Washington has a bipartisan redistricting commission by state constitutional amendment. They would need the cooperation of Republicans to reconvene the bipartisan redistricting commission, then the cooperation of Republicans to gerrymander away eastern Washington (the areas they come from). It won’t happen. They may be able to make a purple district more safe.

The bipartisan commission does give a disproportionate voice to Republicans relative to actual apportionment in the state legislature by giving each of the top two parties two seats (with a nonvoting chair), but it’s a direct result of the unambiguous wording of the amendment. There would need to be another amendment to update that commission’s composition.

The better strategy at this point is to draw a clear and simple distinction that the everyone can easily understand - the Democratic party doesn’t redistrict without a new census and they don’t ever say they’re drawing districts just to disadvantage…

Hello, I’m the average voter, and I just fell asleep when you said “mid-census redistricting” and something about tyrants.

This is a losing strategy. The other strategy is probably also a losing strategy, but at least it’s going down swinging. The single greatest thing Democrats could do to get people in a voting booth is run on an anti-corruption, progressive economic agenda and show some backbone.

At what point along the “trying to murder you” timeline is it OK to respond in self-defense?

All of the AI taking jobs stuff is meaningless in the tech industry. All they’re doing is laying people off and making the remaining already-overworked employees pick up the slack. They’ve done this repeatedly and are nearing the breaking point. Tech workers are exhausted, miserable, and stressed out, and just trying to hang onto their jobs long enough that the hiring market improves and they can quit for, hopefully, something less bad. All the stuff about ping pong tables and bean bag chairs or whatever was always primarily marketing by the companies, and in any event largely disappeared long ago.

But big tech companies never want to go through an employee market like 2021–2022 H1 again, so I believe they’re quietly and continually laying off workers in order to manipulate the hiring market while also hoarding a bigger share of revenue as profit.

South Carolina, the state that elected a man who left the country without telling anyone for a week to have an affair with an Argentine reporter while his office lied about his whereabouts?

The state that then elected the same man to two terms in the House of Representatives?

Who was succeeded by amoral career opportunist Nikki Haley for the governorship and preceded in the House by Trump nuru masseuse Tim Scott?

And whose current governor worked closely and was friends with previous governor and later senator Strom “Definitely a Grand Wizard” Thurmond?

Yeah, she’ll fit right in.

Also Likud has said “from the river to the sea” many times. Here’s the first time and one of the more recent ones.

Likud Party: Original Party Platform (1977)

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party (2024)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the premise of a Palestinian state and promised that Israel will take over the entire region it currently occupies, “from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation on the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.

Only about 1 in 4 Knesset members favor a two-state solution. Some may disagree with Likud’s methods, but the vast majority of elected officials in Israel support Israeli domination over Palestinians. This almost exactly mirrors the ratio of support and opposition to a two-state solution amongst the Israeli public.

That’s true too. My Hyundai is better than any of the many Teslas I’ve sat in as a passenger.

Tesla for years had more repeat U.S. customers than any other major automotive brand but its loyalty has plunged since CEO Elon Musk endorsed President Donald Trump last summer

Uh, let’s be clear. It’s not just because he endorsed Trump. It’s because he had a torrid love affair with Maga and Naziism, tried to overtly buy elections, wrecked the federal government and the lives of tens of thousands of workers, caused death and misery, and was generally an unlikable prick.

The system is running on inertia but in a decade or less we may see a proper dissolution of the states and the implementation of some kind of corporate feudalism kleptocracy and various blocs of states like Cascadia forming their own micro-unions.

Good. People fear this outcome, but I would welcome it. It would allow for greater representation and actually allow the West Coast to join the 21st century. We could keep more of our money, complete interstate high-speed rail, set energy policy, etc.

Right now we’re a married couple living in one house, and one partner is abusive, controlling, and insane. The right answer is not “figure out how to make it work.” And yes, I know factions don’t live cleanly according to state lines, but it’s close enough now and only getting more voluntarily segregated as time moves on.

I’ve had a stroke. I didn’t become more selfish, conspiratorial, or hateful. I just became more sympathetic to brain trauma survivors after relearning how to walk.

Fetterman just sucks.

No one was willing to give Hitler bad news either.

It was revenge for making Americans feel vulnerable. Two oceans and the world’s strongest military made Americans feel safe from the world (and the effects of U.S. policies toward it). Even national humiliations like losing the Vietnam War were things that happened “out there.” Domestic resistance to the invasion of Iraq often took the form of “Why Iraq when we should be going after the people responsible for 9/11 instead?” Resistance to the invasion of Afghanistan was much more muted for this reason. It was only later that everyone was always against both wars.

This article is so far up its own ass that it’s looped back around again for a second time.

Who is “the movies”? Creators largely have. The money men won’t unless they lose money on it. Guess which outcome wins.

“Difficult trade deal” is quite a retreat from “51st state”

Wyden has some good positions, but like most politicians he’s deep in AIPAC’s pocket. More generally he has standard liberal positions when it comes to military force and even conservative positions on things like suspending habeas corpus for military combatants. Personally, I think it’s time for him to think about stepping down. He’s pushing 80, and I want someone more progressive in the seat.

You’re telling me there are racists… in Arkansas?!

All kidding aside, part of me thinks “good; keep them all in one place where we can keep an eye on them,” but the kids don’t deserve that kind of brainwashing. In a town with others, they might be exposed to others and there’s at least a chance they could reevaluate their upbringing.

Also, no surprise here, but the leader of this white supremacist commune is really full up on misinformation. I’m pretty sure most white supremacists are room temperature IQ.

Producer Stephen Curry

Fine. Pass this and we can deal with Trump another way.

Chuck Schumer can hardly wait to send more sternly-worded questions in a letter!