Nah, they’ll find some mental gymnastic explanation of why redistricting is A-OK for a red state but not for a blue one.

Hope this works out for the league, but have misgivings (especially given how bad TV ratings have been under the Apple regime) about competing with MLB playoffs and pretty much the entire seasons of NFL, NBA, and NHL. Also, great to play in Dallas or LA in winter, not so great in Montreal or Boston.

Too bad I already had a personal grudge against my alma mater so I won’t be able to cut off donations in protest of its capitulation.

Was literally scream-emailing at Sinema and Manchin to allow the majority to do exactly these things in 2021

How about improving public transportation and not designing every road for motorists first, everyone else second?

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

DC statehood is on the long list of missed opportunities for Congress in 2021-23. Thanks Manchin, thanks Sinema.

Pope Pius XI balked at the word "socialist" in the Nazi party name, initially hesitating to give the Catholic German Centre Party his OK to get behind Hitler in the 1932 election (sadly, Pius consistently tolerated fascism as preferable to godless communism). Per usual, Musk's BS is 1930s vintage.

Too bad it doesn't matter. The ultraconservatives have the numbers, probably for the next couple of decades, and apparently not enough Americans knew or cared about the damage they're doing to our country to be bothered to show up to vote against the guy who put Kavanaugh on the bench to begin with.

Famously, autocrats don't really care about their approval rating, and are far more concerned with maintaining the level on the other side of Machiavelli's fear/love metric. Hence sending troops on the streets.

How wrong do you have to be about something before even Rand “Obama Won Because He Hypnotized The Electorate” Paul calls you out on it? This wrong apparently.

Yup.

The time for folks to have spoken out (and yes, many did, but not en masse) was before RFK fils was confirmed. Not that this or anything else would have convinced enough GOP Senators (including the four medical doctors within their ranks) to defy their master, but now too little, too late.

I know the Islamophobia is the key element of original bigot’s post here, but egad man, “bone-petite”? Spell check first before attempting to taunt someone!

What a better timeline we’d all be in if we had Vice President or President Sanders from ‘17 on.

Who except literally everyone could have predicted that this would be the result?

Clearly someone was taking a swing at that punchable face and missed?

The Washington Post’s headlines are becoming indistinguishable from Fox News for puffery.

A more accurate headline: “An appellate court ruling upholds the separation of powers, reiterating the core constitutional principle that Congress and not the Executive has power of the purse”.

This has been in the works for decades. Voter suppression is back in red states due to SCOTUS’s hit on the Voting Rights Act; first agenda item in purple states where GOP won in 2010 was gerrymandering a permanent majority. As elsewhere, MAGA’s just an extreme version of earlier Republican strategy.

Bari Weiss is an excellent illustration of the principle that whenever you convince yourself that every other journalist is an ideological hack, you become an ideological hack yourself very quickly.

Not sure what current the criteria for admission to heaven are, but I'd venture that needlessly sending millions of people to their graves by defunding USAID and PEPFAR doesn't look very good on your celestial transcript.

I guess J. K. has no problem with trans so long as it's fats we're talking about? But seriously, no thank you Krispy Kreme.

50 or 51 could do it if you control the House too. 2021-2023 was a tragic missed opportunity to rebalance the court, ban gerrymandering, ensure voter/abortion rights, etc. etc. There’s a special place in hell for Sinema & Manchin whose intransigence prevented action on these & other critical issues.

Not an irrational response. I for one tend to avoid countries where there’s a non-negligible chance that I may be thrown into a dungeon on arrival or really any time during my stay.

America isn't prepared in part because your newspaper's owner suppressed an endorsement last year for the candidate who might have done something about it in order to protect his billions. Maybe the Post should investigate that?

At this point I think their policy actions show they're fine with quality of care declining for everybody, rich white people included. So long as the people they really don't like have it worse, they seem OK with collateral damage. In short, whatever gives them most leverage to be authoritarians.

Nah, this is a lesson in passive aggression. Hated it as a kid and still do when I witness it as an adult. Nothing wrong with saying “Ask me nicely for something to eat instead of announcing a problem”, no need for hackneyed, snarky humor. Right up there with “I don’t know, can you?” Hard pass.

Johnson’s not the Majority Leader, he’s the Speaker. Scalise is the Majority Leader. Different hierarchy than the Senate.

Good old reliable Ted Cruz. He is my south star. Wherever he points, head the opposite direction.