thank you! You made a good point in your other comment too ^v^ ^v^

As a Texan, who has never one day in their life lived outside a gerrymander or in an actual democracy precisely because of the liberal reticence to stand up to these conservative tyrants, I respectfully say BS to this mindset.

People who were openly rooting for a president-for-life a year ago mad about gerrymandering sounds like you’re just losers who don’t like losing

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

Kind of similar but distinct to the related mini-genre that BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS is in where it's a movie written as a serious drama that the director thinks is stupid and instead plays as a comedy

A really fascinating little mini-genre is "movies where the director is clearly trying to undermine the screenwriter's intention" and SICARIO is one of the biggest ones. Not many of them because the director will usually just rewrite the script if they disagree with it! bsky.app/profile/bill...

SICARIO is a weird case tbh where I think there's a tension between the screenplay (which thinks Alejandro and Matt are cool guys) and the actual movie as directed by Villenueve (which clearly thinks they are the villains)

Had? That flag still flies outside every post office in 2026 when the original conspiracy theory is totally forgotten. bsky.app/profile/prof...

Obama certainly got blamed for TARP and the other unpopular Wall Street bailouts that mostly happened under Bush. Later, there was an entire news cycle blaming Obama for bailed-out AIG paying big bonuses (which Obama had no control over or authority to stop because of how Bush designed the bailouts)

"Carter lost Vietnam" was the original "Biden was in charge for all the Covid lockdowns" bsky.app/profile/niss...

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

we can fully expect the Texas lege to step in and pass a law prohibiting these sorts of ordinances, I think.

data center NIMBYism is gonna be one of the big emerging local issues across the country that cuts across party lines

Baudrillaird Pope

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations | CNN Politics The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in t...

⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used:

• At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles
• At least half of its THAAD missiles
• Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles

This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.

Trump take Luft

Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.

Make sure to vote YES.

You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post

one of the defining traits of the conservative movement is how ready they are to destroy the lives of completely random nobodies if it helps serve their lies and propaganda.

As a showcase of sadistic amorality, this is down there with the DHS agents who dined in a Mexican restaurant and then ordered a roundup of its staff. Trump revels in sociopathy, and has given chuds across the country license to do the same.

Pedocons

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

An incredibly poignant and deeply saddening piece. Read and share. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

🤷 they've got all the money.

ya to be clear its a great song and awesome video! bsky.app/profile/agle...

not the *best* 1980's song, but maybe the *most* 1980's song

Look, when they polled "are you licensed to operate a nuclear submarine" as a control question, they got 12% of people to say yes bsky.app/profile/dmlf...

if this polling result surprises you, i am issuing emergency guidance for you to touch grass immediately

AND it makes the other Emirates even more dependent upon them(until, of course, the realize the al-Sauds dont see them as equals but as inferiors, and then they may flip to Iran en masse).

UAE, Bahrain, Qatar get absolutely fucked over, but tellingly as far as I can tell this has actually played out really well for the Saudis, who have been able to divert a huge % of their oil exports via pipeline to the Red Sea bsky.app/profile/matu...