@janestreet: THE GOP-DRAWN REDISTRICTING MAP FAILS IN INDIANA 19 VOTES YES - 31 VOTES NO

the juice is gone, like so many apes...

my parents voted Gore because they thought bush would be mediocre on policy and by golly they haven’t changed their minds since then

HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."

Did not expect that

Wuh oh

i thought this was such a good piece about exactly this phenomenon. too many liberal commentators lack self-confidence. they engage in endless rounds of ritual self-flagellation that contribute to a sense that liberalism is weak and unwilling to defend itself. bsky.app/profile/dick...

In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit

Incredible we built a society where tens of thousands of people are forced to live in this misery just because the wealthiest people in America want more parking and because left-NIMBY cranks still won't let go of their housing Lysenkoism which insists that new housing causes gentrification.

I think it's very easy to tell yourself "the Democratic Party has already been captured by Yglesias and WelcomePAC et al" but that's believing propaganda. Their plot is to seize control of the party via a presidential primary in 2028. It's the Bernie 2020 strategy but for reactionary centrists.

The popularists resemble nothing quite so much as the Babylonian star-worshippers, who were the subject of numerous polemics by Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scholars: passively observing the motions of a vast system, mistaking That-Which-Is-Moved for That-Which-Moves

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

A Hail Mary

Incredibly "deep-fried" [off color, lot of JPG artifacts] image of Mickey Mouse saying WILL YOU FIGHT? OR WILL YOU PERISH LIKE A DOG HYPOCRITE THAT YOU ARE

McClellan: stop giving me your toughest battles Lincoln: it is literally your job Grant: *GIVE ME HARDER BATTLES* Lincoln: what the FUCK

US WWII poster of a giant ironworker, inadvisiably shirtless, pouring molten metal out; from this streams hundreds of American bombers and fighters Text on the image reads POUR IT ON!

Spider-Man (Raimi version); Uncle Ben lays shot and dying as Peter bends down to listen to him Subtitles have been edited to read as Uncle Ben saying "KILL THEM ALL, PETER."

The median Dem voter:

The biggest sandwich rivalry is going full console wars after successful hot dog activation

The biggest sandwich rivalry is going full console wars after successful hot dog activation

TEMPO TEMPO TEMPO

🚨BREAKING🚨

MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.

The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

Thank god

Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.

well, that and trump occasionally saying that affordability is bullshit no one cares about

Imagine a Warring states Star Wars tv show in the immediate post endor

the sequel trilogy being a total dead end for the cash cow worldbuilding shows and media that the prequel trilogy had is a key reason why the shows for the ST are Meh

the only thing that concerns me is that getting median voters to care about Republican divisive comments is like pulling teeth, while they are ready to murder us for saying the slightest thing out of line

if she Can get the medians to not be whiners about her divisive comments she’ll have a chance

These voters don’t exist in as large numbers as they used to*

back in the day there were actually a lot of dipshit voters who would get flyers about “liberal voting records in Congress” and go into a panic attack

These voters don’t seem to exist in as large numbers, so honestly it’s one of the senate brain things. a couple of primaries ought to scare em.

Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.

This sort of carving up of the national population into discrete ethnic blocks based on familial origins is just so much more profoundly unBritish and antithetical to the Western tradition than *anything* happening in Hackney or Tower Hamlets or Birmingham etc

>the bears losing to the packers like usual

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

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Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

They’re so fucking bad at it

I somewhat disagree. One of the reasons the democracy is also failing in Europe is that Europe is very bad at integrating new people into the political community.