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Catholic priest, Dominican, Enjoyer of Spiders, the Reconstruction, and Much Else.
The Supreme Court believes that the creation of minority-majority and minority-opportunity districts is unconstitutional. They are committed to killing and burying the very tool that allows the U.S. to *call* itself a democracy, the Voting Rights Act.
an American president directed a mob to attack its country’s legislature while simultaneously directing a team of lawyers to change the outcome of the election. Then that president won re-election and pardoned all those arrested in the riot. He remains the president, with pardon power.
The voter suppression stories out of Mississippi are horrifying and contrary to every meaningful standard of law
Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 20h agoThis was the first election since 1964 without federal protections against race discrimination in voting but, uh, okay
Today’s Feetie-Flailing is brought to you by Angus! (Manners)
My cousin screamed at the velociraptors in the kitchen scene in Jurassic Park.
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Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
This was absolutely intentional. The elimination of poor black people is the goal, not a bycatch.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h agoAn epidemiologist projects that the current Ebola outbreak is likely to become the worst ever. The response has been limited by “untrained and unpaid staff, ambulances without fuel and a lack of surveillance teams and supplies”, including water and chlorine. DOGE cut USAID, a critical partner.
Yesterday I saw a physical therapist who noticed I have started to lean to the left. I was like, MANY SUCH CASES
Suprised and troubled at the number of people who didn’t know there is a Musk movie (not your fault: social media platforms like TikTok took down the ads). It went to streaming pretty quickly, maybe there was pressure on theaters, too. Anyway, I’m watching on Apple TV
Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 14h agoWatching Musk, the movie. This guy is a bigger fraud than Elizabeth Holmes
one of the smartest things Yglesias does is delete all of his old tweets as a matter of course, because if he didn’t there’d be a new one of these every week
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3d agoLOL
Justified | "You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole" | 4K
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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d agoUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We've heard the concept of international law invoked against nearly every major foreign policy decision or action of this administration.
"If every congressional map had been drawn fairly, with party-blind nonpartisan methods, Democrats might have come close to winning a veto-proof two-thirds majority in the House, with the party winning nearly 20 additional districts in Texas, Florida and Georgia alone."
Did the Redistricting Wars Backfire on Republicans? In a Word, No.
The G.O.P. was able to avoid more House midterm losses — on top of the advantage it already had from gerrymandering.
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i like Marco Antonio Rubio because it sounds like a name you'd give to a Roman general who kept falling for obvious traps
We need to stop thinking it's newsworthy every time a tech CEO does a line of coke and says something wildly untrue on a podcast
Core Ai News 🚨@coreati.bsky.social · 2d agoJUST IN: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declares his company has the potential to "solve biology."
Ditto, gerrymandering is bad, even if some of them were dummymanders this time round.
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 18h agoI hope folks can hold two things at once. There was a historic win in Mississippi AND efforts to disenfranchise voters were intense and disgusting. Not a story of democracy working; a story of folks working way harder than they should have had to to squeak by under circumstances that should not be.
Hey, uh, Marco. Mark. Markie, my dude. How did that turn out for Pompey? Did he love out to a ripe old age or was he beheaded on a beach, his body left to rot when it turned out he didn't have enough men with swords? Maybe he should have quoted the laws a bit more, huh?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d agoRubio: “If the ICC are foolish enough to try to enforce their paper decrees on Americans, our answer will probably be the same as the Roman general Pompey when he said to those who were trying to invoke their city's charters against his legions: "Stop quoting laws to men with swords."”
what i've taken from you can see everything is that the deception is in believing that elizabeth holmes is an anomaly rather than the silicon valley status quo
Elon Musk is the biggest fraud of our generation. Just some rich brat who bought the achievements of better men and women and feasted on government handouts and loopholes. He’s not bright. He’s not a visionary. And he’s certainly not an engineer.
I'm not fond of Schumer but if Stormfront wrote an article against him as a Judeobolshevik would you say the same???
Magyar is going full send on prosecuting Orban’s corruption and he keeps rising in the polls. feel like there’s a good lesson here
Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · yesterday💰Hungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth $19.5m (£14.8m) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating an ex-minister of nationalist former leader Viktor Orbán’s cabinet. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/n...
"My weapon is more powerful than your laws" is literally the motivation of a school shooter
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h agoSo two things about this tweet: 1) As per usual, Hegseth is an idiot who reveals he knows nothing about how laws work; 2) As per usual, Rubio, so often portrayed as the adult in the room, is the chief enabler of this lawlessness.
While I understand Hegseth is referring to international law, nevertheless this is an irresponsible statement from an official who is supposed to exemplify civilian control of the military. Citing laws to men with swords is how it works if we shall remain a republic
Equal (Major spoilers for Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff (1954) and Cacoyannis' Iphigenia(1977)) 1) This one from the former
Sansho The Bailiff | isn't life torture?
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Philip Bump@pbump.com · 17h agoMy son asked a question this morning that is a very good one for Discourse™: What is you all-time favorite *scene* in a movie?
Marco is a party man that believes in Marco Rubio. I don’t think it’s much deeper than that
