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Libs overwhelmingly buy into the "Earth is 4.5 billion years old" groupthink whereas right-wing freethinkers have a great diversity of opinion on the Earth's age

I saw this video on Viola Davis' instagram this morning and everyone needs to see it. The gutting of the VRA is the most significant attack on ALL civil rights in America in my lifetime, and after they already came for the women.. We better wake the fuck up. None of us is safe:

Jeffrey Epstein to his friend Josh Harris: "you should fee [sic] free to call me directly. so that i may explain my thinking. Any conversation that you prefer to stay between just us. will. its my financial confessional booth for jews." Keep in mind this exchange was 5 years after Harris bought the Sixers. And it was 8 years after Epstein registered as a sex offender.

In 2018, North Carolina held an election using congressional maps that had already been ruled unconstitutional. The winners were seated anyway. In 2022, Ohio did the same thing. Georgia and Alabama moved forward with racist maps in 2022 that violated the Voting Rights Act. The winners of those elections were seated anyway. When it’s Republicans disenfranchising Black voters and Democrats, illegal maps are suddenly good enough to keep in place during the election. None of those states even put their maps up for approval by the public like Virginia did. Virginia should proceed with their election under the map their voters just enacted. Anything less would establish an unfair precedent.

Remember during the election when Trump said, “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” He fucking meant it

Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee moved to eliminate Black congressional districts within hours of the VRA ruling. Hours. The redistricting maps were pre-built and waiting for legal clearance. The Roberts Court provided it after four decades of work toward exactly this outcome.

@jonatanpallesen @mattyglesias I think if you have a political party that’s obviously trying to cement permanent minority rule for themselves then you have to respond - you can’t actually always cooperate in an iterated prisoners dilemma

Here's what the Utah GOP did: 1. They sued federally to block the new map. 2. They packed the UT Supreme Court, creating two brand new justices 3. They created a brand new “constitutional court” panel that will hear challenges to state law, avoiding the Supreme Court altogether

Like I'm sorry but Florida Republicans just straight up ignored a Constitutional amendment voters passed to enfranchise former prisoners and you just can't keep stoically telling normie Dems that they just have to keep playing Calvinball. The center can not hold here

In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

to be clear -- these aren't "brutal for dems," they're brutal for democracy. being a political journalist who covers everything in sports frames won't save you when it's your rights on the chopping block.

The Republicans are INCREDIBLY unpopular. The president is tanking the economy and destroying the country. They very well could keep control of the House solely because they decided to re-draw a bunch of districts months before the election. And people are giddy about it, rather than being absolutely distraught about our democracy. Because it's all a game.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Trump admin seizes US$120,000,000 owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as stake in an offshore wind project, demands that it be invested in fossil fuel development instead nationalobserver.com/2026/05/07/new…

@HighImpactInfo That's why it's so sad. Other times have arguably been worse, at least in some ways, but this is just needless destruction brought on by mass stupidity. None of it was necessary.

NEW: The number of kids placed in foster care because immigration agents detained or deported their parents increased by nearly 49% in the 2025 fiscal year. notus.org/immigration/tr…

This is wild: Leaked audio recordings implicates former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump in an attempt to create a media outlet to disseminate fake news regarding the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum and Gustavo Petro.

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@bearmandrysdale Yes I’m sleeping on Carl Grundstrom

yall sleep on grundstrom because we havent seen him in a good line yet.. trust i have faith in this line tonight

It should be noted, not one year of the New Deal or Great Society makes the list od the 10 largest annual deficits in American History. At this point not even one year of WWII does either. 4 of the 5 largest immediately follow the two largest tax cuts, by W and Trump. -OS