Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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.

Go Maori on his ass 😎

What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________

And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."

Brb going to scream.

Moreover, Plaintiffs have not identified a shred of founding-era evidence equating the government’s use of religious text, displays, or symbols with an establishment of religion. To the contrary, it appears that no one “ever claimed at the founding that the display of religious symbols was a form of religious establishment.” Chapman & McConnell,

See, the Ten Commandments in schools isn't coercive because that's not what the Founders considered coercive.

And then, we get to the most remarkable and batshit part of this whole opinion.

She certainly called her shot with this one

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a woman is standing in a parliament holding a piece of paper and screaming . Alt: A NZ lawmaker about to do a hakka.

☠️😃

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Skull & Crossbones tombstone

Old photo from MA

yiiiikes

Nobody asked, but my family put in 3 YES votes in Loudoun 👍😃

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

🤣

Rural Virginia voters in VA-09 finally have the mostly homogenous polity they have always dreamed of. They should be saying thank you.

Trump starting a Gerrymandering war he couldn’t finish feels a whole lot Trump starting trade wars he couldn’t finish and this Iran war he can’t finish.

He’s not playing chess people.

I was thinking this👇🏻

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

🤣

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Spanberger has some room to maneuver now, that *could* be a good thing.

It had some great text-based games, too. I remember that dungeon crawler, i forgot the name

Partisan gerrymandering is a good example of how hardball and the maintenance of beneficial norms can be complimentary.

You maintain the ultimate goal of good governance, which is to say, an end to partisan gerrymandering. But you also recognize that unilateral disarmament is counterproductive.

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a close up of a cartoon character with a red shirt and a blue vest Alt: Lando Calrissian: that was too close

😬

WaPo: Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says.

Winston Churchill: "The main difference between humans and animals is that animals would never let the stupidest one in the group lead them."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Most images are gone right now, except for ai steve bannon pissing himself.

I get the joke, 313, i do; are you sure about your targeting?

True Stories from my Degenerate Childhood

I moved away from family really young, and my first thanksgiving alone i was doing exactly this, getting high as fuck playing PC games and vibing

my dad lived roughly 6 hours away so i didn't even give it a second thought

anyway he showed the fuck up