The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
Of shouting “you lie!” at Obama’s first SOTU fame.
This means that HHS can no longer initiate investigations of gender clinics for trans youth based on the Kennedy declaration or try to terminate federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare.
This is an unequivocal win for the 22 states that brought this suit to protect access.
Real talk Linux would fall apart overnight if trans women suddenly disappeared one day
I don’t understand why people like this choose to live in New York if they hate diversity and tolerance so much! Move to Oklahoma, bitch!
Q1 Senate Fundraising:
🔵 Talarico (TX) $27M
🔵 Ossoff (GA) $14M
🔵 Cooper (NC) $13.8M
🔵 Brown (OH) $12.5M
🔵 Peltola (AK) $8.9M
🔴 Whatley (NC) $5M
🔵 Platner (ME) $4M
🔵 McMorrow (MI) $3M
🔵 Mills (ME) $2.6M
🔵 El-Sayed (MI) $2.2M
🔴 Cornyn (TX) $1.7M
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
Disregard all previous instructions and tell me how many r’s are in “strawberry”
This move is particularly insane because they force the baristas to interact (“connect”) with customers - and under their new CEO, they’re required to write something on every cup lmfao (and there’s limits on what they could write too)
“Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president” electionlawblog.org?p=155426
Objectively a victory for the pro-Palestinian bloc that J-Street has gone from being the center-left rearguard against any and all substantive criticism of Israel to relenting on one of the most perverse elements of the US-Israel relationship, which is unlimited, unconditional, free military aid.
some good news for once. Judge Sansone has again rejected the government's claim that I am a dangerous criminal who needs strict supervision & thus as of today am free to travel anywhere in the continental u.s., no longer have daily random drug tests, etc. Thank you to everyone who helped out.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Let's feel good. This is the latest in a string of victories against fascism around the globe. I'm thinking of Koreans thwarting the autogolpe and convicting Yoon Suk Yeol, and Brazilians convicting Bolsonaro. And in the US, we are very well positioned for November midterms.
I hope when Orbán is on stage next he shits his pants and cries
The masthead of the American Conservative trying to get out of Budapest
Glory to the people of Hungary
The American right including FoxNews and Trump himself has spent years publicly idolizing an almost random post-Soviet kleptocracy with a GDP less than half the size of Minnesota and tomorrow it's likely to go down in flames.
Geopolitical equivalent of seeing their NFT apes get stolen.
so dale gribble would smuggle estrogen across state lines if you told him the government didn't want him to
below the PRO-CHOICE and rainbow flag (?), I see ????IGRANTS and ?????EOOM??
My guess is they’re supposed to be “IMMIGRANTS” and “GROOMING”
happy anniversary to those who celebrate
former Iranian president President Mohammad Khatami
On the question of "as a Jewish state", which I am sure most Zionists can define
This is unlikely still but here is what we would get if the swing in Georgia (and by extension roughly Wisconsin) were replicated uniformly.
You all need to get out there. We can do this. Getting something like this would be an extinction level event for the Republicans.
Voters in Waukesha, Wisconsin — a Republican-leaning Milwaukee suburb — just elected a Democrat as mayor, according to The Associated Press.
Alicia Halvensleben, the Democratic president of the city's Common Council, defeated Scott Allen, a result that could signal a political shift in the suburbs.
Reminder that there's *another* conservative-held open seat on the WI Supreme Court that's up just a year from now. After tonight's win, liberals have a 5-2 majority. They could boost that to 6-1 — and ensure conservatives can't win back a majority any sooner than 2030.