual statement

The whiteboard stuff was fun, gotta give her that

In all seriousness, Swalwell and Gonzales resigning does signal shame does actually work. For the longest time, Washington has been immune to shame and even the most disgraced scandal-ridden politicians don't leave unless they are made to. Shame does work

You should do a refresher on the last 16 years if you think that lol- Dems have moved leftward on economic issues in the last 16 years (even if I’d like them move further left). But in your analysis- why are so many European center right parties dying in favor of far right groups then?

There’re plenty of valid critiques you could focus on without using a hackneyed line about European politics that frankly hasn’t been true for the last decade (if not significantly longer!), and also ignore the reality that the party platform will be heavily dependent on whoever the 2028 nominee is