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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

Lulz. Harsh.

I'm all seriousness, I don't think it's aged great. By the time I would've written, it probably would've been a 3.5.

Noted

Yeah it could be. But the story reads like a frustrated screenplay and that makes me think it's not so self aware.

He's not. I'll pass anything along.

Well, not only does the music suck, but the whole premise is a bit gross and leaning in to some pretty gross tropes about sex work. I dunno, it's just... not a thing I find appealing.

That Crippling Alcoholism is the most overrated record of the year. I absolutely hate it.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.

Gina Gustavsson: Han kallar Greta Thunberg för Antikrist – och har möten med Ulf Kristersson Techföretaget som bistår den amerikanska migrationspolisen ICE hanterar nu dina personuppgifter.

Something is rotten in the state of Sweden.

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"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" . . . unless the plaintiffs refuse to draw a map showing the state how it can politically disempower people of color. Unserious requirement. Unserious people. Taney 2.0.

Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.

Cannot wait to see how they justify overturning the California map given this same set of facts.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway.

16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

We need robust new laws and we need people held to account for real. It's the only way.

Again, the fact that they are being allowed to even suggest that "keep trafficking" is the equivalent of "remain in the fight" under the laws of war is already a concession to the unhinged criminality of these strikes.

It's bad writing in about 95% of cases and I hate it.

Yeah, that's sure what it looks like.

"It's not X, it's Y" is ChatGPT's favorite rhetorical move. It's a good move in some cases. But every time I'm scrolling on Instagram and I see a post with that phrasing, I think: "That's not a valuable addition to knowledge or The Discourse, that's slop."

Btw: pair that with bigger staffs and public financing of elections and I think you'd change the complexion of Congress.

Yeah it's really controversial, but because people aren't thinking it through. It's the "it's a bad look" principle of policy making.

I hate watching the Starmer stuff from afar. Wtf is he doing? Wasn't Labour ostensibly a left party not *that* long ago?

I do like that he isn't Donald Trump. And I accept the theory of the case that avoiding the existential crisis means reconciling with the fact that you're going to align with people you don't love.

But man, the Democrats are just _bad_ at this. And it's stunning just how bad they are.

David Sirota made a very clear and convincing argument about this on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social yesterday. Not just that it's the project, but it's also the root of the problem. I think he's right and it's also so insane how nakedly cynicalb and in the open it all is.

OH MY GOD, THAT'S ANGRA'S MUSIC!